Leadership Advisory

Leadership is a weighty responsibility.
It is possible to carry it well.

We help executive teams, boards, and senior leaders in cooperatives and mid-market organizations bring the honest leadership needed to succeed.

Together we face what's actually going on, decide with courage, and move without waiting for someone else or something else to change.

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Founded by Mitch Majeski — advisor to CEOs, executive teams, and boards. Cooperatives large and small, technology, manufacturing, mining, food, and engineering — across the US and in Chile, Brazil, Germany, Poland, and China.

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The Challenge

Most organizations don't struggle for lack of effort.

More often, the people at the top are working from different assumptions, the board isn't sure what belongs to it, or the leaders coming up don't have a clear view of their strongest contribution. The effort is there. The traction isn't.

Executive teams

Capable people don't automatically become a team. Priorities get read differently, real tensions go unsaid, and decisions don't hold.

Boards

Boards drift into operations, stay too general to be useful, or lose track of what the organization actually needs from them.

Emerging leaders

Promising leaders need more than encouragement. They need a clear view of their unique contribution, the wisdom to concentrate where they're strongest, and ways to keep their limits from doing quiet damage.

What Lapis Does

We work on the conversations, decisions, and habits that actually move an organization.

Whether it's an executive team that needs to get honest with itself, a board that needs to actually govern, or a leader growing in wisdom, the aim is the same: see what's really going on, and have the courage to act on it.

"I won't prescribe until I've watched how you actually work."Diagnosis before advice. Every engagement starts with your real situation, not a standard model.
"Show me your calendar and your last three decisions, and I'll show you your culture."Culture isn't what gets announced. It's what gets repeated.
"Nodding isn't owning."We work until decisions hold: commitment, not consensus.
"My job is to make myself unnecessary."The genius is usually already in the room. The work sticks when it belongs to you, not to a consultant.
Services
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Executive Team Alignment

Teams often align around a story that explains what they see without confronting it. Our work is getting honest about the real situation, and aligning around what actually matters.

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Board Effectiveness

Boards can drift into running the company or into rubber-stamping. Neither provides what the organization needs. We help the board govern, acting as real fiduciaries.

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Leader Development

Most leaders don't need to work harder. They need to grow in wisdom: the kind that comes from humility and honest self-examination, and keeps good leaders from quietly veering off course.

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Strategic Clarity

Strategy fails less from bad plans than from unspoken disagreement about priorities and tradeoffs. We help make them honest, so the organization can commit and move.

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How We Begin
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Start with a conversation

We start with your situation and the questions on your mind. No pitch, no pressure.

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Find the real need

Together we figure out where the actual issue lies and whether this is work worth doing, for you and for us. The right engagement is one where everyone can see the value.

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Shape the engagement

From there we design a focused path: the right people, the right scope, nothing heavier than it needs to be. And if we're not the right fit, we'll say so and point you toward someone who is.

What Better Looks Like

Better isn't more activity. It's a different way of operating.

Stronger trust at the top, a board that knows its job, leaders who grow the people under them, and decisions that hold up when the pressure is on.

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  • An executive team that tells itself the truth
  • A board that governs instead of drifting
  • Leaders who grow the next layer down
  • Better decisions under pressure
  • Meetings and offsites that are actually worth the time
  • Ownership that outlasts the engagement
In Their Words

The work speaks. The names stay with their owners.

We don't publish client names or logos. Our clients' brands are theirs, not our marketing. The words below are real and shared with permission, and the identities are held back on purpose. The full stories behind these words are worth the read.

"He was brought in to help my executive team in a formalized leadership development program. That quickly morphed into a more organic leadership development program for all supervisors, foremen, and emerging leaders within the organization… Upon assuming the role of CEO [at a second cooperative], I immediately brought Mitch in again."
President & CEO, Alaska electric cooperativeWorked with Mitch over three years, then brought him in again after taking the CEO role at a second cooperative
"Mitch has the ability to take a complex concept and break it down into learnable pieces… Mitch is not only one of the best leaders I have worked with — he loves what he does."
CEO, statewide association of electric cooperatives
"Leadership for each individual is different, however, Mitch has a unique way of personalizing it for each leader and thus making the experience transformational… his facilitation is best in class."
Director of Education & Training, statewide association of electric cooperatives
Mitch Majeski, founder of Lapis Partners
About the Founder

I'm Mitch Majeski. I advise CEOs, executive teams, and boards — in organizations publicly traded, private, and cooperative — on the conversations, decisions, and habits that actually move an organization.

I came to this work by way of two earlier careers: civil engineering first, then nearly twenty years as a pastor. Engineering taught me how systems behave. Pastoring taught me how people do — how to sit with them in hard moments and tell the truth kindly. Boardrooms need both.

Lapis Partners is the expression of a lifelong burden to help leaders, teams, and boards humbly and courageously take real responsibility for the organizations they lead.

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Insights

Practical thinking for leaders, teams, and boards.

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Board Governance

A Board Can Know Its Job and Still Behave Badly

Director training builds knowledge. But governance is a behavior, and it shows up in the agenda, the questions, and what happens when bad news arrives.
Leadership

Most Leadership Training Produces Insight, Not Habits

Ask your last program's graduates what they do differently on Tuesdays. If the answer is language rather than behavior, you bought insight.
Executive Teams

Meetings Are the Operating System of Leadership

Meetings aren't the interruption of leadership. They're where it runs, and where deciding, aligning, and hearing the truth actually happen.

If it matters, it's worth a conversation.

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