Your Team is Trucking Along – that's the problem.
A working session where your leadership team stops reacting to whatever comes at them—and builds the operating system, metrics, and ownership structure they'll actually run.
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How do I get my leaders to stop leading with anecdotes — and start leading with data?
Most leaders aren’t sandbagging. They genuinely believe the noise around them explains why the “cannot miss” objectives didn’t get done. Customer escalations. Resources tied up. The obstacles are very real.
But here’s the reality: it’s no more than any other quarter. The data almost always shows that. The issue isn’t the obstacles — it’s that nobody ever built a system that made the commitments, the owners, and the metrics impossible to ignore.
With Close Cohen, your leaders don’t sit through a presentation about accountability. They build the operating system themselves — so they’re committed to it before they leave the room.
Instead of telling your team what good looks like, we put the actual work in front of them.
Decision frameworks
Strategic priorities
Ownership structures
Execution rhythms
Then your team does something unusual
They argue about them. Stress-test them. Break them apart and rebuild them — until the room agrees. That’s when ownership starts.
How it works
We prep your system
The working assets are tailored to your goals, team, and current KPIs.
Your team stress-tests everything.
With experienced guides, they push on the KPIs, the owners, the timelines — until what’s left is something they actually believe in.
You leave with cannot-miss commitments.
Clear KPIs. Named owners. A rhythm your team built themselves — which means better ability to run it.
Our coaches are actual leaders, from companies defining the modern era of growth and innovation:
Natalie S.
Incredible expertise, these are not your average coaches, they’re the executives you wish you had.
The 2-day Experience
This is not a passive workshop
It’s a working session where your team:
- Surfaces real friction points (not hypothetical ones)
- Names who owns what — and makes it stick
- Clarifies ownership across functions
- Aligns on what actually matters now
By the end of day two, the shift is visible:
- Conversations are sharper
- Decisions are faster
- Ownership is clear
Refreshing to feel so accomplished at the end of each session.
Jennifer T.
Wow that went fast! We never stopped focusing on our mandate which made the work very clear.
Ryan L.
Meet: Close Cohen CEO and Founder, Laura Close
- 15+ years in workforce strategy and product development
- 5 years as successful AI startup founder, exited in 2025
- SXSW Innovation Award Winner
- Advisor to executives and Chiefs at Fortune 500 companies
- Built this workshop after watching accountability gaps derail high-potential teams
Our coaches are hand-selected senior leaders — not consultants, not theorists. They’ve run the rooms your leaders are in right now. They know what it feels like when accountability breaks down, and they know exactly how to rebuild it.
Our clients enjoy dedicated executive coaches direct from their leadership roles at Amazon, Moody’s Analytics, Zillow, and more.
Laura C.
Ready to get tight around what cannot miss this year?
Let’s connect – we’ll tell you whether this is right for your team and what the work would actually look like.