Services

1. Individual Leadership Coaching and Counseling

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 trusted advisors, often acting as a confidential “sounding board” for senior leaders who wrestle with the challenges of leading complex teams and organizations.

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?

Practical Application:

  • We apply a variety of coaching/learning, models and assessments, in addition to offering profound experiential learning opportunities

  • 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

2. Team Alignment and Development

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

How can we…

  • Make our teams work better?

  • Work past personality and functional differences to align behind common goals?

  • Increase levels of trust in 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”?

Practical Application:

  • 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

3. Organization Development

Our consulting clarifies the strengths and weaknesses in organizations and helps address areas needing improvement, and translates organizational experience into learnings that lead to improved processes and greater business performance.. We work in a variety of disciplines, all focused on developing organizations for sustained success. Our three areas of focus are detailed below:

A. Lessons Learned and 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?

Practical Application:

  • 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

B. Conflict Management and Training

How can we…

  • 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?

Practical Application:

  • Designing and conducting a qualitative organization assessment for a global consulting company

  • Training (from small teams to large groups) on both purpose- and values-based leadership, strategic thinking and innovation

C. Culture Creation and 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?

  • Improve our processes—including decision-making and communication—and our leadership, based upon our experience?

Practical Application:

  • Working with a manufacturing group at a leading consumer products company to develop a service-based culture

  • Leading discussions among senior business leaders focused on understanding and leveraging diversity

  • Training (from small teams to large groups) on diversity, inclusion, and communication