Coaching for leadership teams, keynotes and facilitation, and books your organization can build around. Here's how we can work together.
Long-term, hands-on work with a CEO and their leadership team to design and install the core systems that drive performance. We focus on strategy clarity, decision rights, operating cadence, leadership roles, and feedback loops.
The goal: reduce friction and escalation so decisions no longer bottleneck at the top and leaders focus on work only they should be doing. This work is best suited for teams that want durable change, not a temporary boost.
POS Coaching for Leadership TeamsHands-on engagement with the CEO and senior team. We design and install the systems -- strategy clarity, decision rights, operating cadence -- that make good leadership repeatable and scalable.
POS Cohort ModelA small group of CEOs each applying the Performance Operating System in their own organizations. Practical application, peer learning, and shared discipline -- not theory. Works well for leaders who want architectural clarity before committing to deeper change.
I speak to leadership teams, executive groups, and conferences on why many leadership problems persist even after capable people and smart strategies are in place -- and what it actually takes to fix them.
Sessions are designed to shift how leaders think about their role, their time, and the systems they are responsible for designing. The emphasis is always on clarity and application, not inspiration for its own sake.
Keynote presentationsSignature talks including "You Are the Most Dangerous Person on Your Team" and "Building Backwards: Why Your Team Design Is Failing." Designed for leadership conferences, executive forums, and company offsites.
Working sessions and facilitationInteractive sessions that engage the group directly -- producing decisions, not just discussion. Format adapts to the context: half-day, full-day, or multi-session.
Executive team workshopsDeep-dive sessions built around your specific leadership challenges. Combines frameworks with live application to your actual business.
My writing helps leaders move from personal effectiveness to organizational effectiveness -- building systems that perform without constant heroics.
The books give leadership teams a shared language for diagnosing problems that are often misattributed to people instead of systems.
How high-performing leaders get trapped by the very behaviors that made them successful -- and how to escape. Foreword by Marshall Goldsmith. Endorsed by Amy Edmondson, Alan Mulally, and Jonah Berger.
"The Hero Trap offers a refreshing and useful framework for helping leaders shift from heroic, control-oriented management to architectural leadership that builds others' capabilities."
Amy Edmondson — Harvard Business School"With The Hero Trap, Bill Flynn has written a book that helps leaders nurture and enable a system and culture where everyone is Working Together."
Alan Mulally — Former CEO, Boeing & Ford"The Hero Trap shows that sustainable transformation requires expanding who you can be -- becoming a catalyst who designs systems that work without you."
Jonah Berger — Wharton Professor, author of ContagiousI read every inquiry personally and will follow up if it looks like there may be a fit.
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