Welcome
McAdams Road quickly illuminates personal pivot points that rapidly take each executive to his/her next level
Welcome
McAdams Road quickly illuminates personal pivot points that rapidly take each executive to his/her next level
McAdams Road delivers specific, targeted advisory services to quickly impact executive performance. Our practice focuses on improving an individual leaders’ (or an executive team’s) ability to drive change and influence others – aligning attitudes and behaviors with successful models. Our process guarantees change that is fast… and lasts!
Often the people you count on are a bit short on skills, experience, attitude – or just awareness. How long will it take to get them from here to there? Almost every CEO will tell you that their greatest strategic challenge in the coming years is to secure, develop and retain the talent necessary to compete in times of total change.
Our approach is a bit different… but our philosophy and processes enable us to get client executives down the road much faster and much further than you imagine possible. Are you ready? The universe is waiting.
Services
“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.“
John Buchan
Services
“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.“
John Buchan
Executive Alignments are intensive, fixed-time (6-month) engagements designed to create tight focus and significantly transform an executive’s acumen by helping them get out of their own way - building the road for their own personal revolution.
Executive Acceleration are engagements, that our Advisor will serve as part teacher and part coach… with just a tad more mentoring to help the executive move and learn at a pace that matches the business challenges at hand.
The Executive Elevation engagement is McAdams Road’s most “coaching”-oriented engagement and is designed to transform performance and satisfaction.
Whether it is a full blown corporate crisis, or more simply, an untenable rift between two key members of your Senior Management Team, your McAdams Road Advisor will assess, normalize, broker, mentor, and galvanize all affected parties to a swift and integrity-infused conclusion.
The McAdams Road Strategy Slam is a 48 hour disassembly and reassembly of your firm’s strategy, driven by a proprietary process and the minds of your key decision-makers and subject matter experts.
Process
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Process
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A change in perspective is often all it takes…just one thing. New information. New learning. A tilt of the head. Squinting one eye.. Breakthrough! We believe that, if you can change the way you think… you don’t have to think about changing. And that makes change very fast – knocking the edges off, making you more aerodynamic, friction free. Changing you right where you stand.
To get to that change, we work The Three Angles of the DeltaSM which include finding REALITY, finding the ROOT, and finding RESONANCE. These 3 angles comprise the change cycle that executives will use immediately to create intensive and iterative change. More importantly, they will learn to employ the change cycle, promoting a life-time of positive, upward moving transformation.
Our process begins with the completion and review of a personalized assessment -- the first step in creating the 3D 360SM
Your supervisors, direct reports, peers, customers and suppliers will assist in assessing our starting point through their participation in our 3D 360SM
In this step, we set the transformation goals and measurements for development
Monthly ½ day development sessions with your advisor will guide your transformation (includes unlimited phone support)
We stop and celebrate all victories along the way
Our engagements are fixed term because our focus is on empowering the executive to be the author of his or her continued transformation.
Because each McAdams Road engagement is co-created by all those invested in the executive’s success, "our results" is our favorite topic. Our commitment to the executives we advise transcends our business aspirations and connects deeply with the transformation and achievement goals of our clients. Our results include:
About
“There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.”
Anonymous
About
“There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.”
Anonymous
Our vision is To provide the thoughtful perspective and candid advisement that empowers executives to swiftly transform themselves, their organizations and their world.
For corporations, private equity partners, and management teams seeking transformational performance from key individuals, McAdams Road quickly illuminates personal pivot points that rapidly take each executive to his/her next level - creating immediate and lasting positive value for the enterprise. Whether the need is a tweak… or an Executive TurnaroundSM, McAdams Road can provide the road map to fast and lasting change.
Our dream team is comprised of diverse leaders whose divergent paths are all paved by our vision and values. This insures that every advisement engagement is driven by the right people, processes, and perspective to make immediate impact. We can do this because:
These truths may seem self-evident, but McAdams Road Advisors live, breathe and advise with these maxims:
“Right Time right Place, right Advice. [My McAdams Road advisor]… prepared me to propel my firm far beyond my imagination …and far beyond my tenure."
Fortune 100 Chairman & CEO
“I asked [my McAdams Road Advisor], “where were you 20 years ago? His answer, “Probably trying to get your attention.” When he explained my need for a personal “insultant” , I was hooked. My career and my life is simply better."
EVP, Global Financial Services Company
"I could not understand why what I wanted done was so difficult for my team to execute. I always believed if I thought it, it would automatically happen…“out there” in the leadership of the company. How wrong I was."
CEO & Founder,
$2 billion healthcare company
"Fastest insight, fastest inspiration, fastest results. I’m now a believer in fast and lasting change."
Chief Marketing Officer – Global 100 Aerospace, Defense & Electronics Firm
Contact
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Contact
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dallas Regional Office
3523 McKinney Avenue #406
Dallas, Texas 75204
405.812.3905
Kmcfarland@mcadamsroad.com
Denver Regional Office
8207 Grandview Avenue
Arvada, CO 80002
303.834.5885
Rwilson@mcadamsroad.com
Silicon Valley Regional Office
6769 Olive Branch
San Jose, CA 95120
408.205.7799
Bschick@mcadamsroad.com
For general information: info@mcadamsroad.com