Left Brain Consulting · Nathan Harris

Connect your boardroom to what’s actually changing on the ground floor.

Installed in 14 days, or your money back. One ranked list of everything competing for your people, scored by the teams carrying the work rather than the person presenting it, on criteria your leadership agrees to before they see the results. Owners named, against real capacity.

Knowledge-work environments preferred — software, professional services, tech-enabled operations. Where the constraint is cross-functional and the capacity is people.

8 yrs
Inside Fortune 50 and Fortune 275 transformations
50+
Application teams under one change control board
$200M
Program governed, plus an enterprise PMO built from nothing
0
Critical defects on a recovering a failed ERP migration in 15B ARR environment
Nathan Harris
Nathan Harris Founder & Principal Denver · Boulder, CO For B2B SaaS · Professional &
tech-enabled services
Two seats · One list
From the board seat

You’re reading a version someone built for you.

Every update has been through the person who owns the work. Not dishonestly. Filtered. And you can’t send in your own eyes without it reading as a vote of no confidence.

  • What is actually active, scored by the people carrying it rather than the person presenting it.
  • Committed work measured against real capacity, so a plan you approve is one that can be staffed.
  • A written decision on every initiative — active, queued, or dead — with a name against each.
From the operating seat

Everyone knows what should stop. Nobody will say it.

Whoever names it has to keep working with the person whose idea it was. So nothing gets killed, the list grows, and your best people spend a quarter on work nobody would defend out loud.

  • I’m the outsider who says it, and I’m gone in ten working days.
  • Criteria are agreed before anyone sees a score, so the ranking isn’t a verdict on anyone.
  • Capacity comes back, and what falls below the line becomes a hiring case instead of a broken promise.

One install. Both seats end up reading the same list — usually for the first time.

01 The Filter 14‑Day Functional Reset Money-back guarantee Jump to section ↓ 02 Fractional Operator Project & Scoped Fixes Fixed price · No retainer Jump to section ↓
Survey the building · Repair the floor
01The strategic timeout

Everything feels like a priority, so nothing is.

SCHEDULE · RANKED9.28.77.15.53.1CAPACITYLOAD 9 / 6 · OVERLOADED THE FILTER SURVEY OF EXISTING SHEET 01 · 14 DAYS AS FOUND STRATEGY EXECUTION

Fig. 01 Scattered initiatives measured onto one sheet, ranked against real capacity

In fourteen days you see the whole portfolio — active work and backlog — ranked against real capacity, with a decision on every item. The timeout that keeps the next one from being needed.

A diagnostic that keeps diagnosing — about an hour per team to stay current. Every structural gap it finds becomes a defensible business case for headcount.

What exists on Day 10
One ranked portfolioA decision on every itemA system you own forever
Proof

Reallocated $5M of a $50M expense base to protect EBITDA inside a $100M ARR business unit — and it survived a change in leadership at the top with nobody in the room to defend it.

02Targeted repair

You already know what’s keeping you up at night.

ONE FLOOR SCOPED THE REST OF IT IS FINE

Fig. 02 Eight floors. Seven are fine. One is scaffolded and under repair

No diagnostic needed. We agree what done looks like before I start — in writing, with a date. Then I’m on the ground driving it with your team until it’s met, not advising from the side. If specialist build work is needed, I bring the person in and hold them to the same definition.

If more than one of these is true at once, that’s a timeout, not a fix.

Sounds like this
  • Two teams shipping into the same system with no agreed release order.
  • An acquisition closed and nothing got absorbed. Two of everything, and no one will pick.
  • A program that has slipped three times and nobody can say what actually caused it.
  • A build with no agreed definition of done, so it never quite ships.
  • A function that exists on the org chart but has no intake, no review, no escalation path.
What exists at the end
The constraint, clearedA written definition of doneA cadence with named owners
Where it applies
TARGET
Performance management
RATED LOAD OVER
Capacity planning
EQUAL BAYS
Planning & exec cadence
ONE GATE
AI governance
SHORED
Change management
THRESHOLD
Post-sale & CS
LINK
M&A integration
SAME EVERY BAY
Delivery standards
Proof

The delivery standards behind every one of these were built and pressure-tested alongside EY, IBM, Infosys and Cognizant, and with C-suite and SVP leadership inside Fortune 50 and Fortune 275 organizations. Fitted to how you already operate, not the other way around.

Who you’d be working with

Nathan Harris.

I was put inside a Fortune 50 turnaround at 23 and handed the change control board — 50+ application development teams, 1,000+ executive change requests, on a $200M program overhauling a $2B business unit.

Then I became the audit point of contact for that program, which meant seeing how every team actually operated against the standard rather than how they described it. Most operators know one function deeply. That year I got the cross-section — and that vantage point is the whole thing. I know how functions fail against each other, where decisions actually get made, and what has to exist before execution can hold. That’s why I work at both altitudes. In the executive room, turning strategy into a sequence the business can run. On the floor with the teams carrying it, clearing what’s in the way and pulling them up to the standard I was auditing against.

Eight years, five promotions, Associate Director by 25. A $125M budget covering every enterprise system at a $15B company. A failed ERP consolidation I got handed the rollback of, delivered with zero critical defects. A $100M ARR business unit running as multiple silos that I put behind one intake — still running today after the leadership that sponsored it turned over.

The short version

I build the layer that decides — and I build it to run without me. That constraint — that it has to survive without me — is what shaped every method on this page.