A Unique Blend

We bring a unique blend of education, empathy, experience, passion, realism and street smarts to leaders and their teams.  We focus on helping you to build powerful and effective teams so that you can get things done—the right things, with the right people, at the right times and in the right places.   

Call us the “truth serum". This is the good kind of truth—the kind that surfaces and simplifies everything and ensures that meaningful connections and solid decisions get made, healthier relationships get built, and great work gets done.  This work is anchored in our unique ability to give actionable feedback in a way that it can be heard and to teach you and your teams how to do this well too.  The process we take you through as a team is an adaptation of our one-on-one coaching process and is customized to meet the specific needs of your team and/or whole organization, whether it is professional or personal in nature. Once you’ve been through a “Core Work-Out™” and developed your own individual and collective Personal, Professional and/or Career Maps™, you can put these invaluable tools and insights (along with a cadre of new or honed interpersonal, leadership and communication skills) to work in all parts of your life and work, enhancing every relationship, engagement, and outcome. 

The best and most productive teams comprise individuals who know themselves, who feel empowered, and who are expected to use their power well and in accordance with agreed upon and highly explicit rules of engagement.  The best and most productive teams have achieved deep understanding and basic agreements about the essentials involved in building powerful and effective teams and getting great work done, understanding the overarching vision, mission and purpose, understanding key roles and responsibilities and how to hold each other accountable to play their positions, and understanding how to communicate well given the context of the engagement, not too much and not too little.  Our “Core Work-Out™” provides a framework within which to achieve this clarity and alignment.  Once this is done and the team is anchored in this work, get out of the way—the path to the finish line or commercialization is clear. 

As a result of this process, every individual on your team will become a stronger leader; each of you will emerge seeing yourselves as leaders in your own life and work and with a deeper appreciation for the importance of this.  Each of us shows up very differently and much more powerfully, in the best sense of the word, when we understand that there is a difference between being in a leadership position and seeing ourselves as a leader, ready either to take the lead or follow at any given moment.  Most of us are already accomplished business people so that will just get better and each of us will become a better team player, mentor, student, teacher and/or parent as we do this work and develop a strong sense of stewardship; of personal and professional direction.

In other words, as a result of this process, individuals and team members will become serving leaders.  Already competent and able to get a lot of good things done, they will be even more competent and able to get great things done, both on their own and through their organizations—all the while anchored in and aligned with personal and organizational values. This kind of work, centered in one’s values, in one’s core, is what reduces conflict within, the worst kind of conflict, and builds better individuals, better relationships, better work teams, better businesses, better communities and a better world.

Results Speak for Themselves

It takes courage to pause at a crucial juncture and invite this “Core Work-Out™” into your life and time lines, no matter what stage you are in. It takes courage to listen to the whisper, your inner voice, to act on your intuition, and put what you’ve learned to work for you, your organization, your family and your relationships. It takes courage to admit that what got you to this point may not serve you or your organization down the road; that it’s always good to examine one’s assumptions and adjust and calibrate as needed.  If you are truly committed to this process and to powerfully designing and redesigning your alliances, we believe that after your first experience with the impact of showing up in the world more intentionally, more powerfully, with more skills and with a greater sense of purpose and aliveness, you will never want to look back. The results will speak for themselves, organizationally, interpersonally, relationally, intellectually, financially, spiritually and physically. The results will bear this work out and you will marvel at the joy and aliveness you experience in the process, even when things get messy or uncomfortable, which will happen.

This work is about individual, interpersonal and corporate wellness and the behavioral skills required to achieve it and optimize your circumstances.  It’s about inviting more aliveness, fulfillment and fun into life and work, for yourself and everyone in your midst, by focusing more intentionally on the front end of your process and on building powerful and effective individuals who then comprise powerful and effective teams.  Ideally, it’s about doing this training before it is essential so that the capabilities are in place and ready to be deployed on major initiatives, all the while applying the learning and working to achieve desired results day to day.  

This work is about leaving less money and unused potential on the table. It’s about creating a highly productive, functional, financially successful and sustainable corporate or family entity by focusing on the stuff that needs focus, the people—you, me, us, your team—and all the little things, the behaviors that actually matter, a lot.  It’s about building new relational, conversational, interpersonal and leadership muscles throughout the organization and it’s about developing depth and capacity in your leadership rank and file.  It’s about developing the self-assurance, self-confidence, self-awareness, and self-responsibility required of leaders at all levels in the organization and in life to focus on the short- and the long-run, the people and the tasks, and the organization and the individuals.  It’s about focusing on people development in order to create the conditions necessary to thrive, which ensures engagement and facilitiates retention.

And, after all is said and done, this is also about making a commitment, whether you are 26 or 56 or 86 to leaving the best possible legacy you can, given the privilege you have to be at or near the helm of your organization. We help you to optimize that too—no apologies and no excuses.