• The October Group

Three ways in, depending on what's actually happening right now

Each service exists for a specific kind of moment, built around the real event driving the need: a leadership change, a deal, a board mandate, a growth plateau.

• How We Work

Every engagement starts the same way

A real conversation about what's actually happening in your organization, straight from you.

1

Book a Consultation with Philipia

A direct conversation about what's actually driving the need right now. Complimentary, and focused entirely on your specific situation.

2

We Scope the Right Engagement

Based on that conversation, we recommend the service that fits, and build a plan sequenced around your specific trigger.

3

The Work Begins

Sequenced around the real event driving the need — a leadership change, a deal, a board mandate, a growth plateau.

Want a quick read before you talk with us? The Executive Alignment Diagnostic is a free five-minute assessment across five key areas — a helpful starting point, entirely optional.

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Executive Experiences
Service One

Executive Experiences

For leadership teams navigating a specific high-stakes moment — a merger, a new CEO, a board-mandated pivot — where the real disagreement in the room finally gets said out loud.

Signs You Need This Now

  • Your leadership team agrees in meetings and executes differently once everyone leaves the room
  • A merger or leadership change happened, and the team is still waiting to hear what's actually changing day to day
  • The same disagreement keeps resurfacing, circling the room instead of getting resolved

What Actually Happens

  • A facilitated session built around one real, current, unresolved decision your team is stuck on
  • Philipia or a senior facilitator leads the room, working toward what people actually think
  • The agenda is built from what surfaces in your consultation with Philipia
You Walk Away With

A documented decision log: what got decided, who owns it, and what happens if it's not executed by a specific date. A working artifact your team can be held to.

Executive Performance
Service Two

Executive Performance

For leaders who now hold authority they didn't have a year ago — through promotion, acquisition, or succession — and are building the credibility to match it.

Signs You Need This Now

  • You were promoted into a role over people who used to be your peers
  • You inherited a leadership team you didn't build and are still learning how to read
  • You're technically in charge, and decisions still seem to route around you to whoever held the role before

What Actually Happens

  • One-on-one coaching, or coaching alongside the full team when the credibility gap is visible to everyone
  • Work focused on the specific authority-to-credibility gap your situation created
  • Direct, candid feedback built for leaders ready to hear the truth
You Walk Away With

A specific, named read on where your authority is already landing with the team and where it still needs work, plus a concrete plan for closing that gap.

Strategic Planning
Service Three

Strategic Planning

For teams facing real uncertainty — a market shift, a merger integration, a strategy that gets recited in meetings and interpreted differently by everyone in the room.

Signs You Need This Now

  • Your team can state the strategy out loud, and still land on different interpretations of what it means for their own decisions
  • Every meaningful call still comes back to you, because ownership was never made explicit
  • A merger, market shift, or board reset has changed the ground your old plan was built on

What Actually Happens

  • We work with your team to name the specific strategic pillars that matter right now
  • We build out decision rights explicitly, so your team can act without checking with you first
  • The plan is sequenced: what happens first, what depends on what, and who owns each piece
You Walk Away With

A decision rights matrix naming who owns what, plus a sequenced plan your team can execute against together.

Find out which one fits your situation

A real conversation about what's actually happening in your organization, straight from you.

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