According to Webster’s dictionary, the word Strategy is defined as “the art of devising or employing plans toward a goal.” The word Development is defined as “to make visible.”

It doesn’t need to be more difficult than that. My job is to help business leaders make plans toward a goal visible.

My job is not to tell these same leaders what their future plans should be. I simply help create an environment where they themselves – the true experts – can discover what direction their company must be heading and how to make this direction visible for everyone who needs to know.

If Strategic Development can be described as making plans toward a goal visible, then Operational Development is the art of doing what you say you’re going to do.

This is often where many companies fail in realizing the strategic goals that looked so good on paper. The reason for this is that there is one very large barrier that gets in the way of Operational Development, and that is the operation itself.

I not only help executives identify needed improvements in the processes they work in, I also work actively with their teams to execute the necessary changes.