Services
Leadership Coaching and Counseling
How can we…
Be more effective as leaders?
Best balance the ever-increasing demands at work and outside of work?
Remain centered as we respond to ever-increasing levels of stress and conflict?
Consistently make the most informed and ethical decisions?
Translate our organizational and personal missions into the everyday behaviors that will keep us successful?
Our work creates more focused, clear, capable leaders at all levels of your organization. In addition to developing greater awareness and practicing new behaviors, we partner with our clients as trusted advisors, often acting as a confidential “sounding board” for senior leaders who wrestle with the challenges of leading complex teams and organizations.
Practical Application:
We apply a variety of coaching/learning, models and assessments, in addition to offering profound experiential learning opportunities, including equine leadership development with EQUUS.
Coaching leaders who are in/moving into new, more demanding roles
Counseling leaders in effective, ethical decision-making
Business development coaching
Coaching leaders in building and demonstrating awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses
Working with leaders to remain fully engaged and fulfilled in their work
Building leaders’ abilities in the areas of mindfulness, balance, and responsiveness
Conflict Resolution and Training
How can we…
Best manage and resolve the conflict in our workplaces?
Prevent conflict from eroding our important working relationships?
Maintain our balance, and remain open-minded, in the midst of conflict?
Best communicate about conflict to our colleagues and throughout our organizations?
Our work helps equip leaders to stay grounded and “on purpose”, think more clearly, make better decisions, and communicate effectively in times of conflict. We also resolve conflicts within organizations, acting as an organizational ombudsman as needed.
Practical Application:
Training/workshops for corporate leaders, MBA students, and others focused on understanding and effectively managing conflict
Experiential learning, including applying principles and dynamics of Aikido to conflict resolution in organizations
Personal coaching in managing and resolving conflict
Resolution of conflict within organizations, including conflict within or between teams
Team Development
How can we…
Make our teams work better?
Work past personality and functional differences to align behind common goals?
Increase levels of trust in our teams? How can we even talk about trust?
Best communicate with each other, now that we are so global and “virtual”?
Maintain a high level of “team hygiene”?
We show teams how to work better together by clarifying and aligning priorities, working through and leveraging differences, and understanding roles and accountabilities.
Practical Application:
We offer a wide variety of approaches/models and activities, including learning from the horse herd to understand horse culture and leadership, through our partnership with EQUUS.
Helping newly formed and newly merged teams clarify their shared goals and success milestones
Working with cross-functional teams to streamline processes and overcome conflicting agendas
Designing and facilitating virtual team meetings, as well as periodic or offsite meetings for global teams
Lessons Learned / After-Action Reviews
How can we…
Distill the value of impactful organizational experiences?
Improve our processes—including decision-making and communication—and our leadership, based upon our experience?
Our consulting helps translate organizational experience into learnings that lead to improved processes and greater business performance.
Practical Application:
Supporting cross-functional product development teams to identify learnings following a challenging new product submission
Working with the leader of an organization to uncover potential process flaws and refocus his team after an incident where policy was violated and ethics were breached
Organization Development
How can we…
Develop a more positive and productive culture in our organization?
Clarify what diversity and inclusion really mean for our company? Women’s leadership? Cross-cultural competence?
Understand how well our organization is working in the areas most important to our success?
Build an organizational culture that fosters innovation and healthy risk-taking?
Our consulting clarifies the strengths and weaknesses in organizations and helps address areas needing improvement. We work in a variety of disciplines, all focused on developing organizations for sustained success.
Practical Application:
Working with a manufacturing group at a leading consumer products company to develop a service-based culture
Designing and conducting a qualitative organization assessment for a global consulting company
Leading discussions among senior business leaders focused on understanding and leveraging diversity
Training—from small teams to large groups—on purpose- and values-based leadership, diversity and inclusion, strategic thinking, innovation, communication, and other aspects of leadership and organization development