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right? Are dashboard requests coming from everywhere, with unclear priority, ownership, or business value? And does the analytics function feel helpful, but too reactive to become truly strategic? This is not usually a talent problem. Often the team is capable. The tools may be workable. The business demand may be legitimate. The issue is that the operating model has not caught up with the need. Without clear ownership, definitions, intake rules, governance, and prioritization, BI teams become ticket factories. They serve the business, but they do not always help the business become more disciplined. The real question is not, “How do we get the BI team to produce faster?” The better question is: How do we create a reporting model that is trusted, prioritized, and sustainable? The BI Operating Model & Reporting Governance Sprint is designed for founders, COOs, business heads, finance leaders, operations leaders, and analytics managers whose reporting environment is useful but fragmented, reactive, or hard to govern. Across the sprint, we examine report ownership, metric definitions, request intake, prioritization, backlog flow, stakeholder responsibilities, governance habits, and the operating rhythm needed for better analytics service delivery. We look at where requests are coming from. Where definitions are inconsistent. Where dashboards are duplicated. Where ownership is unclear. And where the team needs a better way to decide what gets built, what gets fixed, and what should stop. You will walk away with a BI operating-model diagnosis, a governance and ownership gap map, a reporting prioritization framework, a request-intake rhythm, and a practical 60-day improvement plan. This is not about creating heavy governance for its own sake. It is not about slowing the business down with process. It is about reducing confusion so the right work moves faster. Because trusted reporting does not come only from better tools. It comes from clear definitions, ownership, prioritization, and habits the business can actually sustain.
What you'll get from this package
• A BI operating-model diagnosis covering reporting demand, team capacity, request flow, ownership, and stakeholder usage.
• A governance gap map for metric definitions, data ownership, dashboard duplication, and accountability patterns.
• A reporting request and prioritization framework that separates urgent noise from business-critical work.
• Recommended operating rhythms for backlog review, stakeholder alignment, metric governance, and delivery communication.
• A 60-day BI governance and operating-model improvement plan with quick wins and leadership decision points.
Additional details
Coaching delivered via live sessions and .
Session plan • Session 1: Current BI operating model, reporting demand, and pain-point diagnosis. • Session 2: Metric definitions, ownership, quality concerns, and governance gaps. • Session 3: Request intake, prioritization, backlog flow, and stakeholder expectations. • Session 4: Operating rhythms, governance habits, and communication model. • Session 5: 60-day improvement roadmap and leadership recommendations. How I work with clients I work with clients by starting with clarity, not assumptions. Whether the challenge is a career transition, a leadership inflection point, a technology decision, or an organizational transformation, my first task is to understand what is really going on beneath the surface. Often, the visible issue is only a symptom. The real constraint may be unclear priorities, weak alignment, outdated operating rhythms, gaps in leadership identity, or decisions that have not yet been made with enough precision. My approach combines structured inquiry, real-world executive experience, and practical strategy. I do not believe in generic frameworks, motivational advice, or one-size-fits-all playbooks. Each engagement is shaped around the client’s context, goals, constraints, and stage of growth. Together, we diagnose the real pattern, challenge assumptions, surface blind spots, and translate insight into action. For individuals, that may mean strengthening leadership presence, reframing career value, or navigating the shift from technical expertise to strategic influence. For organizations, it may mean aligning leadership, clarifying decision rights, strengthening operating models, or turning transformation intent into executable movement. The work is both rigorous and human. There is strategic structure, but also space for reflection, identity shifts, trust-building, and the deeper leadership work required for lasting change. The goal is not just to create a plan. The goal is to help clients see clearly, decide wisely, and move forward with confidence.
- Preparation: Clients are expected to share relevant context, documents, role descriptions, profiles, business material, or questions at least 24 hours before the session where applicable. For diagnostic-led packages, the client should complete the relevant JRDN diagnostic before the first session and share the result or key observations. - Confidentiality: All coaching and advisory conversations are confidential, except where disclosure is required by law or platform policy. - Scope: Coaching and advisory recommendations are strategic and developmental in nature. They do not constitute legal, financial, therapeutic, tax, or investment advice. - No guaranteed outcomes: Career moves, promotions, job offers, funding, business growth, AI adoption, transformation outcomes, partner-tier movement, or executive buy-in cannot be guaranteed. The work creates clarity, readiness, positioning, and practical next steps. - Deliverables: Packages include live sessions, light notes, and agreed action points. Detailed written reports, implementation documents, architecture designs, offsite facilitation, or extended document reviews are outside scope unless separately agreed. - Client responsibility: The client is responsible for acting on recommendations, completing reflection work, and making final career or business decisions. - Platform terms: Leland's own cancellation, payment, refund, and platform policies apply in addition to these package terms.
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Joined January 2026
Former Big4 P/D & AWS Principal | Strategy & Operations Coach
I’m qualified to coach business operations and strategy because I’ve spent 28+ years inside complex organizations where strategy had to become execution, not just a slide deck. Across Amazon Web Services, Deloitte, KPMG, and global technology firms, I’ve led transformation, built and scaled teams, shaped operating models, advised senior leaders, and worked through the real trade-offs behind growth, modernization, governance, budgets, and delivery. I understand what it feels like when the strategy is clear in principle but messy in practice. My coaching style is practical, direct, and grounded in lived experience. I help leaders step back from day-to-day pressure, see the larger system, clarify priorities, make better decisions, and translate intent into operating rhythm. I don’t come in with generic playbooks. I work with people to understand their context, their constraints, their stakeholders, and the leadership shifts required to move the business forward. For me, good strategy is not just about better plans. It is about better judgment, better alignment, and the confidence to act.
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