Most managers in scaling tech companies (100–1,000 FTEs) hit the same wall:
Your team doesn’t take real ownership – not consistently, and not at the level you need. Decisions escalate to your inbox that shouldn’t. Meetings multiply just to clarify what should already be clear. You spend your week refereeing instead of leading.

You know something in how your team operates is broken. You just don’t have the time, or headspace, to diagnose it.

The Real Cost
This isn’t a motivation or personality issue.
It’s an infrastructure gap.
Without clear decision architecture, ownership frameworks, and feedback loops, even strong teams default to:
- Vague commitments that create rework
- Decisions escalating instead of resolving downstream
- Hard conversations avoided until they reach you

The math adds up quickly: 10-15 hours per week lost to preventable escalations and clarification meetings, plus the strategic work that slips because you’re stuck in reactive mode.

This is the growth alignment tax.

Why I Built This Work
I’ve spent 20+ years designing execution systems, first as Manager of Worldwide Training at Apple, then with 200+ tech companies across SaaS, healthcare, and enterprise software.

My background includes computer science (RPI), technical communications (Drexel), and executive education (Wharton). More importantly, I’ve lived these problems firsthand: leading teams through scale, navigating M&A transitions, and watching decision bottlenecks derail critical initiatives.

I built these systems because I needed them first.
Leadership without systems requires constant heroics.
Leadership with systems produces repeatable results.

Where Is Your System Breaking?
I built an 8‑minute diagnostic that shows exactly where leadership alignment is leaking time and leverage:
Decision Placement: Are decisions happening at the right level?
Ownership Architecture: Do commitments translate into execution?
Feedback Effectiveness: Does behavior actually change?
Strategic Bandwidth: Are you reactive or proactive?
Alignment Quality: Does the team know what matters most now?

Nearly 100 tech managers have taken it. The pattern is consistent:
> Below 65/100 on Strategic Bandwidth, leaders are drowning.
> Above 80, teams scale with far less friction.

Take the Executive Escalation Assessment
 → 8 minutes
 → Personalized peer benchmarks
 → Your top 2 systemic gaps
 → Immediate results
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Ready to pilot with 3–5 managers? I can install the decision, ownership, and feedback systems that eliminate constant escalation – typically within 90 days.

Bill Ringle

Leading the Renaissance of Thinking | Founder of The Models Method | Speaker, Advisor & Author | Host of "The Wisdom Of..." Podcast

Hello - Simon Bowen here, Creator of the Genius Model®, Founder of the Models Method, International Keynote Speaker and the World’s #1 Authority on Visual Models That Sell.  

I work with business owners to create powerful, million-dollar, visual models that drive their revenue and growth as well as create authentic connection, effortless conversion and make a greater impact.

Whether you’re communicating a new strategy to the Board, driving a critical project, or converting a customer to a purchase in your sales process, I believe that clear communication is the key … and so I created a proven method to get the results ... The Models Method.

And the question I get asked a lot is ... why are visual models so powerful?

Well, a great visual model is really a million-dollar map of someone’s thinking!

They simplify the complex and make it tangible as well as providing a transformational approach that will shape the thinking of your team and your customers towards your big idea.

If you move from verbal (just talking about what you do) to visual (SHOWING people what you do), you speed up the process with a deeper understanding, a much higher level of conversion, and an ability to show a much more tangible level of outcome.  And it’s that tangibility that people like and understand.

I have a background in electrics and electronics, teaching, university lecturing, executive management, corporate consulting and peak performance coaching.  From all that, I’ve been exposed to an extraordinary blend of perspectives which has resulted in me creating a truly unique framework of thinking and influence that is changing the way business leaders, consultants and sales people unpack complex concepts and influence others towards agreement with their ideas.

This framework of using visual models to accelerate thinking and elevate influence has spread to over 20 countries and is used in more than 8 different languages.  Our flagship model, The Genius Model® has generated hundreds of millions of dollars in sales and has changed the game of selling forever.

If you’d like to see more about the models, I'd love you to click the blue “Connect” button above so we can stay in touch.


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