Build Organisational Execution Capability That Outlasts Any Consultant

I help leadership teams close the execution gap - fixing team dysfunction and installing systematic execution rhythms that deliver measurable strategic outcomes.

Most strategy consultants teach frameworks and leave. I work with your leadership team to solve the real problem: the team dynamics and behavioral patterns that sabotage execution - then we build the systems that drive results.

I help transform your leadership teams into cohesive, high-performing tribes. By embedding organisational health at the heart of how you lead and operate, I help you unlock extraordinary results that focus on performance, collaboration and customer value generation.

Let’s explore how this can take shape inside your organisation.

successfully supported clients

student crowd
taurex
okr mentors
quantive
scaleup practitioners
scaleup nation
beier
cisco
diize
JV
United Legwear

What are OKRs?

OKRs—Objectives and Key Results—are a simple yet powerful methodology that helps organisations align their teams around strategic ambitions and focus energy where it counts while running their business.

The Problem

  • Harvard Business Review reports that 67% of strategies fail due to poor execution
  • You’re setting bold strategic ambitions, but execution falters. Not because people don’t care, but because of lack of “translation” of your strategy into measurable objectives and outcomes, unclear priorities and people not knowing “Why it matters”
  • Losing the customer perspective and setting solely internal goals. You focus on being busy (outputs) instead of generating outcomes that provide value for your customers
  • Your organisation is good at starting initiatives but there’s no clear link back to the company strategy and teams struggle to consistently finish them
  • Strategic initiatives don’t land because “business as usual” takes over due to the lack of a proper operating rhythm
  • You want to create a safe learning environment where your teams can innovate and adapt—but the current culture doesn’t support the courageous leadership required

The Solution

  • Translate your strategy into measurable Objectives and Key Results.
  • Start tracking customer value-generating outcomes instead of outputs and tasks.
  • Build and embed the operating rhythms, team dynamics, and capability that make execution systematic, not heroic.

Gains

  • Organisations with strong execution capability get more done in less time, with less cost.
  • They make better decisions faster, finish what they start, and maintain the discipline required to execute strategy while running daily operations.
  • According to the Global State of Strategy Execution 2025, companies with high strategy execution maturity are 1.5× more likely to outgrow their industry.

Sound familiar? Let’s build the execution capability your strategy deserves.

Why leaders work with me

Enable Strategic Execution Mastery With Objectives & Key Results

Using OKRs as the framework, we'll translate your company strategy into measurable objectives and key outcomes, creating the operating cadence, performance management and execution mastery your organisation needs to consistently deliver on strategic ambitions

Achieve Measurable, Sustainable Results

Get more done in less time, with less cost and lower turnover. Your teams will maintain alignment around what truly matters, grow their execution power, and sustain high performance over time - withstanding your daily operational pressures

Turning Organisational Health Into Your Competitive Advantage

By cultivating learning environments where innovation can thrive, building daring leadership capabilities, and developing the mindset, organisational skills and resilience to stay ahead of change—not being a slave to it

Ready to make organisational health your competitive advantage?

Most strategy consultants teach frameworks and leave. I work with your leadership team to solve the real problem: the team dynamics and behavioral patterns that sabotage execution - then we build the systems that drive results.

Curious what this could look like inside your organisation?

How we work together

Diagnostic & Roadmap

Gain clear visibility into your strategy execution maturity and align leaders around a focused roadmap for quick wins and long-term capability building. (4–6 weeks)

Impementation & Coaching

Fix leadership dysfunction. Install execution systems. Drive results. (6–12 months)

Fractional Leadership

Available for fractional COO/Transformation Coach: For companies that need execution, not just advice. (6–12 months, 2–3 days/week)

Ready to make organisational health your competitive advantage?

What’s next?

Book an introduction call - or I come and visit you

This is a no-strings-attached conversation to get to know each other and for me to understand what your organisation is currently wrestling with and what your desired outcomes are

2. Take the SEM360 Assessment and debrief

Instead of just starting with the mechanics of an OKR adoption, the data from the strategy execution maturity assessment will show us where, across the 5-dimensions of strategy execution maturity we need to start the work of building and/or improving your capabilities.

3. Create a Statement of Work that matches your needs

Based on our conversations, a deep analysis and the data from the SEM360 I will build a suggested plan of strategy execution adoption and a statement of work that matches your needs and your organisation.

4. Start our Collaboration

Once all the requirements have been discussed and signed off, we'll start our collaboration, which will be a blend of onsite and online support - bringing structure, cohesion, and lasting capability (let’s not forget fun) to your strategic execution mastery journey.

Ready to build the teamwork that changes everything?

Hi, I’m Fran

I work with leadership teams to build the execution capability and organisational health that turns strategy into results.

What sets me apart

Twenty years of C-level operational experience across industries and countries, combined with certified coaching expertise in organisational health. I’ve built and scaled operations firsthand—I know what actually works when execution pressure is real.

How I work

Most strategy consultants teach frameworks and leave. I work with your leadership team to solve the real problem: the team dynamics and behavioral patterns that sabotage execution – then we build the systems that drive results.

30-Minute OKR Review

Book a complimentary 30-minute session to review your current OKRs or planned rollout

Customer Testimonials

Ben Hutchinson
Ben Hutchinson
Director at JCurve
Fran is an exceptional consultant whose professionalism, deep expertise, and collaborative approach consistently deliver outstanding results for clients. During her partnership with JCURV, she made a tangible impact through quality delivery and the strong relationships she built with client teams. Her thoughtful and empathetic style fostered trust and momentum, often leading to extended engagements. Clients valued her ability to translate strategic intent into practical outcomes using OKR frameworks and the Quantive OKR tool, driving clarity, alignment, and measurable progress. She brought warmth, openness, and a consistently positive attitude to every interaction. Francesca leaves behind a legacy of trust, quality, and impact with JCURV and all clients she's worked with.
Warren Sachs
Warren Sachs
CEO at BeierGroup Ltd
Fran has been an integral part of our OKR implementation journey, serving as a driven coach who never lets go of a challenge and consistently pushes our teams to improve and deliver. What impresses me most is her unwavering commitment to embedding the OKR philosophy across all levels of our organization, diving into the process with genuine passion to ensure teams understand both the mechanics and the mindset behind OKRs. Her ability to engage teams is excellent and forthright, creating safe spaces for discussion while challenging everyone and holding them accountable. Her energy is contagious, bringing enthusiasm and positivity to every session that makes the journey engaging, meaningful, and sustainable. From a personal perspective, Fran impresses with her willingness to learn new processes and actively listen to feedback, which has been critical in customizing the process for our diverse set of companies.
Sonia van der Linden-Pugal
Sonia van der Linden-Pugal
Director of CS Platforms and Transformation at Booking
Francesca is a wonderful thought leader who is empathetic, patient, and determined to help you and your business move forward. She is an active listener focused on understanding your needs and challenges, with a strong operations and coaching background that isn't afraid of asking difficult questions to help you think differently. Her years of experience are clearly demonstrated in how she engages and the value she delivers for your organization. She is an effective communicator—animated, fun, and positive—with a mindset that can be truly energizing for an organization or leadership team, stimulating and creating momentum for change. I would highly recommend her to join your leadership team, think with your people, bring perspective, and help you get more out of your business.
Willem Desteloo
Willem Desteloo
CEO FOTONIQ
Francesca is a true Queen of Ops who implemented the OKR operating system at PHYSEE with expertise and energy. She knows the core fundamentals of business operations and can explain everything from the actual needs of the business itself, immediately turning theory into practical and pragmatic tooling tailored to a fast-growing scaleup. At PHYSEE we still live by the implemented OKR operating system because of Francesca's great work. Moreover, it was an absolute joy to work with her. Her ability to make complex concepts accessible and actionable made the entire experience both valuable and enjoyable.
Peter Kerr
Peter Kerr
Author of ‘Earn the Right’ | OKR Coach & Leadership Development Specialist | Helping Leaders Bridge Strategy and Execution
Francesca is far more than just an OKR coach—she's a strategic thinker with a huge breadth of experience and the ability to work effectively at all levels of an organization. Her skill set extends beyond process to focus on embedding transformation in a meaningful and impactful way. If you're looking for someone to just go through the motions, Francesca is not the coach for you. But if you're ready for real transformation, she is unmatched. Her approach combines strategic insight with practical implementation that creates lasting organizational change.
Minerve Vicente
Minerve Vicente
Turning Complexity into Clarity | Strategic Innovation & Transformation Leader | Building Purpose-Driven Organizations
I decided to work with Francesca based on recommendations for her capabilities with Working Genius and OKR methodology and making them applicable to business operations. What's unique about our collaboration is that it's more than just consultancy work—it's a long-term partnership where she thinks along with us, like setting up calls after Fastlane to provide feedback and ideas. She's a hybrid coach who provides an external view while somehow being part of the team, making everything applied in the specific business context of different companies. Her work on Working Genius enables companies to set a strong foundational team and operations to scale, and I can trust her completely. The feedback from companies regarding her work convinced me she was the one for our needs—companies very much valued her input.

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Diagnostic & Roadmap

(4-6 weeks)

When you need this:

You know execution is suboptimal or even dysfunctional but you don’t know where to start to fix it. You need clarity before committing to transformation. 

What happens: 

  • Strategy Execution Maturity (SEM360) diagnostic across your organisation
  • Leadership alignment session (1 day) on findings and implications
  • Gap analysis with prioritised capability development recommendations
  • Strategy recalibration and translation into OKRs (1-2 days)
  • 90-day quick-win implementation roadmap

What you get:

Clear visibility into your execution gaps, a leadership team aligned on priorities, and a concrete roadmap for systematic capability building. 

Natural next step:

Implementation & Coaching or Fractional Leadership

Exec Strategy Execution Coaching Offering

Implementation & Coaching

(6-12 months)

When you need this:

You’re ready to build strategy execution capability and your team will do the work – you want expert coaching to get off the ground.

What happens:

Foundation Setup (Months 1-2)

  • SEM360 diagnostic (if not already completed)
  • Leadership team dynamic assessment (Working Genius)
  • Leadership alignment on findings (1 day)
  • Executive OKR readiness coaching (2-3 sessions)
  • OKR rollout and communication planning

Team Transformation (Months 3-12)

  • OKR team coaching across 6-8 teams (90 or 120-day cycles)
  • Planning, bi-weekly check-ins, mid-term reviews, retrospectives
  • Leadership team performance work as needed (Working Genius, 5 Dysfunctions framework)
  • Training and accreditation via OKRMentors for internal champions

What you get:

Teams that consistently deliver strategic outcomes, not just outputs. Trained internal champions. Proven execution rhythms that sustain after engagement ends. Typical results: 20-30% productivity increase, measurable strategic progress, improved team cohesion.

Prerequisites:

Longer-term strategic plan and 12-month strategy translated into company-level OKRs

Exec Strategy Execution Coaching Offering

Fractional Leadership

(6-12 months, 2-3 days/week)

When you need this:

You don’t just need only coaching – you need someone to own and execute the transformation. You want an interim hands-on COO/Transformation Coach who delivers results, not just advice.

What happens:

I embed as your Fractional COO/Transformation Coach and:

  • Own the entire strategy execution transformation (everything in Model 2, but I lead it)
  • Set up new operational functions, processes, and tools
  • Drive transformation initiatives hands-on
  • Support CEO and senior leaders with operational challenges
  • Train and coach while executing
  • Build capability that remains after I transition out

Also available for:

  • Interim COO coverage during leadership transitions
  • Rapid operational scaling during growth phases
  • Major organisational transformations requiring experienced, fractional leadership

What you get:

An experienced COO onboarded fast, who owns transformation delivery while building your team’s capability. You get results now AND sustainable systems for later.