HeyJaredLeslie Ellis
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 9, 2026
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- Jul 6, 2026
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Culture Is Out Of Scope For This One (opens the original)
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Leslie Ellis is CEO of Meaningful Change Consulting, advising senior executives on transformation, change leadership and culture. There is a sentence I hear in almost every troubled initiative I’m brought into. It arrived early, in the scoping conversations, before the kickoff, before the plan existed. It is delivered as an act of discipline, and the room generally receives it that way. Nobody pushes back. The sentence sounds like restraint, and restraint is in short supply when initiatives are
Alignment Vs. Ability: The Misdiagnosis That Kills Execution (opens the original)
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Leslie Ellis is CEO of Meaningful Change Consulting, advising senior executives on transformation, change leadership and culture. When a change initiative stalls, most executive teams respond the same way. They add training and headcount. They apply pressure. Six months later, the initiative is still stalled, and now it costs more. The response treats the wrong problem. Leaders see slow execution and diagnose an ability gap. I spend a good part of my practice rescuing stalled initiatives, and a
Where 'Almost Alignment' Actually Hides In Your Executive Team (opens the original)
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Leslie Ellis is CEO of Meaningful Change Consulting, advising senior executives on transformation, change leadership and culture. The most expensive misalignment on your executive team is the one that looks like agreement. Picture the pattern: Your leadership team leaves a strategy meeting with nodding heads and a clear plan. Three weeks later, four leaders are running four versions of the same decision and nobody can quite name where it slipped. Leo Bottary recently named this dynamic in CEOWO
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