Your largest cost line has never been audited.

AMC runs a four-to-six-week diagnostic on how your company really operates: who decides, where direction decays, how deep the bench runs. You receive a board-ready report that assigns an annualized cost to every finding, and a remediation plan your own team can execute.

No slides, no pitch. Fixed fee, fixed scope, and the report is yours to keep.

Leslie Dibling and Agnes Watkinson of AMC Services
From a real engagement $725K a year in avoidable cost, found in a 105-person manufacturer
Leslie DiblingExecution Agnes WatkinsonMeasurement
$42Mestimated return across six engagements
6:1 – 25:1ROI over three years
130+vetted consultants, four regions
Certified WBEProServices pre-qualified

Sound familiar?

Nobody wakes up wanting an organizational diagnostic.

They wake up asking why everything still comes through them, what happens if two people leave, or why doubling in size made everything harder. That is when to call us.

Decision rights
“Why does everything still come through me?”

Decision rights are unclear, so decisions travel up instead of across, and the top of the organization becomes the bottleneck.

$250M in wasted manager wages a year at a typical Fortune 500 company. 61% of managers say at least half the time they spend making decisions is ineffective. McKinsey & Company
Bench & key-person risk
“If our two best people left tomorrow, I don't know who steps in.”

Leadership depth is thinner than the org chart suggests — and a buyer will price that at exit.

$1 trillion in S&P 1500 market value wiped out annually by badly managed CEO and C-suite transitions. Harvard Business Review
Change friction
“We bought the system. Two years on, half the company still works around it.”

The capital landed. The behaviour change didn't — so the modelled return never arrives.

70% of digital transformations fall short of their objectives. BCG's conclusion after studying 70 companies: the people dimension is usually the determining factor. BCG
See all the signals, and which assessment answers each →

In plain language

We establish how your company actually operates, and what correcting it is worth.

We ask your people

A ten-minute confidential survey across the whole organization — not a leadership sample — plus interviews with people your executives nominate.

We assess your leaders

Each one works through a 45-minute simulation showing what they actually prioritise under pressure, scored against the competencies your plan requires.

We price the gaps

Findings are reconciled against your own operating and compensation data, so every finding carries an annualized cost, not an adjective.

We hand it over

A board-ready report, a remediation plan and a 90-minute walkthrough. Yours to run, with us or without us. Nothing moves until you decide.

That's the Health Check. Four to six weeks, fixed fee, fixed scope.

It has two parts, the Alignment Check and the Leadership Simulation. Run one or both.
See exactly what's in it →

The team

Who you'll be working with.

Measurement, execution and behaviour change, held by three people who have each carried commercial responsibility themselves.

Agnes Watkinson
Measurement

Agnes Watkinson

Founder & Managing Principal

Built, scaled and sold an AEC advisory firm over fourteen years — then designed her own exit.

Works directly with C-suites, boards and private equity investors, with seventeen years in organizational development.

Leslie Dibling
Execution

Leslie Dibling

Director of Organizational Development

Named to Canada’s Top 25 Under 40 in Occupational Health & Safety, 2025.

Owns remediation, operating-model design and technology adoption, after a decade delivering civil, nuclear and infrastructure capital projects.

Mike Watkinson
Behaviour change

Mike Watkinson

Leadership & Performance Coach

Twenty years in sales, operations and consulting before he ever coached a leader.

The reason findings become behaviour rather than intention. Certified Master Coach and Psychological Health & Safety Professional.

Meet the full team →

Why it survives the boardroom

Most reports tell you what's wrong. Ours tells you what it costs.

People are the largest line on most P&Ls and the least measured. We measure them like anything else that consumes capital: against your numbers, not a generic benchmark.

A costed diagnosis

Where execution is breaking down, and what each finding costs you a year.

Written for your board

An executive-ready report about your business, not a generic survey deck.

Built for your champions

A remediation plan your own team can run, with us or without us.

Hover a promise to open its page in the sample reportTap a promise to open its page in the sample report

Proof in numbers

Six-figure investments. Multi-million-dollar returns.

Six clients measured first, then acted on what we found. Estimated returns ran from 6:1 to 25:1 over three years, around $42M in total. Three are shown below.

EngagementSector · sizeWhat we didEst. returnROI
Succession & talent pipeline
Distribution · 400
Succession framework, simulation-led identification of high-potentials, targeted development.
$11M
25:1
OD for process, systems & people
Arch. / eng. · 250
Unified operating model post-acquisition, a shared playbook, change champions deployed.
$10.5M
15:1
Digital transformation & HRIS
Supply chain · 500
HRIS roadmap aligned to business priorities, adoption led across fragmented workflows.
$6M
20:1
All six engagements
Six sectors
Measure first, then build the programme against what the measurement found.
~$42M
6–25:1

How to read these figures: returns are estimated three-year EBITDA recapture against a fixed fee, on conservative assumptions. They are directional, not audited. Names, assessment providers and systems are removed; sector and headcount only.

AI readiness & adoption

AI programmes rarely fail on the technology. They stall on politics, unclear decision rights and thin change capability, after the spend is committed. We run the Health Check before implementation, while the plan can still change.

70%
BCG · digital transformations that fall short of their objectives
80%+
Bain · CEOs dissatisfied with their AI results
More on Change & AI Readiness →

Before you book

The things we get asked most.

If yours isn't here, the scoping call is free and there is no pitch in it.

Does something have to be wrong to work with AMC?

No. Much of our work starts from ambition: a growth plan, an acquisition, a new system, a founder thinking about exit. The Health Check confirms your organization can absorb what's coming. If the evidence says you're in good shape, the report will say so.

Do I need a committed retainer?

No. Every engagement starts with a fixed-fee diagnostic and ends with a pause. Many clients run the remediation with their own people; the report is written for that.

I'm not construction and I'm not private equity. Does this still apply?

Yes. Engagements to date span distribution, architecture and engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, professional services, transit and the public sector.

What we measure behaves the same way in every industry. The vocabulary changes; the failure modes don't.

I don't know where my problems are. Can we still work together?

That is the usual starting point, and exactly what the diagnostic is for. You don't need a hypothesis, just four to six weeks and honest access to your people.

If I don't have a six-figure budget and 2,000 people, can I still work with you?

Yes. We scope to the organization in front of us. The method is the same at 60 people as it is at 2,000; the number of people we speak to — and therefore the fee — is not. Tell us your size and we’ll price it →

There is also a free Preparedness Assessment you can run yourself in about ten minutes.

I know I want to work with AMC but I don't know how to start.

Book the 30-minute call. No slides, no pitch. We ask what's going on, tell you whether a health check is the right instrument, and if it isn't, we say so.

Start here

Six weeks from now, you will be arguing from evidence.

A qualified AMC professional looks after you from the first call to the last recommendation, backed by 130+ vetted consultants across four regions.