Leadership alignment is the #1 predictor of strategic alignment

Jonathan helps leadership teams think together, decide together, and act together.

Leadership teams do not align through discussion alone. Alignment is created when leadership teams make deliberate, coherent decisions together and translate those decisions into how the organisation operates.

Jonathan’s work is not about providing answers or defining the strategy; it is about creating and guiding the conditions in which leadership teams can do this effectively and consistently for themselves.

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How Jonathan Helps

Jonathan helps leadership teams think together, decide together and act together through a combination of research-based frameworks, diagnosis and guided strategic dialogue.

Think together

Developing a shared understanding of the enterprise, its purpose, strategic priorities and organisational capabilities.

Decide together

Helping leadership teams resolve difficult trade-offs and establish coherent enterprise priorities.

Act together

Translating leadership decisions into capabilities, organisational design and management systems that reinforce strategic intent.

  • Jonathan worked with us at ABM for eighteen months, collaborating with everyone from the Board to our executive and operational leaders. He helped us think more clearly and cohesively about our purpose, strategy, and organizational alignment. He is not a typical consultant — his frameworks and skilful facilitation enhanced our leadership thinking and fostered genuine alignment across the organization. As a result, we now have a clearer and more confident direction for the future.

    Scott Salmirs
    President and CEO, ABM Industries Inc.

  • Jonathan’s process challenged our Executive Board to think differently about strategic positioning, organizational capability, and design by asking precisely the right questions at exactly the right moments. His unique approach blends an exceptional ability to read the room with rigorous research insights, guiding leaders not on what to think but how to think through a candid, self directed journey of discovery. The result was clear strategic alignment uniting our leadership team around a long term vision and the steps required to achieve it.


    Zack Bingham
    Chief of Staff; The Winn-Dixie Company

  • Jonathan was able to take a leadership team mostly new to management from where they were (a group with a wide range of understandings and viewpoints) to where they needed to be (a singular one that clearly saw the challenge ahead of them). He prepared the team intellectually and emotionally to take on the realignment of the Institute to its fundamental purpose. To a person, team members had broad praise for his methods and knowledge – a delightful blend of rigor, humor, compassion, straight talk, case studies, and key business principles. The result was a team that was more practical, professional, and prepared for the work ahead.


    Ravi S. Rajan
    President, California Institute of the Arts

  • I have worked with Jonathan over several years, initially to take a holistic look at our organisation purpose and then to design an approach to addressing the challenge of often complex and competing priorities of aligning purpose with delivery. Jonathan’s approach to helping leaders achieve alignment as the number one priority has stayed with me through three strategy cycles and significant change programmes within a not-for-profit, purpose driven professional body.


    Dr Helen Pain MBE
    Chief Executive, Royal Society of Chemistry

  • Jonathan Trevor is one of the clearest thinkers on organisational alignment I have encountered. His work, including Re:Align, captures something many leadership teams intuit but often struggle to implement. Jonathan combines deep academic rigor with a pragmatic understanding of how complex enterprises function. His framework gives leaders practical ways to diagnose misalignment, clarify priorities, and ensure strategy, structure, and execution move in concert.


    Martyn Etherington
    Chief Marketing Officer, BMC Software

  • Jonathan Trevor has, over a period of several years, consistently enlightened, challenged and stimulated the newly promoted generals on the Army Generalship Programme; without question, his work has enhanced the Army’s operating effectiveness.


    Maj Gen Dr Andrew Sharpe, CBE
    British Army

  • Working with Jonathan Trevor was a true shift in perspective. His Strategic Alignment Framework is not just a model; it is a lens that transforms how you think and lead. He brings rare clarity to complexity and shows why organisations fall short of their potential and how to close that gap. An exceptional sparring partner, he challenges and elevates your thinking with precision.


    Philippe Clarinval
    General Manager, Prince de Galles

  • Jonathan Trevor elevated our leadership conversation to new levels and engaged the team in visioning the future and aligning to it.


    Muoi Lien
    Chief of Staff, Taskize

What clients value most about working with Jonathan

Jonathan’s work is designed to challenge, structure, and elevate how leadership teams think and make decisions together.

  • Challenging leaders to rethink the assumptions shaping their organisations.

  • Combining world-class research with real-world leadership challenges.

  • Providing leaders with practical models they continue to use long after the engagement.

  • Guiding strategic thinking through inquiry and reflection rather than claiming to have all the answers.

  • Helping leaders connect purpose, priorities, people and execution.

Start a conversation about your leadership alignment challenge

If strategy is not translating into results, decisions feel slower than they should, execution is inconsistent, or your organisation feels fragmented despite everyone’s best efforts, the underlying issue is often a lack of leadership alignment.

If that sounds familiar, I’d be delighted to start a conversation.