Secure a strategy your team is auto-aligned to act on, not wish-&-forget.

Get clear and focused on what to do in just 1 week.

What do ambitious people say?

“As an entrepreneur, I'm flooded with information I have to make decisions about. Recognizing this, but also that it's really tough for me to see my own blind spots, I hired Giants Evermore to help me make good decisions with strategic impact.

Our consultations, full of insight and wit, gave me clarity and renewed energy. I always left our sessions with confidence that I was leading my business in the right direction.

Brendan's advice helped me sort out pricing strategy, make good hiring decisions (I invited him to review candidates, though he declined on priciple), and jumpstart my marketing efforts, all trending towards some pretty amazing growth goals nearly tripling clients and doubling my team!”

Floyd May

Owner/Principal Consultant, Canyon Trail

“Brendan is of the few people who can make a discussion about how the future could go wrong feel like a mission briefing for how we can make it right.”

Yousef A. BinAgeil

Founder/Chairman, The SOIL Institute

Our consultations, full of insight and wit, gave me clarity and renewed energy. I always left our sessions with confidence that I was leading my business in the right direction.

Floyd May

Owner/Principal Consultant, Canyon Trail

“Brendan is of the few people who can make a discussion about how the future could go wrong feel like a mission briefing for how we can make it right.”

Yousef A. BinAgeil

Founder &apm; Chairman, The SOIL Institute

Get true problem-solving strategy.

Diagnosis Workshop

“A problem well defined is half solved.” Imagine what your team, all focused on overcoming one obstacle, could achieve.

Includes

NDA'd review of existing strategic documents, company info, and operational environment

Selection of workshop participants

One-on-one confidential interviews with participants (& other key people if needed)

Confidential questionnaires to participants tailored to emerging picture of your org

Logistics for in-person or hybrid/remote workshop (2 workdays or 3-4 part days)

Workshop process tailored to your team based on strategist's insights

Facilitated learning by all what true views exist in the org and collective insights.

Supported self-navigation to agree on one critical (winnable) challenge

(Optional) "Swearing in" for team to commit, for now, to focus on the official Diagnosis

14 days to extend to full Strategy Workshop (at price of the difference)

Starts at $1,250

Find what's wrong

Strategy Workshop

Go all the way from knowing what's wrong to knowing what to do to beat it; uniquely for your org and your situation.

Includes

NDA'd review of existing strategic documents, company info, and operational environment

Selection of workshop participants

One-on-one confidential interviews with participants (& other key people if needed)

Confidential questionnaires to participants tailored to emerging picture of your org

Logistics for in-person or hybrid/remote workshop (3-5 workdays or 4-6 part days)

Workshop process tailored to your team based on strategist's insights

Facilitated learning by all what true views exist in the org and collective insights

Supported self-navigation to agree on one critical (winnable) challenge

Collaborative/competitive design of policies and actions to overcome challenge

Assignment of initial, feasible actions to actually take afterward

Statement of key assumptions (see if borne out as actions executed)

(Optional) “Public face” marketing-oriented statement of the chosen direction

(Optional) "Swearing in" for team to commit, for now, to fully support the chosen Strategy

14 days of support after handoff

Starts at $2,000

Design our victory

fractional Chief Strategy Officer

The need for strategy is episodic. The trick is seeing when one episode is ending in time to write the next. That and keeping choices “on script”.

Functions

“Strategic Navigation“: monitoring if key assumptions in the strategy are being borne out

Referee whether new actions are "on strategy" or off

Ongoing trend analysis and early warning of need to change tack

Contingency planning

1-of-1 availability (won't fCSO for 2 companies)

Be Our Strategist

Not ready for a workshop, but want a strategy brain on your overarching challenges? Book a one-on-one strategy chat.

Have a specific goal you’re ready to knock out of the park? Let's chat about a custom strategy package.

This is how we'll work to your success.

Let's chat strat!

Start Here!

Step 1. Brain Dump Me

First, what's on your mind? Strategy, like surgery, can be life-saving ...but I'd suggest anything else that could work first. If I know a less expensive solution, I'll suggest it. If there isn't one, I'll give you options in my 5-page proposal.

Step 2. The Starting Line

Strategy must first answer “what is going on here?”. After confidentiality is secured, I'll review your strategic info, and collab on picking key people to be workshop participants.

Step 3. People, Time, & Place

Tailored after what I've learned, the questions I can ask (confidentially) as an outsider get deeper, more useful answers. Also, we arrange scheduling & logistics for the workshop.

Step 4. Our Workshop Days

The time commitment matches the stakes of getting your strategy correct. But learning what others (confidentially) think and believe, teams align. I facilitate, but they're the ones navigating to shared understanding and decisions. Serious, but fun!

Step 5. The “Finish Line”

“Culture eats Strategy for breakfast” when commanded from on high. Stating one challenge to focus on (with or without a complete Strategy) is potent. But your key people having invested themselves into reaching these conclusions inspires putting competing interests aside to see it through.

Step 6. Your Climb

Diagnosis defines a critical winnable challenge, leaving "what're you gonna do about it" to your ingenuity. Strategy ideally assigns tasks supporting specific Actions immediately after. In either case you're left with an intelligent gamble on where scarce resources, time, and attention are likely to pay off. No winner in history has ever truly had more guarantee than that.