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Our Services

  • Leadership Coaching and Counseling

    Our work creates more focused, clear, capable leaders at all levels of your organization. LEARN MORE

  • Conflict Resolution and Training

    We equip leaders to stay grounded and “on purpose”, think more clearly, make better decisions, and communicate effectively in times of conflict. LEARN MORE

  • Team Development

    We show teams how to work better together by clarifying and aligning priorities, working through personal/functional differences, and understanding roles and accountabilities. LEARN MORE

  • Lessons Learned/After-Action Reviews

    We help you translate organizational experience into learnings that lead to improved processes and greater business performance. LEARN MORE

  • Organization Development

    Our consulting clarifies the strengths and weaknesses in organizations and helps address areas needing improvement. LEARN MORE

SERVICES DETAILS

Leadership Coaching and Counseling

How can we…

  • be more effective as leaders?
  • best balance the ever-increasing demands at work and outside of work?
  • remain centered as we respond to ever-increasing levels of stress and conflict?
  • consistently make the most informed and ethical decisions?
  • translate our organizational and personal missions into the everyday behaviors that will keep us successful?

Our work creates more focused, clear, capable leaders at all levels of your organization. In addition to developing greater awareness and practicing new behaviors, we partner with our clients as a trusted advisor, often acting as a confidential “sounding board” for senior leaders who wrestle with the challenges of leading complex teams and organizations.

Examples include:

  • We apply a variety of coaching/learning, models and assessments, in addition to offering profound experiential learning opportunities, including equine leadership development with Equus.
  • Coaching leaders who are in/moving into new, more-demanding roles
  • Counseling leaders in effective, ethical decision making
  • Business development coaching
  • Coaching leaders in building and demonstrating awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses
  • Working with leaders to remain fully engaged and fulfilled in their work
  • Building leaders’ abilities in the areas of mindfulness, balance, and responsiveness

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Conflict Resolution and Training

How can we…

  • best manage and resolve the conflict in our workplaces?
  • prevent conflict from eroding our important working relationships?
  • maintain our balance, and remain open-minded, in the midst of conflict?
  • best communicate about conflict to our colleagues and throughout our organizations?

Our work helps equip leaders to stay grounded and “on purpose”, think more clearly, make better decisions, and communicate effectively in times of conflict. We also resolve conflicts within organizations, acting as an organizational ombudsman as needed.

Examples include:

  • Training/workshops for corporate leaders, MBA students, and others focused on understanding and effectively managing conflict
  • Experiential learning, including applying principles and dynamics of Aikido to conflict resolution in organizations
  • Personal coaching in managing and resolving conflict
  • Resolution of conflict within organizations, including conflict within or between teams

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Team Development

How can we…

  • make our teams work better?
  • work past personality and functional differences to align behind common goals?
  • increase levels of trust on our teams? How can we even talk about trust?
  • best communicate with each other, now that we are so global and “virtual”?
  • maintain a high level of “team hygiene”?

We show teams how to work better together by clarifying and aligning priorities, working through and leveragin differences, and understanding roles and accountabilities.

Examples include:

  • We offer a wide variety of approaches/models and activities, including learning from the horse herd to understand horse culture and leadership, through our partnership with Equus.
  • Helping newly formed and newly-merged teams clarify their shared goals and success milestones
  • Working with cross-functional teams to streamline processes and overcome conflicting agendas
  • Designing and facilitating virtual team meetings, as well as periodic or offsite meetings for global teams

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Lessons Learned/After-Action Reviews

How can we…

  • distill the value of impactful organizational experiences?
  • improve our processes—including decision-making and communication—and our leadership, based upon our experience?

Our consulting helps translate organizational experience into learnings that lead to improved processes and greater business performance.

Examples include:

  • Supporting cross-functional product development teams to identify learnings following a challenging new product submission
  • Working with the leader of an organization to uncover potential process flaws and refocus his team after an incident where policy was violated and ethics were breached

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Organization Development

How can we…

  • develop a more positive and productive culture in our organization?
  • clarify what diversity and inclusion really mean for our company? Women’s leadership? Cross-cultural competence?
  • understand how well our organization is working in the areas most important to our success?
  • build an organizational culture that fosters innovation and healthy risk-taking?

Our consulting clarifies the strengths and weaknesses in organizations and helps address areas needing improvement. We work in a variety of disciplines, all focused on developing organizations for sustained success.

Examples include:

  • Working with a manufacturing group at a leading consumer products company to develop a service-based culture
  • Designing and conducting a qualitative organization assessment for a global consulting company
  • Leading discussions among senior business leaders focused on understanding and leveraging diversity
  • Training—from small teams to large groups—on purpose- and values-based leadership, diversity and inclusion, strategic thinking, innovation, communication, and other aspects of leadership and organization development

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