Strategy Into Performance
Align strategy, roles, processes, and workforce capabilities so people can execute what the organization needs them to do.
Where strategy meets work
Organizations rarely struggle because they lack priorities. The challenge is translating those priorities into the roles, processes, capabilities, decisions, and measures that shape everyday work. NLTS helps leaders examine the connections between them—identifying where alignment breaks down and what needs to change.
A performance-first perspective
Training is valuable when a capability gap is the problem. But performance problems can also come from unclear roles, competing processes, missing tools, weak reinforcement, organizational structure, or measures that drive the wrong behavior. Starting with performance rather than a predetermined solution helps organizations invest effort where it can make a difference.

Experience behind the perspective
Adriene Russell brings more than 25 years of experience spanning operations, learning, workforce performance, and enterprise transformation. As an executive leader within a Fortune-scale organization of approximately 300,000 employees, she helped lead work across a centralized learning organization of roughly 900 professionals.
Her experience includes centralization, operating models, governance, role and capability design, adoption, measurement, and large-scale organizational change—giving her a practitioner’s perspective on what it takes to move strategy from the leadership table into everyday work.

Performance First™
Adriene is the author of Performance First, a practical approach to designing learning around the performance people must produce—not simply the content they need to know.
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