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“A pragmatic program with credibility, one our leaders could implement the moment they left the session.”
Erin Essex, Global Head of Corporate Communications, Treasury Wine Estates
If you’re seeing…
A culture where okay’s okay
- A new strategy struggling to land, a transformation losing direction, performance slipping, or delivery repeatedly falling short of plan.
Agreement without alignment
- False consensus, a lack of honest conversations, decisions breaking down in practice, or commitments that don’t shape how work actually gets done.
Momentum replaced by busywork
- Silos forming or hardening, a lack of collaboration, friction slowing progress, leaders and teams pursuing their own agendas, or effort being duplicated.
Losing direction at speed
- Trust in leaders and the direction is wavering, conviction is softening, talent retention is getting harder, and the organisation is fracturing under the weight of accelerating change and technology disruption.
Here’s how we can help you…
Using the MOVE methodology, we work with leaders and teams at every level to:
Map
where alignment gaps sit, through interviews and globally recognised diagnostics.
Open
the structured dialogue that connects people through shared clarity, commitment and accountability.
Validate
progress with measurement and regular alignment check-ins that keep people accountable.
Embed
the rhythms that make alignment a practice
During the Map phase, we will build a better understanding of your needs and customise a program that fits you.
WHERE TO START
Who needs to Move as One™?
For functional teams where friction is starting to cost performance.
A new strategy. A leadership change. Friction that’s been building long enough that people have started working around each other rather than with each other.
This is where the gap between what’s agreed and what actually happens becomes visible first. We work with the team directly — surfacing what’s real, running the conversations that need to happen, and building the habits that make the change hold.
It’s also a natural starting point if you want to understand the approach before taking it further into the organisation.
For business units and cross-functional teams where coordination has broken down.
A major transformation losing coherence. External pressure exposing cracks that were already there. Teams that are technically capable but not moving together.
The capability exists. The coordination doesn’t. We work across the group — diagnosing where the gaps are, running the conversations that reconnect people to shared intent, and building the rhythms that make coordination a habit rather than an occasional event.
For leadership teams and boards. If the top isn’t working as one, nothing will compensate.
Leadership teams need to have the right conversations, surface issues when they arise, debate genuine disagreements, and commit collectively to the decisions they take back to the organisation.
When that isn’t happening, employees read it quickly. The cost is rarely visible until it’s significant — by which point it has typically been compounding for six to twelve months or more.
We work directly with the leadership group to surface what’s real and build the practice of working as one.
For the CEO and executive team working at the level of the whole organisation.
The trigger might be emerging silos, a period of sustained disruption, or a recognition that the gap between strategy and execution has grown too wide to ignore.
Organisations don’t drift all at once. It happens gradually — in decisions that don’t translate, in priorities that quietly diverge, in the space between what leaders say and what people actually experience. By the time it’s visible, it has usually been building for a while.
We work at the organisational level, from the executive team outward, to close the gap between intent and reality and build the conditions that make it harder for that gap to reopen.
Three global studies and years of working directly with leaders suggests this work changes how teams think, decide and move.
The organisations that do this work aim to stop haemorrhaging time, capacity and leadership energy on symptoms.
Decisions hold, and people own them.
Execution stops stalling. The conversations that were avoided start happening.
People who were disengaging start to re-invest in the work and each other.
And when the next wave of pressure and challenge arrives, and it will, the organisation moves through it rather than fragmenting under it.
How we work: frequently asked questions
MOVE is a four-stage framework for building organisational alignment: Map, Open, Validate, Embed. It Maps where alignment gaps sit using interviews and globally recognised diagnostics, Opens structured dialogue that builds shared clarity and commitment, Validates progress through measurement and regular check-ins, and Embeds the rhythms that make alignment an ongoing practice rather than a one-off project.
Move as One™ describes what an aligned organisation looks like in practice. That is, leaders and teams making decisions, trade-offs and progress together, rather than at cross-purposes. It’s the outcome the MOVE methodology is designed to help build. Teams that no longer need an external program to stay aligned because they’ve built the capability themselves.
Zora Artis of Artis Advisory and Wayne Aspland will scope each engagement individually during the Map phase, based on the size of the group (team, business unit, leadership team, or whole organisation) and the depth of the gaps found. Rather than a fixed off-the-shelf timeline, the first phase is used to build a customised program that fits the client’s specific situation before any broader commitment is made.
Clear Leaders is a research collaboration between Zora Artis of Artis Advisory and Wayne Aspland. Zora and Wayne work with leaders and teams at every level, from a single functional team to an entire organisation, through four scaled engagement models. Those models are Move as One™ team, Move as One™ collective, Move as One™ executive, and Move as One™ organisation. Each is scoped to a different level of the business: from a functional team facing friction through to a whole organisation working from the executive outward.
Common signs include a culture where “okay is okay” (settling for adequate), agreement without real alignment, silos and duplicated effort, busywork replacing momentum, and softening trust or conviction at pace. Other triggers include a new strategy struggling to land, a transformation losing direction, performance slipping, delivery repeatedly falling short of plan, or talent retention becoming harder as the organisation fractures under change.
The four models scale by the size of the group they work with: a team, a cross-functional group, a leadership team, or the whole organisation.
• Move as One™ team: a single functional team
• Move as One™ collective: a business unit or cross-functional group
• Move as One™ executive: a leadership team or board
• Move as One™ organisation: the whole company, starting with the executive team.
A functional team engagement is often the natural starting point for organisations wanting to test the approach before extending it further.
Zora and Wayne can draw on three partners to support their own work: Mirror Mirror™, Innovisor, and Maestro.
Mirror Mirror™: a diagnostic comparing how people on the same team see the work they’re doing together
Innovisor: network analysis mapping the hidden influencers who shape culture and behaviour
Maestro: a vetted network of fractional and interim experts brought in as engagements require.
Teams that think, work and act better, together. Organisations that Move as One™.