Strategy to Reality
My work and ideas across Strategy Activation, Change & Transformation, Vision & Strategic Planning, and Facilitation.
Focus Areas
Change & Transformation
Design and build change capacity in your organization to create lasting competitive advantage.
Strategy Activation
Translate strategy into sustained action by aligning people, adopting new ways of working, and achieving your vision.
Vision & Strategic Planning
Set direction with a compelling vision and a practical, measurable plan to reach it.
Facilitation
Plan and run high-impact workshops and executive offsites that drive decisions and shared ownership.
Publications
Download playbooks, view webinars, or listen to podcasts.
Playbooks
Webinars
The Strategy Activation Playbook
Organizations spend over $160 billion a year hiring consultants to develop and execute strategies, and yet 80% of corporate strategies fail. Why? Because we forget the most important factor in successfully executing strategy: people.
With The Strategy Activation Playbook, I share a practical methodology to align and activate the people in your organization to execute your strategy and realize your vision—communicating clearly, equipping teams, and embedding new ways of working.
Cover of The Strategy Activation Playbook
Bio
Aric Wood is a seasoned leader in organizational transformation, with over two decades of experience guiding Fortune 500 companies through strategic change. As CEO of XPLANE, a global design consultancy, he bridged the gap between strategy and execution using visual thinking and human-centered design. He also served as Chief Strategy Officer of Tigerhall, an AI-enabled SaaS platform to accelerate change activation at scale.
Aric is the author of The Strategy Activation Playbook. His insights have been featured in Forbes, CNN, Business Week, Entrepreneur, and Inc. Magazine. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at PNCA and Arizona State University, and is a sought-after speaker on strategy activation and transformation worldwide.
He is the founder and Managing Partner of Transformation Architects, and serves on the global Board of Directors for the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) and the Advisory Board of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC).
With leadership roles at Intuit and Epinions.com, plus strategy work at Bain & Company, Aric brings deep experience in business strategy and innovation. He has also led and served on multiple nonprofit and for‑profit boards. He holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Contact
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