For bold leaders & teams

The very best offsite meeting for your team.

You need results. You need performance. You need your team to work as a team. This is what we do.

“I could not believe the amount of value we got in a single day.”

A letter to you

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A letter from Russell

Dear Leader,

You’ve made a commitment - to your board, to your investors - something significant you must achieve. And you are counting on your team to deliver it, because your business and your reputation both depend on it.

But in the quieter moments, you wonder… You have good people and you’ve agreed a plan. But you’re seeing signs that they aren’t moving as one, at speed. And you feel yourself carrying the urgency - too often, alone.

Meanwhile, your competitors are moving. They’re planning moves or taking action that is slowly eroding your edge.

Your call as the leader is not whether you take action. It is when.

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I have been inside hundreds of leadership teams. I know the gap that can exist between the strategy deck and what actually happens on Monday morning - and the weight you carry of being the one responsible for closing it.

When you take action, this is what changes…

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These shifts in action and pace don’t happen by accident. They happen because you made a deliberate decision to act - to bring your team together to reset and move forward with the conviction and the momentum to achieve your ambition.

Facilitating exceptional team meetings - better than anyone else in the world - that’s the work we do. And we’d love to work with your team.

Russell

Exceptional Results-Focused Team Offsites

When we partner with you on your offsite, we come at it from an outcomes perspective. This is not a workshop, where energy rises and then dies in the room. It is a multi-day immersive summit for your leadership team - a deliberate break from how the team has operated, and the place where a new and elevated level of performance is set.

The Ambition Playbook™

We have researched what makes the very best teams and the very best team meetings. This is The Ambition Playbook™. One team. One room. And a very different kind of meeting. Together we do the hard work: building conviction behind the ambition, making the decisions that have been circling for months, and leaving with the discipline to deliver what you have promised - and the energy that inspires everyone, employees and customers alike.

Engagements start at $60,000.

The Ambition Playbook™ is built on Science.

The Science of Ambition™

We set out to answer a deep question: “What is Ambition?”

We wanted to understand what separates the lucky from the bold, the passionate from the planned, and the individual from the collective.

The answer to that question - and how leaders can cultivate Ambition in their teams - is what The Science of Ambition™ is about.

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The Ambition Model™

What you can expect

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Pre-work

Deep diagnostic and alignment work. Before anyone walks in the room we make sure we know what the real issues are - and we put them on the table.

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In the room

We strip away the hiding, the excuses, the rationalisations. We pressure-test your ambition and surface the decisions that have been circling. Then we set the bold bets your team will own, and lock in the disciplines that set a new pace.

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The Playbook

You leave with conviction that you’ve made the right decisions and no issues still lingering. You’ve got an ambition that everyone is determined to go after, now.

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Post-Meeting

The team is in the right place, the issues are resolved, and the decisions have been made that demonstrate to everyone that what you need to happen, will happen. A measurable outcome - like revenue growth - is how you know you’ve succeeded.

Outcomes

What your team walks out with.

The summit is where it is set. These are the shifts your team carries into everything that comes next.

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Unshakeable Confidence

Your team builds the conviction to act boldly and without hesitation. The decisions that have been circling for months get made - and the certainty travels: your people commit because they can see that you have.

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Competitive Energy

Your team’s energy shifts to the level where winning feels inevitable. The commitment is both reasoned and felt - head and heart - and that is what creates real momentum everyone around you can see.

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Growth, At Speed

Your team leaves with the clarity, ownership, and discipline to deliver what you promised - to your customers, investors, board, and people. Promises kept compound into the growth you came for.

Ambition.

Leaders had this to say about working with us…

I could not believe the amount of value we got in a single day. We brainstormed a million things but also converged and came away with tactical steps - full coverage, without the overwhelm.
Laura Del BeccaroVP Strategy, ADP Ventures
Russell helped us ramp up the trust and cohesion in our executive team - breaking down barriers, asking more challenging questions, holding each other to account. We are a very different team than we were 12 months ago.
Jason HarrisCEO, International Insurance Division, QBE
In two days, Russell challenged us to come up with a strategic ambition for our business, and it has been a turning point for us as a leadership team. That is when we truly became a leadership team, with a message and a story to tell.
Cecile FresneauCEO Insurance, QBE
If you are considering hiring Russell and The Ambition Company, do it without hesitation. He takes the time to understand the issues and prepares thoroughly to deliver his best. We are still talking about his presence at our offsite.
Ava JohnsonHead of Marketing, ADP Ventures
Russell is an incredible thought partner, listener and constructive provocateur. He facilitates a level of collaboration that is hard to describe and amazing to experience - turning words and ambition into shared ownership, and measurable value creation, over and over again.
Avik DeyCEO, Capital Power
I feel we have realigned with clarity on the how and the what it will take to achieve our 2X30. We spent our time working through real examples of how we can best work more effectively together.
Ferio PuglieseSVP Chief Corporate Officer, Capital Power
We brought together over 100 leaders to launch a multi-year transformation. Russell brings an infectious energy and bridges the gap between senior leaders and front-line teams - keeping the focus on business results while instilling real ambition.
Mike CappelliChief Transformation Officer, NOVA Chemicals
We were struggling with real culture and morale issues after two years of disruption. Russell came in, quickly harnessed that energy and got straight to the underlying issues - an incredibly impactful two days, and momentum we are still building on today.
Luis SierraCEO, NOVA Chemicals
The workshop solidified a strong, collaborative culture - the team feels connected and aligned. The agenda for the years ahead is clear and bought into, as are the roles we each need to play to execute on our ambitions.
Gary BraderGroup Chief Investment Officer, QBE
Russell's guidance in helping us work through a set of challenging experiences was more than I expected. We accomplished a great deal in a very short time, and we are now poised to take the important next steps.
Kristen RitchieDirector of Affiliated Groups, NCTE
The work with Russell and The Ambition Company delivered a ton of value. We accomplished what we set out to, and honestly even more than we expected. The framework he shared really stuck with me.
Tom FlynnVP Marketing, SpendMend
Russell has spoken as both keynote and workshop facilitator at our conferences over two years. He captivated our audiences, challenged them and scored top marks. I strongly recommend him as a standout performer.
Steve MorrisManaging Director, The Eventful Group

Your next move

You have read this far. That means something.

The results you have promised the market will not arrive on the back of a better plan. They arrive when your team has the conviction to commit, the energy to move, and the ownership to deliver. Let’s plan the summit that sets it.

You’ll hear back from us, lightning fast.