Chief of Staff to CEO

Chief Of Staff

The Chief of Staff serves as a strategic and operational extension of the CEO of Agility Holdings Group, LLC ("AHG"). The role helps the CEO maintain visibility across the portfolio, strengthen accountability among business-unit leaders, organize enterprise priorities, vet significant recommendations, and coordinate initiatives that span multiple companies or functions.

This is not an administrative Chief of Staff position and is not intended to replace the leadership of any business unit. Each business-unit leader remains directly accountable for the strategy, people, operations, financial performance, and results of his or her business.

The Chief of Staff becomes deeply familiar with each business, challenges assumptions, identifies risks and gaps, connects issues across the portfolio, and brings the CEO clear facts, sound analysis, and well-developed recommendations. The role supports decentralized leadership while improving enterprise visibility, organization, coordination, and follow-through.

A significant objective of the position is leadership development. Over time, the Chief of Staff should gain sufficient operating exposure and responsibility to be considered for leadership of a business unit or other major operating organization.

The holding company operates through strong business-unit leadership. Business-unit leaders remain accountable for running their businesses; the Chief of Staff does not replace that accountability.

Instead, the Chief of Staff provides the CEO with an additional layer of visibility, organization, analysis, coordination, challenge, oversight, follow-through, and enterprise perspective. The role helps ensure that decentralized leadership does not result in fragmented execution or limited visibility at the holding-company level.

The Chief of Staff should understand enough detail to know when a business is performing well, when an initiative is drifting, when an assumption should be challenged, and when the CEO needs to become involved. The role should consistently help answer:
What is happening across the businesses, why is it happening, what requires attention, and what should we do about it?

• Maintain clear visibility across all business units.
• Strengthen accountability without taking ownership away from business-unit leaders.
• Organize the holding company's major priorities and management cadence.
• Vet significant recommendations before they reach the CEO for decision.
• Identify issues, risks, and opportunities across the portfolio.
• Improve communication and coordination between business units.
• Ensure portfolio-wide initiatives have appropriate ownership and follow-through.
• Coordinate special projects spanning multiple businesses or functions.
• Improve the quality and speed of executive decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to leverage shared capabilities across the portfolio.
• Reduce the CEO's need to personally coordinate routine cross-business matters.
• Develop the operating experience necessary to potentially lead a business unit in the future.

Requirements

Serve as a trusted extension of the CEO across the holding company.

• Develop a deep understanding of the CEO's priorities and decision framework.
• Maintain awareness of significant developments across each business.
• Help determine which matters require CEO involvement.
• Prepare the CEO for important meetings and decisions.
• Organize significant information coming from multiple business units.
• Attend selected meetings alongside or on behalf of the CEO.
• Follow up on important CEO commitments and decisions.
• Identify emerging issues before they require urgent CEO intervention.
• Help prevent routine organizational issues from consuming CEO attention.

The Chief of Staff should increasingly be able to tell the CEO what is happening, what the business-unit leader recommends, how the Chief of Staff assesses the matter, and what the CEO needs to decide.

Assist the CEO in maintaining appropriate oversight of each business without assuming responsibility for operating that business. Develop a detailed understanding of business strategy, financial and operating performance, customers, major…