Elite Leadership. Proven Under Pressure.
Helping organizations develop leaders who communicate better, build stronger teams, and drive exceptional performance.
Develop better leaders. Build stronger teams. Create higher-performing organizations.
Black Ops Leadership Group was founded by Jay Dorleus, a retired Special Forces First Sergeant who spent two decades leading soldiers and developing leaders in the most demanding environments in the world.
Today he brings that experience to organizations that need stronger leaders — not theory from a textbook, but principles proven under pressure and adapted to your environment.
The Black Ops Leadership Framework
A disciplined five-phase approach that takes your organization from where it stands to where it needs to be.
Assess
Evaluate leadership strengths, communication, accountability, and organizational culture.
Align
Clarify mission, vision, expectations, and leadership standards.
Develop
Train leaders in communication, coaching, delegation, decision-making, and accountability.
Execute
Implement systems that improve performance and leadership consistency.
Review
Conduct structured after-action reviews, measure results, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
Built for organizations that depend on strong leaders
From the front office to the front line, the common thread is the same: they need stronger leaders — first-time managers and developing leaders ready to step up.
Services built to strengthen your leadership bench
Workshops & Training
Half-day workshops and full-day intensives covering leadership fundamentals, communication, and accountability — interactive, practical, and built for immediate application.
Executive Coaching
One-on-one coaching with personalized development plans, decision-making support, and executive accountability for leaders at every level.
Organizational Consulting
Succession planning, management systems, culture transformation, and strategic planning that make leadership consistent across your organization.
Results you can measure
We're a new firm, and we hold ourselves to the same standard we teach: say what's true. The examples below are representative engagement scenarios — the patterns we're built to fix — not named clients. Real client stories will be published here as engagements conclude, with their permission.
A regional construction firm, ~120 employees
- Before: Foremen promoted for technical skill, never trained to lead. Unclear expectations between the office and the field. Meetings that ended without decisions.
- After: Defined leadership standards for every supervisor, a weekly accountability rhythm connecting field and office, and foremen coaching their crews instead of firefighting.
A nonprofit leadership team
- Before: A mission everyone believed in but no one had translated into roles, priorities, or standards. Decisions bottlenecked at the executive director. Conflict avoided instead of resolved.
- After: Clarified roles and decision authority, a shared vision the whole team can state in one sentence, and leaders having direct conversations early — before problems grow.
A veteran-owned security company
- Before: High turnover among shift supervisors, inconsistent standards site to site, and top performers leaving for lack of a development path.
- After: A supervisor development track, consistent performance standards across sites, structured after-action reviews after every major incident, and a bench of leaders ready for promotion.
Every engagement defines its measures up front — after-action reviews held consistently, KPIs tracked weekly, retention of top performers, meetings that end in decisions, and a bench of leaders ready for the next promotion. Improvement is verified, not assumed.
Ready to build stronger leaders?
Book a discovery call and find out where your organization stands.