Clarity to Action · Collaborative whiteboard

What you said and what they heard are rarely the same.

Most teams don't have a people problem. They leave without Clarity to Action: a shared decision, then a named owner, date, and artifact. Give me 90 minutes with up to 10 people. Working session, not training.

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Minutes. Clarity to identified action before anyone stands up.

People maximum. Decision makers and doers in the room.

Decision map and action scorecard you walk out with.

Up to 10 people in the room

Decision makers and doers

Owner, date, artifact

Decision map + action scorecard

"There are things that are said.
There are things that are heard.
There are things that are remembered.
Rarely are they all the same."

Mike Simmons · Catalyst

The Problem

The gap between saying, hearing, and remembering is costing you.

Broken handoffs, stalled deals, meetings that feel aligned and then diverge. Almost no one left with Clarity to Action.

◆Sales reps deliver a pitch they're confident in, and lose deals they thought they had

◆Handoffs between teams break because the context never made it across the gap

◆Leaders send clear direction, and watch it get interpreted three different ways

◆Client relationships erode quietly because expectations were set but never confirmed

◆Cross-functional projects stall because teams are solving different versions of the same problem

◆Meetings end with perceived alignment, but people leave and do completely different things

One lost deal costs more than 90 minutes. One broken handoff costs more too. That's the math underneath everything below.

About Me

A little about me.

Mike Simmons facilitating a team session

I've spent my career at the intersection of leadership, revenue, and execution. I've built and scaled GTM teams, coached executives across industries, and facilitated hundreds of working sessions for organizations where the strategy was sound and the execution still stalled.

The pattern repeats: smart teams with a real strategy, stuck because the meeting ended without a shared decision and without a named owner. Everyone nods. Nobody owns it. The next meeting re-opens the same question.

I don't facilitate conversation for its own sake. I run the room toward an exit, and the exit is specific.

Force Clarity first: who decides, and what yes, no, or not yet actually means. Then force Action: owner, date, and artifact, before anyone stands up.

The Future

What changes when the room produces Clarity to Action.

A decision the room shares, and an owner, a date, and an artifact attached to it. That is what stops the re-litigating.

For Sales Teams

Deals move because the next step has an owner and a date.

No more "we're waiting to hear back." The room names who does what, by when, and what proves it happened.

For Cross-Functional Teams

Handoffs carry the decision, not just the context.

The receiving team gets the call that was made and the artifact behind it, so work restarts instead of re-deciding.

For Leaders

Direction leaves the room as action, not interpretation.

Yes, no, and not yet each mean something specific. The meeting ends once, with the work assigned.

The Catalyst Method

Three phases. One exit.

Ninety minutes, structured. We work one real motion that is actually stuck, and we do not leave it abstract.

Surface the gap. Said, heard, and remembered on the motion that is stuck.

We take one live, stuck motion and map where it breaks: what was said, what was heard, what was remembered. Not theory. Your patterns, named on the board so the room can see them at the same time.

Force Clarity. Who decides, and what yes, no, or not yet means.

Clarity is not the same as agreement. It's knowing who makes the call, what a yes commits the room to, what a no closes, and what a not yet is waiting on. We settle that out loud, in the room, before anyone starts assigning work.

Force Action. Who. What. By when. Artifact.

Every decision leaves with a named owner, a date, and the artifact that will prove it moved. That's the exit. If the room stands up without it, the meeting failed, and we say so while there's still time to fix it.

What You Get

Four deliverables. One exit that holds.

90-Minute Live Collaborative Whiteboard

Virtual or in-person, up to 10 people. Decision makers and doers in the same room, working one stuck motion to a shared decision.

Decision Map (one page)

The call the room made, who made it, and what yes, no, or not yet means here. Built live in the session, owned by the team.

Action Scorecard

Who. What. By when. And the artifact that proves it moved. One line per commitment, so follow-through is checkable rather than assumed.

OptionalRecording, Transcript & Session Summary

Video recording, written transcript, and a session summary. Optional, and scoped on the Design Call before the session is booked.

Rethink Collaborative Meetings

Apply Jobs to Be Done.

What People Say

What teams say after the session.

Mike has helped our team get their thoughts and perspective out of their head, and on to paper. This created clarity and improved alignment across the team.

Session Participant Cross-Functional Team

We walked out of the whiteboard session with a better understanding of how our work affects and impacts others in the system, and we could see that we are all working for the same purpose.

Session Participant Revenue Team

I realized how my approach to facilitating our conversations was less about getting the team to engage, and more about sharing my perspective. Seeing Mike guide the conversation and reinforce engagement was powerful.

Session Participant Leadership Team

Give me 90 minutes and up to 10 people.
You leave with a shared decision, and
a named owner, a date, and an artifact.

Investment

Clarity to identified action. Flat fee.

Plan A

Clarity to Action, 90 minutes

$4,500 · Virtual

Onsite available. Scope, travel, and logistics confirmed on the Design Call. Not included in this fee.

Up to 10 people. Decision makers and doers, functional or cross-functional
90-minute live collaborative whiteboard, facilitated by Mike Simmons
Decision map: the call the room made, on one page
Action scorecard: who, what, by when, and the artifact
Pre-session primer sent in advance
Optional recording, transcript, and summary, scoped on the Design Call

Plan A + B

Session plus 2-week accountability

$7,500 · Virtual

Onsite available. Scope, travel, and logistics confirmed on the Design Call. Not included in this fee.

Everything in Plan A, plus follow-through that the artifact actually moved. This is not coaching.

Everything in Plan A
Two weeks of follow-through against the named owners and dates
Confirmation that each artifact moved, or a clear statement that it didn't
Written close-out at day 14, with what's still open

Listed prices are virtual. Onsite is available; cost depends on scope, travel, and logistics, confirmed before you book.

B is not sold on its own. Accountability only works against a decision the room actually made, so the two-week follow-through is available with the session and not as a standalone engagement.

Not ready to commit? Book a complimentary 25-minute Design Call first. We'll confirm fit and scope A against A+B before you invest a dollar.

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Ready to Move Forward?

Three steps to get your team in the room.

No long onboarding. No discovery decks. A fast path from Clarity to Action.

Book a 25-min Design Call to confirm fit and scope A or A+B.

Invite the room. Decision makers and doers, up to 10.

Do the work. Leave with an owner, a date, and an artifact.

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I book 1–2 weeks out. Limited availability each month.

Common Questions

Everything you need to know.

Is this training or a working session?

A working session. There's no curriculum and no L&D module. We take one motion that's actually stuck in your business and work it to a shared decision, then to an owner, a date, and an artifact. I facilitate. Your team does the real work and owns the output.

How is this different from the AI Skills whiteboard session?

Different door, different job. The AI Skills session diagnoses why AI tools aren't delivering a return and builds a skills-first adoption plan. This one takes any stuck motion and drives it to Clarity to Action. If you're not sure which door you're standing in front of, the Design Call sorts it in 25 minutes.

What does "who does what by when" mean here?

It's the Action half of the exit, and it comes after Clarity. First the room settles who decides and what yes, no, or not yet means. Then every commitment gets a named owner, a date, and the artifact that proves it moved. Without the artifact, "by when" is just a hope.

Who should be in the room?

Decision makers and doers together, up to 10. The people who can make the call, and the people who'll do the work that follows it. If the person who decides isn't in the room, the session can surface the gap but it can't close it.

Will the session be recorded?

Only if you want it. Recording, transcript, and a written summary are optional, and we scope them on the Design Call before the session is booked. The decision map and the action scorecard are included either way.

What if we're not sure it's the right fit?

Book the complimentary 25-minute Design Call. We map your stuck motion against the session, decide whether A or A+B is right, and if neither is, I'll say so. No session gets booked out of a call that didn't earn it.