The Cadence Method: Strategic Alignment Intensive
Alignment transforms capable leaders into strategic ones - and businesses into enduring assets.
You’ve built something real. A strong business. A capable team. A solid reputation.
But something’s off.
The strategy feels scattered. Leadership decisions feel misaligned. Your business is growingbut not always in the direction that leads to scale, simplicity, or strength.
That’s where the Strategic Alignment Intensive comes in.
This isn’t just a workshop. It’s a reset.
One that brings your leadership team into deep alignment around what matters most and creates the clarity, cohesion, and confidence to move forward with purpose.
Is your leadership team stuck in a holding pattern?
✓ The business is growing - but decisions are reactive, not strategic.
✓ Your team is craving clarity - but they don’t see what you see.
✓ Everyone is busy - but priorities are misaligned.
✓ You’re leading a team - but still carrying the weight alone.
✓ You’ve tried consultants and courses - but nothing sticks.
✓ You’ve got a vision - but it’s not embedded across the business.
If you answered YES to any of the above let me show you another way.
In Just 6 Months, Your Leadership Team Could Have Total Clarity
Imagine a system where purpose, culture, and performance aren’t separate efforts - but part of one cohesive plan… And your leadership team is:
✓ Making confident, values-led decisions.
✓ Aligned on what matters most and why.
✓ Clear on strategic goals, imperatives, and the roadmap ahead.
✓ Owning their roles and stepping up to lead.
✓ Equipped with a shared language, tools, and accountability.
✓ Operating with cohesion, trust, and strategic focus.
In a world defined by complexity, the old ways of leading simply aren’t enough.
Leadership today requires more than experience and effort - it demands clarity, cohesion, and the ability to scale decisions across an entire team.
Traditional approaches rely on isolated strategy sessions, top-down decision-making, or heroic leadership. But in today’s landscape, these only lead to burnout, bottlenecks, and blurred direction.
Modern leadership is a team sport. It must be strategic, collaborative, and culturally embedded.
That’s the shift The Cadence Method delivers - transforming alignment from a buzzword into a business advantage.
From CEO to Coach: A Partner Who's Been in the Trenches.
I’m Liz McMillan - two-time CEO, architect of The Cadence Method, and a seasoned operator who has scaled and exited high-growth companies in both the US and Australia.
I’ve spent over 35,000 hours leading turnarounds, driving expansion into new markets, building enduring brand and IP value, and leading 8 and 9-figure exits. My career has been defined by creating alignment between vision, people, and performance.
Because here’s what I’ve learned:
Even the strongest strategy fails without alignment.
The Strategic Alignment Intensive distills everything I know about building businesses that scale with heart and systems. It’s how I help leadership teams stop pushing through chaos - and start leading with cohesion, clarity, and purpose.
Your Ultimate Goal
Strategic Leadership. Enterprise Value. Enduring Impact.
At the highest level, this is what aligned leadership is about:
Building something that outlasts you - and elevates everyone it touches.
When leadership teams scale through alignment, they do more than grow a business. They build:
→ Clarity into decisions.
→ Stability into systems.
→ Momentum into teams.
→ And trust into customer relationships.
Because when strategic leadership is in place, everyone wins.
Your team. Your customers. Your future.
This isn’t about growth at any cost.
It’s about growth that means something - and lasts.
The Real Levers: Alignment, Culture and Strategy
Building enterprise value doesn’t come from ad hoc wins or siloed success - it comes from embedding alignment into mindset, mission and metrics.
When culture, and strategy converge:
✓ Teams lead with shared principles and clear priorities.
✓ Strategic plans translate into focused, coordinated action.
✓ Accountability is elevated - and distributed.
✓ Momentum becomes scalable across every function.
That’s how you transform into a business that performs - and endures.
These Leaders Chose Transformation and Never Looked Back
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"Liz combines awesome expertise with deep care and has helped me take stock and reach some incredibly powerful insights about myself and my business."
Mark Puncher - Employer Branding Australia
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"Liz is fantastic at asking the right questions to unlock what’s important to you and help you gain clarity with what you want to build with your business."
Belinda Pyne – Balanced Living and Health
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"Liz has an ability to extract what we already know deep down, but didn't know how to accessparticularly articulating our values and how these will empower us to grow the business with intent."
Belle Debnam - Pedra Studio
If Nothing Changes... You Risk Building a Business That Grows - But Not In Value
Misalignment at the top leads to wasted energy, duplicated effort, stalled execution, and missed opportunities for scale.
The team stays busy, but not focused. The goals are set, but not owned. The strategy exists, but isn’t implemented.
And slowly, the business becomes dependent on key individuals - losing resilience, transferability, and long-term worth.
You’re already doing the hard work. Let’s make sure it’s building something that lasts.
The Strategic Alignment Intensive
Intensive workshop-series driving embedded strategic alignment, clarity and action:
✓ Pre-engagement discovery
✓ Live facilitation of The Cadence Method with your leadership team through 6 intensive workshops
(3 to 6 hours each) delivered over 6 weeks
✓ 1:1 coaching for the business owner, CEO or senior business leader
✓ Applied strategy: purpose, values, strategic priorities, business imperatives, value creation roadmap
✓ Tools, templates, and shared language for long-term integration
✓ Post-engagement debrief and roadmap
Delivered virtually or in person. Tailored to your team, your goals, and your rhythm.
Where Alignment Gets Personal
For years, I led companies through transformation - scaling teams, delivering results, and creating value at every turn.
But while the businesses were thriving, I was disappearing behind the scenes.
I was the one holding everything together - at home, at work, in life.
Until the day it all collapsed.
A personal breaking point forced me to walk away from the life I’d built for everyone else and start again.
What followed wasn’t just a professional reset - it was a complete realignment of how I wanted to lead, live, and build.
Out of that experience, The Cadence Method was born.
It’s the product of everything I’ve lived and led - designed for business owners, CEOs, COOs and senior leaders who’ve built something real but know, deep down, they’ve outgrown the way they’re leading.
This isn’t about doing more - it’s about aligning your leadership, your culture, and your strategy so the business doesn’t just run well on the outside - it resonates on the inside.
This is where alignment becomes your advantage.
Where purpose meets performance.
Where momentum becomes sustainable.
And where what you’re building finally reflects who you are - and what you stand for.
The Cadence Method
Five Steps to True Business Alignment
The Cadence Method is a complete transformation system - built to realign how your team leads and what you’re building.
Strategic leadership isn’t about working harder - it’s about creating a system that works without constant intervention.
The Cadence Method is a strategic operating system that aligns five foundational elements of your business to drive long-term value:
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Begin with clarity. Assess your business across key areas to uncover what's working, what’s not, and where to focus next. Through team-based evaluation, insights are gathered, shared, and translated into aligned priorities.
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Define your purpose, mission, and vision - then activate them. When everyone knows where you’re headed and why, energy shifts from confusion to contribution.
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Move values from words on a wall to ways of working. Align hiring, meetings, decision-making and culture with shared principles that drive performance and cohesion.
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Use an OKR-based process to set clear goals, identify what must shift to reach them (your Business Imperatives), and assign ownership across the team. This turns intent into coordinated action.
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Apply the five value drivers (Ownership, Brand, IP, Culture & Talent, Performance) to assess and enhance the business as a whole. Develop an Investment Thesis and align the leadership team around a future-facing value strategy.
This framework isn’t theoretical. It’s practical, proven, and grounded in real business outcomes.
During the Strategic Alignment Intensive, we apply The Cadence Method live -with your leadership team, in your business context - so that alignment isn’t something you talk about. It’s something you do.
The result?
Strategic clarity, scalable momentum, and a leadership team aligned around what matters most.
Still Wondering? Let’s Get Real.
Every leadership team is different and that’s exactly why this works.
This isn’t a generic offsite. It’s not a culture workshop disguised as strategy. And it’s not a set of ideas you’ll forget by Monday.
The Strategic Alignment Intensive is tailored, immersive, and grounded in your real business context. We work with your leadership team, on your actual priorities, using a proven framework that drives results.
Still wondering...
✗ “Do we really need this right now?”
✓ If decisions feel harder than they should, progress feels slow, or your strategy isn't gaining traction... alignment isn’t optional. It’s urgent.
✗ “Can’t we figure this out ourselves?”
✓ Maybe. But most leadership teams are stuck in the day-to-day. You don’t need more meetings you need structure, clarity, and an expert guide to cut through the noise and unlock what’s next.
✗ “Will the team actually buy in?”
✓ When people feel heard, involved, and clear on the whythey engage. This isn’t top-down direction. It’s a co-created transformation that embeds ownership from the start.
✗ “We don’t have time for this right now.”
✓ That’s exactly why you need it. The cost of misalignment grows every quarter it’s ignored. In just six weeks, this Intensive will create momentum that saves your team months of confusion, conflict, and rework.
✗ “What if we uncover misalignment we’re not ready to face?”
✓ Alignment isn’t about exposing problems - it’s about solving them together. This process gives your team the structure, support, and shared language to address tensions productively and build trust while building solutions.
The Business You’re Meant to Build - Together
✓ Connection to purpose, vision, and values - so every decision aligns.
✓ A business that grows in value - not just revenue.
✓ A leadership team identity that feels powerful, clear, and truly in sync.
✓ Team-wide ownership of strategic direction.
✓ Clear strategic objectives aligned with company vision.
✓ Systems that support freedom - not complexity.
✓ Renewed energy. Renewed clarity. Renewed belief in what’s possible.
And most importantly:
A business that’s aligned from the inside out - built not just to function, but to last.
Because when leadership alignment becomes the foundation of how you operate, you don’t just build a successful company.You build a valuable one - with the resilience, clarity, and direction to thrive in any market.
Is This the Right Fit for You?
✓ Businesses with 5+ team leaders or executives.
✓ Leadership teams that want greater clarity, cohesion, and accountability.
✓ Businesses preparing for scale, succession, or long-term value creation.
This is not for you if...
✗ You’re in early-stage startup mode.
✗ You’re looking for theory instead of application.
✗ You’re not ready to embed leadership alignment into how your business actually runs.
This is your next step.
This Is Your Moment.
Let's Build What Lasts.
You don’t need another strategy session that sits on a shelf.
You need a leadership team that’s aligned, activated, and building the future of your business - together.
This isn’t a keynote or a day of theory.
This is a collaborative, high-impact experience that meets your business where it is - and moves it forward.
If you want clarity, alignment, and scalable momentum… this is your next move.