Execution through commitment
We Transform How Organizations Make and Keep Commitments
Every organization—whether a company, a division, or a project—is a network of commitments. We help organizations dramatically improve execution by changing how decisions are made, commitments are formed, and work is coordinated.
First Principles
The Core Premise
We work at the level where strategy becomes behavior—helping leaders and teams change how they show up when it matters.
Most execution problems aren't caused by bad strategy or incompetent people. They're caused by the gap between what's decided and what actually happens. Meetings that don't produce action. Commitments that don't hold. Surprises that aren't shared in a timely manner. Decisions that don't cascade. Coordination that breaks down at organizational boundaries.We close that gap.
“I used to try to be a little McKinsey and just go in there and solve their problems. But over time, I realized I'm not McKinsey… and the executives actually know a lot about the business. They know a lot about customers. They know a lot about markets.They may not have all the PowerPoints lined up. But they have a good sense of the business they're in. And they know that their inability to take the next step is somehow related to their ability to work with each other and work within the organization.”
- Richard Rumelt, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Author: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy
The Pattern
You Have Capable People and a Reasonable Strategy
And yet. What should take weeks takes months. Decisions made in meetings dissolve in execution. Teams that should collaborate protect their boundaries. The organization has stopped moving at the speed necessary.
Commitments Don't Hold
Promises come with escape clauses. Deadlines slip. What's agreed in meetings doesn't survive contact with reality. Nobody believes timelines anymore—including the people who set them.Decisions Don't Cascade
Strategic choices get made at the top, but they don't translate into changed behavior throughout the organization. There's a persistent gap between intent and action.Coordination Consumes Capacity
What should be productive work becomes endless alignment meetings, escalations, and rework. Your best people spend more time managing interfaces than solving problems.Accountability Is Political
When something goes wrong, ownership fragments until no one is actually responsible. Teams protect territory. Analysis points everywhere and nowhere.Trust Has Eroded
Not because anyone's incompetent—but because promises aren't clear, conditions aren't explicit, and breakdowns aren't handled well. People manage defensively.Leadership Runs on Reports
Dashboards and status updates create an illusion of control while actual execution drifts. Leaders manage the reporting system rather than the work itself.
The Shift
From Management-by-Reporting to Management-by-Commitment
Today: Management by Reporting
Dashboards, status updates, and governance layers that track activity but don't ensure execution. Problems surface after the fact.
With Trace Intercept: Management by Commitment
Clear commitments, explicit conditions, and real accountability. Problems are prevented or caught early because ownership is unambiguous.
What We Do
Transform How Your Organization Coordinates Action
We help organizations coordinate action across silos, contractors, and governance layers. We transform how decisions are made, how commitments are formed and tracked, and how breakdowns are handled when they inevitably occur.The result? Organizations that are reliably trustworthy—internally and externally—in environments where failure is costly and coordination is hard.
Where We Focus
Execution Reliability
Transform how commitments are made, tracked, and fulfilled. Replace hedged promises with accountable ones. Build the organizational muscle for reliable delivery.Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Improve how decisions are made when information is incomplete and stakes are high. Create clarity about who decides, when, and with what authority.Cross-Boundary Coordination
Design how work flows across organizational interfaces—between departments, with contractors, through governance layers—where execution typically breaks down.Leadership Accountability in Action
Move leaders from managing reports to managing commitments. Accountability that shows up in behavior, not just governance structures.Breakdown Recovery
Install practices for handling disruptions without blame spirals or defensive posturing. When things go wrong—and they will—the organization recovers faster.Delivery in Complex Environments
Proven methods for execution where multiple organizations, regulatory requirements, and technical complexity intersect.
How We Work
Diagnosis-based Intervention
This isn't training and it isn't theory. We diagnose the specific breakdowns in your organization and intervene directly—with measurable improvements as proof.
01 — Diagnose the Real Breakdowns
Deep interviews across levels and boundaries. We map where commitments break down, where decisions fail to cascade, where trust has eroded. Not surveys—actual conversations where people tell us what's really happening.02 — Redesign the Coordination Architecture
Working with leadership, we redesign how commitments are made and tracked, how decisions cascade, how breakdowns are handled, how accountability operates across boundaries. New protocols that address root causes, not symptoms.03 — Execute With You, Not Just Advise
We don't leave you with a plan. We work alongside your teams as new practices take hold—coaching through actual situations, redesigning coordination in real time as challenges emerge.04 — Transfer Sustainable Practices
Changes that persist because they reshape how work gets done, not just how it's documented. We deliver an operating system your organization can maintain without us.
The Result
Organizations that are reliably trustworthy
We help organizations become reliably trustworthy—internally and externally—in environments where failure is costly and coordination is hard.
This isn't about culture programs or inspirational leadership. It's about building the organizational capacity to make decisions and keep commitments consistently, even under pressure.Execution That Matches Intent
Strategy translates into action. Decisions made at the top become changed behavior throughout the organization. The gap between intent and reality closes.Commitments That Hold
Promises mean something again. Cross-functional collaboration stops feeling like negotiation. Teams operate from trust rather than defensive hedging.Coordination That Doesn't Consume Capacity
Work flows across boundaries without endless alignment meetings. Your best people solve problems instead of managing interfaces.Breakdowns Handled Well
When things go wrong—and they will—the organization recovers quickly without blame spirals. Problems are addressed, not politicized.Stakeholder Confidence Rebuilt
Boards, clients, and partners trust that when you commit, you'll deliver. Your credibility strengthens because it's earned.Changes That Stick
Improvements persist after we leave because they reshape how people actually coordinate, not just how they report. Transformation that's absorbed, not imposed.
Track Record
Proven in complex environments
We've applied this approach across organizations where execution had broken down despite competent teams and adequate resources—capital programs, operations, digital transformation.
Capital Projects
Infrastructure Delivery
Systematic coordination redesign across a multi-million dollar programs with multiple contractors and regulatory interfaces. Transformed fragmented accountability into clear commitment architecture.
• 50% schedule reduction, 30% cost reduction
• 2× operational efficiencyOperational Efficiency
Operations & Maintenance
Co-designed a new strategy and established the coordination practices required to implement preventative maintenance. Established commitment-based interfaces where political and budgetary complexity had stalled execution.
• Rapidly cleared a growing backlog of jobs
• 2× preventative activity while reducing spend by over $1MDigital Transformation
Digital Twins, 3D Reality Models
Identified opportunity to establish a new line of business to address technology and practice gaps responsible for operational inefficiency by creating and implementing a digital twin solution giving stakeholders a shared visual insight into asset condition.
• Leveraged prosumer technology to achieve 10× equipment cost reduction
• New practices established across operations, asset management, capital projectsTroubled Program Interventions
Program Recovery
Multiple engagements rescuing stalled programs where previous approaches had failed. Identified root coordination breakdowns and rebuilt delivery capability.
• Unblocked stalled delivery
• Rebuilt stakeholder trust
Who We work with
Leaders Facing Coordination Challenges
We work with organizations—companies, divisions, programs—where execution depends on coordination across boundaries that have historically been difficult.
Contexts We Serve
• Enterprise Divisions — Cross-functional execution challenges
• Capital Programs — Multi-party delivery environments
• Infrastructure Organizations — Regulated, high-stakes delivery
• Joint Ventures — Multi-organization coordination
• Transformation Programs — Cross-enterprise change initiatives
• Private Equity and Venture Capital — Startup alignment
• Troubled Programs — Recovery and reset situationsGood Fit
• Leaders who recognize that the problem is deeper than tactics—it's how decisions get made and commitments get kept
• Organizations that have tried process improvements and governance changes without lasting results
• Environments where coordination across boundaries is genuinely difficult
• Leaders willing to examine and change how their organization actually coordinatesNot Right Fit
• Organizations looking for quick fixes or motivational interventions
• Small teams where coordination isn't the core challenge
• Situations where the real problem is strategy, market fit, or resource constraints
• Leaders more interested in protecting position than improving execution
The Core Team
Chris Wiesinger
Chris Wiesinger is the founder of Trace Intercept. He brings over 25 years of experience helping organizations navigate complex transformations across utilities, infrastructure, government, and technology sectors. His work has included leading teams that cut project timelines by 50% and doubled operational output through commitment-based management and collaborative contracting. Previously, as CEO of GeoSim Cities, he led the delivery of Canada's first airport-scale digital twin.
Saqib Rasool
Saqib Rasool is the founder of Coros.ai and Conceivian, companies dedicated to transforming how organizations coordinate action and build leadership capacity. A serial entrepreneur who started his career as an engineer at Microsoft, Saqib has led enterprise transformations including a $10M project turnaround at Microsoft IT and the regrowth of a $40M business unit at Beyondsoft.
Joe Bickson
Joe Bickson brings 15+ years of experience supporting organizations through high-stakes change, culture transformation, and leadership alignment. Works with executives and delivery teams across energy, infrastructure, technology, and public sector environments to bridge the gap between strategic intent and operational execution. Serves as President of the BC Organization Development Network (BCODN), a learning community advancing OD practice across British Columbia.
About Us
Our Partners and Associates
Based in Vancouver, Canada. Trace Intercept is driven by partnership, collaboration and coordination. This enables us to bring the right people, with the right experience, to help address your toughest challenges. The firms listed below share a common understanding of the principles and practices of practical transformation, anchored on the shared premise that organizations are networks of commitments.
Conceivian helps people and enterprises get unstuck. They specialize in designing and delivering interventions for individuals, teams, and organizations that are caught in the same recurring patterns—the missed conversations, the broken trust, the resigned moods that waste potential and block futures.
Relevate is a management consulting company specialized in Advanced Technology Facility Construction. They focus on solving complex challenges through industry leading collaboration and innovation.Relevate is founded with the belief that dramatic improvement is possible in capital project delivery. Their unique skills have saved owners over 32% on construction projects when fully implemented. Starting up predominantly in the High-Tech market, they have quickly expanded their portfolio to include infrastructure, commercial, retail and health care.
Organisations prosper when they move rapidly to embrace fresh ways of thinking and opportunities for growth. VISION Consulting helps organisations to outpace their competitors by transforming their operational performance at speed.VISION are renowned for expertise in rapid mobilisation, successfully delivering highly challenging, transformative projects at pace. They have an outstanding track record for delivering complex capital projects within budget, ahead of schedule and with all the promised benefits. They work closely with clients to launch truly innovative customer propositions that enable rapid market entry, drive sales and service improvements, and raise competitive barriers. And time and time again, VISION deliver startling efficiency gains.
Contact Us
Ready to Change How Your Organization Executes?
If execution has become harder than it should be—if commitments don't hold and coordination consumes capacity—let's talk about what's actually broken and whether we can help.
Our Commitment
We define specific delivery outcomes at the start. If we don't achieve them, the final phase is at no fee. We're accountable to results, not activity.
Trace Intercept, Inc.
Vancouver, Canada