We make exactly one promise: within three hours, you will know, in numbers, the condition of your executive team — which foundations hold, which have collapsed, what the room will not yet say — and what it would honestly take to change it.
We do not promise EBITDA. We are suspicious of anyone who does.
Twenty foundations a functioning executive team requires — each one answerable as a fact of the team's life, not an opinion about its atmosphere.
Every answer scored on a fixed engine in which silence counts against the result and cannot inflate it. What the room won't say becomes signal.
A foundation either exists for the team or it doesn't. A majority is not alignment. The standard is deliberately brutal — and written down.
Every firm in this field has a framework, and the maps largely agree. Ours differs in one way: it was not built from theory — it was filtered by results across two decades and roughly forty top-team engagements, led by its creator, the late Scott Coady. Questions that did not discriminate were cut. What remains is the residue of a twenty-year experiment in what actually moves a P&L.
Presented as provenance, not as a promise. Written client confirmation and the supporting record are available under NDA.
Most teams we diagnose do not qualify for a declared profit engagement — and every team that has passed the screen and completed the work has delivered its declared result.
We protect that record the only way it can be protected: by declining the engagements the data does not support. Eligibility is determined against written criteria and stated in your findings memorandum — before any further work is discussed. If your team is not yet a candidate, the memorandum says what would have to be true first.
Former COO of J.P. Morgan Private Bank, London. For twenty years Mark has designed and led leadership programs for Fortune 100 C-suites — companies with an average market capitalization of $50 billion — and taught leadership at Harvard Law School and the Wharton School. He is the bestselling author of Meditation in a New York Minute. Mark trained under Scott Coady for fifteen years and taught alongside him for six.
Architect of the Top-Team Operating Audit and the results methodology on which this firm is built, proven across two decades of top-team engagements at global enterprises. Scott co-founded Coady Thornton and died two months later.
The firm carries his name, his instrument, and his standard.
The firm takes a small number of engagements each year, selectively, by conversation.
A detailed client briefing is available on request.