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Smart vs. Healthy
Organizations need two things to succeed. Most leaders spend 90% of their time on the first one.
Read more →"The single greatest advantage any company can achieve is organizational health."— Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage
I'm Stephen Chapman, a Table Group Principal Consultant. I help executives and their teams produce sustainable business results by minimizing the politics and confusion that plagues every organization.
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These are the problems every business and organization faces.
And yet so often as leaders, we either avoid these problems or overfixate on them. We know it's an issue. We just don't know what to do about it, and we don't have the time to figure it out. So we read the leadership books and listen to the podcasts, but the ideas never make their way into our day-to-day work.
Instead, we spend 90%+ of our time focused on the "day-to-day" tasks that keep our business running, because it's familiar and it's easier to gauge we're making progress.
Unfortunately, we rarely appreciate how much these issues are impacting our business — and how much they're slowing us and our employees down.
The healthiest organization in your market wins — fewer politics, less confusion, higher morale, lower turnover. It's the single greatest competitive advantage a business has, and it's buildable.
Two days with your leadership team to surface the real issues, work the hard conversations, and leave aligned on what actually matters most.
See the 2-Day Offsite →Regular, confidential coaching for the executive between the bigger moments — so you're never navigating the hard calls alone.
We sit in on your team's meetings, then debrief you privately on what's really happening in the room and what to do about it.
"Our leadership team just wrapped up our first two-day offsite with Stephen, utilizing the Table Group's method and materials. He provided gentle yet firm feedback to me, as both an owner and an aspiring leader, which was invaluable. Stephen helped our team cut through the noise of all the good things we could pursue and brought clarity to the few key priorities that deserve our attention."
"Stephen provided valuable guidance, structure, and insight for our team when we were at a cultural low point. He gave us tools and frameworks to work through challenges with the courage and honesty needed to build trust. His work with our team has helped shift our organizational health and improve team dynamics, which will positively impact the vulnerable children in Zambia that our programs support."
"Working with Stephen has been a transformative experience as a leader. He's the ultimate guide. His counsel has been practical and pushed me to action. He challenged me to take on real challenges in my company that I'd been avoiding."
Before consulting, I spent my career inside organizations — from a Fortune 50 company to leading one myself. I've built budgets, prepared for boards, made the calls that don't have a clean answer, and felt the particular weight that comes with being the one everybody is looking at.
That's why I do this work the way I do. I'm not here to hand you a framework and leave. I'm a business consultant, not an HR consultant or a therapist. Organizational health isn't a soft metric to me — it's the primary engine for business performance.
Today, I'm a Principal Consultant with The Table Group, working with executives and their teams across the country.
Read the Full StoryA short assessment of the things that quietly slow organizations down — politics, confusion, and the meetings that never decide anything. Seventeen questions, about five minutes.
I read every response myself and send you a note on what stands out, along with where I'd start if it were my team.
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