ThinkGrowth partners with CEOs, senior executives, and leadership teams at critical growth inflection points — aligning strategy, leadership, organization, and execution to help businesses and the people leading them perform at a higher level.
Growth Changes the Requirements of Leadership
Every successful organization eventually outgrows the model that made it successful.
Growth creates complexity. Complexity creates friction. The ways of leading, communicating, deciding, and operating that worked at an earlier stage begin to break down — not because the people changed, but because the demands of the business did. What got the company here will not get it to what comes next.
Communication Breaks Down
Informal channels that worked at smaller scale create confusion and misalignment as the organization grows more complex.
Accountability Blurs
Priorities compete, ownership becomes unclear, and execution slows without more deliberate operating discipline.
Silos Harden
Teams begin optimizing for their own function rather than the shared strategy, creating friction and lost momentum.
Strategy Outruns Execution
The gap between vision and daily action widens. The leadership team struggles to close it.
Business Performance. Human Performance. Both.
ThinkGrowth works with CEOs and executive teams to align strategy, leadership, culture, and execution at the moments when it matters most. The work is practical, engaged, and focused on outcomes.
Strategic Clarity
Translating ambition into clear priorities and a shared understanding of what the organization is actually trying to accomplish.
Executive Team Alignment
Building the shared understanding, trust, and discipline required for the leadership team to perform at its best.
Leadership Capacity
Developing the individual and collective capacity of leaders to operate effectively at the next level of responsibility.
Operating Discipline
Creating the meeting cadences, decision frameworks, and accountability structures that sustain execution over time.
Culture and Performance
Aligning organizational behavior with the performance expectations required to grow.
Growth Strategy Execution
Turning strategic intent into clear priorities, accountable owners, and disciplined follow-through.
An Integrated Partner. Not a Traditional Consultant.
Complex leadership and business challenges rarely fit neatly into separate categories called strategy, coaching, culture, or execution. ThinkGrowth works across those boundaries — alongside the CEO and leadership team, helping navigate real decisions, real tensions, and real execution challenges.
This is not a program. Not a series of workshops. Not executive coaching delivered periodically from the outside. It is a deeply engaged strategic partnership — structured around the actual work of leading and growing the business.
ONE PARTNER. FOUR MODES.
Advisor. Coach. Challenger. Operator. ThinkGrowth moves among these roles as circumstances require. The differentiation is not simply having these capabilities — it is the judgment to understand which role the moment requires.
Advisor
Bringing perspective, pattern recognition, strategic thinking, and counsel to important business and organizational decisions.
Coach
Helping executives increase their effectiveness, self-awareness, leadership range, and impact.
Challenger
Creating the candor necessary to surface what is not being said, question assumptions, and address the conversations organizations struggle to have on their own.
Operator
Turning thinking into action — creating clarity, alignment, commitments, accountability, and practical execution rather than stopping at recommendations.
CEO Advisory
Ongoing strategic counsel and a trusted sounding board for the CEO on leadership, strategy, and organizational performance.
Enterprise Alignment
Broader organizational alignment work that connects strategy to culture, communication, and execution across the company.
For Leaders at an Inflection Point
ThinkGrowth works with successful leaders and businesses navigating the transition to the next stage of growth. The common thread is not industry — it is the moment.
Have achieved meaningful success and are ready for what comes next
Are entering a more complex stage of growth that requires a different kind of leadership
Know their current operating model needs to evolve — but aren't sure exactly how
Need stronger alignment, trust, and operating discipline across the executive team
Are experiencing friction between strategic ambition and day-to-day execution
Want a trusted senior partner — not a vendor, not a program, not a framework
ThinkGrowth works with CEOs, presidents, founders, and executive teams across a range of industries — including construction, manufacturing, technology, and consumer products. The common thread is not industry. It is the inflection point: the moment when the company must evolve its leadership system and operating model to reach the next level.
Human Judgment. Amplified by Modern Intelligence.
Technology creates the leverage. Human transformation remains the work.
ThinkGrowth combines more than three decades of executive leadership and advisory experience with the intelligent use of AI — to deepen analysis, accelerate insight, improve preparation, and expand what is possible for clients.
Technology is becoming extraordinarily capable at research, synthesis, analysis, pattern identification, and accelerating the movement from information to insight. ThinkGrowth uses these capabilities deliberately where they improve the work.
But as those capabilities become more available, the distinctly human elements of leadership become more valuable — not less.
Contextual judgment. Discernment. Presence. Courage. Trust. The ability to understand what is actually happening beneath the surface. To help people confront difficult realities. To build genuine alignment among human beings.
Technology creates more capacity for the work that matters most. Human judgment remains central.
Building in Alignmentâ„¢
Building in Alignment™ is a structured stakeholder alignment process embedded across complex construction projects — aligning key stakeholders, strengthening execution, increasing accountability, and driving consistent, successful project outcomes.
It represents the project-based expression of ThinkGrowth's broader philosophy: where complexity creates friction, alignment creates performance.
Building in Alignment™ is particularly relevant to construction project owners, developers, and organizations managing complex project delivery — where misalignment between owners, contractors, subcontractors, and project teams is one of the most significant and costly sources of project risk.
Stakeholder Alignment
Establishing shared expectations, priorities, and communication protocols across all project stakeholders from the outset.
Execution Accountability
Building the structures and rhythms that keep all parties accountable to commitments and milestones throughout the project lifecycle.
Conflict Prevention
Identifying and resolving misalignment early — before it becomes costly friction, delay, or dispute.
Outcome Orientation
Keeping all stakeholders focused on the shared definition of successful project outcomes.
Building in Alignmentâ„¢ is one expression of ThinkGrowth's broader work. The firm's advisory practice serves executive teams and leadership organizations across industries.
Jon Greenawalt
President & Founder
Jon Greenawalt is the Founder of ThinkGrowth and brings more than three decades of experience as an executive operator, business leader, executive coach, and trusted advisor to CEOs and leadership teams across industries.
The point is not simply what Jon has done. It is what that accumulated experience allows him to see, understand, and help leaders do now. He has led from inside organizations and advised from outside them. He has navigated the full range of leadership and organizational challenges that come with growth — and he brings that pattern recognition, candor, and judgment directly to clients and their teams.
Jon combines that depth of human experience with the intelligent use of modern AI capabilities — expanding what one deeply experienced senior advisor can accomplish for clients while amplifying the judgment, trust, and human engagement at the center of his work.
Chief Alignment Officer
Cornerstone
Chief People & Culture Officer SharkNinja
SVP & GM Services
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30+ Years of Executive Advisory Experience
Deep Experience. Proven Results.
A brief record of the breadth of work — shared not to impress, but to establish context and credibility.
Executive Advisory
More than three decades as an executive operator, advisor, and coach across industries — bringing pattern recognition across strategy, leadership, organization, and execution.
SharkNinja
Served as Executive Advisor and Chief Culture Officer during a period of rapid global growth — from $500M to more than $2B in revenue and the company's first IPO (HKEX).
Cornerstone Construction
Chief Alignment Officer championing organizational growth from $50M to more than $125M in annual revenue over a two-year period, with continued expansion toward $150M+.
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Where We Work
ThinkGrowth works with leaders and executive teams across the United States, with offices in Philadelphia, Boston, New York City, and Los Angeles.
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If your company has achieved meaningful success but needs renewed strategic clarity, stronger alignment, and more disciplined execution to reach the next level — let's talk.
When What Got You Here Won't Get You There.