Leadership Coaching & Advisory
Executive Coaching & Leadership Support
Our CEO clients often describe having an external confidant as a game-changer, allowing them to work through business challenges and opportunities in a space that’s free from the daily pressures. With our broad experience, we help executives see the "forest view," challenging conventional thinking while guiding them to achieve the best outcomes for both themselves and their organizations.
High-Potential Leadership Development
Identifying high-potential employees is one thing; developing them is another. We serve as coaches, trainers, and mentors to help future leaders in your organization reach their full potential. While you're managing day-to-day operations, we ensure these critical assets receive the attention and development they need to rise and thrive.
Project Advisory & Organizational Transformation
Our expert advisory services bring a wealth of tools and insights drawn from our professional lifetime. Whether you’re navigating a project, program, or complete organizational redesign, we provide strategies and solutions tailored to your unique needs.
Strategic Guidance & Expertise for Organizations
Fractional Engagements
Fractional engagements offer a strategic solution for bridging skill gaps, filling leadership roles during transitions, or embedding experienced C-level leaders when critical projects demand focused attention. This approach ensures fast, effective results while addressing immediate organizational needs.
Keynotes
There is tremendous power in sharing a good, compelling story that resonates with audiences helping to deliver a lasting message. With a story we can change the person, the organization, and maybe the world...
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Flagship Keynote: Forged by Difference
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See all the details on Forged by Difference blogs & content, keynote, and leadership training here:
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Some other keynote themes include:
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Get Rhythm!
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Persist in the Storm
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Working in The Matrix
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Customized Keynotes​​
Let us build a keynote just for you! We will develop the content for your specific objectives and audience in your organization’s cultural ethos.
Expert Peer Reviews
Our peer consultation service provides external, objective feedback from experienced professionals, helping you identify overlooked challenges and opportunities. Through focused discussions, we assist in refining strategies, navigating decisions, and addressing blind spots, leading to more informed and effective outcomes.
Professional Development Workshops for Teams
Workshops for Strategic Alignment and Problem Solving
Strategic Planning: Finding A North Star
This one-day workshop is great for the beginning of a new year or when a strategic planning session is needed. Designed to help teams align their strategies and develop a practical "plan on a page," uncovering key business issues that need to be tackled for success.
Do you know the RIGHT problems to solve?
What most teams struggle with, it turns out, is not solving problems but figuring out the RIGHT problems to solve. The pattern is clear: Spurred by a penchant for action, managers tend to switch quickly into solution mode without checking whether they really understand the problem. This workshop aims to help teams identify where to focus.
Team Building and Engagement Facilitation
Using an Agile Process to Improve Engagement
The Agile process, so common in software development, is applied to communications to drastically improve engagement with customers and the markets in order to drive great results, positive brand equity, higher retention, reduce price sensitivity, and generate positive word of mouth.
Building Teams: The Right People at the Right Times
High-performing teams must adapt their skill sets and approaches throughout a project's phases. This workshop, based on University of Michigan’s Ross School professor Jeff DeGraff’s Competing Values Framework, helps teams achieve optimal results by evolving with the project.
Growth-Oriented Program Development and Custom Trainings
Building Your Growth Engine
Based on the Growth Gears book, this workshop helps teams develop programs driven by strategic insights, moving away from "random acts" of execution to intentional, impactful actions.
Custom Workshops and Trainings
A myriad of other workshops is possible, all tailored for specific goals and outcomes and based on the needs and culture of your organization. We have created simple trainings from small teams to firm-wide, and gamified year-long programs like Total Customer Experience where organizations align their consumer experience work with their internal teams and culture for amazing outcomes.
