A side door to shanemichaeldixon.com
This page is for everyone who has paid a seven-figure invoice for a PowerPoint.
Field guide to the type
Names withheld. You know who you hired.
Ninety slides. Two insights. One of them was yours.
One page. It says what to do on Monday, who owns it, and what it costs to wait.
Three partners at the pitch. Two twenty-six-year-olds on Monday.
The person you met is the person who shows up. Every day, until it runs without me.
Your problem, rearranged into a two-by-two you cannot act on.
Your problem, in your words, with the decision nobody wants to make circled in red.
Phase one is a diagnostic. Phase two is a diagnostic of the diagnostic.
A thirty-day operating cadence on day one. Fixed fee wherever I can get it.
They interviewed your people and told you what your people said. Invoice attached.
I tell you what your people are afraid to. Then I stay in the room while you hear it.
Recommendations delivered. Implementation is out of scope.
I built a fourteen-hospital PMO in twenty-six weeks and sat in the interim seat until they hired the person who runs it today. Implementation is the scope.
The uncomfortable part
Here is the difference, and it is not a methodology. When you hire me, your cause becomes my cause. I do not chase credit. I chase outcomes. If the portfolio finally delivers and my name never comes up in the board recap, that is a good day.
I am not the guy you call when you want a status deck. I am not the guy you call when you want the number softened. I am not the guy you call when the answer is already politically decided. I am the guy you call when the portfolio is stalling, the PMO is failing, and leadership needs a delivery system it will actually use.
I once walked into a health system arguing for a PMO with real authority, the ability to say no. The sponsor who hired me shut it down in month two. He knew the culture better than I did. I lost the argument, then I taught his version to my own team myself. It held because it was his. Try getting that story out of the people who bill by the slide.
Receipts
Client: Appalachian Regional Healthcare. Delivered by Shane Dixon and the Corbeau Tech team. References on request.
The rest of the receipts are on the main site →Thirty minutes. I will tell you if you need me. If you do not, you will leave with the one-page version anyway.