14-Day Executive Intervention — For Founders, COOs & Leadership Teams

Too many initiatives.
Not enough execution.

The Operational Clarity Sprint is a fixed-scope, 14-day engagement. You enter with an overloaded leadership team. You exit with a clear priority map, defined decision ownership, and an execution rhythm you can run without a consultant.

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Avg. Initiatives at Intake
14
Active workstreams competing for the same leadership attention — most produce no output
Sprint Duration
14days
From diagnostic interview to signed-off 90-day plan with named owners
Initiatives Stopped or Paused
↓60%
Average across engagements. Fewer initiatives, faster decisions, better output.
The Problem

Execution doesn't fail loudly.
It fragments quietly.

Most leadership teams don't have a strategy problem. They have an execution problem — and it usually looks like one of these four things.

Symptom 01

Initiative overload

Your team is running twelve initiatives. Three will move the business. The rest fragment attention, slow decisions, and fill status reports without producing output.

Symptom 02

Decision ownership gaps

The decisions that matter most have no clear owner. They stall in Slack threads, surface in the wrong meetings, or never get made at all. Everyone is accountable, so no one is.

Symptom 03

Strategy-execution gap

Priorities agreed in Q1 are invisible by Q3. Not because strategy was wrong — because daily noise beats quarterly goals every time without a structure designed to hold them in place.

Symptom 04

Meetings that replace action

Your cadence is full but unproductive. Reviews happen but nothing escalates. Leadership time is consumed by coordination, not decisions. The calendar is busy. The business is not moving.

What You Get

Six concrete outputs.
Fourteen days.

You enter with an overloaded team and unclear priorities. You exit with six tangible assets your leadership team can use the moment the sprint ends — no handholding required.

Not a framework.
A working operating system for your organisation.

What you get in 14 days
01 Executive diagnosis — a written assessment of where your execution is breaking down and why
02 Priority map — your initiative list ranked by impact and executive capacity, with a clear stop/continue/accelerate decision for each
03 Decision ownership framework — who decides what, at what level, and how escalations work — mapped to your actual org structure
04 Execution cadence design — a lean meeting structure with defined inputs, outputs, and escalation rules your team runs independently
05 90-day action roadmap — named owners, milestones, and checkpoints across your three highest-priority workstreams
06 Optional 30-day check-in — a single advisory call four weeks after handoff to assess what's holding and what's drifting
The Process

Four steps. Fourteen days.

Days 1–3

Diagnose

Structured interviews with your leadership team. We run an initiative inventory, a decision audit, and a cadence review. You walk away from day three knowing exactly where execution is stalling and why.

Days 4–7

Clarify

Decision rights mapped. Priority stack ranked. Operating model designed on paper — not in slides. Every output is concrete, named, and owned before we move to the next phase.

Days 8–10

Align

Leadership workshop. Every owner in the room. We make the decisions that have been stalling, not defer them. Output: a signed-off priority map and decision framework that everyone has agreed to in person.

Days 11–14

Protect

Operating rules written. Cadence locked. Accountability map live and visible to the full leadership team. Handoff session designed so your team runs the system independently from day one.

Fit

This sprint is not for everyone.

This works when
You're a founder, COO, or Head of Operations at a 50–500 person company
Your leadership team has more active initiatives than it can execute
Decision ownership is unclear, contested, or consistently avoided
Operational complexity is starting to limit growth, not fuel it
You want a fixed-scope engagement with defined output — not an open-ended retainer
Leadership is willing to make decisions in a room, not via async docs
This does not work if
You're pre-Series A and operational complexity hasn't set in yet
You're in financial distress or turnaround — this is not a crisis intervention
You're looking for a workshop experience, not structural change
You need motivation and energy, not clarity and discipline
Your leadership team isn't stable enough to implement what we design

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About

Built from real interventions.
Across multiple organisations.

Over a decade across fintech, insurance, media technology, and enterprise software — working inside organisations where execution was breaking down. Not because people weren't capable, but because priorities were contested, decision ownership was unclear, and nothing had been built to hold the work together under pressure.

Across engagements in Zürich, London, Belgrade, and beyond, the pattern was consistent: cut the initiative list, clarify who decides what, and build an operating rhythm the team can run without a consultant. The Operational Clarity Sprint is the structured form of that work — designed from real outcomes, not from a methodology.

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Rafal Witaszek — operational consultant, Zürich
Rafał Witaszek · Zürich, CH
Where this perspective was shaped
Goldbach / TX Group Reduced initiative time-to-market by 29%. Achieved 96% delivery predictability over five sprints. Cut analysis overhead by 34%. Scoped and delivered an MVP in two sprints — 150k CHF booked at delivery. Built end-to-end transparency linking business goals to team output.
Swiss Re Redesigned operating structure for a 25+ person DevOps organisation. Introduced OKR alignment at business unit level, connecting strategic intent to team-level execution. Improved SLAs through structured measurement and ownership clarity.
Cognizant Clarified functional accountability and decision boundaries across the team. Improved velocity by 23% in three months by defining what "ready" and "done" actually meant. Removed ambiguity from the delivery process before it became delivery failure.
UniCredit Stabilised and relocated IT delivery processes across Munich and Milan. Built a capable delivery team from scratch. Eliminated manual status coordination — recovering 2 person-days per week and removing a persistent source of operational noise.
Results

Specific problems. Specific outcomes.

The work that shaped this offer produced measurable results across multiple organisations — not as a methodology exercise, but because execution clarity has direct operational costs when it's missing. Selected outcomes below.

Selected outcomes from operational clarity work
96% delivery predictability over five sprints, after introducing structured prioritisation and flow visibility
−34% time spent in analysis, reduced through product discovery structure and process standardisation
−29% initiative time-to-market, after clarifying decision ownership and building end-to-end transparency
+23% team velocity improvement over three months, after clarifying accountability and redefining ready/done criteria
15h per week recovered through targeted process improvement, eliminating manual coordination overhead
150k CHF booked immediately after a need was identified, scoped, and taken to MVP in two sprints

These are examples from prior operational work, not guarantees. Every engagement starts with a diagnostic.

Came in with 12 priorities and a leadership team that couldn't agree on any of them.

"Two weeks. We entered with twelve priorities and ten people who couldn't agree on any of them. We left with three. The conversation finally happened."

Head of Operations
200-person SaaS · Zurich

Eight months after the sprint — the decision framework is still in use.

"The decision rights framework is still running. That was eight months ago. Most interventions don't survive the first all-hands."

COO
150-person Fintech · Berlin

Brought in during a period of fast growth where execution was starting to lag strategy.

"No methodology slides. No transformation narrative. Just the right questions and a structure that held."

VP Operations
300-person Technology Company · London
Before You Commit

Here's what happens first.

There's no pressure to commit to anything upfront. The process starts with a short conversation to make sure this is the right intervention for your situation.

1

You fill in the form

Tell me in a few sentences where clarity is breaking down. I review every submission personally and respond within one business day.

2

We have a 30-minute call

I ask about your current situation. You ask about the sprint. No sales script. We figure out if the problem and the intervention are a match.

3

You get a clear proposal

If it's the right fit, I send a short proposal: scope, timing, and investment. Fixed price. No retainer. You decide.

Two slots are available per quarter. — Check availability

Ready to Start

Stop planning
the plan.

Two spots available per quarter. Fixed scope. Fixed output. No retainer. The next step is a conversation, not a commitment.

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Direct response within one business day. No sales calls.