About

About Cassidine Consulting, Atlanta strategy execution firm

Cassidine Consulting helps companies carry strategy into daily work through leadership development and organizational design. Based in Atlanta, serving companies nationwide.

Three leaders working through a plan together at a laptop
What sets us apart

A complete advantage needs both sides of the strategy

A complete advantage takes a competitive strategy, which decides the value the company intends to produce, and an organizational strategy, which builds the organization to produce it. Most help covers one side. We help with both.

Competitive strategy

Decides the value the company intends to produce.

Organizational strategy

Builds the organization to produce it.

A complete advantage

We help with both.

The method

The Theory–Reality Gap™, and the three levels it opens across

The Theory–Reality Gap™

The gap between what a strategy intends and what the organization has built to deliver it: its people, systems, incentives, processes, and culture.

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A plan is theory.

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A pilot is theory tested.

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Operationalized is reality.

The three levels
CORPORATEBUSINESSFUNCTIONALORPHAN PROCESSES
Corporate level · Strategy

Where the company competes, its competitive advantage, and where it is headed.

Business level · Operations

How the business wins: the processes, systems, training, and resources that produce the strategy.

Functional level · Everyday practice

Where each department and each person does the work.

Strategy becomes results only when it flows through all three levels, in the right order. Each level hands it to the next. When a handoff breaks, the strategy stays on paper. We work across all three levels, which carries strategy into daily work.

Approach

How we work: the same way in every offer

Leadership development and organizational design are the two things we do. However a company starts, the work runs the same way.

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Learn it, then do it Each skill arrives as a framework, with a demonstration of how to apply it in daily work. People apply it to their own role right away, with us in the room.

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Built on real work Every example, document, and exercise comes from the company’s own plan and the people’s own jobs, so the result fits the way the organization runs.

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Built by the people who run it The people who will run the operation build it with us. No handoff separates the designer from the trainer, and the knowledge stays with them.

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All three levels, in order We carry strategy from the corporate level through operations and into everyday practice, so each level hands it to the next.

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Alongside leadership We are in the room applying the work with the team, and between sessions we monitor progress and answer business questions as they arise.

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Kept current We help maintain the work throughout. When an issue arises, we adjust the plan and teach the skills needed to resolve it, and the documents stay current as the business changes.

Who we work with

Companies willing to change how the work runs

Willingness matters more than size.

A strategy the leaders cannot execute yet.

An executive team willing to take part.

Leaders who will bring real problems from their own departments.

A structure the executives are willing to change.

Searcie Cassidine, founder of Cassidine Consulting
Searcie Cassidine
Founder · Atlanta
Leadership

Founded and led by Searcie Cassidine

Searcie Cassidine, founder of Cassidine Consulting. Seventeen years inside operations as Chief of Staff, COO, and fractional COO, from small professional-services firms to a major sports league.

MBA, Operations Management & Supervision
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
PMI-trained
SHRM-Atlanta volunteer
Author of the forthcoming The Complete Advantage
The Complete
Advantage
Searcie Cassidine
[Book cover]
The book

The Complete Advantage

A company needs both competitive strategy and organizational strategy to have a complete advantage.

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Is this a fit
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