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.
Reconstructive Equity, Differences, and Inclusion
It’s time to acknowledge that ‘Diversity’ as an organizational movement is long dead, and has become code for recruiting and retaining People of Color. Most organizations think “recruit, then retain” which leads to a revolving door of BIPOC who are recruited into a culture that is not prepared to lead, support and engage a diverse range of talent. Too many organizational culture efforts become programs of the month, the first thing to go in tough times, and short-lived, feel good initiatives with no organic momentum. The real work of creating an equitable, inclusive culture where BIPOC want to come and stay requires “retain, then recruit” as the operational model.
We are passionate about changing this trend.
Reconstructive Equity, Differences, and Inclusion builds a strong, sustainable culture aligned with organizational values, and deeply connected to the strategy and business priorities of the organization. Reconstructive Equity, Differences, and Inclusion accelerates results.
With decades of experience in the field of inclusion, equity and differences, we bring a unique perspective on integrating global best practices- what to do, and what to avoid.
We work with you to develop a Reconstructive Equity, Differences, and Inclusion strategy that generates its own momentum and has a deep enough reach into the DNA of the organizational culture and a strong enough link to business results to be self-sustaining.
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.')