Gruntled Leadership

Transitions into new roles are the most challenging times in the professional lives of leaders

Hiring a new executive who’s stepping into a role that’s never existed before is a bold move; filled with potential but also fraught with challenges. Statistics show that 40% of newly hired executives fail, and the stakes are even higher when it comes to unprecedented roles.

The risk is too great to ignore

The cost of a failed transition can be 2.5 to 10x the executive's salary.

There is no playbook; no precedent for a newly-created role

Your new leader must build the plane while they're flying it. Establishing personal credibility while defining their mandate and the scope of their role.

Whose toes are you asking them to step on?

Understand the culture and forge crucial relationships quickly, or they fail. Your leader in a first-of-its-kind role must also navigate overlapping or unassigned responsibilities and those clinging to legacy processes.

Understand the Business; Define the Role

In addition to learning the business’s strategy, operations, and key drivers, your leader must define the scope and boundaries of their mandate, clarify responsibilities and onboard others into a function that’s still taking shape.

Build Relationships Up, Down and Across

Your leader faces increased visibility, more pressure on their supervisor, and heightened curiosity from stakeholders. Gruntled Leadership helps your executive take a comprehensive and strategic approach to relationship-building.

Align Expectations and Overcome the Metrics Void

In a function without clear metrics or established benchmarks, Gruntled Leadership helps your executive align and establish what success looks like, creating meaningful measures of progress, even when the outcomes are evolving.

Decode the Culture, Then Advance It

They must influence and evolve the culture while they learn it, challenging legacy mindsets and modeling new behaviors. Gruntled Leadership equips them to read the landscape, honor what works, and thoughtfully drive cultural progress.

Proven Success in Complex Environments

I built two successful start-ups inside a family-owned, publicly traded company in a career marked by leading through ambiguity and taking on unprecedented roles. These were first-of-their kind businesses in the industry, not just the company. Six of my 10 roles with Scripps were new to the org chart.

Supporting and Guiding Uncharted Leaders

I have imagined and created countless roles that were unprecedented for members of my team. I have worked closely with leaders in first-of-their-kind roles from every angle: as a direct supervisor, a direct report, a peer, a mentor and a coach.

Award-Winning, Impactful Leadership

As an executive in the media business, I was responsible for more than 2000 employees and over $600 million in annual revenue for TVNewsCheck's "Station Group of the Year". Earlier in my career as a journalist and then a digital executive, I was honored with two regional Emmy awards and five regional Edward R. Murrow Awards.

My Leadership Journey

UNLOCK THE LEADERSHIP YOUR TEAM DESERVES

I Help Senior Leaders:

Turn Ambiguity into Clarity

Overcome Obstacles

Achieve Audacious Goals

Set Your New Executive Hire Up For Success

Preventable Leadership Failures Can Cost You

Transitions into new roles are the most challenging times in the professional lives of leaders

The risk is too great to ignore

There is no playbook; no precedent for a newly-created role

Whose toes are you asking them to step on?

Confident Leadership, Sustained Success

Understand the Business; Define the Role

Build Relationships Up, Down and Across

Align Expectations and Overcome the Metrics Void

Decode the Culture, Then Advance It

I Understand Your Challenges

Proven Success in Complex Environments

Supporting and Guiding Uncharted Leaders

Award-Winning, Impactful Leadership

Three Steps to Success

UNLOCK THE LEADERSHIP YOUR TEAM DESERVES

I Help Senior Leaders:

Turn Ambiguity into Clarity

Overcome Obstacles

Achieve Audacious Goals

Set Your New Executive Hire Up For Success

Preventable Leadership Failures Can Cost You

Transitions into new roles are the most challenging times in the professional lives of leaders

The risk is too great to ignore

There is no playbook; no precedent for a newly-created role

Whose toes are you asking them to step on?

Confident Leadership, Sustained Success

Understand the Business; Define the Role

Build Relationships Up, Down and Across

Align Expectations and Overcome the Metrics Void

Decode the Culture, Then Advance It

I Understand Your Challenges

Proven Success in Complex Environments

Supporting and Guiding Uncharted Leaders

Award-Winning, Impactful Leadership

Three Steps to Success

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