STRATEGY | GROWTH | TALENT | OPERATIONS | M&A
PROJECT BASED ENGAGEMENTS
Get Critical Work Done — With Structure, Speed, and Accountability
Stage 5 offers multiple ways to engage—ranging from on-demand advisory to fully embedded leadership—so you can get exactly the level of support your situation requires. Project-based engagements provide the high-impact middle ground, giving you concentrated executive leadership to solve critical problems without adding full-time headcount. We clarify the scope, build the blueprint, launch execution with urgency, and optimize along the way—all tied to clear outcomes, KPIs, and a disciplined operating cadence.
Common Project Scopes
Flexible On-Demand Support
Focused Short-Term Projects
Flexible On-Demand Support
Custom duration depending on your needs.
For clients who need guidance, decision support, or intermittent problem-solving without a structured project. Used for executive coaching, strategy sound-boarding, document/model reviews, leadership support, recurring check-ins, or prep for board, investor, or lender conversations.
Quick Sprint Solutions
Focused Short-Term Projects
Flexible On-Demand Support
Typically 2-4 weeks in duration.
Get urgent, high-intensity, or narrow focus project work designed to quickly remove bottlenecks, diagnose issues, or stabilize performance. Common sprint outcomes include fixing delivery or quality problems, removing operational choke points, accelerating revenue opportunities, aligning leadership, or restoring workflow discipline.
Focused Short-Term Projects
Focused Short-Term Projects
Focused Short-Term Projects
Typically 4-12 weeks in duration.
Focused, contained initiatives with a narrow scope and clear deliverables. Often used for GTM refreshes, pricing strategy updates, MOS/KPI deployment, organizational structure adjustments, or targeted improvements in sales, operations, or team performance.
Deep Business Engagement
Full Enterprise Transformations
Focused Short-Term Projects
Typically 2-6 months in duration.
Full-cycle consulting: diagnose → design → execute → optimize. Ideal for work that requires deeper assessment and meaningful change such as redesigning processes, improving throughput and efficiency, implementing new operating systems, rolling out sales or talent transformations, or stabilizing underperforming functions.
Full Enterprise Transformations
Full Enterprise Transformations
Full Enterprise Transformations
Typically 6+ months in duration.
Multi-workstream, company-wide initiatives tied to measurable business outcomes. Examples include post-merger integration, multi-site operational excellence deployment, enterprise-wide restructuring, large-scale GTM and commercial system rebuilds, or major operating model redesigns.
Embedded Leadership Support
Full Enterprise Transformations
Full Enterprise Transformations
Typically 3-12 months in duration.
Interim or fractional leadership roles that blend strategy, execution, and accountability.
Perfect for organizations needing a seasoned President, COO, CSO, or functional leader to "parachute" in and bridge transitions, lead major initiatives, rebuild teams, restore discipline, or guide a company through change, growth, or turnaround.
OUR ENGAGEMENT ROADMAP
Project Execution that Delivers
Whether it’s a strategic initiative, operational fix, M&A integration, revenue project, turnaround, or sprint execution, Stage 5 runs your most important projects with speed, clarity, and discipline.
Our work is outcome-based, structured, and measurable from day one.
The Stage 5 Execution Framework™
A proven method for driving clarity, alignment, execution, and sustained results across any project type.
1. Align: Unify leadership around the problem, desired outcomes, constraints, and definitions of success.
2. Scope: Assess the current state, identify root causes, understand complexity, and define exactly what must change.
3. Blueprint: Design the roadmap, milestones, resourcing, KPIs, workstreams, and operating cadence required to deliver results.
4. Launch: Execute with discipline—activating teams, workflows, dashboards, communication rhythms, and performance tracking.
5. Optimize: Measure progress, refine execution, remove barriers, and scale or sustain improvements for lasting results.
