Potomac Highlands Strategic Group offer
Vanguard Leadership Session
Private, focused leadership coaching for executives and leaders navigating consequential decisions, organizational change, and personal leadership growth.
James L. McCormick II & Teddy Daniels · Strategic advisors
Clear counsel for consequential moments.
Potomac Highlands Strategic Group is a partner-led strategic advisory practice for leaders who need to solve difficult problems, clarify strategic choices, strengthen advocacy, and move consequential work forward with disciplined purpose.
Potomac Highlands Strategic Group
A partner-led advisory practice for leaders facing complex decisions.
Ways to engage
Choose the support that fits the moment.
Strategic advisory
Strategic Direction Sprint
A structured planning and advisory engagement to clarify priorities, align stakeholders, and build a practical path forward.
Tailored civic engagement
Civic Strategy Dialogue
A tailored, scope-first strategic conversation for organizations navigating civic engagement, stakeholder communication, and leadership decisions.
Featured leadership engagement
Keynote & Public Speaking
A tailored leadership message built for the moment your organization faces, followed by an executive dialogue that helps leaders carry the conversation into action.
Intelligence Membership
Vanguard Monday Intelligence Brief
A subscriber-only, decision-grade weekly government affairs intelligence report delivered each Monday. It covers executive alerts, issue analysis and recommended actions, government-wide developments, the weekly calendar, a 21-day radar, contracting and funding watch, and decision-plan framing.
The practice
Led by experienced strategic advisors.
Two co-owners. Clear preparation. Direct communication.
James L. McCormick II and Teddy Daniels bring decades of problem-solving experience to leadership, strategy, advocacy, resilience, and consequential decisions.
Read James's full bioPublished work
Books by James McCormick.
Start a conversation
Bring the challenge. Start with a clear next move.
Share the objective, the people involved, and what is at stake. James reviews each inquiry personally to determine fit and the most useful form of support.