Ask a Chief of Staff: Beyond the Kickoff: The First 90 Days of Strategy Execution
🗓️ Join us on January 22nd!
Most strategic plans don’t fail because they’re bad. They fail because execution breaks down in the first 90 days.
After the kickoff meetings fade, teams struggle with unclear ownership, manual updates, and meetings that generate more status updates than progress. Leaders lose visibility, accountability erodes, and strategy slowly turns into a document instead of a discipline.
In this session, we’ll unpack why this happens and what high-performing teams do differently to keep strategy alive well past January.
✅ Why You Should Join:
This webinar is about helping Chiefs of Staff and Strategy Leaders avoid the most common failure point in strategic planning: The first 90 days of execution. It focuses on the practical habits, structures, and signals that keep plans from collecting dust, improve accountability across teams, and give leadership real visibility without endless status meetings.
🎯 Who This Is For:
Chiefs of Staff
Strategy & Operations leaders
Anyone responsible for turning strategic plans into sustained execution
Especially valuable if you are supporting cross-functional execution or reporting progress to senior leadership.
🧠 What You Will Learn:
Identify the early warning signs that execution is drifting off track
Establish an operating cadence that drives accountability without constant follow-ups
Run meetings that surface risk and enable course correction, not just status updates
Create real visibility into progress without overwhelming leaders or teams
Set the foundation in the first 90 days so execution stays proactive, not reactive
Attendees will leave with practical steps they can apply immediately, regardless of tools or frameworks.
🎟️ Please note, there will be a 100-person limit on this event. This event is not recorded.
🎙️ More about the Speakers
Brooks Busch is the co‑founder and CEO at Elate, an AI-powered strategy execution platform. Prior to Elate, he oversaw Strategy and Operations at Springbuk, scaling the business from $100K to $10M+ in revenue before an acquisition by Merative Health earlier this year. Brooks began his career in Operations and Go-to-Market Strategy at ExactTarget (acquired by Salesforce), and later led Channel Sales and Operations for North America at Gigya (acquired by SAP).
Shannon Keedy is the Director of Solutions Consulting at Elate, where she partners with executives and team leads to design and implement strategies that drive organizational agility and operational excellence. She brings extensive experience from her career as a Management Consultant, guiding strategic planning and execution across public sector and enterprise organizations, and helping leaders translate vision into measurable results.
💜 Ask a Chief of Staff
Ask a Chief of Staff is a premier executive search and career development platform dedicated to placing top-tier Chiefs of Staff and empowering professionals in strategic leadership roles. We serve ambitious professionals and high-growth companies by offering executive recruiting, mentorship programs, and career resources tailored to Chiefs of Staff. By addressing the lack of structured career paths for this role, we provide guidance, connections, and opportunities that accelerate leadership development and organizational success.
Learn more at askachiefofstaff.com.