Our Approach

Organizational Development
We are experienced in team process, collective impact, adaptive leadership, organizational development and research. We support each client with both proven tools and tailored approaches for their industry, organization and goals.
Results Oriented, Research Based
We are respected experts in  rigorous qualitative and quantitative research. In addition to client research projects, we are on top of the latest research in the field and we add to the field with our own in-house research.  

Dynamic Multiple Stakeholder Engagement in Decision Making
Our engagement and facilitation techniques are based on a combination of our experience and cutting edge research in the field on authentically empowering a broad range of stakeholders to participate in decision making. This results in a dynamic process with achievable, measurable outcomes for organizations.

Team Insights

We help organizations ensure their teams are operating at peak capacity. 
Given the rapidly accelerating pace of business, optimizing how your team processes information and makes decisions is more important than ever before. Team Insights provides leaders and team members with deep insight into where teams are on a continuum of productivity, creativity and engagement with clients and objectives.
Our approach also enables teams to self correct by identifying strengths, challenges and bottlenecks. This process, built on the latest research is empowering and engaging.

How Teams Benefit
​Team members typically recognize when their collaborative work is not operating at peak capacity, yet they often struggle to pinpoint the exact challenges or improvements. They can have an equally hard time recognizing their strengths. This is especially true for cross-functional teams, large groups and business to business collaboration.

​Even the goal itself can get lost in team process.  Team Insights identifies the strengths, challenges and bottlenecks and puts team members back in the driver’s seat. Unlike many team building approaches, businesses find Team Insights more engaging, more research based, and better able to drive the group faster toward its goals.

Our Social Impact

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​We use our business and community expertise to build the capacity of nonprofits, foundations, government agencies and collaborations to better serve their communities, in partnership with those directly impacted.
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​We engage with the social sector in the following ways:
  • We support systems change initiatives at large public agencies, nonprofits, foundations and collaborations.
  • We engage partners in new ways of using measurement and evaluation to support social change. Our Collective Power Analysis and other tools focus on equity, root cause, policy and systems change.
  • We also help smaller innovative nonprofits build toward their next phase of growth and impact larger systems.
  •  We have always supported clients in centering the voices of those directly impacted, and increasing resident and client voice in change.
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