Helping you overcome barriers you don’t even realize exist.

We are strategic business navigators, guiding executives in the identification and implementation of sustainable solutions for big, complex problems. We listen to, and demonstrate our understanding of, their business aspirations and worries. We use a complexity lens to assess what’s getting in the way of achieving these aspirations, helping them take back much of the time they typically spend worrying about what isn’t getting done. We do this by accelerating self-discovery: uncovering how their own beliefs and assumptions may be imposing significant barriers to identifying sustainable solutions.

We offer enhanced problem-solving capabilities by intentionally integrating seemingly disparate elements. Consequently, we evaluate your business challenges from two angles – starting with an analysis of hard data first and then identifying how this data analysis reveals deeper, often hidden, truths about the state of the business. These truths often offer insights into serious challenges associated with potentially outmoded cultural norms, employee disconnects with the overall business strategy and factors contributing to operational inefficiencies. If you do not have sufficient resources to address these challenges, we are always ready to lend a hand.

We work together to identify where you’re stuck and then help you get “unstuck” by getting out of your own way.

You.
• You describe your talents
• You share your goals and outline your work challenges
• You reflect upon your leadership style: how it does and
doesn’t serve you in achieving your goals
• You imagine how developing others can help you achieve
your goals

Me.
• I listen and ask curiosity-based questions
• I guide you to quickly and safely dig deep
• I point out how you potentially may be sabotaging your own
good intentions
• I help you bridge gaps between how you lead now and how
you would like to lead moving forward

We.
We set goals for sustainable change by:

• Learning to manage multiple, complex, ever-changing
priorities
• Overcoming embedded cultural constraints
• Analyzing and potentially redirecting your prioritization and
time-management strategies

We uncover what is holding you back and eliminate those barriers by:
• Leveraging your current leadership capacities and technical
skills
• Reframing beliefs that impede your personal and professional
satisfaction
• Discovering ways to overcome your anxieties about failing, or
ironically, succeeding

It's well-known that businesses, large and small, are finding it necessary to adapt to an unprecedented global economy and complex supply chain challenges. Because we view organizational culture as a critical lever in facilitating an organization’s ability to adapt effectively, we work with leaders to: assess their culture (current and future states), identify gaps and develop strategic implementation plans. The tool we employ is the Competing Values Framework, designed specifically to measure organizational effectiveness in light of strategic goals. The output contains both quantitative and qualitative data. We share these results with the leader and guide them in developing strategies to bring about sustained change – in areas where their organization has stagnated or lost traction.

Effective peer coaches don’t presume to be able to solve problems for one another. Rather, they listen and respond to one another in ways that accelerate learning through self-discovery – with curiosity and without judgment. They do this by encouraging one another to take in multiple perspectives and take time to reflect on them, something that’s often missing in today’s tightly scheduled workplaces.

The peer coaching program we offer, Convu, is designed to give employees the tools and practices they require to uncover self-limiting beliefs that may impede their performance and/or development efforts. The most significant benefit to employers is the economy of scale. A minimal financial investment provides multiple levels in the organization with easy access to coaching.

In tandem with an on-line and virtual learning platform, the peer coaching program offers tutorials on how to enhance listening and responding capabilities, guidelines for applying these capabilities in real-time coaching conversations and periodic check-ins with the facilitator.

Successful business outcomes require constant interplay between what the individual is expected to bring to the organization and what the organization must provide in return. In many instances, misalignments between the two can be corrected through effective systems design. We offer a wide range of customized design services that can be employed to optimize overall business performance: as-is and should-be process mapping, performance management structures, talent management – recruitment, selection, on-boarding, succession planning and instructionally-designed professional development programs.