When growth stalls, clarity is the constraint.
Most organizations don’t need another strategy deck.
They need to understand why execution isn’t matching intent.
Kyle J. Harkema works with leaders to diagnose where strategy breaks down in behavior and to realign how teams think, listen, and act so progress resumes quickly.
Kyle’s consulting work is built around a single premise: strategy lives or dies in behavior. When organizations struggle to execute, the issue is rarely effort or intelligence. It is misalignment.
The Strategic Orientation Index provides a clear diagnostic mirror that reveals how an organization actually operates under pressure. Consulting engagements use this insight to move leaders from debate to clarity and from clarity to action.
Rather than prescribing generic best practices, the work begins by understanding your firm’s strategic posture and the behaviors shaping outcomes.
First, your organization’s strategic orientation is diagnosed across how it thinks, listens, and acts. This reveals patterns that are often felt but rarely measured.
Next, those patterns are mapped to one of five strategic personas. Each persona highlights specific strengths, blind spots, and execution risks.
Then, facilitated sessions translate insight into decisions. Leadership teams gain a shared language for alignment and a practical path forward.
The result is not more analysis, but extraordinary execution.
Provide a fast, robust firm-level view of alignment and a sprint to focus the organization on moving toward the desired quadrant. This engagement is designed to create momentum quickly by aligning leadership around the right moves for the organization’s current posture.
Support ongoing alignment initiatives. These engagements help leaders maintain clarity as markets shift, teams grow, or strategy evolves over time.
Each engagement is grounded in the same diagnostic foundation and tailored to the organization’s context.
Leaders stop arguing about symptoms and start addressing root causes.
Teams share a common language for strategy and behavior.
Decisions accelerate because the real constraints are visible.
Execution begins to match ambition.
Because clarity creates momentum.
With its sights set on growing revenue significantly, KMC Controls needed more than a vision—it needed alignment. As the company grew in complexity, it became increasingly difficult to ensure that strategic thinking, listening, and action were shared across departments. To address this challenge, KMC decided to deploy the Strategic Orientation Index™ (SOI). The findings provided a high-trust pathway to growth without losing strategic discipline.
"This wasn’t just helpful. It gave us the vocabulary to act on what we’ve been feeling for a long time.”
