Your Action Plan, Plus the Evidence to Defend It
Week Zero is a 5-day diagnostic sprint for leaders in new roles. You have observations. We pressure-test them, run targeted interviews, and deliver a plan you can act on immediately.
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You Have Instincts. You Need Evidence.
The listening tour is done, patterns are starting to show up, and you have a hunch of what needs to happen.
Instincts, however sharp, rarely survive a leadership meeting on their own. When you are proposing a reset, a reorg, or shutting down a pet initiative, the conversation turns quickly to: “What are you seeing? What makes this the right call now?”
You need an objective baseline and a plan you can point to.
What we usually see:
Patterns are visible, but it’s hard to tell what’s signal and what’s projection.
Decisions keep getting revisited because there’s no shared baseline for how work actually flows.
Each decisive move feels more expensive than it should, because there’s no neutral evidence to point to.
Turn Observations Into Answers
The leaders who move fastest in new roles aren't the ones who guess. They're the ones who get their observations rapidly pressure-tested so they can act with confidence while they still have leverage.
Week Zero compresses that process into five days.
What You Walk Away With
Three concrete artifacts. All yours, with no licensing or restrictions.
Reality Map
A visual diagram of how work actually flows. Hidden dependencies, workarounds, where things get stuck.
When someone disputes your read on the organization, you don't argue. You point to the map.
Decision Log
10–15 decisions that need resolution, documented with owners and next steps. The stuck calls, surfaced and catalogued.
When a decision gets relitigated, you pull up the log. "Here's what was agreed and blocking it."
Momentum Playbook
Your next moves, sequenced—with the narrative to defend them. Built from the diagnostic work, with provenance.
When leadership asks "why now, why these priorities," you have the documented reasoning.
How It Works
Total time commitment: ~5 hours over 10–15 calendar days.
Day | Activity | Your Time |
|---|---|---|
Day 1 | Kickoff: align on scope, share your observations | 60 minutes |
Days 2–3 | Stakeholder interviews (Up to 5 conversations) | Scheduling only |
Days 4–5 | Synthesis workshop: build artifacts together | 3 hours |
End of Week | Delivery: all three artifacts, presentation-ready |
Typical Timeline
1
Map
We review your artifacts, interview 3-5 stakeholders, and build a picture of how work actually flows.
2
Decide
We surface the stuck decisions, document who owns them, and identify what's blocking progress.
3
Move
We turn it into an action plan you can defend, with the narrative language to present it to leadership.
Built for Leaders Who Need to Know What's Real
Ideal For
VPs and Directors in their first 30–120 days
Leaders who've finished their listening tour and have observations they want validated (or challenged)
Anyone facing a board meeting, leadership review, or hard decision and needs clarity before they act
Not For
Leaders looking for someone to tell them what to think
Organizations that want a 6-month engagement before any action
Anyone who needs more data before they're ready to move
What This Looks Like in Practice
Clarity on a Hard Call
A VP of Innovation suspected competing product groups needed consolidation—but the political landscape was treacherous and she wasn't sure she was reading it right. Week Zero gave her a documented map of which initiatives had traction and which were stalled. Turned out her instincts were mostly right—but the diagnostic revealed a few blind spots that would have derailed her plan. When she presented the consolidation, she didn't argue her position. She pointed to the evidence.
Result: Immediate buy-in from the CMO and CIO. No political fallout.
Validation for a Skeptical Organization
A newly promoted recruiting leader knew operations needed modernization, but legacy stakeholders pushed back—and she wasn't 100% certain her outside perspective was accurate. Week Zero provided an objective diagnostic that confirmed her read and surfaced two issues she'd missed entirely. The conversation shifted from "why change" to "how fast."
Result: Resistance dissolved. Credibility established.
Pricing and Options
Week Zero Diagnostic
$7,500
2026 rate for first-time clients
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Kickoff session (60 min)
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Review of existing artifacts and listening tour notes
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Up to 5 stakeholder interviews (45 min each)
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End-of-week synthesis workshop (3 hours)
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Reality Map
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Decision Log
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Momentum Playbook (action plan with narrative)
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Typical duration: 5 business days of work over 10–15 calendar days
Optional Add-On: Internal Roadshow Deck – $3,000
A 6–8 slide deck designed for staff meetings and executive check-ins, with speaker notes embedded and rehearsal session.
No Retainer. No Strings.
Week Zero is a discrete engagement. You get three artifacts that you own them outright, with no licensing, no restrictions, and no ongoing fees. If the deliverables don't give you the clarity you need, we keep working until they do.
Week Zero vs. the Alternatives
Dimension | Traditional Consulting | Internal Assessment | Week Zero |
|---|---|---|---|
Timeline | 6–12 months | Ongoing | 10–15 days |
Output | Decks for executives | Informal observations | Working artifacts |
Objectivity | External but slow | Limited | Third-party, but fast |
Ownership | Licensed deliverables | Nothing documented | Yours forever |
Who's Behind Week Zero
RGLR Collective is a strategy consultancy focused on leaders navigating transition moments—new roles, new mandates, and new operating realities.
Managing Partner
Maryanne Lee
Specializes in transition moments, bringing clarity and focus when systems, teams, and strategies are in flux. Has led design-driven transformations at Fortune 100s and startups.
Partner
Beau Romero
Thrives on identifying what's stuck and why, bringing structure to ambiguity and clarity to hard calls. Has led product teams at HP and through LegalZoom's high-growth years.