I design and deliver practical sessions for universities, business schools, executive education programs, corporate academies, leadership teams, and professional associations.
The focus is on helping participants understand why ambitious initiatives fail and how to test major ideas before they scale.
Signature program
From Vision to Execution: Reality-Testing Ambitious Initiatives
A practical leadership module on how to evaluate major projects, innovation strategies, market-entry plans, public-private initiatives, and transformation programs before they become too expensive or too public to change.
Core modules
1. Why ambitious initiatives fail
The common pattern behind projects that look compelling but lack the foundations needed to succeed.
2. Narrative versus operating reality
How stories mobilize support, and how they become dangerous when treated as proof.
3. Customer and demand testing
How to move from abstract customer categories to real behavior.
4. Price, model, and economics
How to test whether the smallest meaningful unit actually works.
5. Governance and accountability
Why org charts, committees, and dashboards often fail to create true ownership.
6. Sequencing and scale
Why building in the wrong order can cause even strong ideas to fail.
7. The Big Idea Reality Test
A practical framework participants can apply to live cases.
Formats
- 60 to 90 minute guest lecture
- Half-day executive workshop
- Full-day applied masterclass
- Multi-session executive education module
- Corporate leadership program
- Board or investment committee session
Suitable audiences
- MBA and executive MBA programs
- Public policy schools
- Urban planning and infrastructure programs
- Project management programs
- Innovation and entrepreneurship programs
- Corporate academies
- Government leadership programs
- Board director programs
- Professional associations
Example session titles
- Why Big Ideas Fail at Scale
- The Big Idea Reality Test
- Innovation Theater Versus Operating Discipline
- Sequencing Is Strategy
- Scale Is Not Proof
- What Leaders Should Test Before They Commit Capital
- Turning Vision into Executable Strategy