From complexity to clarity to execution.

Your leadership team, 100% aligned — with a plan they can run without me.

I deliver fixed-duration leadership alignment engagements — one week at minimum, one trimester (120 days) at maximum — that take a leadership team from complexity to full alignment on purpose, priority, and execution. Every engagement ends the same way: your team owns an aligned plan it can execute without the consultant in the room. That plan is the definition of done.

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One senior operator. No staffing pyramid. Delivered anywhere in the world.

A letter, before the brochure

The honest version.

For fifteen years I ran a generalist consulting practice. I raised $80 million for a national manufacturing institute, advised a Fortune 100 utility for three years, helped build and sell a venture-backed startup. Good work. But when people asked what I did, the answer took a paragraph.

This practice is what happened when I finally asked myself the question I ask my clients: what is the one thing you do that creates the most value — and what would it look like to do only that?

The answer, across forty years, has never changed.

I translate the complex into the clear. I align people who see the world differently. And I orchestrate the whole toward a winning end.

Everything on this page is that one skill, offered three ways — to leadership teams, to rising managers, and to seasoned professionals starting their next chapter.

If we work together, you'll get all of me: the operator who has sat in your chair, and the artist who will hand your team a capstone — a unique piece of art that captures your team's aligned perspective. And if we don't, I'll try to point you somewhere useful anyway. That's the deal.

— Jason Bennett Harris

The Work

Three offerings. One method. One promise.

The flagship — Leadership Team Consulting

Leadership Team Alignment

For CEOs and leadership teams of mid-market companies ($50M–$1B), PE portfolio companies, post-M&A integrations, and reorgs. The pain is always the same: the plan is clear in the room where it was written — and has landed nowhere else. Alignment work usually fails one of two ways: the priorities and process flow improvement doesn’t have clear next steps and ownership, and/or the strategic communication plan doesn’t engage the entire organization. This is the disciplined middle: a defined start, a designed process, a clean, managed handoff — so your team owns and implements the plan.

Case Study: US McDonald's Transformation. I led the senior leadership team through the alignment and communication of the five-year transformation from the old Mansard-roof McDonald's to the modern, global brand — carried through 22 regional offices, 2,500 franchisees, and 14,000+ restaurants.

Read the one-page case study →  ·  Watch the 6-minute transformation film →

The Alignment Week

  • Prior Prep Week, with Senior Leadership
  • Diagnostic interviews across the leadership team
  • Two-day facilitated working session
  • Synthesis, workplan, and next steps by Friday
  • Follow on Implementation Week(s), with key point person(s)

$25,000 – $35,000 Flat fee. One week. Defined exit. Clear implementation & ownership.

The Alignment Trimester

  • Month of diagnostics and pre-planning
  • 120 days embedded with your leadership team
  • First 60: Research, team building, facilitated workouts
  • Next 60: Executable plan and operating rhythm at exit
  • Collage capstone — the team makes an alignment artifact

$125,000 – $150,000 Flat fee, three payment tranches. Scope-dependent.

For rising managers

Leadership Operating System™

A 12-week cohort for high-potential managers promoted for excellence and handed no system for leading. Built on the OMCE Method™ — twelve modules, twelve deliverables shipped to their real teams, and a peer network they keep for the rest of their careers. Full program details below ↓

Corporate cohort from $95,000 · Open seat $4,500 Up to 20 managers per private cohort.

For the 50+ workforce

Next Chapter Cohorts

For companies parting with seasoned professionals who have more to offer. An employer-paid group cohort — a bridge from corporate employment to portfolio and independent work, and a dignified, novel alternative to the 1:1 outplacement default. Offered to employers as part of separation support.

Priced per cohort 10–15 participants, 12 weeks. Let's talk.

Method

Equal parts, by design.

Every engagement runs in six equal parts. Not a framework dropped on your desk — a designed process your team moves through, together.

1 · Designed inquiry

The questions come first. What are we actually solving, and who has to believe the answer?

2 · Quantitative research

The numbers that describe the business as it is — not as the deck says it is.

3 · Qualitative interviews

Your leadership team and one layer down, heard one at a time, candidly.

4 · Team building

Alignment is relational before it is strategic. The room has to trust itself.

5 · Facilitated workouts

Working sessions where disagreement surfaces, gets resolved, and becomes priority.

6 · Execution planning

The plan your team can recite, run, and own — without me in the room.

Without the plan, the work has no real value. So the plan is the definition of done.
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MManagement
CCommunication
EExecution
The OMCE Method™ — four pillars, twelve modules, twenty years in the making.
The Leadership Operating System™

There is no operating manual for leading a team.
Now there is.

Great individual contributors get promoted to manager with zero training. They learn by osmosis, copy their old boss, and hope it works — and roughly 40% of newly-promoted managers are underperforming within 18 months, at an average replacement cost of about 1.5x salary. The Leadership Operating System™ is the program I'd have wanted handed to me: a 12-week cohort, built on the OMCE Method™, where every week ships a real deliverable to the participant's real team.

12weeks, twelve modules, twelve shipped deliverables
90minutes live with me each week, plus coach-led pods
15+peer operators in their phone book for the next 20 years
∞lifetime membership in the alumni community

Three layers, stacked

1 · Learn the system

One live 90-minute session per week with me — each walks through a module and the exercise the participant runs with their own team.

2 · Practice with coaches & peers

A dedicated cohort coach — a senior operator from my network — runs weekly pod breakouts where participants share what actually happened.

3 · Expand the network

Graduates leave with 15–20 peers running the same playbook at other companies — a network that compounds for decades.

Twelve weeks. Twelve deliverables.

OOrganization
  • Wk 1 · Organizational Design → StrengthsFinder team map
  • Wk 2 · Process Mapping → End-to-end workflow chart
  • Wk 3 · Stakeholder Development → Internal influencer map
MManagement
  • Wk 4 · Strategy & Visioning → Multi-level Plan to Win
  • Wk 5 · Goal & KPI Setting → PTW aligned to goals/KPIs
  • Wk 6 · Agenda Management → Disciplined recurring agenda
CCommunication
  • Wk 7 · Messaging → Team message map
  • Wk 8 · Communication Planning → Internal comms plan
  • Wk 9 · Calendaring → Working team calendar
EExecution
  • Wk 10 · Meetings & Events → Trimester meeting calendar
  • Wk 11 · Feedback Loops → Critical-feedback source map
  • Wk 12 · Best Practice Sharing → Team sensing capability

What the boss sees by Week 12

Direct reports report higher clarity and direction in pulse surveys. The manager stops firefighting and starts running a rhythm. The boss stops wondering whether the promotion was the right call. And graduation is the start, not the end — every graduate joins The Next Level Collective: monthly office hours with me, quarterly best-practice roundtables, a private alumni platform, and an annual in-person summit. Membership is for life.

For companies

Corporate Cohort — from $95,000

  • Private cohort, your company only — up to 20 managers
  • Customized to your operating model
  • HR/L&D progress reporting, pulse-survey deltas included
For individuals

Open Cohort — $4,500 per seat

  • 15–20 vetted participants across companies
  • Application-only admission
  • 12 live sessions, coach-led pods, lifetime alumni membership

Why now: AI is flattening organizations and reshuffling teams every 12–18 months — every manager is, effectively, a new manager again. The human-layer skills AI cannot replicate — judgment, trust, clarity, cohesion — are exactly the ones that separate managers who scale from managers who stall. OMCE compresses five years of on-the-job learning into twelve weeks of applied practice.

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The Capstone

Your team makes the art.

I have practiced photographic collage for more than twenty-five years. It is the other half of my working life — and it taught me something no consulting engagement ever did: a group of people composing one work must resolve every disagreement with their hands.

You cannot fake alignment in a collage. Every choice is visible, and every hand is in it.

Every team engagement closes with a collaborative photographic-collage capstone. Your leadership team — not me — composes a permanent work that becomes the physical record of its alignment, hung where the team works. I searched the world for another practice where the leadership team makes the art. I did not find one.

The mechanism is studied: a 2024 peer-reviewed metasummary of 31 empirical studies (Behavioral Sciences) found art-based methods significantly enhance reflective practice, higher-order cognition, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal competency in leadership development.

The art practice lives at jasonbennettharris.com — a separate site, with a different reason to exist.

About

A senior operator in the room — not just a facilitator.

Jason Bennett Harris
Jason Bennett Harris · Los Angeles

Corporate Complexity

Thirteen years within McDonald's Corporation, building the field communications infrastructure that aligned 22 regional offices, 2,500 franchisees, and 14,000 restaurants to a single brand transformation. As Fortune 100 consultant, three year advisory engagement with CIO at Exelon, to build out an innovation practice – from team funding to implementation to millions of dollars of value creation.

Startup Scaling

At MxD (UI LABS), $80M raised from a dozen Fortune 100s — including GE, Rolls-Royce, and P&G — aligning the DoD, the State of Illinois, and a dozen universities under one operating vision. As President of CartoFront, led a venture-backed InsurTech platform, through its seven-year build and acquisition by Green Shield Risk Solutions.

My Unique Value Proposition

Most senior advisors are built for one environment. My range spans both. Thirteen years at McDonald's taught me scale, alignment and orchestration; the fifteen since taught me to build with design thinking, connecting data points, and adaptive maneuvering. I have sat on your side of the table — which is why my practice is delivered with generosity, vulnerability, and authenticity.

Green Shield / CartoFrontPresident · through acquisition
JBH Consulting, Inc.President · 2011 – present · Chicago / Los Angeles
McDonald's CorporationDirector, US Field Communications · 1998 – 2011
Museum of Science and Industry, ChicagoPublic Relations Manager · 1993 – 1996
M.S. Communications, Northwestern UniversityB.A. Economics, University of Illinois
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Before you hire anyone

Useful, whether or not we work together.

The three questions I'd ask first Can every member of your leadership team state the #1 priority in one sentence — the same sentence? Who owns each priority, by name? What did your team stop doing last quarter? If those answers come easily, you may not need me.
The honest fit test I take engagements where the leader is genuinely seeking alignment — not an endorsement of a decision already made. If what you need is a big-firm team, a longer runway, or a different specialty, I'll say so in the First Conversation and suggest where to look.
Your Complimentary Conversation Forty-eight minutes, no prep, no deck, no obligation — and afterward, a one-and-one-half-page memo of what I heard. Everything communicates, and this call is an example of how I work. If it's useful, we talk about working together. If not, you've invested an hour well and gained a question or two.
The Initial Conversation

Tell me what you're walking into.

We begin with the First Conversation — 48 minutes, by design. Long enough to get into the meat of the real alignment issues. Short enough to leave you room to transition to whatever's next on your calendar.

No preparation required, no obligation attached — just bring the situation as it actually is, and I'll bring my full attention. It will be a great — and grateful — investment of both of our time. Afterward, you'll receive a one-and-one-half-page memo: “What I heard from our conversation.”

What you said, what I noticed, and the two or three questions I'd pursue next to help you and your organization. It's yours to keep, whether or not we go further. Everything communicates — and this initial engagement is an example of how I work:

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