Install a shared honor code across your leadership team.
For executive teams, boards, and leadership groups operating under institutional stress. Map how the team decides under pressure, surface its collective shadow, and build a code the whole team can hold.
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.
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.
Honor Under Pressure
The keynote: why a code built in advance is the only thing that holds when institutions don't.
The Five Modes
A working session applying the framework to the decisions your team is actually carrying right now.
Leading the Fourth Turning
For boards and executive groups: decision-making when precedent, consensus, and deference run out.
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 · Faculty, ASU W. P. Carey
The New York Times · The Wall Street Journal · Forbes · Entrepreneur
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