Strategy professionals live at the critical handoff between planning and execution. They know a truth most organizations avoid: momentum usually collapses right after the plan is complete. This is the Momentum Gap—the invisible space between strategic intention and real-world results. It’s where friction, resistance, and reality challenge even the best-designed strategies. The reason is simple but rarely acknowledged: Strategies are designed to optimize the performance of a machine, but execution happens inside a living entity. Organizations are not mechanical systems. They are living persons—entities shaped by beliefs, relational patterns, emotional energy, and the stories they hold about themselves. These inner dynamics determine how an organization behaves under pressure—and whether momentum is sustained or lost. Using The Living Organization® framework, Norman Wolfe reveals the three fields that drive execution outcomes: • Activity — what the organization does • Relationship — how people connect • Context — who the organization believes it is Execution breaks down not because of poor planning, but because strategy fails to account for these human dynamics. The momentum gap is not a tactical issue—it is a capacity issue, rooted in the living entity's capability + maturity. When leaders understand this, they stop relying on Activity-centric management and begin developing their organization’s capacity through the challenges of execution itself. This session reframes strategy execution through a lens that finally explains what has baffled leaders for decades—and provides a way to close the Momentum Gap once and for all.