Strategy · Leadership · Performance

Most organizations don't fail because of poor strategy.

They fail because the systems that make strategy real — how leaders behave, how work is structured, how culture reinforces or undermines the plan — are misaligned. The Execution Gap Diagnostic identifies exactly where that's happening. And gives you a plan to fix it.

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Execution Gap Diagnostic

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When the plan says one thing and the culture does another, performance suffers, safety incidents rise, and leaders burn out trying to close the gap with willpower instead of systems. Most organizations spend their energy fixing the formal systems while leaving the informal culture untouched. The culture absorbs the change every time.

90
days before most strategies
are back on the shelf
6
interlocking systems that determine
whether an organization executes
3–4
weeks to a clear picture and
a prioritized plan to act on it

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Organizations where the gap is costing you.

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The Execution Gap Diagnostic

A structured 3–4 week engagement that maps your organization against six interlocking systems, identifies your highest-leverage misalignment gaps, and delivers a 90-day action roadmap your team can execute against immediately.

Weeks 1–2

Discovery

Structured interviews across all leadership levels — executives, managers, frontline supervisors. Listening for where the plan breaks down and what the informal culture is actually reinforcing.

Weeks 2–3

Analysis

Mapping your organization against the six systems of the Leadership Operating System. Identifying the 3–5 highest-leverage misalignment gaps ranked by impact and urgency.

Weeks 3–4

Delivery

Executive presentation of findings, written report, and a clear 90-day action roadmap with defined owners and milestones — ready to execute immediately.

Investment

$10,000 – $25,000

Depending on organization size and scope. Low-risk entry point — the diagnostic stands alone as a complete engagement. 60–70% of clients move into an ongoing advisory relationship based on what surfaces.

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Leadership Operating System

Six interlocking systems determine whether an industrial organization performs at its potential. A weakness in any one creates drag on all the others.

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Strategy System

Does everyone know where we are going and why it matters?

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Leadership Alignment

Do our leaders behave in ways that make the strategy real?

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Operational System

Do our processes and standards support how work actually gets done?

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Risk & Safety System

Is safety integrated into how we work, or just layered on top of it?

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Performance System

Do we know if we are winning, and do we act on what we learn?

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Cultural / Informal System

Do the unwritten rules reinforce our strategy — or undermine it?

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Jeremy Teeuwsen

Founder, Momentum

  • Director, Health Safety & Operational Risk — Sherritt International
  • Led operations, operational excellence, and IT across multiple countries
  • Significant field experience in Madagascar and Cuba
  • 18 years on the board of Frontier Lodge
  • Executive MBA — University of Fredericton

The Leadership Operating System is not a methodology imported from a textbook. It is built from direct operational experience leading teams across mining, energy, and industrial operations — in environments where the gap between formal systems and informal culture has real consequences.

The conviction at the centre of this work: safety and production performance are unified outcomes of doing work well, not competing priorities. Organizations that treat them as competing are paying a tax they don't have to pay.

Momentum works with industrial and mid-size organizations where the execution gap is costing them — and with holding companies that want consistent systems across a portfolio of operating businesses.