Advice & Counsel

Dan Ciampa is one of the world’s leading authorities in two of the most difficult tasks leaders face:

CEO & senior leadership transition

Operations improvement & changing the culture to make it permanent

He specializes in helping leaders who:

Are hired or promoted with a change mandate

Run successful organizations and have decided fundamental changes must be made to sustain success

These leaders face new challenges on several fronts simultaneously:

Some are strategic: a new direction for the company and a new culture to sustain it

Some are operational: tools & techniques for a new level of effectiveness & efficiency

Some are political: new relationships and support from coalitions & alliances

Others are personal: the emotional & leadership capabilities that make the most difference in these situations

The combination requires them to:

Sustain a high level of support from boards or bosses

Reorient the current top team or change its membership

Instill an ethic of excellence and drive for continuous improvement in every part of the organization

Motivate a critical mass of influential people to adopt new ways of operating and learn new behavior

Adapt the organization structure & how it works day-to-day

The help that Dan provides is unique ... it lies at the intersection of strategy implementation, operations excellence, and culture change.

The pages that follow describe in more detail Dan’s work. First, For Leaders in a New Role and For In-Place Leaders Seeking to Extend a Successful Run and For Designated Successors outline the ways Dan helps in each situation.

Then, Maximum Operating Effectiveness and Getting Cultures to Change outline Dan’s philosophy on meeting these two vital challenges.

Last, Connecting the Dots and Balanced Advice Networks describe two key factors to success in the top spot: making the right connections between strategy, operations & culture, and wisely using the right help from outside as well as inside the organization.