What We Do
Seattle Consulting Group designs and installs enterprise execution architecture—operating systems that govern behavior, decisions, and performance at scale.
Our work focuses on making execution enforceable: clarifying standards, assigning ownership, and embedding accountability into the structure of the organization itself.
We operate at the system level, not the program level.
Our engagements range from executive diagnostics to full operating model redesigns, depending on the degree of structural drift present.
How We Work
We are system-first, not coaching-first.
We do not rely on inspiration, influence, or cultural sentiment to carry performance. We design structures that enforce what matters—regardless of leadership style, tenure, or turnover.
Our frameworks are modern and pressure-tested. We do not adapt legacy models. We replace them.
Our advisors bring experience from enterprise transformation, operating system design, and high-consequence environments, including government and large-scale organizations operating under scrutiny.
Leadership
Seattle Consulting Group was founded by James Woods, creator of The Woods HR Power Model™.
His work focuses on redesigning HR and leadership systems so execution becomes structural rather than personal. He partners directly with CEOs and CHROs to replace outdated partnership-era models with enforceable operating architectures built for scale, resilience, and permanence.
Our Mandate
Organizations do not need another motivational model.
They need an operating system.
Seattle Consulting Group exists to design and install that system—so clarity, control, and execution are no longer dependent on personalities, persuasion, or constant intervention.
When the system holds, performance follows.
About Seattle Consulting Group
Seattle Consulting Group is an international execution architecture firm that helps organizations replace failing talent and leadership models with systems that hold under pressure.
Based in Canada and working across the United States and globally, we design and install enforceable HR and leadership operating systems that stabilize execution, clarify authority, and reduce enterprise friction—proven across SaaS, manufacturing, public sector, and regulated enterprise environments.
We do not deliver training programs.
We design infrastructure.
Our work is grounded in The Woods HR Power Model™, a proprietary execution architecture developed to correct the structural weaknesses embedded in legacy HR frameworks—most notably the Ulrich model.
We partner with CEOs and CHROs to reposition HR from a support function to an enterprise control system—restoring ownership of standards, decision rights, and behavioral enforcement.
In organizations where HR has been asked to carry accountability without authority, we install the structures that make execution defensible, repeatable, and independent of personalities.
Execution by Design™
Organizations do not fail because people lack commitment.
They fail when systems do not enforce what leadership expects.
Execution by Design™ is our structural approach to converting expectation into enforcement—replacing sentiment with standards, and intention with operating discipline.
It works because it is architectural, not motivational.