Offerings
How to work with Compass
One flagship engagement installs the architecture. Four supporting offerings sit beneath it, entered according to the decision you are carrying.
How Compass is ordered
One firm. One engagement. One operating system.
Everything Compass does sits in this order.
01 · One firm
Enterprise operating architecture.
The design of the whole management system.
02 · One flagship engagement
SEE → FOCUS → ARCHITECT → INSTALL → TRANSFER.
A written operating system your leaders own.
03 · One operating system
FOUNDATION™ · SIMPLIFY™ · LEAD™ · GROW™ · ARC™.
The intellectual architecture behind the engagement.
4operating disciplines1renewal engine3execution disciplines04 · Specialized entry points
Forums · Advisory · Exit · Mental Fitness.
Ways in when the full system is not yet the starting place.
Compass leaves architects, not dependency.
Delivery model
SEE → FOCUS → ARCHITECT → INSTALL → TRANSFER
One engagement, five stages, evidence at every gate. Scope and duration are set by the size of the enterprise and the change it is carrying, not by a package.
What the client owns at the end
- A written read of the present operating architecture and where performance is decided
- The vital-few constraint set, with the value at stake named
- The future-state management system: decision rights, structure, measures and cadence
- The installation sequence, run as a governed program with evidence at every gate
- Named internal owners, developed to run the system after transfer
Included in the engagement
- A written read of the present operating architecture and where performance is decided
- The vital-few constraint set, with the value at stake named
- The future-state management system: decision rights, structure, measures and cadence
- The installation sequence, run as a governed program with evidence at every gate
- Named internal owners, developed to run the system after transfer
What this is not
- Ongoing coaching without an architected management system
- A binder of recommendations left for someone else to install
- A technology implementation project that substitutes software for discipline
- A retainer that leaves Compass permanently in the room
The engagement ends when your leaders own the system. Compass leaves architects, not dependency.
01 — SEE
We see the operating reality — how decisions, work and accountability actually run today.
Outcome: A shared, unflattering read of the present
02 — FOCUS
We focus the vital few constraints holding back growth, margin and capacity.
Outcome: The short list worth funding
03 — ARCHITECT
We architect the future system — the decisions, structure, measures and cadence it will take to run the next stage.
Outcome: A drawing before the build
04 — INSTALL
We install the operating disciplines alongside your leaders, in the live business.
Outcome: Results in the current year, not a binder
05 — TRANSFER
We transfer ownership to your leadership team, so the system runs without Compass in the room.
Outcome: Capability that stays
Compass works alongside leadership to understand the system, name the highest-leverage constraints, architect what has to change, install the operating discipline and develop the internal capability to sustain it. The weekly rhythm — the one-page plan, the measure set, the action plans and the standing meetings — is installed at the INSTALL stage and is set out in full on the operating cadence page.
- 01
Executive Forums
Confidential peer rooms for owners, CEOs and senior leaders.
Role-specific, confidential conversations around the real decisions leaders are carrying.
Open(PDF available) - 02
Executive & Leadership Advisory
Confidential strategic thinking partnership for consequential decisions.
Two modes — an individual executive, or an intact leadership team. Positioned above coaching: architecture, decision clarity and follow-through.
Open - 03
Exit Planning
Succession architecture and the exit readiness assessment.
Founder-exit and organizational readiness — a 3–5 year pathway, not a last-minute search.
Open - 04
Mental Fitness
Small pods building the mental fitness leaders operate from under pressure.
The read, the Executive Mental Fitness Report, then an individual or intact-team pod inside FOUNDATION™ — habitual reactive patterns interrupted, constructive response practiced. Licensed Positive Intelligence® instruments, Compass interpretation.
Open
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Architecture → Intervention → Result
What the engagement has measured
Every Compass engagement is read the same way: the enterprise condition, the binding constraint, the intervention, and a paired before/after measure on definitions that did not change between readings. The engagement records themselves are held privately; the measured pattern is not.
Industrial manufacturer · ~$140M revenue · 3 plants
Constraint removed: Structure & accountability
Architected: Present-reality read, decision rights redesign, one executive operating cadence with owners, dates, and evidence.
- On-time delivery
- 82%96%+14 pts
- EBITDA margin
- 9.4%12.5%+3.1 pts
Measured over 12 months
Multi-site professional services firm · 240 people · 6 offices
Constraint removed: Complexity & focus
Architected: 80/20 concentration read across clients, services, and initiatives; portfolio exit plan; capacity reallocated to the highest-contribution work.
- Gross margin
- 31%39%+8 pts
- Revenue concentration in top-quartile accounts
- 44%71%+27 pts
Measured over 18 months
Client identities, brands, and locations are withheld under confidentiality. Metrics are client-reported and measured over the window shown; they describe those engagements and are not a projection of results for any other enterprise.
The record
Who architects the engagement
- Illinois Tool Works (ITW)Global diversified industrial manufacturer
- Front-to-back 80/20 simplification and global transformation — product, customer and process portfolios rebuilt around what actually earns its keep.
- SchneiderLarge-scale North American transportation and logistics
- Enterprise operating discipline and leadership capability inside a high-volume, execution-driven business where the daily cadence is the strategy.
- ManitowocGlobal capital-equipment manufacturer
- Organizational redesign, leadership readiness and transformation-office leadership across multi-site, multi-country operations.
- United States NavyActive-duty officer
- Readiness, preparation and accountability under real consequence — the standard the Compass Enterprise Operating System is still built to.
25+ years
Operating and executive leadership
4 continents
Europe, Asia, North and South America
$100M+
Enterprise P&L accountability
ERP
Enterprise system deployment and adoption
1,000+
Leaders assessed, developed and readied
80/20 · Lean Six Sigma
Front-to-back deployment
Go one layer deeper
See the architecture the offerings install
The Compass Enterprise Operating System™ — Foundation, Simplify, Lead, Grow and ARC™.
- Where Compass fits
The ideal client and the conditions that create value.
- Executive Forums
Confidential peer rooms for leaders.
Applications of the operating system
One system, entered from wherever you stand
Nothing on this list is a separate practice. Each is the Compass Enterprise Operating System™ applied to a specific decision.
- FOUNDATION™Assessments & DiagnosticsHow the operating system reads the present before anything is designed.
- FOUNDATION™Executive ForumsWhere leaders practice the disciplines with peers carrying the same decisions.
- FOUNDATION™Mental FitnessThe mental fitness FOUNDATION™ depends on — judgment under pressure.
- LEAD™Executive & Leadership AdvisoryArchitecture and decision clarity for the owner carrying the consequence.
- LEAD™Operating Cadence InstallLEAD™ made operable — the plan, the measures and the meetings, run weekly.
- SIMPLIFY™ERP, Digital & AI ReadinessSIMPLIFY™ applied before configuration: process, data ownership and decisions.
- GROW™Talent Acquisition System™GROW™ applied to capacity — one hiring system instead of scattered recruiting.
- ARC™Exit Planning & Succession Architecture™ARC™ applied to ownership — transferable value and a 3–5 year pathway.
The next step
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