The Value Leadership Body of Knowledge™ · Edition One
Value leaks stop here.
Strategies rarely fail in the boardroom or on the delivery floor. Value is lost in the floors between them. The VLBoK is the professional standard for leaders who close that gap.
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Read Chapter One: Two Worlds, One Organization.
Why strategy and execution grew up apart inside the same enterprise, and why the gap has persisted for four decades. Free with a confirmed account.
The Value Leadership Toolkit
Open the toolkitValueNexus
From diagnosis to governance.
Map the chain from idea to realized benefit, find every value leak in your portfolio, and run the Strategy Realization Office cadence. Free to explore with a sample company.
Value Map
Idea to objective to initiative to outcome.
Value Leak Radar
Every broken link, flagged.
Prioritization Matrix
The funding line, made explicit.
Realization Report
The agenda for your value forum.
The cost of the gap
of business transformations fail to achieve their original ambitions.
Bain & Company, 2024strategic projects is completed in a given year, across more than 20,000 real strategic plans.
ClearPoint Strategy, 2024of complex projects now fail to deliver their full intended benefits, more than double the rate of two years earlier.
Project Management Institute, 2026The Value Fault Lines
Three structural cracks between strategy and execution.
The Systemic Human Connectivity Gap™ explains why capable people inside capable organizations still lose value. Each fault line breaks one flow, and each break feeds the next.
The Standard
A body of knowledge for the territory project management was never asked to govern.
The PMBOK® Guide defines excellence in delivery. The VLBoK defines excellence in value realization: the conversion system between what an organization funds and what it actually gains.
Who practices Value Leadership
Built for the leaders who hold the truth the organization needs.
Value Leadership is a domain, not a function. It is practiced across the executive team and the Intelligence Altitude, the layer that sees both the horizon and the ground.
Project Management Office and portfolio leaders
Move from tracking delivery to governing value. Evolve the Project Management Office into a Strategy Realization Office.
Chief executives and the C-suite
See the organization as it is, not as reporting describes it. Build the Chief Strategy and Execution Officer role.
Product leaders
Carry decisions from intent to outcome without losing the reasoning, the trade-offs, or the ownership on the way down.
Human resources and people leaders
Redesign who is in the room, how capability is recognized, and how candor is rewarded across levels.
Start with a diagnosis
How the Index worksTwo minutes · No account needed
The Leadership Pulse
Nine questions drawn from the Systemic Human Connectivity Gap Index™. A fast first read on where value is leaking in your organization.
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The Value Leak Assessment
The full eighteen item Index with your severity score, perceived asymmetry, profile, and a prioritized response. Retake at six and twelve months to track progress.
Founder and author
Fola F. Alabi
Strategy execution leader, doctoral researcher, and global keynote speaker. Co-author of the PMI PMO Handbook, creator of Strategic Project Intelligence™, the VANTAGE+™ Operating System, and the STAR+™ model, and host of the Strategic Project Leader Podcast.
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