Transforming executive conflict into unified strategic execution
Strategic advisory for CEOs and boards facing high-stakes conflict and a divided leadership team
What We Do
Clarify the real decision: options, stakes, constraints, and what “success” must look like.
Work one-on-one with key executives to surface priorities, risk tolerances, and non-negotiables.
Build a structured decision frame that combines qualitative judgment with quantitative data instead of dueling opinions.
Design and manage the entire decision-alignment engagement, from first interviews to the final commitment session.
Document the final choice, trade-offs, and rationale in plain language management can execute and explain to boards and investors.
Outcomes
One clear, defensible decision instead of ongoing stalemate.
Explicit trade-offs and assumptions, so there are fewer surprises later.
Faster, less political decision cycles on similar issues going forward.
Stronger board and investor confidence in leadership’s judgment.
Reduced reliance on “musical chairs” in the C-suite just to break deadlock.
Our Involvement is Most Effective When
A high-stakes strategic choice has several viable options, executives are split, and someone will be blamed if it goes wrong.
Boards or investors are skeptical of a proposed move and need a decision rationale they can stand behind, not just a narrative.
Chronic misalignment in the C-suite turns every major initiative into the same political fight and slows execution.
When strategic decisions stall at the top, the organization pays for it everywhere else.
The average company loses more than 20% of its productive capacity to organizational drag; internal friction, silent sabotage, and wasted effort (Bain & Company). That's one workday in five burned on bureaucracy instead of progress.
Decision-making time tells the same story. Six out of ten executives say at least half the time they spend making decisions is ineffective (McKinsey & Company). Senior managers now spend over 20 hours a week in meetings, with as much as 50% of that time considered unproductive (Harvard Business Review).
The flip side: alignment is a performance multiplier. Highly aligned organizations grow revenue 58% faster and are 72% more profitable than misaligned peers (LSA Global).
Maddeny Consulting exists for the moments when that drag and misalignment come from one place: unresolved strategic conflict at the top.
