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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.

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

Laura Del Beccaro · VP Strategy, ADP Ventures

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A letter from Russell

Dear Leader,

I’ve guided many teams, and I’ve been in your shoes - supporting and relying on our teams to deliver growth and progress and results. Your board and investors are looking at you, and your reputation depends on making it happen.

But in the quieter moments, you wonder… you have good people, you’ve agreed on a plan, but you’re seeing signs that they aren’t all moving as one - at speed. Decisions take longer than they should, and you don’t see progress fast enough.

That urgency you feel - is it just you?

Meanwhile, your competitors are moving. They’re taking action. They’re looking to take your edge.

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

The smartest thing you can do right now is confront the reality of where you are. The power comes from resetting your team, acknowledging what’s working and having the courage to challenge what’s not working. At the same time, you need to find the compelling aspiration that will captivate hearts and minds and intention and convert that into a massive forward velocity from your leadership team.

The sooner you do this, the faster you will be able to hit your targets, outpace your competitors, and delight your employees, your customers and your investors.

After decades of building my reputation on elevating teams and performance, I focus on one thing: facilitating exceptional team resets that drive real growth.

We do this better than anyone else in the world. We’d love to work with your team.

The Ambition Playbook™

Designed to Create
Exceptional Results-Focused Team Offsites

How it works: When we partner with you on your offsite, we come at it from an outcomes perspective - what does your team need to deliver? This is not a workshop and it is not some sort of motivational escape. What this is is a multi-day immersive reset for your leadership team. We design it to be a deliberate break point from how the team has operated in the past, and how they will execute in the future.

When it comes to Ambition, we have researched what makes the very best teams and the very best team meetings. This research is The Science of Ambition™.

We do some pre-work to really understand what’s holding the team back, and then with everyone in the room we do the hard work: building conviction behind your compelling ambition, raising the bar for what performance looks like, and making decisions and taking action to deliver what you have promised.

Disclosure: We work only with leaders and teams who collectively want to up their game. We don’t work with teams who are complacent, who blame, or who don’t take accountability for their outcomes.

If you’d like to explore The Science of Ambition™, click here

What you can expect

What does the Ambition Playbook off-site look like?

Our work runs through four stages, ensuring that we are well prepared and you are well positioned to achieve the outcomes we commit to.

(01)

Readiness

Deep diagnostic and alignment work. We leverage one of the world’s most sophisticated tools for team performance to accelerate how your team shows up. And we make sure we know what the real issues are so we can put them on the table.

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In the room

We create the conditions that enable us to strip away the hiding, the excuses, and the rationalisations. You build your aspiration, and pressure-test your ambition. Then we set the bar for performance and decide on 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 that no issues are still lingering. You’ve now got an ambition that everyone is determined to go after. And one that you’re excited to share with everyone.

(04)

Getting Results

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

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Outcomes

What your team walks out with.

The reset is where the team does work on itself. These are the observable shifts you can expect from your team.

(01)

Unshakeable Confidence

Your team will have built the conviction to act boldly and without hesitation. The decisions that have been circling for months will have been made, and that certainty will be felt: your entire organization will be able to commit because they can see that the leadership team has.

(02)

Competitive Energy

Your team’s energy will have shifted to the level where excuses aren’t accepted, resourcefulness is valued, and winning is an attitude. Your team’s commitment will be what everyone else sees and feels, and will set the tone for what great performance looks like going forward.

(03)

Growth, At Speed

Your team will have left with the clarity, ownership, and discipline to deliver what you promised - growth - to your customers, investors, board, and your employees.

Leaders had this to say about working with us…

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 materialise on their own.

The growth, the performance, the impact – you see it when your team finally commits wholeheartedly to a new ambition, when they inspire everyone with the energy to move, and when they embrace the ownership to deliver.

Let’s plan the team summit that sets you up for success.

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The Ambition Playbook™ is built on Science.

The Science of Ambition™

We set out to answer a deep question: “What is Ambition, and what does this mean for leaders and their teams?”

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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