Our Visionary hired me as Integrator six months ago but treats my seat like an executive assistant, demanding I run errands and draft correspondence instead of managing leadership execution. How do we use the Accountability Chart and the Same Page Meeting to reset this dynamic?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

This happens when a Visionary wants operational relief but refuses to surrender operational control. They view the Integrator not as the orchestrator of the business, but as a high-priced buffer to absorb tasks they dislike doing.

If you allow this dynamic to continue, the leadership team will continue bypassing you, the V/TO® will become irrelevant, and you will eventually burn out and quit. You must address this structurally, not emotionally.

Take these steps to reset the boundary:
- Call an immediate Same Page Meeting. This is your dedicated, private forum to align on vision, expectations, and roles. It is not an operational Level 10 Meeting™.
- Put the Accountability Chart on the table between you. Review the five major roles defined for the Integrator seat: typically leading, managing, and holding people accountable (LMA), executing the business plan, integrating the leadership team, resolving cross-departmental issues, and driving scorecard results.
- Review the Visionary seat: typically big ideas, culture, strategic client relationships, and new product concepts. Note what is absent: the Visionary seat does not manage daily execution, and the Integrator seat does not run administrative errands.
- Identify the tasks you are being handed that belong to an Executive Assistant or Operations coordinator. Point out that paying an Integrator salary to draft basic emails destroys company value.
- Agree on a clear division of authority: the Visionary drives the ideas and high-level relationships, while the Integrator has full operational veto power and manages the leadership team.

If the Visionary cannot honor the five roles on the Accountability Chart after honest IDS® in your Same Page Meetings, they do not want an Integrator. They want an assistant. Name that reality openly so both of you can decide how to move forward.