Decisions that get re-litigated
Meetings end with agreement and restart the following week. Nobody owns the call, so nobody moves.
Organizational Performance Diagnostic
Your strategy isn't the problem. Your speed is.
Organizational Velocity™ measures how effectively your organization moves from alignment to action to execution to results — and pinpoints the friction slowing it down. Not a personality test. Not a leadership quiz. A diagnostic of the conditions that create momentum or kill it.
- 11
- Velocity Dimensions
- 10
- Friction Categories
- Frequency × Severity
- Friction Scoring
Organizational Velocity Readout
62 / 100
Composite Velocity Index
3 CRITICAL FRICTION POINTS- Leadership Alignment78
- Communication54
- Decision Making49
- Execution67
Sample readout — illustrative only
Where Momentum Dies
Misalignment doesn't show up on the P&L. Its consequences do.
Priorities that fracture below the C-suite
The executive team believes it is aligned. Two levels down, five teams are executing five different strategies.
Accountability without clarity
People are held responsible for outcomes nobody defined. Trust erodes, pace slows, and your best people quietly leave.
If you recognized your organization in more than one of these, you're not facing a people problem. You're facing a velocity problem.
Free Velocity Snapshot
What's slowing you down?
Describe the friction in your own words. In under a minute you'll get a tailored, AI-powered read on your likely friction points, the Velocity Dimensions most affected, and a first move.
Your Velocity Snapshot
Your tailored summary will appear here.
The Framework
A diagnostic built on behavior, not opinion.
Every item is anchored to observable organizational behavior, scored by how often friction occurs and how much it costs when it does. The result is a readout your executive team can act on — and defend in the boardroom.
01
Diagnose
Behaviorally anchored assessment across 11 Velocity Dimensions, from Leadership Alignment and Decision Making to Execution and Transfer Velocity™.
02
Locate the Friction
Frequency × Severity scoring across 10 friction categories shows exactly where momentum is lost — and what it's costing you.
03
Accelerate
A prioritized execution plan: what to fix first, who owns it, and how you'll know velocity is improving.
The 11 Velocity Dimensions
- Leadership Alignment
- Team Alignment
- Communication
- Accountability
- Decision Making
- Execution
- Culture
- Customer Experience
- Strategic Focus
- Innovation
- Transfer Velocity™
Engagements
Choose your starting point.
OV 360™ EXECUTIVE DIAGNOSTIC
$2,500
Multi-rater diagnostic across all 11 Velocity Dimensions with Frequency × Severity friction scoring, an executive readout, and a prioritized action plan.
Velocity Briefing
Included with your diagnostic
A 30-minute working session with Micheal McCathern to interpret your results and decide what to fix first. Scheduled right after your purchase — no free sessions, no tire-kicking.
Organizational Velocity Engagement
Custom · Executive teams & organizations
Everything in the Executive Diagnostic, plus facilitated alignment sessions, executive coaching, and 90 days of execution support.
Every engagement starts with the OV 360™ Executive Diagnostic. Your briefing with Micheal is scheduled as soon as you purchase.
The Architect
Micheal McCathern
CEO of McCathern Enterprise & Consultants and creator of Organizational Velocity™. Micheal spent 25+ years inside a major telecommunications company, rising from engineering through operations to Director-level leadership — where he saw firsthand that organizations rarely fail from bad strategy. They fail from friction. Today he serves as a Corporate Facilitator and Executive Coach with Maxwell Leadership and partners with C-suite leaders to turn misalignment into momentum.
Start where you are. Use what you have. Lead On.™
How It Works
Your briefing comes after your diagnostic.
No free sessions, no discovery calls that go nowhere. You purchase the OV 360™ Executive Diagnostic, and your 30-minute Velocity Briefing with Micheal McCathern is scheduled immediately after — a working session built on your actual results, not a pitch.
Purchase the Diagnostic — $2,500