The Breakthrough Room: from emotional alignment to a fundable action map, in two days.
A facilitated strategy intensive
Red Cardinal Consulting advises leaders and organizations operating under high consequence, public scrutiny, and moral pressure. Not templated project work. Custom strategy and judgment from an operator who has actually stood things up, led them, and carried them through real stakes: combat command, Fortune 100 transformation at Accenture, national policy, and the ventures below.
Grew the Veteran Mental Health Leadership Coalition into a national force of 45+ veteran-serving organizations, aligning competing stakeholders behind one strategy and turning advocacy into funded, durable policy.
Helped modernize a century-old institution's voice by co-hosting and shaping Tango Alpha Lima, extending the Legion's reach to new audiences and a new generation of veterans.
Helped launch and operationalize a first-of-its-kind treatment program from concept to delivery, navigating clinical, ethical, regulatory, and trust challenges in one of the most sensitive domains in medicine.
That operator track record, alongside co-authoring the best-selling Tales From the Blast Factory, is why the strategy I bring is real, not theoretical. The maps I pull out of a room get built.
Trusted counsel for irreversible decisions made with incomplete information, where trust, not authority, is the real force multiplier.
When to reform a system versus replace it. Guardrails for innovation in sensitive domains, without mission drift under pressure.
Building durable trust and aligned strategy across competing agendas, turning ten voices into one ownable plan.
The Breakthrough Room: from emotional alignment to a fundable action map, in two days.
When a group needs to move from emotional alignment to a fundable action map, I run a facilitated strategy intensive: landscape scan, one north-star question, ranked priorities, and sequenced action maps with named owners. Proven in a 2024 session that mapped the ibogaine-access playbook roughly 18 months early. Offered as a focused half-day individual operating-system workshop, a two-day group intensive, or a curated multi-day retreat.