Leadership Advisory

Board & Organisational Effectiveness:

Strengthening governance, decision-making and collective execution.

Organisations rarely fail because of strategy alone. More often, performance is weakened by unclear governance, slow decision-making, organisational friction and leadership misalignment.

We help Boards and Executive Teams prove the way they govern, decide and execute together. 

Board & Organisational Effectiveness

Collective performance depends on more than engagement or team cohesion alone. It requires clear priorities, effective decision-making, strong alignment, constructive management of tensions and a shared commitment to execution.

Our Board & Organisational Effectiveness practice helps Boards, executive teams and leadership groups strengthen the conditions that enable organisations to perform consistently and sustainably. Depending on the situation, we activate four complementary intervention levers:

  • Board & Strategic Alignment

Aligning Boards, leaders and key stakeholders around shared priorities, governance principles and decision-making frameworks.

Outcome: Greater consistency between strategy, governance and execution.

  • Team Effectiveness

Clarifying roles, responsibilities, interfaces and execution rhythms to improve collective performance and organisational effectiveness.

Outcome: Faster decisions, stronger accountability and more reliable execution.

  • Global Rewards & Performance Management

Aligning recognition, contribution frameworks and performance management systems with organisational objectives.

Outcome: A clearer link between contribution, value creation and recognition.

  • Team Conflict Resolution

Restoring productive collaboration when tensions, misalignment or conflict are affecting decision-making and execution.

Outcome: Re-established trust, improved cooperation and renewed execution capacity.

Overall Impact

Together, these interventions strengthen governance, improve decision-making, enhance collaboration and increase organisational effectiveness.

 

The C.R.A.F².T. Framework

Developed by Fabrice Gatti, Leading Partner at SBT Executive, the C.R.A.F².T. framework helps leaders and executive teams strengthen trust, cooperation, engagement and execution.

Applied in Boards, executive committees and organisations undergoing transformation, it provides a practical lens for understanding and improving the human dynamics that influence organisational performance.

Board & Strategic Alignment

Aligning leaders, Boards and executive teams around a shared direction, clear decision-making and disciplined execution.

When leaders are not aligned around priorities, decision-making and execution, even the strongest strategies can lose momentum. Strategic Alignment helps Boards, executive teams and leadership groups build a shared understanding of what matters most, how decisions are made and how execution is expected to happen.

True alignment cannot be imposed. It must be built. Our approach helps leaders create a common language, clarify roles and responsibilities, strengthen governance and translate strategy into consistent, coordinated execution.

Outcome: Stronger alignment between strategy, governance and execution, resulting in faster decisions, greater accountability and improved collective performance.

💡Key Challenges

  • Strategic priorities are understood but not consistently reflected in governance, leadership behaviours or execution.
  • Decision-making is disconnected from operational realities or organisational priorities.
  • Roles, responsibilities and accountabilities lack clarity.
  • The organisation struggles to translate strategy into coordinated action and sustainable execution.

Our Approach

We build alignment through structured leadership workshops, governance clarification and the translation of strategic priorities into clear execution frameworks.

Our approach helps Boards and executive teams establish a common understanding of priorities, clarify decision-making responsibilities and strengthen alignment between strategy and execution.

Client Benefits

  • Stronger alignment between strategy, governance and execution.
  • Faster and more effective decision-making.
  • Greater clarity regarding roles, responsibilities and accountability.
  • Improved coordination across leadership teams and key stakeholders.
  • More consistent execution and organisational performance.

👥 Key Experts

  • Fabrice Gatti — Leading Partner | Board & Organisational Effectiveness
  • Laurent Riffault — Leading Partner | Succession & Future Leadership

Team Effectiveness (Powered by Talent Reveal Protocol)

Clarify Roles. Align Contributions. Accelerate Execution.

High-performing teams do not underperform because of capability alone. More often, performance is constrained by the execution model itself: unclear roles, overlapping responsibilities, decision-making bottlenecks, accountability gaps and ineffective operating rhythms.

Team Effectiveness (Powered by the Talent Reveal Protocol) helps Boards, Executive Committees, Leadership Teams and critical project teams improve the way they work together and execute.

The objective is not to resolve conflict, but to strengthen organisational effectiveness by clarifying responsibilities, aligning contributions, improving decision-making and establishing a more effective execution rhythm.

Outcome: Greater clarity, stronger accountability and more consistent execution.

💡 Key Challenges

  • Performance remains below potential despite a capable leadership team.
  • Roles, responsibilities and accountabilities lack sufficient clarity.
  • Leadership contributions are misaligned, creating dependencies, overlaps or capability gaps.
  • Decision-making is slow and coordination across the Executive Committee, Leadership Team or project governance structure is ineffective.
  • Operating rhythms and governance mechanisms are insufficient to support consistent execution

🧭 Our Approach

A structured, diagnostic and execution-focused approach combining:

  • Talent Reveal Individual Profiles to provide an objective view of leadership strengths, contribution styles and potential risk areas.
  • Team Mapping to identify complementarities, overlaps, capability gaps and operational friction points.
  • Targeted Role & Governance Design to clarify responsibilities, interfaces, decision-making processes and collaboration principles.
  • Execution & Operating Rhythm Design to strengthen governance routines, decision forums and 30 / 60 / 90-day follow-up mechanisms.
We analyse how the team actually operates, beyond the organisational chart, to identify the hidden dynamics, overlaps and accountability gaps that slow decision-making and execution.

✨ Client Benefits

  • Greater clarity regarding roles, responsibilities and accountability.
  • Better alignment between leadership contributions and organisational needs.
  • Faster and more effective decision-making.
  • Stronger execution supported by clear governance and operating rhythms.
  • A more aligned and effective leadership team without requiring major organisational restructuring.

👥 Key Experts

  • Fabrice Gatti — Leading Partner | Board & Organisational Effectiveness
  • Laurent Riffault — Leading Partner | Succession & Future Leadership

Global Rewards & Performance Management

Performance, Recognition & Sustainable Leadership

Recognition is one of the most powerful and often overlooked drivers of sustained performance.

Effective recognition is not simply about compensation. It is about defining what creates value, which behaviours should be reinforced and how contribution, performance and leadership expectations are aligned.

At SBT Executive, we help organisations design performance and recognition frameworks that strengthen accountability, support engagement and encourage the leadership behaviours required for long-term success.

Outcome

A clearer link between contribution, value creation and recognition, supporting stronger performance, leadership effectiveness and organisational sustainability.

💡 Key Challenges

  • Performance management systems focus primarily on outcomes while overlooking the behaviours that drive sustainable success.
  • Recognition mechanisms are misaligned with organisational values and leadership expectations.
  • Leaders receive limited feedback on the behaviours that influence team performance and organisational effectiveness.
  • Performance and contribution frameworks lack clarity, consistency or credibility.

🧭 Our Approach

  • Performance & Recognition Assessment: Reviewing leadership expectations, performance frameworks,  recognition practices and organisational culture.
  • Performance Framework Design: Developing integrated models that align business outcomes, leadership behaviours, collaboration and accountability.
  • Recognition & Incentive Alignment: Ensuring that recognition, incentives and contribution models reinforce the behaviours most critical to organisational success.
  • Leadership Adoption & Implementation: Supporting leaders in embedding the framework through communication, governance and performance management practices.

✨ Client Benefits

  • Stronger alignment between contribution, performance and recognition.
  • Greater consistency between organisational values and leadership expectations.
  • Improved accountability and leadership effectiveness.
  • More credible and sustainable performance management practices.
  • A stronger culture of contribution, ownership and value creation.

👥 Key Expert

  • Laurent Riffault — Leading Partner | Performance, Rewards & Leadership Effectiveness

Team Conflict Resolution

Restore Collaboration. Rebuild Decision-Making. Restart Execution.

When collaboration deteriorates, execution slows, decision-making becomes more difficult and organisational performance suffers.

For Boards, Executive Committees, Leadership Teams and critical project teams, unresolved tensions are rarely just interpersonal issues. They quickly become governance, decision-making and execution risks.

Team Conflict Resolution helps leaders address open conflicts, recurring friction and unspoken tensions that undermine trust, delay decisions and weaken collective effectiveness.

The objective is not simply to improve relationships. It is to restore clear ways of working, strengthen decision-making, rebuild alignment and enable the team to execute effectively again.

Outcome: Stronger alignment, healthier working dynamics, more effective decision-making and restored execution capacity.

💡Key Challenges

  • Open conflict or entrenched mistrust is undermining collaboration and collective effectiveness.
  • Decisions are avoided, repeatedly revisited or escalated unnecessarily.
  • Cross-functional friction, competing agendas and unresolved issues are slowing decision-making.
  • Transformation initiatives are placing pressure on a leadership team whose alignment and effectiveness have weakened.
  • Leadership fatigue, declining trust and unclear accountability are affecting execution.

Our Approach

A confidential, structured and resolution-focused approach combining:

  • Conflict & Friction Assessment Identifying the visible and underlying tensions, key stakeholders, business implications and execution risks.
  • Governance & Decision-Making Reset Clarifying decision rights, roles, responsibilities, commitments and escalation mechanisms.
  • Execution Stabilisation Establishing governance routines, checkpoints and a 30 / 60 / 90-day follow-through plan to sustain progress.

We analyse both visible and underlying tensions, decision-making bottlenecks and breakdowns in collaboration in order to restore effective governance, collective alignment and execution capacity.

Client Benefits

  • Restored collaboration supported by clear ways of working and explicit operating principles.
  • More secure and effective decision-making with reduced avoidance and re-litigation.
  • Smoother coordination across functions and key stakeholders.
  • Stronger execution supported by governance, accountability and follow-through mechanisms.
  • Reduced risk of recurring conflict through sustainable behavioural and governance adjustments.

👥 Key Experts

  • Fabrice Gatti — Leading Partner | Board & Organisational Effectiveness
  • Laurent Riffault — Leading Partner | Succession & Future Leadership