Align the executive team before the next irreversible decision.
For boards and executive teams carrying a decision they cannot afford to mishandle. We map default modes, surface the team's collective shadow, and build a shared decision code. Diagnostics, facilitated workshops, and advisory from $7,500.
The team's decision architecture, made visible.
Every executive team has risks it can see and risks it would rather not name. The ones that bend a team under pressure are the hardest to put on a dashboard. We surface them.
Team Mode Map
What each member defaults to under pressure, built from individual assessments, and where the team is overweighted in one mode or missing another entirely.
Shadow Heat Map
The collective shadow: where the team's combined strengths produce a shared blind spot the dashboard will never show until it costs you.
Organizational Code Workshop
A half- or full-day working session on the Five Modes, led by Chris, applied to one real decision your team is actually carrying right now.
Three Pillars Audit + Advisory
A structured audit of the three pillars under the team (character, competence, and connection), with ongoing executive advisory as the pressure and the decisions keep arriving.
Diagnose, convene, embed.
Three phases, scoped to your team. Most engagements begin with a diagnostic and grow from there.
Diagnose
Individual assessments roll up into a Team Mode Map and Shadow Heat Map. We read the team’s real decision patterns before we convene anyone.
Convene
A working session led by Chris, applying the Five Modes to one live decision, building a shared code the whole team can hold under pressure.
Embed
The Three Pillars Audit (character, competence, and connection) plus ongoing advisory, so the code survives past the offsite and into the decisions that actually test it.
Start with the pressure that is already in the room.
Six focused entry points use the same diagnostic and decision architecture, adapted to the institution and decision at hand.
For community bank executives
A decision framework for bank leaders when every option carries institutional cost.
For credit union leadership teams
Hold member trust while the operating model is forced to change.
For boards and governing bodies
Make the governance boundary visible before the irreversible vote.
For executive teams
See how the team behaves under pressure before the next decision exposes it.
For succession committees and leadership teams
Transfer judgment, not just authority.
For leaders adopting AI
Use AI to widen judgment without outsourcing responsibility.
Bring the framework to your stage.
Keynotes and working sessions for leadership teams, conferences, and boards navigating the crisis era. Practical, evidence-based, and built around one real decision your audience is carrying.
Chris speaks from the operator's chair, not the lectern. Every talk is built around the decisions your audience is carrying right now, and the practice for holding their code when the pressure peaks.
The full page has the four talks, the formats, and the fees.
“Chris Myers understands both Main Street finance and the generational forces reshaping our communities.”
Michael Van Norstrand
Executive Director, Independent Community Bankers of Colorado
Start with a conversation.
Tell us about your team and the pressure it's deciding inside. We'll follow up to scope a diagnostic, a workshop, or a full engagement.
Led by Chris Myers · CEO, B:Side Capital & B:Side Fund · Founder & Chairman, Main & Machine · Faculty, ASU W. P. Carey
The New York Times · The Wall Street Journal · Forbes · Entrepreneur
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