After years of working inside and alongside high-growth organizations, Kendra saw the same pattern repeat. Sharp strategy paired with ambitious targets and executive teams who knew exactly where the business needed to go. Then it reached the management layer, and the clarity dissolved before it became daily execution.
The cause was rarely effort or intention. Leaders had been promoted for technical excellence, then left to handle feedback, accountability, conflict, and hard decisions on instinct. Nobody had given them the tools, the language, or the conditions to lead at the level the business now required of them.
The Venned Group exists to fix that, with structured, evidence-based work that changes how leaders communicate, decide, build trust, and turn strategy into work that gets done well.
Kendra is not a theorist. She is an operator who has spent over 15 years inside the real execution challenges of scaling organizations, working with CEOs, COOs, and executive teams to diagnose leadership breakdowns and build the practical infrastructure to fix them for good, with real work.
Her approach is direct, evidence-based, and focused on business outcomes, and it shaped the method TVG runs on today. The firm partners with organizations for as long as it takes to make the change structural, measurable, and hard to ignore.
She has worked with senior leaders across Canada, the United States, the UK, and the UAE, spanning financial services, technology, professional services, commercial real estate, retail, and manufacturing. She has developed more than 2,500 leaders and was named a Top 40 Under 40 Entrepreneur in Canada. Clients come back because the work changes behaviour, decisions, and execution itself.
Before we recommend anything, we get inside how your organization works. Where decisions stall. Which conversations everyone avoids. What your culture rewards and what it quietly punishes. Sometimes that starts with our S.P.A.R.K. Assessment. Sometimes it’s interviews, working sessions, or time in the room. The first move changes from client to client, because the right one does.
The engagement is built for your industry, your audience, and the exact decisions your leaders need to handle differently. S.P.A.R.K. is the backbone, and everything else is shaped around what we learned about you. Generic content without industry or organizational relevance loses a sharp team in ten minutes, so we don’t bring any.
Insight without rehearsal fades by the following week. So your leaders practise the hard conversations, the clear recommendations, and the decisions in the room, with us, until the new behaviour feels like theirs.
We build in the feedback loops, the tools, and the review points that keep new behaviour alive after the session. Most firms skip this part, which is why their work fades, and ours holds.
TVG was founded by Kendra Johnson and built around a proven method, so the work holds to one standard wherever it runs and whoever is in the room.
We invest in long relationships with the teams we work with, which means the people who learn your business stay close to it. You get continuity from the first conversation through every session that follows, and a partner who knows your context well enough to build on it rather than start over.
We choose our partners carefully, because the work only holds when an organization wants to see the results as much as we do. We work with a limited number of organizations each quarter. If your strategy is sound but execution keeps breaking down, let’s find out in 30 minutes whether we are the right partner to help.
