Business agility coaching by bestselling author and entrepreneur David Siegel

I have 40 years of experience innovating, starting companies, writing books, giving speeches, consulting, and coaching entrepreneurs. Watch my video to learn how I can help you turbo-charge your business results and create a place employees love to work. I focus on decisionmaking, pull systems, and incremental improvement. Read more about these below.

Make better decisions

I have three rules for improving decision quality:

  1. Use a proper decision framework.

  2. Track your decisions and review your decision performance at least annually.

  3. Explain your decision to a disinterested but qualified small group of people who care only about the quality of the decision. They aren’t biased. If they don’t agree, you should think hard about whether to go through with it.

This is why I’m setting up groups — to help high-performance executives and business owners make better decisions and save or make millions of dollars they otherwise wouldn’t.

Install “pull” systems like Kanban

My book, Pull, is about the fundamental shift from pushing products and services to setting your company up for customers to pull them. This shift is already well underway. In my book, I show how to go from a matrix or supply-driven model to “Everything as a Service.” This is mostly a mindset shift, followed by setting up Kanban-style systems everywhere from production to the board room.

Incremental improvement: Kaizen

Make small changes every day. Measure outcomes. Encourage people to find better ways to do the same thing or new ways to do something even better. Everyone in the company should take at least 15 minutes a day to improve processes. If you can’t do that, you should go work for a big company where they resist change.

Antifragile companies

Antifragile means you gain from volatility and rough seas. How can your company profit from unforeseen events? How can your company become both lean and agile? Did you know that lean and agile are opposites? Changing corporate culture can make your company far more resilient:

  • Do small cheap experiments

  • More autonomy, less authority

  • Make more small bets

  • More agile resource allocation

  • Better automation and integration

Past clients include …

Kilimanjaro

In June 2025, we are taking clients and their families and colleagues to climb Mt Kilimanjaro and go on safari! Better start training now.

Complex adaptive systems

A short introduction by John Sterman of MIT:

You have answers? I have questions.

In his book Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman talks about conducting a “pre-mortem” exercise, to imagine a project’s failure and analysis of why it happened before starting the project. You can use this in prompting AI to help you create a more robust plan for practically anything.
Often in meetings, the loudest people steer the agenda, while the quiet people are ignored. This is why Jeff Bezos always insisted on junior people speaking first and senior people listening first before giving their opinions, and he always spoke last. Make decisions in a pluralistic environment where you can explore scenarios and possibilities rather than going for the “obvious” thing that seems easiest or most attractive at the time. Having conversations that bring out other views will lead to better outcomes and new business opportunities. How you think is more important than what you think.