About The Venned Group

It began with a simple belief: the gap between strategy and execution is rarely about the plan itself. More often, it comes down to leadership — and leadership challenges can be solved.

You know the cost of unclear leadership. You can feel it before the metrics move.

It was founded on a single belief: that the gap between executive strategy and organizational execution is not a strategy problem. It is a leadership problem. And leadership problems have solutions.

We work with CEOs, COOs, presidents, VPs, and senior teams across financial services, technology, professional services, manufacturing, commercial real estate, and more in organizations large enough to feel the cost of misalignment and serious enough to do something about it.

Who We Serve
IF THIS IS YOU

The founder who became the bottleneck.

You built something real and promoted the people who helped you build it. Now you’re in too many decisions that shouldn’t need you, especially the ones that require a difficult conversation. Your calendar says CEO. Your to-do list says senior manager. You’ve hired the people who got you here, and now you have to lead the version of the company they didn’t sign up for. You don’t need another book or peer group. You need your team to actually lead differently.

IF THIS IS YOU

The leader modernizing a team that manages the way it always has.

You’re running a modern strategy through people who still manage the way their managers managed them twenty years ago. You set the metric in January and find yourself in October wondering why no one’s measuring against it. You’ve watched high-potential people leave with the words “I didn’t feel developed” in the exit interview, and you know what that costs to replace. You need a partner who can engage the room, not bore it.

IF THIS IS YOU

The executive whose bench freezes at the top of the room.

You have senior people who know their material cold and shrink the moment a more senior leader walks in. You end up answering the board’s questions yourself because the air gets thinner the higher up the room goes. You have a succession plan on paper and a private suspicion that not one name on it is ready to brief the CEO without a dry run. The visibility of your whole function has one face on it, and it’s yours.

IF THIS IS YOU

The pragmatist who has been burned before.

You’ve got a folder of vendor decks and the scar tissue from initiatives the team can’t name and the P&L can’t trace. You have a smart, opinionated leadership team that’s quick to dismiss anything that smells like a workshop. You read everything on a firm’s website before the first call, and you notice when something sounds templated. You don’t want credentials on paper. You want proof it works, with a partner who can land in your industry on day one and not learn it on your dime.

Our Team

The People Behind the Work

Kendra Johnson

Founder & Primary Facilitator

Laura Hamel

Marketing & Community Specialist

Laura Lillie Goodridge

Manager Coach & Program Facilitator

What Happens When Execution Finally Clicks

We're selective, on purpose.

We’re a growth partner first. We prioritize organizations that want real, visible results over a get-together for its own sake. If you’re checking a box, we’re glad to point you elsewhere. If you want the change to hold, you’re exactly who we built this for.

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