Services
Clients work with me in four ways: I advise, I help organizations transform, we co-design, and I speak. Most start small, with a conversation, a review or a stress test of a strategy, and add more as it helps. When your team is ready to take on the problem together, we co-design the way forward, and if you would like, I help them build the skills to carry it on.
Advise
Make high-stakes decisions with a clearer view of your options and the future.
A trusted sounding board for leaders and boards facing complex decisions, including the options the future may open or close.
Includes: executive and board advisory; strategic diagnosis; strategy stress tests and new directions; independent reviews of strategies, plans and documents; strategic foresight (exploring possible futures and the options they open); long-range vision; advising individual leaders; investor advisory.
Transform
Move your organization to a new direction, and bring your people with you.
Guide your organization, or team, to new directions when technologies or the mission changes.
I’ve led change at NASA for decades, from single teams to large organizations, and worked on technological transformations with DARPA, NSF, and NATO.
Includes: leading or guiding a change of direction; strategy for rapid technological change; emerging technology adoption; organizational transformation that accounts for people, budget, capability and partnerships; acting on a foresight engagement.
Co-design
Leave with a strategy your team designed, understands and owns.
Build the strategy with your team, so they own it. If you would like, I can also help them build the skills to carry it forward.
Includes: leadership team workshops; strategy co-design with teams; multi-organization initiatives; when wanted, master classes and workshops applied to your own challenge (complex problem framing; high reliability organizing and positive organizational scholarship in technical settings; human-centered design at system scale; complex systems design); university courses.
Speak
Give your audience a new way to see complex problems.
Keynotes, lectures, and panels.
Initial engagements
- A conversation about what you are facing.
- A review of a strategy, plan or document.
- A strategy stress test, with new directions to consider.
- Advice for one leader or team.
- A keynote or master class for your team or event.
- A conversation about a change of direction you are facing.
- A workshop with your leadership team or organization.