Offering 01
Growth Strategy
and Sprint Plan
Identify your highest-leverage growth moves and sequence them into an executable plan, without overwhelming the organization or the calendar.
¹ Ratio of documented client value to engagement fee across RLK engagements. Past results are not indicative of future outcomes. Terms.
² Bain & Company: strategy-focused capital allocators deliver 2.5× TSR vs. peers over 10-year periods.
Who This Is For
You're moving fast but not sure you're moving in the right direction.
This engagement is built for technology leaders who have growth pressure (revenue targets, board expectations, or a market window) but whose organizations keep drifting toward tactical execution rather than strategic sequencing.
The problem is rarely a lack of ideas. It's too many ideas with no forcing function to decide which ones get funded, staffed, and executed first.
- CTO or VP EngineeringPreparing to present a growth roadmap to the board and needs a defensible, sequenced plan rather than a feature list.
- CEO or FounderAt an inflection (new funding, a new market, or a competitive threat) and needs to move fast with limited bandwidth.
- Chief Product OfficerUnder pressure to connect product investment to revenue and needs a prioritization framework that will hold up under scrutiny.
- COOTasked with operationalizing a growth plan that leadership has approved in concept but hasn't turned into a real execution sequence.
How It Works
Five moves. Six weeks. One document you'll actually use.
Week 1–2. I map your current revenue base, growth vectors, competitive positioning, and organizational capacity. This is not a survey: it's structured interviews with the people who know where the real leverage is.
Week 2–3. We identify and size the two to four growth levers most likely to move the number you're being held to. Not the ones that are most interesting: the ones that are most executable given your actual resources.
Week 3–4. Prioritized against three variables: potential impact, implementation risk, and time to first signal. Nothing goes on the sprint plan that doesn't have an owner and a dollar number attached.
Week 4–5. A working document (not a deck) that specifies the first 90 days by initiative, with milestones, accountabilities, and decision gates. Your team can execute against this the week after delivery.
Week 6. A working session with your leadership team to stress-test the plan, resolve sequencing disagreements, and lock priorities. I facilitate; the team owns the output.
What You Bring
Inputs
- Access to 4–6 hours of leadership team time across the engagement
- Revenue and unit economics data (we work with what you have, and this doesn't require a data warehouse)
- Honest context on what's been tried, what's stalled, and where the real internal debates are
- A clear target metric: the number this engagement is meant to move
What You Get
Outputs
Why RLK vs. Alternatives
What makes this different from everything else on the table.
Business Case
What this work typically produces in dollars.
Net new revenue identified across three sequenced growth vectors for a $28M professional services firm. Plan was executed by internal team over 12 months following a 6-week sprint.
Time-to-alignment on a product roadmap for a SaaS company. Prior process had produced competing priorities across product, engineering, and sales for a year and a half. One sprint resolved it.
Technology leader entering a new role inherited a stalled growth narrative. Within six weeks had a board-ready plan with sequenced initiatives, owners, and measurable milestones. No deck required.
Important Note
Every engagement and every company is different. The timelines, outputs, and results described on this page reflect typical engagements. Your actual scope, timeline, and outcomes will be shaped by your specific situation, organizational context, and goals. We define the success criteria together before the work begins, and I'll tell you clearly if the model isn't right for your situation.
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