Strategic Leadership & Issues Management Advisory
Why Do Good Strategies Stall?
Strategy is the disciplined process of moving an organization from its current reality to its desired future state. Strategy gets stuck because it refuses to fully leave NOW and stalls because it fails to adjust to the disruption it encounters after exeuction.
Signs of Stalled Strategy
- Strategy conversations keep circling familiar ground.
- Leaders agree on goals but default to old assumptions
- Hard choices are not being made about legacy processes.
- Fear surrounds major decisions
- Leadership is not a catalyst for change
- Plan lacks clear execution authority
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Our Clients
Leaders responsible for strategy decisions
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CEOs who have just completed a strategic plan and are watching momentum evaporate.
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Strategic Leaders and Teams that lack authority to develop and maintain an operating rhythm
Our clients choose us because they want a partner who:
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Sees internal, external and political dynamics clearly.
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Reduces friction and restores momentum
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Understands both people and power
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Builds frameworks that are teachable, repeatable, and scalable
“Most strategies fail because internal structure cannot absorb change.”
Are you Ready for Strategy?
Strategic Readiness Assessment
The fact is 70% of strategies fail, so we developed our “Strategic Readiness Assessment” with a psychometrician to establishes areas of strength and weakness on the front end – before your plan is created and executed.
This helps organizations:
- Understand NOW
- Envision NEXT
- Align leadership
- Match decision velocity with execution potential
- Create momentum at execution
- Ability to sustain momentum
- Willingness to let go of NOW
NOW → NEXT requires leaders to continuously make decisions about strategy.
“Complexity undermines the first rule of strategy which is to see clearly.”
About Our Founder
Dennis M. Powell is a strategic leadership advisor, trainer, and author who helps organizations move from NOW—their current state—to NEXT, the future position they must reach to stay competitive and relevant. He specializes in helping leaders create clarity, align teams, and execute strategy with discipline in order to build and maintain momentum toward attaining NEXT.
For more than three decades, Mr. Powell has guided leadership teams through high‑stakes strategic challenges, eliminating the confusion that often exists between vision and execution, alignment and accountability, and planning and decision ownership. His work simplifies complexity, strengthens leadership alignment, and turns strategy into forward movement.
Mr. Powell’s first book, Leading from the Top: Presidential Lessons in Issues Management, distills more than 90 years of presidential decision‑making into practical tools for today’s leaders by providing lessons learned on the biggest stage, under the most intense scrutiny. His forthcoming book, Now to NEXT: The Art and Science of Strategic Leadership (Fall 2026), presents 40 strategic approaches that help leaders bridge the gap between vision and execution and achieve their NEXT with clarity and confidence.
He has advised on multi‑billion‑dollar issues, helping organizations align resources, establish achievable goals, control the narrative, build coalitions, and execute strategy with precision. His strategic leadership programs and workshops have been delivered to international, national, and statewide organizations, including:
- BLOCS: 2025 Conference for education leaders in Philadelphia, PA.
- NCSTAE: 2025 National Conference of telecom leaders in Charleston, SC.
- NBOME: 2025 International Conference of medical assessment professionals in San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Public Affairs Council (PAC): 2026 global workshop for senior leaders on stakeholder mapping (remote)
Strategic Leadership Skills
- Define NOW clearly to ensure strategy reflects the reality of your organization.
- Articulate strategy succinctly so everyone understands the rationale for NEXT.
- Align resources to create and sustain momentum.
- Anticipate disruptions before they materialize by managing risk prospectively
- Maintain scenario plan throughout execution to stay agile as conditions shift.
- Translate NEXT into behaviors, decisions, and visible progress, and its attainment as the organization’s new NOW rather than a goal.
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Organizations don’t drift into success. They decide their way there.
If strategy is stalled, momentum is fading, or the cost of delay is rising, the next move matters.
Make the decision to move from NOW to NEXT.
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