The Strategy Gap
Episodes
The Role of Accountability in Strategic Success
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Who’s actually accountable in your strategic plan? If your answer includes more than one name… that might be the root of your execution problems. ...
How to Boost Innovation and Strategy Through Cross-Team Collaboration
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Collaboration isn’t just a buzzword — it’s the backbone of strategy execution.In this episode of The Strategy Gap, hosts Jonathan Morgan (SVP of...
Alignment & Leadership: Why Most Strategic Plans Fail (and How to Fix Them)
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Strategy Gap, we dive into the first pillar of the 2025 State of Strategy Execution Report: Alignment and Leadership. Hosts Jon...
Introducing the State of Strategy Execution 2025
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you actually executing your strategy—or just making plans that collect dust? In this episode of The Strategy Gap, we dive into the key findings ...
Advocating for Impact: Building a Case for Strategic Initiatives
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you transition from commodities trading to leading strategy at a global mental health company?Mark Muston, Head of Business Operations & St...
Startups vs. Corporates: Innovating AI in the High-Stakes World of Healthcare
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can a startup stay agile while scaling—and still innovate?In this episode of The Strategy Gap, we're joined by Dave McMullin, Chief Strategy Officer...
Why Alignment Matters: Insights on Building Unified Organizations
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ready to uncover the secrets to true organizational alignment and long-term strategic success? In this episode of The Strategy Gap, we’re joined by ...
The Human Side of Strategy: Engaging Teams in Nonprofit Work
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to turn strategy into real, actionable results? In this episode of The Strategy Gap, Jonathan Morgan and Joe Krause sit down with Da...
Why Technology Needs a Seat at the Strategy Table
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Strategy Gap, hosts Jonathan Morgan and Joe Krause sit down with Tonjia Coverdale, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Off...
The Impact of Family Values and Global Trends on Strategy
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a business thrive in a constantly evolving world? According to Victor André Gamas Mayer, Managing Partner of Gamas Group, the answer lies ...
Conscious Capitalism: Balancing Profit and Purpose in Strategy
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Strategy Gap, hosts Jonathan Morgan and Joe Krause are joined by Tino Mantella, a seasoned executive with vast experience acros...
Scaling Innovation: Strategies for Startups and Corporations
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Strategy Gap, hosts Jonathan Morgan and Joe Krause interview Abhay Jain, VP of Strategy and Business Development at A+E Network...
How to See Around Corners: Foresight and Innovation in Strategy
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 31 of The Strategy Gap, hosts Jonathan Morgan and Joe Krause speak with with Eric Schurr, Chief Strategy Officer at Sunrise Banks. Eric bri...
Navigating Sales Ops Challenges: Insights from Netflix’s Isha Dhar
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Strategy Gap, Jonathan Morgan and Joe Krause sit down with Isha Dhar, a talented leader currently heading Global Sales Strategy...
Strategy Through Brand: Carving the Path for Your Organization
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan and Joe sit down with Cheryl Farr, founder of Signal Brand Innovation, for a powerful deep dive into what makes or breaks a brand. Drawing fr...
Mastering Strategy Execution: A Chief Strategy Officer's Approach
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of "The Strategy Gap", hosts Jonathan Morgan and Joe Krause engage in a robust conversation with Marc Mertz, the Chief Strategy Office...
Navigating Market Shifts in Higher Education with Strategic Innovation
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Curious about how universities are navigating the fast-changing landscape of higher education?In this episode of The Strategy Gap, Jonathan Morgan and...
Balanced Strategy: Mastering the Art of Zooming In and Out
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode, Joe and Jonathan speak with Strategy & Revenue Operations Leader Lester Ang about the crucial balance between big-picture st...
Storm-Proof Strategy: Navigating Uncertainty and Times of Change
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to navigating turbulence and developing strategy in the face of challenges, few industries are more weathered than education. With how q...
Leading Without Authority: Effective Change Management in Strategy
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For humans, the fear of change is so real and pervasive that there’s a word for it: metathesiophobia. Even if you didn’t know about this clinical ...
Brainstorming Your Way to Better Strategy
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, hosts Joe Krause (SVP of Strategy Consulting at AchieveIt) and Jonathan Martin (VP of Revenue Operations and Head of Marketing at AchieveIt...
From Project Management to Execution: Strategy Insights from Healthcare
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you want outside-the-box thinking, it pays to spend some time living outside the box that is conventional strategy and corporate structure.This wee...
BizOps 101: Driving Strategy, Execution, and Trust
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When we think about strategy, we usually picture two groups: those who come up with high-level vision, and those who execute that vision through a str...
Exploration vs Exploitation: Partnership's Role in Strategy Execution
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Given how dynamic and complex our world is, there’s no place for rigid and siloed approaches to strategy.This week, Michael Olaye, SVP and Managing ...
What Is (and Isn’t) Strategy?
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes a strategy fails because it’s a poor strategy. But sometimes it fails because it’s not really a strategy at all.So what are the attribut...
Building an AI Strategy: From Idea to Implementation
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to generative AI, most people are asking the wrong question: Is it good or bad? But the better way to approach this omnipresent topic is...
Understanding the Other Side: Negotiations in Strategy Execution
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Negotiations don’t have to lead to one-sided solutions or unfavorable compromises. In fact, when it comes to effective strategy execution and revenu...
Owning Up: Common Mistakes in Leadership and Strategy
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode features an in-person one-on-one conversation between Joe and Jonathan as they trade thoughts on common mistakes that leaders make i...
Keep It Simple: Level Up Your Team
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Secrets to Building & Maintaining an All-Star team…Today we get to sit down with Eric Patten, EVP of Operations at Kingstree, as he takes us...
Putting Strategic Plans in Motion During Significant Change
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The healthcare industry is vast and organizations and companies within it are equally as large. Navigating change, especially recent paradigm shifts t...
Balancing Data and Instinct: Finding the Right Fit in Organizational Roles
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we’re joined by Adam Sidoti, VP of Revenue Operations at Redwood Logistics, who believes data should lead the conversation, but it needs to be...
Unlocking Data’s Role In Strategy Execution
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone wants to claim data-driven success these days and knows that data is important to building and executing successful strategies- but how do we...
Decoding Strategic Execution: From Ideas to Impact
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Strategy consulting is a big industry- but how can it work for you when the path from strategic planning to execution has so many nuances particular t...
Crafting Strategy: The Visual Storytelling Advantage
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Visual storytelling is critical to so much success in branding, but how can these same concepts aid us in strategy planning? In this episode, Gary Com...
Integrating Innovation into Strategy Frameworks
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can the path least taken spur innovation in a career? And can it help in strategic planning at the operational level?Alanna Hughes, Head of Innova...
Elevate Your Game: Strategic Prep for 2024
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s already nearing the end of 2023 and we are here to help you kick off your 2024 organizational planning.We are doing something a little differen...
Navigating the Unseen: Insights into Organizational Dynamics
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Embarking on a successful organizational strategy goes beyond what meets the eye. While strategy, innovation, and change management are vital, they of...
Strategic Evolution and the Path to Organizational Growth
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Strategic plan management can be the deciding factor between a boom or a bust for your organization. Managing execution and minimizing day-to-day dist...
Chief of Staff: The Strategic Catalyst for Your Organization
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not a secret — your organization needs collaboration, communication, and streamlined execution for strategy to succeed. But getting to a poin...
Complexity to Clarity: Simplify Your Strategic Plans for Success
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It can be difficult to implement a strategic plan when it’s filled with an unstable, impossible, and frustrating amount of initiatives. The conseque...
Transforming Leadership: Strategy & Execution
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Building a strategy is very different than executing one — great execution of an average strategy is far more valuable than average (or poor) execut...
Building an Execution Culture: Embracing Strategy in Action
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Business leaders spend months ideating and developing the perfect strategy—but when it comes time to operationalize, companies often back down, tuck...
Introducing: The Strategy Gap
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Coming soon from AchieveIt... A new show about the space between savvy strategy and practical execution — and everything that can go wrong on the wa...