Great Management
Doesn't Need
To Be Hard.
I help you do what the best leaders in the most successful companies do so you can deliver amazing results every time.
Scaleup Leadership &
Product Transformation
Great Management
Doesn't Need
To Be Hard.
I help you do what the best leaders in the most successful companies do
so you can deliver amazing results every time.
Scaleup Leadership &
Product Transformation
60% of Managers fail within the first 24 months
Many more are not delivering the desired results
What's holding you and your team back?
- A Strategy that Confuses More Than it Clarifies
- Too Many Priorities, not enough Focus
- Planning Paralysis and Alignment Agony
- Slow Execution and Operational Failures
- Lots Of Data, No Shared Insights
- Meeting Overload and Slow Decision-Making
The good news is that all of these challenges have proven solutions.
We just need to adapt them for your specific context.
I Work With:
Companies & Divisions
From VC-Backed Scaleups
to Divisions of Fortune 500 Corporations
Teams
From C-Suite
to Cross-Functional Product Teams
Individuals
From CEOs and other Executives
to New Managers
Here's How:
Product Operating Model
Who: CEOs & Executive Teams who are transforming their organisation to use the Product Operating Model, as described by Marty Cagan in "Transformed".
What: I'll help you make and sustain the changes, not just in the Product, Engineering, and Design Organisation(s), but across the whole business, including in the executive and management teams where the change can be more disruptive.
Why: So you can build better products, respond faster to opportunities and threats, and make more profit.
How:
- Discovery and Assessment
- Custom Transformation Plan
- Change Implementation
Leadership Operating System
Who: CEOs, Executives and Managers who want to have a consistent, coherent system for managing that enables them and their teams to deliver the best results, every time.
What: We'll customise the system for you and your specific context.
- One Page Strategy
- Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
- One Page Plan & Alignment Sprint
- Execution Meeting Cadence
- Weekly Business Review
- High Performing Team
Why: You need each peice of the puzzle to fit together into a single flywheel that helps you create unstoppable momentum.
How:
- Discovery and Assessment
- Custom Transformation Plan
- Change Implementation
Objectives & Key Results
Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are the goal-setting method popularised by Google, and credited with helping deliver "10x results".
They'll help you increase engagement, impact, and revenue, and decrease time-to-market and cost.
Get started, start again, or just audit and improve. I can help you at any level from company-wide to team level.
- Full OKR Training
- OKR Setting Workshops
- OKR Retrospective and Tune-up
Strategy
Strategy shouldn't be a week-long event every three years. The best strategies are developed with your team, iteratively, whether company-wide or team level.
- One Page Strategy Workshop
- One Day Strategy Sprint
Plan and Align
Don't get bogged down with overplanning or stuck in alignment hell. There's an easier way, and it doesn't involve walls of post-its or weeks of indecision and negotiation.
- One Page Plan Workshop
- One Week Alignment Sprint
Execution Cadence
The point of all this is to get things done. Let's set you up with mechanisms to create momentum, check progress, course-correct, and manage expectations.
- Kick-Ass Weekly Meeting Agenda
- Weekly Business Review Workshop
- Stakeholder and Customer Insights Sprint
- Mid-Quarter Strategic Review
Amazon-Style Writing
Presentations work for selling or one-to-many communication, but not so well for collaboration, problem solving, or deep analysis. Build a writing culture to match your own needs.
- Press Release and FAQs for Innovation
- 6-Page (and less!) Deep Dives
- Stalemate Buster Documents
- Quarterly Business Reviews
High Performance Team
Your team is the engine that drives everything. Your job is to build a high performance team.
The key is having high and clear performance expectations for every role and level, and using them in every part of your people process - hiring, developing, rewarding, promoting, and firing.
- Performance Expectations Workshop: Build the Foundation for all your People Processes
- Hiring Workshop: From Job Description to Onboarding your next High Performer
- Performance Review Sprint: The Secret Tool for Accelerating Performance
- Coaching Workshop: How to Systematically Develop, Empower, and Reward your Team
You're not completely sure what you need, but you know you need help.
I specialise in:
- Helping functional leaders manage up and collaborate with other functions
- Helping leaders from big tech and corporates adapt to the scaleup environment
- Helping leaders from traditional companies adapt to the "product company" environment
- Helping CEOs and executives solve cross-functional collaboration problems
My coaching style includes a mix of training, consulting, mentoring and pure coaching - whatever you need in the current situation to make the best progress. We'll bring in the tools listed above as needed, as well as my 20 years of experience at Amazon, Google, and work with CEOs and Executives of tens of high growth scaleups and Fortune 500 companies.
We will:
- Set Goals
- Make Progress
- Celebrate the Wins
You will:
- Turn your team's trajectory around
- Succeed in a New Role or with Expanded Scope
- Get a Promotion or a New Job
Taster
€ 400
inc VAT
60 mins 1:1 Coaching
2 Followup Emails
Low-commitment taster or one-off problem-solver
BEST VALUE
Committed to Change
€ 3000
inc VAT
10x 1:1 Coaching
60 mins per Session
Unlimited Followup Emails
25% Saving
Team
€ custom
Custom Program
Named Participants
In-Person or Remote
I'm building a community of Scaleup Leaders - people at Executive level in Scaleups, in any function, who want to connect with peers, share experiences, and learn from each other how to be a great leader and manager.
Stay tuned for updates - launching late 2024.
- Dedicated Discussion Forum
- Weekly Topical Virtual Meetups
- Exclusive Content and Resources
My Client Highlights:
ENTERPRISE
How Will We Work Together?
Easy Three-step Process
Schedule a Call
In our 30 minute discovery call, I'll learn about your goals and what's holding you back. Most of my clients get value from this call as I offer help where I can.
Get a Custom Plan
I'll propose a custom plan for how we can work together to achieve your goals. Knowing what to do next is half the battle won!
Get Results
Each time we work together, you'll get increasing clarity on how to manage and lead effectively, so you can deliver great results without the stress.
Building a Business is Hard.
Great Management Doesn't Need to Be.
You've got business problems to solve:
Products to build, campaigns to run, customers to serve, sales to make.
And you are the expert in your business, your function, your customers, your market, and your technology.
That's what makes you unique. That's where your differentiation, and hence, your value lies.
That's why you're there.
Being a great manager is necessary for you to be successful.
But it's hard to navigate the conflicting advice from consultants, people leaders, advocates, thought leaders, and keep track of the latest managment fads, all while your colleagues are doing the same, but differently. It takes energy away from where add the most value.
Schedule a call with me, and we'll adapt and apply proven methods that work for so many others, customised for your own context.
Finally, you'll be able to deliver amazing results without burning yourself or your team out.
The OKR Operating System eBook
How Great Managers Deliver Reliable Results, Engage Their People, and Run Operations, Strategy, Goals, Planning and Execution
The best managers at top companies like Google and Amazon are doing something different that enables them to deliver outstanding results more often. It's not just that they have better people or more resources, or that they are somehow just better at managing. They have methods that work - and they can work for you too.
If you're a CEO, an executive or a manager, and you want to get better results more reliably, you might find this book useful.
In this eBook, you'll learn about:
- How to set goals using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) - the method popularised by Google
- How to write a One Page Plan, and align with your team and stakeholders
- How to keep aligned with your strategy, and course-correct where needed
- How to monitor and review your operations regularly with your team to develop them and respond to new problems and opportunities
- How to create accountability and transparency
- How to empower teams, navigate the micro-management continuum, and avoid being a vague vision peddler
- How to run a kick-ass weekly meeting that inspires and focusses your team
I've written this book as an adaptation from the training that I've given to hundreds of executives in high-growth VC backed companies. The methods in it have helped them:Break through a major bottleneck in client onboarding that threatened to bankrupt a SaaS company Create a product innovation that turned a major re-engineering project into a three-week project Meet their financial and management targets two quarters in a row after failing for the past six Transition to a new business model that enabled faster growth, higher margins and much larger scale
Who Am I?
Over more than 20 years, I've worked for Google and Amazon, consulted for some of the world’s largest enterprises, and helped some of the fastest growing scaleups build their management systems.
I've been a software developer, a product leader, led customer service, and worked in every area of sales and marketing. I've been an individual contributor, a product leader, a c-suite executive, managed teams of over 100 people, and had responsibility for a P&L measured in the billions.
I've always had a passion for understanding how business, leadership and management work.
But it's not about me.
It's about you.
I get energy from helping people like you succeed.
You inspire me.
Have a great day and scale well!
Richard Russell
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Who Am I?
Over more than 20 years, I've worked for Google and Amazon, consulted for some of the world’s largest enterprises, and helped some of the fastest growing scaleups build their management systems.
I've been a software developer, a product leader, led customer service, and worked in every area of sales and marketing. I've been an individual contributor, a product leader, a c-suite executive, managed teams of over 100 people, and had responsibility for a P&L measured in the billions.
I've always had a passion for understanding how business, leadership and management work.
But it's not about me.
It's about you.
I get energy from helping people like you succeed.
You inspire me.
Have a great day and scale well!
Richard Russell
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