Services
Strategic Consulting
We work with teams from all over the world to figure out how to deliver more and faster. Digging deep into your business, we'll work with you to identify blockers, analyze and de-risk solutions, and make an implementation plan that will move you forward.
Coming from an Agile software development background, our goal is to "ship it!" All the great thinking in the world won't create outcomes for your customers or stakeholders unless you take action on it.
We'll help you do your best thinking and turn it into impact through action.
With 16 years of consulting experience at all levels, from small product teams to senior leadership, we can help you move forward.
Problem Identification and Analysis
We'll work with you and your team to pinpoint the things that are holding you back and understand root causes of blockers.
Ruthless Prioritization
Every team we've ever worked with has been trying to do too much and it's preventing them from delivering value. We'll help you figure out how to do less so you can deliver more.
Risk Assessment and Mitigation
We can help you identify potential risks to new efforts or solutions and create experiments and mitigation plans so that flaws in your strategy don't come back to bite you.
Action Planning
We never leave off at just thinking it through. We'll make an action plan with you that includes names, teams, actions, and timeframes, so you can get to work and make it happen.
Skill Building
We offer four pre-planned skill-building experiences and we can help you create or customize whatever your team needs.
Our skill building offerings have transformed the way entire organizations work together and think about their approaches to their work. We've delivered this training to Fortune 100 companies, government agencies (including the Navy SEALS and the White House), and small non-profits. All of them have resoundingly lauded this training as among the best they've ever had.
Our skill building offerings are focused on making meaningful progress. With our training, your teams will become better collaborators, communicators, analysts, and problem solvers. They will get more done.
All of our classes are "workshop style," where participants are asked to learn by doing. We'll do real work, on real problems, with other humans.
Collaboration Patterns
Our Collaboration Patterns class will teach you how to get information out of your team members heads, organize it in meaningful ways, and focus on the parts that matter. These methods will 10x your team's progress.
Problem Solving
Our Problem Solving class uses the Four Leadership Motions™ to dig into the heart of a challenge, articulate the desired outcome, find the right people to help you solve it, and make decisions that will move you forward through the challenge.
Facilitation
Building on the Collaborations Patterns class, our Facilitation Training teaches you how to lead groups of people through these methods with confidence.
Risk Assessment and Mitigation
We'll teach you how to identify critical risks associated with new endeavors (or new solutions), prioritize them, and create experiments and other mitigation strategies.
Master-Level Facilitation
We build and deliver custom workshops designed to tackle any challenge. We'll help you identify the purpose of the workshop, the context and the desired outcome, and craft a set of activities that will drive alignment and understanding of the problem and a cross-functional action plan to deliver a solution.
We have 1000s of hours of experience at crafting and delivering workshops for some very challenging audiences. We've helped teams do everything from identifying and ratifying their corporate vision and mission statements, to analyzing product feedback and making decisions about new features.
If you've got a challenge that needs a group of your peers to get together to solve it, we can make it a fun and productive experience.
Custom Options
Your problems are unique. We build workshops formulated specifically for you and your team so we're not wasting time on things that won't move you forward.
Collaborative Planning
We work with you, not at you. Our intake process is carefully constructed to ensure the best results. We'll incorporate at least two rounds of feedback from you to ensure the agenda is precisely tuned.
Any Size
While the best work is often done in small groups, sometimes you need to bring a lot of people along for the ride. We can construct workshops to include any number of people to create maximum alignment.
Remote or In-Person
We have the toolsets and the know-how to build effective experiences with either remote or in-person groups. Nothing will stop us from driving progress for your team.
Coaching and Advising
We offer coaching and advisory services at executive levels. While most coaching is focused on self-care and self-improvement, our coaching focuses on refining your delivery strategy and staying on mission.
Our coaching is often combined with our other offerings to build alignment with the whole team around learnings, insights, and decisions.
We've helped dozens of mission-focused leaders build more effective organizations and deliver more value.
Private - One-on-One
Our coaching/advisory sessions are private. We give you a safe space as a leader to entertain crazy or scary ideas. We don't share anything unless and until you're ready to bring it to the wider team.
Bonus Workshop!
Every coaching plan comes with at least 1 group workshop for your team. The contents of the workshop is based on results of our coaching work and tailored to help your team rally around insights and gain forward momentum.
A Little or A Lot
We can scope your coaching plan to a schedule that works well for you. We have flexible retainer programs that we can structure to meet your coaching and scheduling needs.
Public Speaking
- We deliver a variety of talks for any audience. Most of our public talks focus on collaboration skills and mission delivery. Talks can be tailored for any time-slot or audience. Examples include: Scaling a leadership team Transformative leadership practices Hiring and managing for inclusion and equity Extreme collaboration Prioritization The Mission Ratio: what it is and how to improve it
Book Clubs/Book Signings
If you get ten people to buy a book, we'll be happy to show up at your book club for 30 minutes at the mid-way point and an hour at the end to answer any questions or talk through sticking points. We can even send signed bookplates for your group to affix in their books.
Private Events
Internal events or conferences often combine a talk with a workshop or a book signing (or both!)
Pay in Cash or Books!
We're flexible in how we take compensation for speaking. Outside of travel reimbursement (always cash), you can choose whether you'd like to pay in cash, books, or a combination. We offer a discount on volume purchases of books and if you opt for books as part or all of our compensation, you'll get a discount on the speaking as well!
Public Events
We love speaking at conferences, big or small. We only do a small number of these each year, so book early!
Let's work together!
Reach out and tell us what you're up to and we can figure out together how mission ratio can help you move forward.