Get below the waterline.

Given the time-sensitive volatility of innovation, you have no time to waste looking at symptoms on the surface. When faced with a challenge, you need to get below the waterline and find solutions to root causes. This is where we come in.

Organizational Assessments

We help you uncover hidden forces affecting your business.

Our proven assessment process sheds light on where to focus for maximum impact. First, you get a more accurate view of what’s happening and needed on all levels—including key individuals and the leadership team through to your offerings, customers, suppliers, and partners. Next, we show you how to create solutions and responses that leverage your organization’s distinctive capabilities and advantages. Because we utilize rapid prototyping, you get innovative solutions and responses that are pressure-tested for viability. Lastly and most importantly, we don’t leave implementation to chance. We help you incorporate key changes into your day-to-day operating systems and core practices. As a result, you cultivate the capabilities required for success in the next phase.

Managing Difficult Transitions

We help you turn disruptions into breakthroughs.

There are many difficult transitions in growing a great company. There are predictable transitions, such as increasing scale or entering new markets. And there are unexpected transitions that shake your foundation. Both can be challenging. While a quick fix or copying someone else’s solution may seem appealing, complex systems resist simple solutions. How you manage difficult transitions will determine your success in the next phase.

Typically, when an organization struggles with a transition, the temptation is to interpret the situation from a technical perspective, such as believing the problem lies with an individual or is the result of poor communication. However, the most destabilizing transitions exhibit both technical and adaptive challenges (with the latter requiring a more radical change). We help you distinguish between the two in order to discern which to tackle in what order and with what approach. In the end, we help you get the business results you need now, plus the capability to succeed in the future.

Turn-Around Solutions

We help you overcome challenges that could make or break your organization.

Missing your objectives for a prolonged period or losing an excessive number of senior leaders presents some of the most troubling challenges for an organization (and its investors). In times like these, you need someone who can parachute in, figure out what’s not working, how to leverage latent strengths, and actualize the solutions. We get it. This is a high-risk hire. We offer support that builds trust, with constant communication of findings, a constant ear for your perspective, and the priority to build YOUR leaders’ capacity to make and sustain the needed change. With our broad expertise and holistic lens, we will look not only below the waterline for root causes but in places you may never have suspected.