We help leaders drive fast, meaningful change.

We believe meaningful change happens fast—and that education, coaching, and the right kind of partnership can accelerate progress.

Our approach leverages decades of experience scaling excellence in strategy, operations, and culture. We make sure that tomorrow, on your watch, is going to be better than today. 

  • We work across industries, sectors, and borders. Our clients have ranged from Fortune 10 companies to tech founders to political leaders working to build national competitiveness.

  • Our research investigates how leaders create the conditions for organizations and individuals to thrive by designing for excellence in strategy, operations, and culture. We work with leaders at all levels of an organization who are ready to drive meaningful change.

  • We focus on the essential inputs into change leadership, including speed and trust. In our experience, the most effective change leaders treat speed as mission-critical, while also focusing relentlessly on gaining and keeping the trust of their stakeholders.

  • Progress takes time, but change can be measured in the minutes, hours, and days it takes to identify a problem and start the flywheel of action that leads to a solution. If you look closely, even history lurches forward when changemakers decide that the moment that matters most is now.

  • The willingness to change. That’s it.

“What will be the focus of your own leadership story? Will it be about the power you stockpiled? Or about how much more you achieved by using that power to unleash the people around you?”

We work closely with our partners to surface and remove performance barriers for individuals, teams, and organizations.

Our process has five primary steps:

  • 1. Identify the real problem.

    We start by surfacing the true roadblocks to progress and their underlying causes, which may not be clear at the beginning of our work together.

  • 2. Build and rebuild trust.

    Once we have confidence we’re solving the right problem, we work with your team to design trust-building solutions by learning quickly and running smart experiments.

  • 3. Broaden the circle of engagement.

    We improve and scale the emerging solution by engaging all important stakeholders, including individuals and groups whose insight and talent may be underutilized.

  • 4. Tell the change story.

    We work together to activate your full team by crafting and delivering a powerful change story that connects the organization’s past, present, and future.

  • 5. Move fast.

    Finally, we help you empower your team to execute the plan at an accelerated pace—and at a reduced risk of breaking things.

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