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Leadership

strategy1 is led by people who sign their work. Here is who is accountable.
Portrait of M. K. Elango, founder of strategy1.

Founder and Head of Strategy

M. K. Elango

M. K. Elango is the founder of strategy1 and elan1.

He is the Strategy Partner who signs strategy1's engagements.

He also founded StartNet Ventures in Salem, Tamil Nadu, where he has spent more than ten years working with founders and small businesses. He works as a strategist with family business groups, founders and large organisations in India, the Gulf and South-East Asia, and has written five books in manuscript.

Company
strategy1 — an elan1 brand
Starting in
India, then the GCC

Accountability

People who sign their work

A Strategy Partner signs the decision memo. Domain Fellows sign the parts that carry professional liability. Your named owner accepts each decision before it reaches your systems.
  1. Founder and Head of StrategyM. K. Elango signs off strategy1's positioning and founder essays, and signs engagements as Strategy Partner.
  2. Strategy PartnerOwns client trust and signs the decision memo.
  3. Domain FellowSigns the technical, financial and legal parts that carry professional liability.
  4. Your named ownerAccepts each decision before it becomes a CRM opportunity, budget, brief or run-sheet.
Fig 3.1Who signs what. Every decision that commits the business has a named person answerable for it.

Domain Fellows

The experts who sign

Our first Fellows are joining now. We publish a Fellow's name only with a signed agreement and their consent.

Programme

Domain Fellows

Licensed experts paid per review to sign off technical, financial and legal conclusions.

Bring one real decision.Leave with a signed plan.

A 72-Hour Bootcamp takes one problem your team would scope in weeks and works it to a decision memo your leadership signs. Fixed scope, fixed fee.