Elevates systems thinkers and problem solvers from a “job” mindset to connect all the fundamental building blocks across any company.
Critical thinkers are often underutilized, boxed into siloed roles, and frustrated by poor strategic and operational realities that fail to solve real-world problems or create value.
Congruence and the Playmaker Program empower you to overcome workplace hurdles that constrain your abilities and appetite for impact.
A company is an interconnected Rubik's Cube. Each lesson teaches you how to design and build one or more fundamental building blocks and how they connect with all the other building blocks. The program culminates with your own unique company design. The best version of any company minimizes incongruences across building blocks and over time.
I invested 7 years independently transforming companies facing challenges – beyond experiences at big name companies (GE, ExxonMobil, Capital One) and consulting firms (Blue Ridge Partners, Accenture) – to develop a comprehensive and cohesive method to answer: How do we build and manage a "good" company? My search led to Congruence and the Playmaker Program.
Choosing to transform your mindset, knowledge, and skills to have greater impact at work and in the world is a big decision. Reserve your spot and learn more to ensure this is the right fit for you.
The Playmaker Program empowers intrinsic problem solvers to go beyond the limitations of their 'job' to do what is right: challenging their companies to maximize value creation and deploy capital efficiently.
The global economy will realign incentives to focus on value and cut waste because it has been on an unproductive path for two decades.
Congruence and The Playmaker Program prepare you to lead the economic transition to meritocratic, value-centric, capital-efficient, and sustainably profitable companies.
MBAs, certifications, and boot camps condition you to adopt a “jobs mindset” – like a plumber, electrician, or mason – when purpose-minded architects are needed.
Congruence and The Playmaker Program transform you into an architect who connects all intrinsically critical parts of a company.
Most “business advice” is shallow misinformation from academics, career writers, or hustlers, not deep-skilled practitioners. You are likely misinformed.
Congruence and The Playmaker Program help you unlearn misinformation and recalibrate your skills to operate with genuine confidence and competence rooted in true knowledge.
A holistic company is a symbiotic organism with five equally important stakeholder groups in a balanced value exchange relationship, which requires alignment of purpose, strategy, and operations. Most companies FAIL to balance this equation.
Designing and building holistic companies needs one or more critical thinking playmakers to hone their instincts to become Congruence Architects.
The Playmaker Program is the only comprehensive and cohesive solution that corrects what you think you know, answers what you know you don’t, and reveals what you don’t yet realize you need to know about companies.
I wish someone taught me what I learned through years of trial and error, taking significant personal and career risks. Now, I’ll be that someone for you.
I invested 20 years in a research-minded career to uncover how to build and manage “good” companies. What I discovered goes well beyond the lessons from my Top 5 MBA, corporate, PE/VC, or consulting experiences.
Critical thinkers are rare, and it is easy to feel disconnected. The Playmaker Program is your gateway to a unique community where you’ll self-develop, learn with others, and grow together.
A true playmaker embraces growth and continuous self-study. Congruence is written as a desktop reference guide for critical thinkers wanting to lead evolutionary changes at companies. It’s a trusted companion for deeper learning, best paired with a highlighter and notepad.
Reality is not the average of popular opinions. Calibration flushes out misinformation about companies, injects a comprehensive model of what companies truly are, and orients you to the only end-to-end method that can positively influence their trajectory. It builds your confidence and rewires your acumen by teaching you the intrinsic nature of companies, empowering you to independently evaluate their present state, and introducing you to the fundamental levers to build and manage a "good" company.
The vast majority of today’s academic information, societal opinions, and common professional practices do not achieve the essence of capitalism or meritocratic institutions, and they do not stand the test of time. Mastery builds on the foundational knowledge offered in Calibration and equips you with the practical skills and nuances to apply every lever of the Congruence method to become a high-impact value creator who leads others in thoughts, decisions, and actions.
Your knowledge about every fundamental component of a company and their dovetailed nature will be supercharged. You will know who around you has the correct knowledge and value-centric intentions. You will understand how to structure and make decisions that efficiently balance the incentives of all stakeholders. You will learn how to translate decisions into reality.
Congruence and the Playmaker Program were created as a by-product of addressing major strategic and operational challenges at dozens of companies over 20+ years.
Experienced practitioners do not typically teach. So, you are stuck with academics without real experience and hustlers selling hype. Playmaker Program is created to address this major misinformation problem.
John’s career has been a search to answer – How must we build and manage a company?
As an electrical engineer turned business engineer, John rolled up his sleeves and worked with over four dozen publicly traded, private equity, and venture capital companies. He has executed and led turnaround, acquisition, and transformation efforts for two decades seeking to create sustainable value for companies. His expertise is dovetailing a company’s purpose, strategy, and operations.
To complement his personal and professional experiences in North America, Europe, and Asia, John earned his MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and makes his home in Chicago, Illinois. He is also a certified Six Sigma Black Belt.
Each expert brings diverse and practical experience in their domain.
The Playmaker Program is an immersive learning experience with proprietary and best-in-class insights and content and a high-caliber cohort.