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When What Got You Here Won't Get You There
ThinkGrowth partners with CEOs and executive teams at critical growth inflection points — helping successful companies evolve the leadership, alignment, and execution required to scale with clarity and discipline.

the core challenge
Growth Changes the Requirements of Leadership
The organization has outgrown the operating model that made it successful.
Successful companies eventually reach a point where the old ways of leading, communicating, deciding, and executing no longer scale. The business becomes more complex. The leadership team becomes more stretched. Informal systems break down. Execution becomes harder to sustain.
The problem is not lack of ambition. It is not lack of talent. It is not usually lack of strategy. The organization has simply outgrown the operating model that made it successful up to now.
Communication Breaks Down
Informal channels that worked at smaller scale create confusion and misalignment as the organization grows.
Accountability Becomes Inconsistent
Priorities compete, ownership blurs, and execution slows without clear operating discipline.
Silos Emerge
Teams optimize for their own function rather than the shared strategy, creating friction and lost momentum.
Execution Slows
The gap between vision and daily action widens, and the leadership team struggles to close it.
WHAT WE DO
Building the Alignment Required for the Next Stage of Growth
ThinkGrowth works with CEOs and executive teams to align strategy, leadership, culture, and execution. The work is practical, embedded, and outcome-focused.
Strategic Clarity
Defining the performance outcomes and strategic priorities that will drive the next stage of growth.
Executive Team Alignment
Building the shared understanding, trust, and operating 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 complexity.
Operating Rhythms
Designing the meeting cadences, decision frameworks, and accountability structures that sustain execution.
Culture and Performance
Aligning company mindset and culture with the performance expectations and behaviors required to scale.
Growth Strategy Execution
Translating strategic intent into clear priorities, accountable owners, and disciplined, operational execution.
HOW WE WORK
An Integrated Partner, Not a Traditional Consultant
We work inside the business, alongside the CEO and leadership team, helping leaders navigate real decisions, real tensions, and real execution challenges. The work is not theoretical. It happens in the operating reality of the company and leadership team itself.
This is not a program. It is not a series of workshops. It is not executive coaching delivered periodically from the outside. It is fully embedded, strategic partnership — structured around the actual work of leading a growing company.
CEO Advisory
Ongoing strategic counsel and a trusted sounding board for the CEO on leadership, strategy, and organizational performance.
Executive Team Alignment
Facilitated team sessions and embedded support to build alignment, trust, and operating discipline across the leadership team.
Leadership Operating System Design
Designing the rhythms, structures, and disciplines that allow the leadership team to execute with renewed clarity and accountability.
Strategic Growth Facilitation
Structured facilitation and co-creation of an outcomes-based, high-growth strategy and goal-setting processes.
Executive Coaching
Individual coaching for senior leaders navigating the demands of the next stage of growth.
Enterprise Alignment Initiatives
Broader organizational alignment work that connects strategy to culture, communication, and execution across the company.
WHO WE WORK WITH
For Companies at an Inflection Point
ThinkGrowth is best suited for companies that have already achieved meaningful success and are now navigating the transition to a more complex, demanding stage of growth.
Have already achieved meaningful success
Are entering a more complex stage of growth
Know their current leadership and operating model needs to evolve
Need stronger alignment across the executive team
Are experiencing friction between vision and execution
Want a trusted partner who can help them scale with discipline
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 and operating model to reach the next level.

Particular depth of experience in privately-held, founder-led, and family-owned businesses navigating the structural shift from entprenurial start-up to scalable enterprise.
A THINKGROWTH SYSTEM
Building in Alignmentâ„¢
Building in Alignment is a structured stakeholder alignment process embedded across complex construction projects to align key stakeholders, strengthen execution, increase accountability, and drive 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 especially relevant to construction project owners and 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 Alignment is one expression of ThinkGrowth's broader work. The firm's advisory practice serves executive teams across industries.
ABOUT
Jon Greenawalt
President & Founder
Jon Greenawalt is the Founder of ThinkGrowth Performance Consulting 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.
His work focuses on helping successful companies navigate the transition from one stage of growth to the next — aligning leadership, strategy, culture, and execution so they can scale with greater clarity, accountability, and performance.
Chief Alignment Officer
Cornerstone General Contractors
Former Chief People & Culture Officer
SharkNinja
Former Chief Performance Officer & GM Services
15Five
30+ Years of Executive Advisory Experience
tRACK RECORD
Deep Experience Inside and Out
A brief record of the breath of work. Shared not to impress, but to help establish context and credibility.
30+ Years
Executive Advisory

Trusted advisor to hundreds of executives and leadership teams across many industries, aligning strategy, leadership, and execution to accelerate performance.
$2B+
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)
146%+
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+
Construction
Manufacturing
Technology
Consumer products
HEALTHCARE & LIFE SCIENCES
PROFESSIONAL & FINANCIAL SERVICES
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Office Locations
Boston, MA
Philadelphia, PA
New York, NY
Los Angeles, CA
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