Growth strategy workshop for leadership teams

Growth strategy workshop: from growth ambition to initiatives your teams own

In our growth strategy workshop, your leadership team agrees where the next growth will come from: deeper in the core, in adjacent markets or with new offers. Cross-functional teams then turn the best options into 3–5 growth initiatives, each with a business case, an owner and OKRs for the next quarter.

Book a 30-minute callSee the process
Hamburg-based, on site wherever your team meetsOne or two senior partners, as your team needsLeadership team plus selected people from all levels

What your team leaves with

A shared growth ambitionWhere you want to be in three years, in numbers the whole team stands behind
Growth options mappedCore, adjacent and new, rated on impact, effort and risk
3–5 growth initiativesEach with a business case, an owner and a 90-day plan
OKRs and a steering rhythmCheck-ins and reviews in the calendar before anyone leaves

How it works

How the growth strategy workshop works

Three phases: a short preparation, two days in the room and 90 days of guided execution. The plan is a proposal – in the briefing we adapt it to your situation and agree how you will measure success after the growth strategy workshop.

Phase 1 · Prepare

A fact base the team trusts

A prep session with the CEO, short interviews with leaders and customer-facing staff, and one page on markets, customers and where growth comes from today.

Phase 2 · Workshop

Two days that end in decisions

The leadership team sets the ambition and chooses the growth options. Selected people from sales, product, operations and finance shape them into initiatives.

Phase 3 · Execute

90 days of momentum

Initiative teams work in short sprints against their OKRs. A monthly steering meeting with leadership keeps priorities clear; the quarterly review decides what scales.

In the room

Two days in the growth strategy workshop

Day one belongs to direction, day two to execution. Every step builds on the one before, so the team only talks about solutions once the starting point and the target are clear.

DAY 1
Ambition, options and choicesLeadership team, with a few invited experts
Growth ambition
The CEO’s ambition, discussed and sharpened into a target for one, two and three years.
Where growth comes from
Revenue by customer, product and market, mapped as a gallery. What carried growth so far, and what is slowing down?
Growth options
In small groups the team develops options in three fields: grow the core, move into adjacent markets, build something new.
Rate and choose
Impact, effort and risk for every option. Leadership decides on 3–5 growth initiatives and names a sponsor for each.
DAY 2
Initiatives, business cases and OKRsInitiative teams from all levels join the leadership team
Kick-off for the teams
The sponsors explain the ambition and the chosen initiatives. Everybody knows why their team exists.
Shape the initiative
Each team defines target customers, offer, first experiments and the resources it needs.
Business case on one page
Revenue logic, investment and the assumptions that must hold, made visible and testable.
OKRs and next steps
One Objective and two to four Key Results per initiative, owners, first actions and the dates of the first check-ins.

Is this the right format?

When a growth strategy workshop pays off

  • Growth has slowed and the leadership team sees different reasons and different answers.
  • There are many growth ideas, but nobody has decided which ones get people and budget.
  • A new market, a new owner or a new CEO asks for a clear growth plan.
  • Growth initiatives exist on paper, but they do not move from quarter to quarter.

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Who you work with

Two senior partners: strategy and execution in one team

Oliver brings the strategy and growth content, Joern runs the process and builds the execution rhythm. Your team does the thinking and makes the decisions – that is why the initiatives keep moving after the growth strategy workshop.

Oliver Pasdzior, partner at Stryke Consulting

Oliver Pasdzior

Partner · Strategy, growth and transformation

Over 15 years in corporate development and strategy execution, formerly an executive at major corporations. Leads growth, efficiency and change initiatives with analytical clarity and a pragmatic feel for the people side.

Joern Steinz, partner at Stryke Consulting

Joern Steinz

Partner · Facilitation, execution and OKRs

Facilitating leadership teams since 2014, more than 60 OKR engagements and over 1.000 workshops. Formerly a consultant at Accenture and in corporate development at XING. MBA, EADA Business School Barcelona.

Strategy workshops and offsites for the leadership teams of

Domino’s PizzaESAHarvey NormanHERO SoftwareSagaStevanato GroupTildeZertus Group

Further clients

AllianzBayerBrown-FormanDHLeBayLufthansaMcKinseySiemensVolkswagen

Questions

Questions about the growth strategy workshop

What is a growth strategy workshop?

A growth strategy workshop is a facilitated session in which the leadership team agrees on a growth ambition, chooses the few growth options that matter most and turns them into initiatives with owners, business cases and OKRs. With us it takes two days, framed by a short preparation and 90 days of guided execution.

Who should take part?

Day one: the leadership team, typically 6 to 15 people. Day two adds the people who will carry the initiatives – selected colleagues from different levels, functions and locations. They know customers and processes best, and they will deliver the results.

Do you bring the growth strategy or does our team develop it?

Your team develops it. We bring the process, the right questions and the experience from many growth and transformation projects. Oliver challenges the content; Joern makes sure every decision ends with an owner and a next step.

What do we need to prepare?

A one-hour prep session with the sponsor and your key numbers: revenue by customer group, product and market. We prepare a short interview round and a one-page fact base. We sign an NDA on request.

What happens after the two days?

The initiative teams start right away with their OKRs. On request we facilitate the monthly steering and the quarterly review, and we coach the initiative leads until the rhythm runs without us.

Where does the workshop take place?

At a venue of your choice. We are based in Hamburg and come to wherever your team meets, in English or German.

Next step

Let’s plan your growth strategy workshop

In 30 minutes we find out whether the format fits your team, who should be in the room, and which dates work.

Write to us

hello@stryke-consulting.com · 0049 175 566 4329 · Hamburg


Strategy development and execution · Hamburg