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Featured Insight: The State of Enterprise Leadership Alignment in 2026

Enterprise leaders don’t struggle because they lack strategy or talent. They struggle because leadership teams rarely align on how to deliver together across the enterprise. In this research-based article, we explore the hidden cost of the Failure Gap, the space between agreement and execution, and why closing it is one of the most important levers for accelerating transformation, improving decision-making, and delivering exceptional results.

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Leading Growth

Growth requires more than an ambitious strategy. Explore how leaders create the clarity, alignment, and shared commitment needed to turn growth ambitions into sustained results.

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Enterprise Alignment Solutions: close the gap between strategy and results

Our solutions are designed to help your leadership team work better together, so priorities move forward, decisions stick, and strategy becomes measurable progress.

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Team Alignment

Agreement is not alignment. Explore how leadership teams build clarity, connection, commitment, and courage around HOW they work together to deliver.

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Short, practical webinars designed for busy leaders. In 15–45 minutes, explore fresh perspectives on strategy, leadership, intentional optimism, purpose, and the HOW behind leading better together.

Strategy & Execution

The best strategy only matters if your organization can execute it. Explore how leaders make critical choices, navigate trade-offs, and turn strategic intent into aligned action.

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The ET Project Podcast with Julie Williamson, PhD, and Coach Wayne Brown: Driving Alignment: The Missing Link Between Strategy and Execution

by | Jun 30, 2024

Feeling stuck between brilliant strategies and lackluster execution? The missing link might be leadership alignment. This episode of the ET Project Podcast features Julie Williamson, PhD and Managing Partner at the Karrikins Group, a pro in both behavioral science and executive leadership. Wayne Brown and Julie guide you through the world of alignment, exploring the powerful Diamond Triangle framework and Behavior and Competence Models.

Make HOW Matter: Turn strategy into action by making HOW matter

Julie Williamson, PhD’s Make HOW Matter explores the missing link between ambitious strategy and successful execution: HOW leaders work together. Discover why it matters and what leaders can do differently.

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Transformation

Transformation succeeds when leaders change how they lead, decide, and work together. Explore what it takes to move beyond transformation plans and create meaningful change that sticks.

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Women Governance Trailblazers featuring Julie Williamson, PhD

by | Sep 29, 2025

In this episode of Women Governance Trailblazers, Dr. Julie Williamson, CEO of Karrikins Group and author of Make HOW Matter, shares why alignment is the critical (and often missing) ingredient for Boards and executive teams driving transformation. From lessons in behavioral science to insights from endurance racing, Julie brings a fresh, grounded perspective on leading through complexity—with clarity, discipline, and purpose.

Management Blueprint Podcast: Turn Agreements to Alignment with Julie Williamson, PhD, and Steve Preda

by | Feb 13, 2025

Julie Williamson, CEO of Karrikins Group, focuses on aligning leadership actions with strategic goals to transform businesses on Steve Preda’s Management Blueprint Podcast. She emphasizes the crucial difference between agreement and actual implementation, helping organizations move from simply agreeing on a plan to successfully executing it. Williamson uses the Karrikins Diamond Triangle framework, which links the “Why,” “What,” and “How” of a strategy. By concentrating on the “How,” she empowers leaders to make effective decisions that lead to real change and prevent the common “failure gap” where promising ideas fail due to a lack of action.

Explore Our Align for Action Program: Accelerate progress on your most ambitious goals

One of our most popular solutions, Align for Action™ helps cross-functional and matrixed teams work better together, navigate change, and build momentum toward big goals.

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Accelerating Change

Change gains momentum when leaders create the conditions for people to move forward together. Explore how leaders navigate complexity, shift behaviors, and take action across the enterprise.

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Leading through challenge: Know where you are on the KARRIKINS Challenge Curve™

by | Feb 19, 2023

The KARRIKINS Challenge Curve™ shows the common stages of leading through challenge or a crisis in an organization. The energy leaders bring into showing up together during challenging situations determines how quickly they accelerate out of them. Knowing where you are on the Challenge Curve and how you are responding as a leader will help you to infuse the right energy into a situation.

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Culture & Connection

How people work together shapes what an organization can achieve. Explore how trust, connection, shared purpose, and leadership behaviors create stronger teams and healthier organizations.

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The Failure Gap podcast

Candid conversations about the space between agreement and alignment, where even the best ideas falter without decisive action. New episodes drop every other week.

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Which of these sounds like your leadership challenge?

Whether you need to strengthen an enterprise team or grow as an individual leader, start with the challenge standing between you and better results.

Enterprise Alignment “ Everyone nodded in the room. Two weeks later, nothing had moved. Chief operating officer
What we do about it

Get your leadership team working better together

Enterprise Alignment Solutions help leadership teams get clear on HOW they will lead, decide, prioritize, and execute together—so strategy turns into measurable progress.

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The Alignment Institute “ We need our leaders to be as strong at working together as they are at doing their jobs. Chief people officer
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Build the leadership capabilities that drive performance

The Alignment Institute helps leaders practice the HOW of high performance through focused accelerators, workshops, coaching, and advisory services.

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Make HOW Matter Accelerator™ “ I know I need to influence across the organization, not just lead my own team. Senior leader
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Increase your influence and drive results

The Make HOW Matter Accelerator™ gives mid- to senior-level leaders a practical, self-paced way to strengthen their ability to create alignment, influence others, and move important work forward.

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