What Do We Do?
Whatever It Takes.
We help leaders, teams and organizational systems transform, and share the tools for you to lead the transformation of yourself, your team, enterprise and industry.
Like every human, every organizational system contains the wisdom and knowledge about how to adapt, improve and reinvent itself. We will help you develop and sustain an anticipatory mindset to better see what you already know. Then, you’ll be better positioned to tap the resources, courage, and people you already have to move towards the outcome you envision.
Organizational Transformation
Organizations don't transform, people transform. Great organizational cultures don't just happen. They require a strategy of their own, and flawless execution by people who know how to move, change and realign as a way of life.
Transformational change requires courage, shared exploration and commitment to action.
It requires momentum built and sustained from the inside -> out. It starts with a clear strategy and a few deeply committed and clear change agents who approach their everyday work with a transformational mindset. And, it requires leaders who know how to lead human beings toward a clear vision, how to inspire them to work at their highest level of capability.
Our organizational change model leverages the tools, principles and knowledge you already have to co-create possibilities that leverage the investments you have already made.
Radical Team Alignment
High performing and aligned teams execute on the principle of doing the right work, at the right time, using the right process. They are cohesive and committed to sharing accountability and success. Clarifying the what, aligning on the how. Teams that focus on their working relationship in the absence of real-time work get temporary, surface results. That post-team building glow soon fades, and teams find themselves worse off than before their team building efforts began.
Teams that align, that fully address the core issues that facilitate, and that derail results- and make agreements about how they will operate as a collective, often cross-functional unit- those teams know how to sustain high performance. They avoid delays in decision-making, unnecessary drama, and triangulated, frustrating communications.
Our two part Radical Team Alignment process is built on the core imperative that high performing, aligned team must clarify the 'what', and align on the 'how'.
Executive Coaching
When leaders or teams focus on problems, they get more problems. When they focus on solutions, they get more (and better) solutions. Transformational leadership development is an individual and team sport that requires new skills, mindsets and practice in real-time.
Leaders rarely get honest, direct feedback about their performance, and almost never about their style of interacting with others and the impact it has on people's productivity, motivation and engagement. Transformational leaders and teams develop the competencies to explore, adjust and improve their style as leaders to meet the call of people in their organizations.
We collect and provide clear and practicable, solution-focused feedback, and partner with leaders and teams to candidly address what is getting in the way of reaching the highest level of sustained results. Leaders learn how to gather that feedback for themselves, as part of a continuous improvement cycle that drives individual and team high performance, and accelerates results.
Using our intensive Five Step Solution-Focused Model, you and your team will be clear and aligned on exactly where you're headed and how you'll get there. Together.
Custom Leadership & Team Development
Custom leadership and team development workshops designed to create transformational leaders and accelerate results. No more classroom programs that check the box, and provide a temporary uptick in behavior or performance. Our custom workshops are experiential, energizing and based on the brain science of how we learn, and how we apply what we learn for the long term.
Our offerings include custom workshops and leadership development designed in collaboration with you, and based on your immediate organizational goals and long term aspirations. Built on the science of how we learn, we use our signature approach of learn -> do -> apply to incorporate active learning strategies and multiple practice opportunities to solidify and sustain outcomes.
We specialize in Leadership Development, Competency Building Workshops and Emerging Leader Development.
Board of Directors Effectiveness Assessment and Development
Our work is based on a simple principle: Assessment alone rarely moves Board performance.
Receiving an individual assessment is like receiving an exam score, it doesn’t help us improve. In fact, it can set us back. It’s what we do with that score, how we bring it to life in our everyday interactions, generation of solutions, applications in tricky or conflict laden moments that matters.
We are experts in the work of human dynamics, group-level leadership, rising above the challenges (or dysfunction) brought on by individual agendas, and inhabiting the potential for leaders, their Board and other key stakeholders to reset fully into a new way of interacting and working together that accelerates their impact and results.
Our three-step process uses qualitative and quantitative data collection and is designed to survey the current state, assess and develop Directors against recalibrated expectations, and ensure alignment of expectations and contribution.
This process is uniquely developed for public Boards experiencing or preparing for a change in Board composition, executive leadership, or organizational strategy.
Action Learning Process
Developing your organization’s next cohort of great leaders requires a strategy and process that integrates core values, leadership competencies, and business strategy.
The Action Learning Process is an intensive leadership development experience that brings together leaders from across the organization to work on revenue generating or cost saving projects over the course of 90-120 days. Woven throughout the process is a focus on Reconstructive Equity, Differences and Inclusion so that team members integrate the work of people culture and inclusion with business priorities, an integration that is essential to the success of both.
Participants learn in action, applying theory to real life situations, while working in small groups to solve real organizational issues. Throughout the Action Learning Process, participants gain skills to more effectively:
- Collaborate across differences.
- Solve complex problems working as a team.
- Learn and lead across functional areas.
- Work with Senior Leaders and be thinking partners for critical issues.
- Build a supportive network of peers and leaders across the organization.
- Present to colleagues and leaders with increased skill, clarity and executive presence.
- Explore models for decision-making, collaboration, leveraging conflict as a tool for collaboration, etc.
The Action Learning Process is a powerful intervention that leverages the time and resource investment in developing great leaders, while tackling old problems with new solutions.
How Do We Do It?
With Custom Solutions.
Of course we bring tools, we're process consultants. We love tools. But we're smartest about helping you use what you already know, the resources and tools you already have, in new ways that address the current need of your organization.
Working Together
What You Should Know Up Front
- We have time tested, empirically grounded tools (if you need them).
- We are known for our smarts, candor, and commitment.
- We avoid the behaviors and buzz words that make consultants so irritating.
- We have a 'go in, get it done, get out' mentality.
- We have happy lives and won't waste your time, or ours.
- We will treat your money like it's our own.
Our work is:
- Cost effective
- Time bound with measurable outcomes
- Championed and led by internal resources (not 'consultant led,' nobody likes 'consultant led.')