Our Work

The more we need to work through others, the better we need to understand ourselves.

Joan Magretta

We offer:      - Consulting      - Training      - Focused, Customized Workshops      - Advising/Coaching

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Our approach to leadership, organizational, and team development focuses on helping people increase their ability to pull together around adaptive challenges. We do this by helping them increase their conversational capacity–the ability to hold together as a team even when difficult issues and strongly different perspectives are at play. It is an approach grounded in an exceptional body of social science research-not, as is often the case with team building–a set of shallow, contrived gimmicks. This approach has been applied, tested, and refined in a wide range of organizations and teams, and it is best learned while wrestling with real issues and challenges. This makes for a more practical, efficient, and engaging way of learning. We prefer to work closely with clients to customize the learning so it directly relates to their key issues and challenges.

There are generally two ways we are utilized by clients-as a fence at the top of a cliff or as an ambulance at the bottom. That is to say, some teams work with us to proactively gear up for changes and challenges, while others come to us after they’ve already gone off of the cliff and need help climbing back to higher-ground.

Because insight separated from practice is useless, we normally suggest an initial two-days together, either back-to-back, or separated by some time for practice and application. Given that we use a skill-based approach, adequate time should be invested to ensure people not only understand the skills, but know how to put them into continual practice. Additional consulting, coaching, or assistance can be provided as needed and requested.