In the Beginning by Walt Brown

1: The ability connect with a team, take them into the future. and then help them map a path back to the present.

Connecting with CEOs, Owners and Sr. Leadership Teams, taking them into the future, and then helping them map a path back to the present where they execute to create perpetual momentum is one of Walt's gifts. Clay G - CEO

2: The ability to see patterns and connections others do not see, and then communicate, model and codifying them into usable tools and methods that can be repeated creates real-world value.

Walt has an uncanny ability to see the unseen, describing it in words, drawings and models; bringing the invisible out into the open where it can be understood, worked on, made actionable.

A life of observing, coaching, systemizing and improving shared with you.

Always helping, always coaching. Walt has been coaching individual contributors and teams since he founded his first company, Layline.com in 1986.

In 2006 he sold Layline and founded Smart-State.com where he focused on coaching CEOs and Business Owners in the art of Strategic Thinking.

2008 he switched to exclusively coaching Sr. Leadership Teams when he founded waltbrown.co and hung his shingle as a full-time EOS(R) Implementer. EOS(R) is the Operational cornerstone of the 7Q7P(TM) Momentum Machine(TM)

2017 he published his first book with Forbesbooks, The Patient Organization describing the 7 Question 7 Promise Culture and Engagement Framework(TM). TPO is the Culture and Engagement cornerstone of the 7Q7P(TM) Momentum Machine(TM).

2020 he published Death of the Org Chart describing the Organizational Cognizance Model(TM) and the 14Pt Checklist(TM) the Organizational Structure and design cornerstone of the 7Q7P(TM) Momentum Machine(TM),

2020 he launched OGraph.io a SaaS software company based on graph database science, to capture the organizational structure and design work he is teaching inside his book Death of the Org Chart.

A couple of Walt's Belief Statements.

#1: Your company is a fiction.

An organization, your company, is a fiction that is only given meaning and power by those who buy-in. If you have 100 people and 49 buy-in to this, and 51 buy-in to that, then you have two organizations, and you have already been divided and are on your way to being conquered.

#2: We must have clarity and consistency in three areas of an organization for it to compete as a unit. Everyone must be bought-in.

In order to create buy-in we must have clarity and consistency in three areas, operational, cultural and structural. These are the three components of the Momentum Machine.

#3: Leadership is future alignment.

You know you are leading when you experience another person aligning or turning over all or part of their future with your future. You will know it when it happens, you can feel it.

Walt works in a human laboratory.

Working exclusively with senior leadership teams. Since 2008, Walt has averaged more than 130 days a year sequestered in session rooms, facilitating senior leadership teams as they do the gutsy work of improving their organizations. Walt calls this his laboratory - it is where the patterns are seen, where the discoveries are made and tested.

His work focuses on diving deep with companies and nonprofits, helping them create Cultural clarity and consistency, Structural clarity and consistency, and Operational clarity and consistency.

Bio:

He started his work-life as an accounting and statistics guy with the CPA firm now called E&Y.

He then founded four companies, selling all four in 2006 after twenty years at the helm, leaving that orbit and moving to his current coaching and facilitation orbit.

Walt is based in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina, where he lives with his wife of 35 years, Anne, an attorney by profession, who raised two daughters, Jane and Marion, with very little meaningful help from Walt. Jane is a Chemical and Biolo