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You’re Hitting the Numbers - While Competitors Are Building What Comes Next
Strategic Intelligence: The Executive Program for Profitability and Market Dominance
A 6-week live executive program built on the StrategIQ Mindset™ and Agincourt Principle™ that helps CEOs and C-suite leaders design inimitable competitive advantage without adding more meetings, more workload or losing sleep over optimazation.
You’re optimizing what’s already losing power. Design what wins the next cycle.
Create a strategic system competitors can’t imitate without collapse.
Pull your time out of operations and put it back into building the future.
You’re Doing Everything “Right” and Still Watching Your Advantage Disappear
This is the operational excellence trap playing out in real time.
It is already showing up in your numbers, your calendar, and your talent.
You cut costs by 15–20%, and the gains still vanish into margin compression.
“Strategic initiatives” get dragged into operations, and nothing truly changes.
Your calendar is packed with reviews and fire drills, leaving no space to build.
Board meetings stay stuck on yesterday’s metrics, not tomorrow’s position.
You sense disruption early, but the signals arrive too late to act first.
Your best leaders grow restless because there is nothing strategic to build.
You execute brilliantly, while your future advantage gets thinner each quarter.
And the most dangerous part is this.
From the outside, everything still looks fine.
This Is Where Operational Leaders Become Strategic Architects
Strategic Intelligence: The Executive Program for Profitability and Market Dominance exists to break the operational excellence trap and replace it with a system that actually builds advantage.
You leave with a board-ready Strategic Playbook you can use immediately to reframe positioning conversations and strategic priorities.
Shift from endless improvement cycles to durable competitive advantage.
Design integrated systems that competitors cannot copy without breaking themselves.
Protect strategic work from being absorbed by daily operations.
Reclaim executive time for building the future, not managing the present.
This is not about doing more.
It is about changing the game your business is playing.
How Strategic Leaders Actually Build Advantage in This Program
This is a live, cohort-based program for senior executives who must apply strategy in real organizations.
You learn how to run today’s business at full performance while deliberately building tomorrow’s advantage.
Live Masterclasses Twice a Week
Join Tuesday and Thursday 60-minute sessions that teach strategic design and pattern recognition you can apply immediately
A Weekly Build Sequence That Ships
Follow a clear week-by-week workflow that turns ideas into tangible strategic outputs your organization can execute and defend.
Coaching Labs for Real Decisions
Use the optional Friday 60–90 minute lab to pressure-test active moves, assumptions, and tradeoffs before you commit resources.
Four Hours a Week, Built for Executives
Spend about four hours weekly creating practical assets your business will actually use, not notes that die in a folder.
Nothing theoretical. Nothing academic.
Everything is built to survive real execution pressure.
What You Build Over 6 Weeks
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Week 1: Strategic Mandate Reset
Clarify what must change now and what you will stop optimizing immediately.
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Week 2: Pattern Recognition & Strategic Risk
Learn to see disruption early instead of reacting after damage is done.
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Week 3: Asymmetric Advantage Design
Build an integrated system competitors cannot imitate without collapse.
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Week 4: Power and Coalition Mapping
Align authority and influence so that strategic moves survive internal resistance.
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Week 5: The 100-Day Strategic Plan
Align authority and influence so that strategic moves survive internal resistance.
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Week 6: Strategic Metrics That Matter
Measure capability, position, and future advantage with strategic metrics your board can actually use.
This Program Is For You If
You are a CEO or C-suite leader with real P&L accountability.
Your operation is strong, but future advantage still feels unclear.
You are tired of activity metrics that never create real advantage.
You are ready to challenge legacy assumptions that limit growth.
You want to build something enduring, not just run it well.
This Program Is Not For You If
You do not have the authority to drive enterprise-level change.
You want quick tactics, shortcuts, or revenue hacks that fade fast.
You prefer comfort and consensus over hard choices and clarity.
If You Wait, The Market Will Decide For You
Margins will keep compressing, no matter how efficient you become.
Top talent will leave for organizations building something new.
Board confidence will erode without a credible strategic direction.
The next crisis will trigger cuts, not strategic repositioning.
The organizations that dominate the next decade are being designed right now.
If you keep optimizing, you are choosing not to be one of them.
Why The “Smart Fixes” You Tried Didn’t Stick
Most solutions fail here for one reason. Your operating system absorbs strategy and turns it into safe execution.
Consulting decks collapsed in implementation. Operations pulled them into governance and diluted the moves.
Coaching improved you, not the system. Personal growth cannot protect strategic work from daily pressure.
Executive education stayed too academic. Useful ideas, but no build plan for your organization.
Initiatives created activity, not advantage. More projects did not change positioning or capability.
You are not behind. You were given tools that could not survive your environment.
Common Questions Senior Leaders Ask Before Committing
Myth #1: “I don’t have time for another program.”
Truth: This is built for executives. You spend about four hours a week creating assets your organization will actually use, not consuming content that adds work.
Myth #2: “Strategy always turns into more initiatives.”
Truth: That is exactly what this program is designed to prevent. You build a protected strategic system, not a list of projects that get absorbed by operations.
Myth #3: “Our business is too complex or too unique.”
Truth: This is not case-study learning. You apply the work directly to your organization, your constraints, and your competitive reality.
Myth #4: “How do I know this will translate to the board?”
Truth: You leave with a board-ready Strategic Playbook and strategic metrics your board can actually engage with.
Myth #5: “What if now isn’t the right time?”
Truth: Markets do not pause for readiness. Waiting does not preserve flexibility. It hands momentum to competitors.
Built by Steven Lovett - A CEO Who Has Been Inside the Trap
I’m Steven Lovett, Founder and CEO of Principled Consulting Services.
I built Strategic Intelligence: The Executive Program for Profitability and Market Dominance after watching operational excellence push a “successful” institution toward obsolescence.
I bring 25+ years of senior executive and legal leadership, including General Counsel and VP Risk Management roles, advising CEOs and boards across the US, UK, EU, UAE, India, and APAC. I’m the creator of the StrategIQ Mindset™ and Agincourt Principle™, and Principled Consulting Services was recognized with the 2025 Global Recognition Award for executive development and strategic innovation.
2025 Global Recognition Award for executive development and strategic innovation.
Wharton Business Strategy education with real-world application.
25+ years enterprise executive leadership and board advisory work.
StrategIQ Mindset™ and Agincourt Principle™ frameworks for uncopiable advantage.
Global client base across multiple regions and industries.
My mission: to help CEOs and C-suite leaders escape the operational excellence trap and design strategic systems that create a durable, profitable, competitive advantage that competitors cannot copy.
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