Navigate the unpredictable.

You have your eyes set on a bold destination, and you need to navigate a Class 5 rapids to get there. You likely have all the intelligence you need already within your organization. The key is how to capitalize on that collective intelligence as you arrive at each unexpected turn. That’s where we can help.

High-Yield Retreats

A successful retreat catapults you to the next level.

Innovative businesses are shaped by high-stakes, defining moments. However, without an effective way to step back and discuss these moments, your team is at risk of misperceiving the lessons within, which can lead to misguided decisions and actions. Through a retreat held offsite, onsite, or even virtually, we can help you gain some distance from the fray so you can exploit the full force of your team’s collective intelligence. The best retreats provide an opportunity for your team to efficiently sense what’s truly happening, what has been learned from shared experiences, and what actually needs to come next. Don’t leave these important strategic conversations to chance. Let us help you design and facilitate a retreat that your team will be grateful for.

Strategic Planning

No plan survives its first encounter with the real world.

Your strategic plan needs to be original and adaptable. The biggest mistake innovators can make is to copy the business model of a successful competitor or hire a consultant to help them adopt a tried-and-true formula. You chose to bring something new to the world, which means that how you do this likely demands equal originality and vision if you want to be successful.

But originality is not enough. We’ll help you draw out and test your original ideas and instincts. We’ll build shared understanding amongst your team, help you move through the crucible of difficult conversations, and help you anticipate multiple future scenarios so you can remain agile as conditions change. Our engaging approach ensures that along the way your team builds the collective capacity to constantly adapt, make, and coordinate the bold decisions and actions required to be truly strategic.

Organizational Re-design

Sometimes the answer is a change in your architecture.

Organizations are comprised of three types of architecture: product/service architecture (how you create value), organizational architecture (how you run the business), and social architecture (how you grow and manage people). One of the primary responsibilities of senior leadership is to ensure these architectures evolve together and support one another. Yet most organizational leaders find themselves in senior roles because of their expertise in a given discipline, such as science, engineering, marketing, finance, etc. Very few know how to realize better growth and productivity by evolving these architectures over time. We can help. For example, we can show you how to evolve your product development process so that it generates the most saleable products and services. We can help you create an end-to-end customer experience that yields sustainable growth in sales and referrals. Also, when a department is under-performing, or when two functions become “accidental adversaries”, the highest leverage place to attend to are the architectures driving behavior. We can help with that too.