How We Can Help You Build a Powerful, Sustainable Organization

Clients hire us for two reasons – breakthroughs and breakdowns.

Breakthroughs are about dreams – making something happen that hasn’t happened before. Building a company, bringing out a new product, finding a vision, hearing a calling, and giving birth to its manifestation.  And then there are the challenges, or “breakdowns”. These need to be overcome to achieve our vision. And, sometimes we need to fix things just to stay in business. 

We are not consultants who provide advice.  We don’t claim to understand your business better than you do. We believe that your best advice comes from within you, and in the collective wisdom of your team and the stakeholders you deal with and serve.  Our job is to help you uncover that natural brilliance. 

That’s why our motto is “Be Brilliant.”

Learn more about how we've helped our clients.

How We See Things:

Leadership and the Culture of Sustainability

We view sustainability in the broadest terms - creating a world we can all thrive in, that does not rob future generations and other species, and is better for us to live in now - environmentally, economically, socially, psychologically, and physically.

In fact, "sustainability" is one facet of a larger set of changes impacting business - greater transparency, virtual communications, high energy prices - that are shifting the way business is done in the 21st century.

Our services help you create the business models, culture, mindset, and leadership necessary for business to adapt and thrive in this environment.

Complexity

We are moving out of a "command and control", industrial-age vision of business into one based on a more organic model that sees business and economics as a living system, not a machine. Complexity is a much broader, interdependent, networked view. This includes a much broader, and longer-term view, of who matters, and why.  Business plans and strategies must be based on participation and concerns of a wide range of stakeholders - shareholders, customers, and employees, as well as suppliers, communities, and other interest groups. 

Our multi-stakeholder planning services address the need for planning and performance measurement in a complex environment.

Collaboration

Today's business organization can better be understood as a network - the inward facing, siloed organization no longer works.  It's as if organizations have been turned inside-out.  The organization and its environment are a network of conversations, agreements and value exchanges.  Building trust in this network is your biggest business imperative.

Our team training and coaching services help you improve the level of collaboration, commitment and trust within and outside your organization.

Consciousness

This new way of doing business calls for a new worldview, and building that mindset is a deeply personal journey for each of us. 400 years after Descartes, it's become "common sense" to believe that we are our mind, separate from our body, and that we are separate from each other and the earth. Nature has become invisible to us. Stepping up to the challenges of our time requires a greater integration of our mind, heart and hands.

We can help you find new ways of looking at the world through our Authentic Leadership training as well as individual executive coaching services.