Executive Transitions
New role, promotion, or expanded remit? naikaa's Transition Accelerator focuses on speed and results.
High - Impact Workshops
naikaa works with leaders and teams on the following moments: Defining your vision and strategy, accelerating your transition, and building team effectiveness and performance.
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Executive Transitions
New role, promotion, or expanded remit? naikaa’s Transition Accelerator supports the complicated phase of transition, when the onboarding and listening tours end and you need focus and momentum. In this sprint, we help you clarify your mandate, choose what matters most, align your stakeholders, and turn intent into execution.
Why you need this
Leadership transitions are high-stakes and high-speed, and many miss expectations in the first 18 months. The trap: firefighting and operational churn crowd out time for strategic work, narrative, and team alignment. This workshop shifts your altitude so you reflect and decide on what matters for the long and short term.
What the sprint looks like
A time-boxed arc (weeks, not months) that blends preparation, an immersive session, and momentum checks:
- Intake & stakeholder interviews – clarify success metrics, risks, and early wins.
- Immersive workshop – pressure-test your time, map your talent against your priorities, and define your stakeholder approach so you strengthen (or mitigate) your stakeholders including sponsors, influencers, advocates, and gatekeepers. Follow through with a team session to drive additional alignment.
- Execution rhythm – communication cascade and checkpoints to sustain velocity.
What you walk away with
- A sharp transition mandate and success definition for the first 180 days.
- 3–5 priority outcomes with owners, measures, and near-term initiatives.
- Stakeholder map & engagement plan to align, unblock, and accelerate.
- Operating system (cadences, decision frameworks, KPIs) that keeps you at the right altitude—less firefighting, more leverage.
- 30/60/90 plan to turn the strategy into action next Tuesday at 10am.
Who it's for
Executives stepping into a new role, promotion, expanded remit, post-reorg integration, or inheriting a complex team and roadmap.
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Vision/Strategy/ Strategic Planning
When business stagnates or the market shifts, scattered work is a liability. naikaa’s Vision & Strategy Sprint converts noise into a shared, executable direction.
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Vision/Strategy/Strategic Planning
Why you need this
If you’re seeing symptoms like strategic angst, unclear priorities, siloed execution, or a narrative that doesn’t land, you don’t have a strategy problem—you have a clarity and alignment problem. This sprint solves that by creating the conditions for breakthrough thinking and shared ownership. You replace “set it and forget it” planning with a dynamic, real-time process that forces choices, sequencing, and accountability.
What the sprint looks like
A focused 3–6 week arc with six disciplined steps. Each step builds velocity, compressing months of work into weeks without sacrificing depth or rigor. Your team stays engaged, aligned, and accountable throughout.
What you walk away with
- A strategy that passes the test: clear, coherent, and usable; built from vision → goals → focus areas → key results.
- A 90-day execution system: Owners, cadences, decision frameworks, and near-term milestones that convert strategy into day-to-day behavior.
- Rollout and tracking guidance: A communication cascade, operating rhythms, and metrics that ensure momentum, alignment, and in-flight adjustments. (May require an additional workshop for full rollout.)
Who it's for
Leaders navigating ambiguous goals, shifting priorities, market pressure, or an underpowered plan. Ideal when you need alignment, sharper choices, and visible traction fast.
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Team Effectiveness & Performance
Strengthen how the team works, not just how hard they work, so you can deliver faster, improve accountability, and operate with less drag.
Why you need this
Fix the performance blockers that slow execution.
This sprint replaces ambiguity with shared priorities, explicit decision rules, and a way of working that scales.
What you walk away with
A team that knows what matters, how to decide, and how to execute.
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Team Effectiveness & Performance
This is not “trust falls”. It is a working session built to eliminate friction, sharpen how the team collaborates, and create the operating system that drives performance. In weeks, not months, naikaa designs and leads an offsite that aligns priorities, resolves bottlenecks, and embeds new ways of working that stick.
Why you need this
When execution slows, even with smart people, it’s usually a teaming problem, not a talent problem. Common symptoms:
- Siloed work and cross-team friction
- Too many priorities, no meaningful tradeoffs
- Decisions that bounce or stall
- Blurry roles and unclear handoffs
- Meetings without outcomes or accountability
- A narrative that doesn’t cascade into daily work
You don’t need a morale event; you need a structured intervention that directly improves output and execution velocity.
What the sprint looks like
A 3-6 week sprint that compresses months of “fix the team” energy into a tight operating reset:
- Pre-work (and diagnostics) – leader intent, interviews/pulse survey, and artifact review to pinpoint friction and misalignment.
- Design – clear success criteria, tailored agenda, and exercises tied to your goals (e.g., prioritization, decision rights, operating norms).
- Lab (offsite workshop) – 1–2 days of real work: align priorities, make tradeoffs, codify decision rules, and practice new behaviors.
- Synthesize – translate outputs into concrete artifacts: priorities, RACI/DAI maps, interfaces & SLAs, operating cadence, and dashboards.
- Integrate – install the operating rhythm, support leaders in the first cycles, and tune with data.
What you walk away with
- Team priorities & tradeoffs you’ll defend together (what we will/won’t do).
- Decision & escalation map (who decides what, how, and when) so decisions stop ricocheting.
- Roles, interfaces, and handoffs clarified across functions to reduce friction.
- Operating system: meeting cadences (WBR/QBR), agendas, and checklists that turn intent into execution.
- Performance dashboard & commitments: 3–5 outcomes with owners, leading/lagging indicators, and a 90-day plan.
- Narrative & cascade: a crisp story leaders can use to align their teams.
Who it's for
Leadership and cross-functional teams navigating growth, reorgs, new mandates, or persistent execution drag—and ready to turn “team time” into business momentum.
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Client Success Story
“I so enjoy collaborating with Sonal on the hard stuff. She quickly assesses complex situations, effectively facilitates alignment among key stakeholders, and captures the right vision to productive actions. Her humanity sets her apart - thoughtful, respectful, and unflappable in rooms full of strong opinions and high stakes. She prepares deeply, listens intently, offers thoughtful challenge at the right moment, and consistently elevates the conversation. When it matters most, she’s the one I want in the room.”
Rob MasseyGlobal Tax Leader - Blockchain & Crypto, Deloitte
"Sonal accelerated my VP/GM transition - acting as a strategic sounding board who quickly understood our company's environment and politics. The workshop refined my thinking and sharpened my focus on key priorities and relationships, while the ongoing coaching sessions kept me on track. Sonal facilitated with confidence giving me space to brainstorm scenarios with someone who grasped the challenges I was facing. Invaluable support during a key transition. I'd highly recommend this approach to any leader stepping into a new role."
C. WhippleVP/GM, Southwire Company
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