The Intervention Protocol
Founder, SLAM Consultants Inc. | Author, Hope for the Lonely Manager.
25 years inside the machine. Now I fix what hollowed it out.
Simon is an Operator who has spent 25 years inside the organizations that are now breaking. From flagship aerospace programs to a global turnaround across seven offices in four countries, he has lived the full arc: the era when companies still had institutional memory, the ZIRP years that hid the rot, and the current reckoning where hollowed-out firms are collapsing under the weight of decisions nobody made. He didn’t study this from a classroom. He ran the P&L, unified the siloed teams, restored record profitability, and built remote-first operations years before it became an industry talking point.
That career inside broken organizations led Simon to name the pattern: The Hollow Organization — what happens when the Boomers take the wisdom and leave, ZIRP money hides the dysfunction, and middle managers are left holding together a system that has lost its structural integrity. Decision Debt is the financial instrument he built to measure the damage. The services below are how he repairs it — combining M&A discipline, operational physics, and emerging AI-driven analytics to restore organizations from the inside out.
Operator’s Track Record:
What clients say:
“Simon demonstrated expertise in value stream mapping, driving efficiency improvements, and consistently generating innovative, out-of-the-box ideas. He excels at aligning teams and processes with business goals. Strongly endorsed.”
— Aldo De Vito, Vice President of Operations, Harnois Industries
“A professional with proven results in human and change management during transformational processes. An exceptional coach for evolving leaders during corporate transformation.”
— André Gareau, Business Transformation and Culture
The free tools gave you a signal. This gives you the diagnosis.
A guided, self-service web assessment that calculates your organization’s Decision Debt Burden with precision. You answer 25 questions about your decision velocity, accountability structures, and project portfolio health. The system produces a PDF report with your exact Decision Debt percentage, your top 3 friction sources, and a preliminary action map.
Takes 20 minutes. Instant delivery. Follow-up call with Simon.
What you get:
$497 USD / $675 CAD
Taxes and logistics may apply.
Guarantee: If your Decision Debt Burden scores under 4% of revenue (healthy), we refund 100%. You keep the report.
A 120-minute virtual session where I walk you through your organization’s decision velocity patterns, map the friction points, and calculate your Decision Debt Burden. You receive a board-ready Decision Debt Dossier within 72 hours—8-12 pages of forensic analysis you can present to your PE sponsor, your board, or your leadership team.
$2,500 USD / $3,400 CAD
Taxes and logistics may apply.
If the diagnostic reveals you don’t have a meaningful decision debt problem (under 4% of revenue), I’ll refund 50% of the fee. You keep the dossier.
A high-intensity, 1-day intervention. We visualize every project in your portfolio, calculate the “Cost of Delay,” and execute the Zombies live. You leave with a clean factory floor, clarified decision authority, and immediate oxygen. Typical result 30%+ reduction in active project inventory.
$15,000 – $25,000 USD (Inquire)
If we don’t achieve 25%+ reduction in active project inventory by end of day, you pay travel expenses only work fee waived.
The Red Wedding creates space, but muscle memory brings the Zombies back. I remain deployed as your Governance Sentinel conducting monthly decision audits, enforcing the new behaviors, and preventing the bureaucracy from regrowing. The cut stays cut.
Includes
Monthly 2-hour strategic review
Weekly async check-in
Quarterly Decision Debt re-audit
“Zombie Watch” monitoring
90-day progress guarantee
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The Zombies are dead. The Sentinel is watching. Now what? Most organizations rush to deploy AI on top of workflows that are still held together with duct tape and tribal knowledge. Agentic AI doesn’t fix broken processes — it scales them. At machine speed.
The Clean Room Protocol prepares your operations for AI integration the way a surgical clean room prepares for a transplant: by removing every contaminant first. We audit your workflows for AI-readiness, strip out undocumented dependencies, make decision paths explicit and machine-readable, and build your implementation roadmap — so when you deploy AI agents, they amplify competence instead of compounding dysfunction.
What’s included:
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For organizations where the problem is structural, not just operational. A 12-36 month engagement to redesign your governance, rebuild your Competence Core, eliminate decision debt at the source, and architect a digital workforce that sustains the rebuild. I become your embedded Governance Architect – on-site 2-3 days/month, with full access to leadership. For clients who have completed the Clean Room Protocol, Apex includes supervised AI agent deployment and mixed human-AI team design. Typical outcome: 20-40% EBITDA improvement via removal of the Incompetence Tax, plus an AI-ready operating model.
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