More BD. More headcount. More marketing.

Growth and mission delivery stall when leadership isn't operating from its strengths.

Growth and mission delivery stall when leadership isn't operating from its strengths — not from lack of effort. With 21 years in Army intelligence and 20+ in private-sector operations, I help GovCon, government, and financial/professional services leaders fix that constraint using CliftonStrengths and Scaling Up.

Three constraints. One root cause.

Each finds Awen Strategy through a different symptom. Find yours.

Scaling Up / GovCon

Your Pipeline Is Full. Your Growth Still Isn't.

For GovCon and cybersecurity leaders whose BD volume isn't converting into scaled growth.

Government Agencies

Doing More With Less, Without Losing the Mission.

For agency leaders sustaining mission delivery under real headcount pressure.

B2B / Financial / Professional

You're the Most Qualified Person in the Room. You're Still Losing the Deal.

For financial and professional services leaders whose expertise isn't translating into wins.

About Awen Strategy

Growth and mission delivery stall when leadership isn't operating from its strengths — not from lack of effort. With 21 years in Army intelligence and 20+ in private-sector operations, I help GovCon, government, and financial/professional services leaders fix that constraint using CliftonStrengths and Scaling Up.

21 YRS ARMY INTELLIGENCE · 20+ YRS PRIVATE-SECTOR OPERATIONS · CLIFTONSTRENGTHS · SCALING UP

Frequently asked

No. Most leadership coaching works on the individual in isolation. This starts with a validated CliftonStrengths diagnostic to determine whether your growth model even fits how your leaders are wired to operate — coaching comes downstream of that diagnosis.

No — we handle the diagnostic. You just need to be willing to look honestly at whether more BD, more headcount, or more marketing is actually the constraint, or a symptom of one underneath it.

CliftonStrengths is a validated assessment that identifies how your leadership team is naturally wired to think, decide, and operate. We use it because it gives us an objective, evidence-based read on the actual constraint — not a subjective opinion about what's "wrong."

Scaling Up is an operating system for turning strategic insight into consistent execution. Once the CliftonStrengths diagnostic identifies where leadership is misaligned, Scaling Up is the structure we use to build the fix into how your team actually runs — not just a one-time recommendation.

GovCon, cybersecurity, and cloud leaders whose BD activity isn't converting into scaled growth. Government agency leaders sustaining mission delivery under real headcount pressure. Financial and professional services leaders whose expertise isn't translating into wins.

A marketing agency or generalist consultant can help with output — more content, more proposals, more outreach. Awen starts one level deeper: diagnosing whether the leadership behind that output is operating from its strengths in the first place.

What clients say

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Jim is a skillful coach and an exceptional listener. He recently coached me with thoughtful questions and a patient, steady presence to support a much appreciated shift in awareness for clarity and action.
— Brenda Brown, PCC, Brenda Brown Consulting
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Responsive and is a subject matter expert.
— Carl Lawson, Chief Operations Officer, Boston Cybernetics
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Jim pushes you to play your hardest, centers you on your own strengths, and helps you find your niche on the field. It doesn't matter if you're a startup or enterprise scale business, someone at your organization stands to benefit from the coaching experience of Jim.
— Robert Jamison, CEO, Hakz
Strength to Build What's Next

Your Pipeline Is Full. Your Growth Still Isn't.

For GovCon and cybersecurity leaders whose BD volume isn't converting into scaled growth.

You've invested in more proposals, more pipeline, more BD headcount — and revenue still isn't scaling the way the activity suggests it should. That's not a pipeline problem. It's a leadership-capacity problem: pipeline only converts when the leadership behind it is aligned enough to execute on what it produces.

We use a CliftonStrengths diagnostic to find exactly where that alignment is breaking down, then build a Scaling Up execution rhythm around it — so growth stops depending on adding more activity and starts depending on removing the real constraint.

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Strength to Sustain the Mission

Doing More With Less, Without Losing the Mission.

For agency leaders sustaining mission delivery under real headcount pressure.

Reduced headcount doesn't have to mean reduced mission delivery — but only if leadership capacity is deliberately built to absorb it, not stretched thin and hoping. This isn't a soft-skills add-on; it's an operational necessity.

Using a CliftonStrengths-based diagnostic, we identify where your leadership team's strengths are being underused or misapplied, then build the coaching and structure to sustain delivery with the team you actually have.

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Strength to Lead From Here

You're the Most Qualified Person in the Room. You're Still Losing the Deal.

For financial and professional services leaders whose expertise isn't translating into wins.

More content, a sharper pitch, a stronger personal brand — you've tried it, and prospects still default to the safer, cheaper, more familiar name. That's not a visibility problem. Visibility only converts when the leader behind it is operating from genuine strengths, not around them.

We use CliftonStrengths to pinpoint the misalignment and build coaching that makes your expertise the obvious, credible choice — not just another qualified option.

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