The Shift Model™
STRATEGY EXECUTION
Human Results in the Age of AI
The Shift Model™
STRATEGY EXECUTION
Human Results in the Age of AI
The Shift Model™
Overview
The Shift Model™ aids organizations in achieving business transformation by aligning strategy, culture, and process to measurable outcomes. In an era of AI integration, it ensures that the adoption of technology is seamlessly combined with the human contributions of innovation, input, and decision-making that are vital for growth.
For executives, the challenge goes beyond merely adopting AI technology; it involves defining and aligning the human value that drives organizational results while comprehending the ROI.
Human results serve as the cornerstone of organizational results.
This is the shift that leaders must embrace now.
The Four Pillars
Vision
Clarifies strategic intent and aligns leadership around a shared future. It guarantees that transformation efforts are purpose-driven, actionable, and connected to long-term value.
Culture
Activates the human side of change management by fostering trust, engagement, and adaptability. It addresses mindset, behaviors, performance, and leadership alignment to create conditions for sustained transformation.
Process
Operationalizes strategy through structured execution. It integrates cross-functional workflows, governance, and decision-making to ensure momentum and accountability.
Results
Measures what matters by linking strategy to people, performance, and profit. It enables the impact, learning, and iteration that helps organizations scale what works and evolve what doesn’t.
Business Transformation
Vision to Results
Executives don’t need another framework.
They need a system that translates vision into results while redefining the human contribution in an AI-driven workplace.
The Shift Model™: Vision to Results is a strategy operationalization system built for executives to close the gap between vision and strategy execution. We combine enterprise-level rigor with a human-centered, practical approach tailored to your organization.
What you can do with this system:
- Integrate strategy and operations to close the gap from boardroom to execution.
- Embed human results alongside business outcomes—critical in the age of AI.
- Use practical tools, templates, and measurement systems built for leaders.
- Identify misalignment across vision, culture, process, and results.
- Translate strategic plans into operational practices that stick.
- Evaluate where human results and AI-enabled processes intersect.
- Align people and performance management with strategic outcomes.
Business Transformation → Change Management → Strategy Execution → Human Results
Strategy Execution
Assessment
Assessment
Assessment
An assessment with executive leadership identifies gaps in execution, informs strategic priorities, and plays a critical role in AI integration and business transformation efforts. This initial step is essential for effective change management and achieving optimal organizational results in strategy execution.
Roadmap
Assessment
Assessment
The roadmap sets direction, defines long-term strategy, and outlines milestones and destinations for business transformation. It also validates executive leadership alignment on strategy execution, which is crucial for effective change management and achieving desired organizational results, particularly through AI integration.
Engagement
Assessment
Engagement
Engagement is the essential change management layer that ensures operational leaders and their teams actively participate in the business transformation roadmap. This involvement helps them grasp how AI integration enhances their performance and supports strategy execution, ultimately resulting in improved organizational results.
Playbook
Transformation Results
Engagement
The playbook operationalizes strategy execution by integrating AI into job functions, workflows, and systems, all while ensuring process alignment to facilitate business transformation and effective change management for improved organizational results.
Transformation Results
Transformation Results
Transformation Results
Measure what matters in the context of business transformation. Track the real impact of technology integration across people, operational performance, and profit to enhance change management and improve organizational results throughout strategy execution.
About
Beth Geagan, MBA-Executive Strategist
I focus on the intersection of AI integration and human results, ensuring that as organizations adopt technology, they harness the unique contributions of people, innovation, and decision-making essential for sustainable business transformation.
With over two decades of experience leading strategy execution and transformation across healthcare, consulting, nonprofits, government, and business, my consistent focus is turning vision into actionable organizational results.
I bring a multidimensional perspective shaped by leadership roles in strategy, operations, finance, human resources, and enterprise technology enablement.
Through my consulting practice guiding more than 75 organizations, I developed The Shift Model™, a framework for operationalizing strategy that aligns vision, culture, and processes to drive meaningful, measurable results. This model assists organizations in navigating change management and defining the true value that people contribute in an evolving workplace.
At every step, I have built alignment between executives, operational leaders, boards, cross-functional teams, and stakeholders to deliver strategic clarity and lasting impact.
Ready to bridge the strategy to execution gap? Imagination is everything. -Albert Einstein
