For Leaders Carrying More Than The Structure Can Hold

Getting YourOrganization ThereIs The Hard Part.

You have the vision. Your team has the heart. But between vision and execution, everything gets heavy. Priorities blur, teams drift into silos, processes live in people's heads, and every critical decision finds its way back to you. Covenant 35 Collective is the senior team you call when the work is too complex for a single consultant and too important to leave to another report that goes nowhere. We bring the clarity, structure, and experienced leadership to stabilize what is shaky and build what is missing.

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If This Feels Familiar, You Are Not Alone

Your Organization Is Still Running. But You Can Feel The Strain.

You are not failing. You are stretched. Your calendar is full, your team is committed, and revenue may even be up. But underneath the surface, you can feel the friction. Decisions take longer than they should. Good people spend their days firefighting instead of building. The vision you had for this year is still on the whiteboard, waiting.

Most leaders in your seat do not have a talent problem. They have an alignment problem. Their team is running hard in slightly different directions. Their systems were built for a smaller version of the organization. Their operating rhythm was designed for a season that has already ended.

This is the point where most leaders reach for another consultant, another platform, another restructuring. And it works for a few weeks. Then the friction returns, because the underlying structure was never addressed.

  • You are the bottleneck for decisions others should own.
  • Great strategies stall in the transition to execution.
  • Every leadership meeting revisits the same three problems.
  • You cannot take a full week off without something breaking.
The Real Cost of No Structure

When There Is No System, You Become The System.

This does not show up as one big crisis at first. It shows up in a thousand quiet ways — extra hours, missed windows, half-finished initiatives, quiet resignations from the people you needed most. It shows up when work depends on you being in every room, every thread, every decision.

01Your team says yes to too many things and finishes fewer of them.
02Priorities compete instead of stacking. Everyone is busy. Little moves.
03Meetings multiply. Decisions do not.
04Processes live inside a few key people. When they are gone, work stops.
05You are still the escalation point for problems others should own.
06Growth exposes gaps: hiring, structure, systems, oversight.
07Risk quietly builds — safety, security, compliance, reputation.
08You start every strategy conversation from scratch.
09You keep hiring consultants who deliver decks, not outcomes.
10You are running the organization AND carrying it.
Here Is What Most Consultants Miss

Your Problem Is Not Effort. It Is Alignment.

Looks like a performance problem
Is actually role clarity

Your people care. They are working. They just do not agree on what winning looks like — or who owns which part of it.

Looks like a strategy problem
Is actually an execution problem

The plan is fine. The gap is between the plan and the calendar. Between the deck and the daily operating rhythm.

Looks like a leadership problem
Is actually a structure problem

You are not lacking leaders. You are lacking a system that lets leaders lead without every decision routing through you.

Looks like a technology problem
Is actually a workflow problem

Another platform will not fix a process that was never designed. You cannot solve a connected problem with a disconnected solution.

Why A Collective, Not A Consultant

One Perspective Cannot Solve A Multi-Dimensional Problem.

C35 Collective brings together senior Practice Leaders from strategy, leadership, operations, security, mission, and digital — coordinated as one team around your challenge. You do not get one consultant guessing outside their lane. You get the specific expertise your situation actually requires, working in concert. That is why our engagements produce outcomes instead of decks.

Specialized Expertise

Practice Leaders with 15–30 years in their domain. Not generalists. Not juniors. Senior operators who have done the work at scale.

Coordinated Support

One accountable engagement lead. One integrated plan. Multiple experts working from the same brief — so nothing falls between the seams.

Clear Path

You leave every session knowing exactly what happens next, who owns it, and how you will know it worked.

How We Turn Pressure Into Progress

A Clear, Calm Process For Complex Work.

We do not start with solutions. We start with truth. What is actually happening inside your organization, what it is costing you, and where the leverage really lives. Then, and only then, do we build.

01

Name The Real Problem

Most leaders come to us with a symptom — a stalled launch, a leadership friction, a security gap, a growth ceiling. Before we build anything, we get underneath the symptom to the actual driver. No solution stands on a mis-diagnosed problem.

02

Decide What Matters Now

We help you rank what to fix first based on cost of inaction, executive bandwidth, and downstream effect. Every C35 engagement begins with a short list of what to do next — and, just as important, what to stop doing.

03

Bring The Right Experts To The Table

Because C35 is a Collective, we assemble the specific Practice Leaders your challenge requires. Not a generalist doing everything. Not a solo consultant stretched thin. The right expert for each part of the problem.

04

Build The Plan You Can Actually Run

We do not hand you a strategy your team cannot execute. Everything we deliver is scoped to your capacity, sequenced against your calendar, and owned by named humans with clear success measures.

05

Stay To Make It Real

We embed alongside your leaders through implementation — not to run your organization, but to make sure the work does not stall the moment the deck closes. This is the difference between advice and impact.

No pitch. No pressure. Just clarity on your next best move.

Average engagement starts with a 45-min diagnostic — no deck.
Practice Areas

Built For Where The Pressure Actually Lives.

C35 does not sell services. We solve problems. Each practice area exists because organizations we serve keep landing in the same set of high-stakes conversations. Pick the pressure point closest to what you are carrying — and see how we work when it is real.

Strategy, Growth & Execution

Strategic planning that survives contact with reality. We help you set direction, sequence priorities, and build the operating rhythm that keeps your team aligned week after week — not just at the annual retreat. When growth is stalling or opportunity is outrunning capacity, this is where we start.

Strengthen Your Strategy
Training & Development
"You do not need another inspiring day. You need a team that behaves differently on Monday."

C35 training is not off-the-shelf curriculum. Every intensive, workshop, cohort, and keynote is built around the specific outcome you need — not a generic module rotation. We design learning experiences that change what people actually do when they get back to their desks: better decisions, cleaner handoffs, harder conversations handled well, and leadership habits that hold under pressure.

Executive Intensives · Workshops · Cohorts · Keynotes — all built around your outcome, not a generic curriculum.

Executive Intensives
For senior leadership teams
Workshops
Skill-building for functional teams
Cohorts
Multi-month leadership development
Keynotes
Signature talks for convenings
Why the Collective Model Matters

One Challenge Rarely Stays In One Lane.

A strategy problem almost always reveals a leadership gap.

A leadership problem usually surfaces an operations issue.

An operations problem often points back to unclear direction.

A security problem is rarely just about security — it is about ownership, culture, and system design.

A technology problem is almost never solved by more technology.

That is why C35 is built as a Collective.

  • No guessing
    The right expert enters the room from day one.
  • No scattered advice
    One integrated brief. One accountable lead. One shared plan.
  • One team. One coordinated path.
    Your leaders stop chasing consultants and start moving forward.
How The Collective Works
Our People

Experienced Leaders With Defined Areas of Expertise.

C35 is built around Practice Leaders — senior operators who bring 15 to 30 years of domain experience to every engagement. When we assemble a team for your challenge, we are not pulling from a bench of generalists. We are matching the specific expertise your situation demands.

Dr. Greg McQueen
Founder & Principal Strategist

Dr. Greg McQueen

Dr. Greg McQueen is the Founder and Principal Strategist of Covenant 35 Collective. With three decades of leadership experience spanning government, faith, education, and enterprise contexts, he built C35 to be the senior partner he wished existed when he was the one carrying the weight — a Collective that shows up with the depth, discipline, and coordinated expertise to move complex organizations forward.

  • 30+ years leading complex, mission-critical organizations
  • Advisor to CEOs, executive pastors, and government leaders
  • Builder of the Impact360™ engagement framework
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Dr. Sherita McQueen
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Antonia Sevilla
Practice Lead — Digital Solutions & AI Innovation
Greg Harris
Greg Harris
Senior Consultant — Digital Innovation & Change Management
James Thomas
James Thomas
Senior Consultant — Security Strategy & Organizational Resilience
Vince Pedican
Vince Pedican
Senior Consultant — Energy, Sustainability & Business Consulting
Practice Lead Registry

Are You The Senior Operator We Are Missing?

C35 admits a small number of Practice Leaders each cycle. If you have 15+ years running the work at scale, we would like to meet you.

Apply to the Collective
Client Impact

Clarity Creates Momentum.

"
C35 Collective helped us bring clarity to our strategy and reshape how our organization operates. Their insight and leadership created measurable impact within the first 60 days. Exceptional service and an even stronger partnership.
Carol Oliveira
Client Partner
Start Here

What Is Your Organization Carrying Right Now?

Maybe growth is outrunning your structure. Maybe leadership is stretched too thin. Maybe operational drag is quietly eating your best hours. Maybe security or risk is a background hum you cannot quite quiet. You do not need to have the full solution before you talk to us. Bring the challenge as it actually is. C35 will help clarify what is really going on and what to do next.

No pitch deck on first call · 45 minutes, senior perspective only · You will leave with clarity on your next best move.