The Strategy Execution Gap: A Leader's Guide to Closing It

Most strategies stall in the same place: between the room where they're announced and the moment leaders have to act on them. 

Every organization eventually asks its leaders to do something hard: cascade a new strategy, launch new leadership principles, or lead a culture shift and make sure it sticks. The keynote lands. The slide deck gets shared. And then, mostly, nothing changes.

The Culture Moment: A Strategic Leader's Guide to Leveraging Business Simulations looks at why traditional approaches—summits, communications, training—rarely close that gap, and what does. Drawing on real programs run at scale (including one that reached over 2,000 leaders worldwide), the guide covers:

• Why awareness and behavior change are two different problems, and most efforts only solve the first
• What makes a simulation-based leadership experience different from a training exercise
• How to anchor a simulation to a moment already in motion (a summit, a strategy rollout, a culture shift)
• How to make the case for this kind of investment internally to CEOs and CFOs, not just HR