ABOUT BRYAN POWELL
Professional Overview
Bryan Powell is a leadership coach, advisor, and author who works with senior leaders and teams operating under sustained pressure. His work focuses on helping teams improve how they think, decide, and execute together, especially in complex, high stakes environments where performance depends less on strategy and more on day to day interaction. Drawing on his background in organizational leadership, performance psychology, and real world advisory team coaching, Bryan helps teams close the gap between intention and execution by strengthening trust, clarity, and accountability at the same time.
Bryan is the author of The Efficient Frontier of Teaming and a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. He brings a practitioner scholar perspective to his work, combining research informed frameworks with practical tools teams can apply immediately. Whether working with executive teams, wealth advisory firms, or cross functional leaders, Bryan’s focus is consistent: helping teams build the operating habits that allow strong performance to show up when it matters most.
THE BOOK — The Efficient Frontier of Teaming
A Different View of Team Performance
Most teams do not fall short because of a lack of talent or effort. They fall short because the way they work together creates unnecessary friction. Decisions slow down. Meetings feel busy but unproductive. Execution depends on a few people carrying too much of the load.
The Efficient Frontier of Teaming™ offers a different way to think about performance. Instead of pushing harder, the model focuses on reducing inefficiency in how teams communicate, decide, and execute. When trust, clarity, and accountability are aligned, teams achieve stronger results with less drag and greater consistency.
This approach helps leaders shift the question from “How do we get more out of our people?” to “How do we create the conditions where people can fully engage and contribute authentically?” When team members feel safe to speak honestly, challenge assumptions, and take ownership of outcomes, the quality of thinking and coordination improves.
The result is performance that holds up under pressure and compounds over time, rather than spiking and fading in cycles.
Our Book
The Efficient Frontier of Teaming
Why This Book is Different
Most books on teaming focus on what teams should value: trust, collaboration, alignment, or psychological safety. While these ideas matter, they are often treated as cultural aspirations rather than operational realities. Leaders are left inspired but unsure how to translate concepts into consistent behavior, especially when pressure is high.
The Efficient Frontier of Teaming™ takes a different approach by treating team performance as a system. Instead of isolating culture, engagement, or accountability, the book shows how these elements interact in everyday work to either accelerate or constrain execution.
Rather than asking teams to choose between results and humanity, the book reframes engagement and authenticity as performance levers.
Concepts such as the Teaming Inefficiency Gap™ help leaders see where effort is being lost through unclear roles, guarded communication, or fragmented decision making. Tools like the Team Contract™ make expectations explicit, while Positive Accountability™ shifts ownership from enforcement to shared responsibility. The book also introduces Failure Capital™, helping teams learn faster from mistakes without eroding trust, and the Bullseye Method™, a practical way to translate big goals into focused, iterative progress. Readers walk away with more than insight.
The Efficient Frontier of Teaming™ provides a shared language, practical diagnostics, and repeatable tools leaders can apply immediately to assess how their team is operating and where friction is showing up.
The result is clearer decisions, stronger engagement, and performance that holds up under pressure and compounds over time. Leaders finish the book not just knowing what great teams value, but understanding how to design the conditions that allow those values to show up consistently in real work.
SPEAKING & COACHING
A Partnership Built Around Your Reality
Bryan and Tom work together with leadership teams not as outside experts prescribing solutions, but as partners who understand the pressures teams face in real operating environments. Their speaking and coaching engagements are designed around the realities leaders are navigating every day: competing priorities, constant change, high expectations, and limited time. Whether in a keynote, workshop, or longer term engagement, their focus is on helping teams see how their current ways of working are either supporting or constraining performance, and what to adjust to get better results without adding complexity.
What distinguishes their partnership is the blend of perspective they bring into the room. Together, Bryan and Tom combine coaching, facilitation, and practical operating insight to help teams move quickly from awareness to action. Engagements are highly interactive, grounded in real examples from the team’s own context, and anchored in tools leaders can continue using long after the session ends. The goal is not a one time experience, but a shift in how the team works together, makes decisions, and sustains performance under real world conditions.
