Ioannis Strikos - Services
Why leaders bring me in
Leaders bring me in before things break.
The early signals are familiar: Decisions feel quick and confident, delivery looks efficient, yet small corrections start to appear. Escalations or the need for clarification increases.
Experienced leaders recognise the pattern: This is how late rework and reversals start.
As organisations get leaner and AI accelerates execution, these signals appear earlier. Waiting for failure is expensive. Acting while things still look “good enough” is what prevents it.
What I do
I work on prevention, at the level where misalignment is created and scaled.
Concretely, I help leaders:
- Surface hidden disagreement and competing interpretations before decisions scale
- Design clear decision and alignment interfaces where work crosses teams and systems
- Make ownership explicit especially where risk is shared or diluted
- Introduce the right amount of productive friction so speed does not erase judgment
- Build structures and habits that teams can run themselves, without ongoing facilitation
I help structuring how decisions are made, tested, and owned so alignment does not depend on individual heroics.
My Services
Alignment Risk Diagnostic
For leaders who sense that speed is increasing faster than alignment
A focused assessment of how decisions, prioritisation, and ownership actually work today across teams and value streams.
We look for where interpretations diverge, where friction is missing or misdirected, and where faster execution is likely to turn into late correction.
What you get:
- A clear map and its dependencies of where alignment will break first
- Concrete risks tied to execution, cost, and escalation
- No generic scores, no cultural labels.
Lean Speed & Alignment Design
For organisations scaling speed through AI and smaller teams
Hands-on design of decision structures, team interfaces, feedback loops, and escalation paths.
The focus is on enabling teams to surface disagreement and clarify ownership as part of normal work, not as an exception.
What you get:
- Faster flow with fewer late corrections
- Clear ownership without micro-management
- Reduced escalation
- Structures leaders and teams can operate independently
Decision Resilience Support for Executives
For executives during high-stakes phases
Direct support when confidence is high and consequences are asymmetric. Assumptions are stress-tested, ownership clarified, and disagreement exposed early before decisions scale.
What you get:
- Fewer reactive escalations
- Fewer late reversals
- Decisions that remain stable under pressure