Consulting & Advisory
We take on challenges inside systems, culture, and strategy. Clients come with a specific need — a leadership alignment session, stakeholder interviews, or executive coaching. Others want to move through our full Studio Practice cycle to connect strategy, culture, and execution for lasting added value.
Whatever your starting point, our services are designed to meet you where you are — uncovering what’s holding you back and creating clarity, alignment, and momentum to move forward.
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The Studio Practice Framework: ALIGN
At the heart of our work is the ALIGN framework, our organizational alignment approach designed to help leaders continually connect strategy, culture, and execution.
Change isn’t a one-time event; it’s the constant environment organizations live in. The ALIGN framework provides the structure to surface opportunities and challenges, the focus to align around what matters most, and the tools to move forward with clarity and momentum. It brings discipline without rigidity — giving you a reliable process that is always tailored to your people, context, and goals.
Absorb
We begin by seeking to understand what’s really happening. Instead of rushing into solutions, we listen carefully to people, systems, and lived experience.
In practice: stakeholder interviews, organizational diagnostics, discovery workshops, data review, observation
Legitimize
Insights gain power when they’re shared and clarified. We help leaders legitimize priorities by turning observations into a roadmap that leadership owns together.
In practice: leadership alignment sessions, priority setting, roadmap development
Integrate
Direction must translate into practice. We support organizations in weaving new approaches into daily operations, planning, and decision-making.
In practice: facilitated team sessions, design sprints & pilots, adaptive planning workshops, systems and structures redesign
Grow
Progress endures when leaders and teams expand their capacity. We coach, train, and build resilience so people have the tools and confidence to carry change forward.
In practice: executive coaching, leadership development programs, team skill-building, capacity assessments
Nurture
Momentum is sustained when practices are embedded and supported over time. We help leaders steward culture, check progress, and adjust as conditions shift.
In practice: ongoing advisory partnerships, culture stewardship programs, continuous improvement coaching.
Complete a quick self-assessment to get a snapshot of your organization’s alignment, and receive a complementary guide with tips to strengthen it.
How We Work
ALIGN always begins with leadership. If the top team isn’t clear and aligned, efforts further down the organization will stall. We start by guiding leadership through the ALIGN framework to surface insights, clarify direction, and set priorities.
Alignment at the top is essential, and it becomes even stronger when leaders remain open to the wisdom of their staff. Leaders bring vision and direction; staff bring lived experience and insight into how work really gets done. When those perspectives come together, priorities are sharpened, strategies are strengthened, and the organization gains a fuller picture of what success requires.
With a two-stage cascade of leaders first, then staff, alignment is both authentic and sustainable. Staff engagement is not a 'nice-to-have.' Gallup reports that U.S. employee engagement fell to its lowest level in a decade in 2024, with only 31% of employees engaged and 17% actively disengaged. The decline since 2020 equates to 8 million fewer engaged employees, including 3.2 million fewer just in the past year.
ALIGN helps reverse that trend. By treating alignment as a shared practice, not a top-down directive, organizations tap into the collective wisdom of their people. The result is clearer priorities, stronger ownership, and the kind of engagement that fuels innovation and resilience.
Outcomes You Can Expect
A committed leadership team with clear and aligned priorites
A roadmap that connects strategy, culture, and execution
Leaders and teams equipped with knowledge, skills and practices to thrive in times of change
A culture of trust and accountability that fuels engagement, creativity, and sustained progress
A trusted partner who helps you bring your wisdom to life
The Power of Tapping Collective Wisdom
Better Decisions, Faster
When diverse perspectives are surfaced early, leaders gain a clearer picture of what’s really happening. This reduces blind spots, surfaces risks, and leads to decisions that are both smarter and more widely supported.
Stronger Buy-In and Ownership
People are far more committed to a change they’ve had a hand in shaping. By inviting contribution and honoring resistance as information, organizations create real ownership — not compliance.
Increased Trust and Psychological Safety
Inviting voices into the process signals respect. Over time, this builds trust across levels and functions, creating the conditions for teams to share honestly, take risks, and innovate.
Aligned Strategy, Culture, and Execution
Collective wisdom ensures that plans aren’t crafted in isolation. Leaders align not only around what to do, but also around the cultural and operational realities needed to make it stick.
Resilience in Times of Change
When people feel heard and engaged, they’re more adaptable. Tapping collective wisdom builds organizational resilience — the ability to adjust course without losing momentum.
Innovation and Creativity
Resistance often points to hidden insights or unexplored opportunities. Harnessing that energy unlocks creativity, enabling solutions that wouldn’t emerge from the top down.
Sustained Momentum
Because leaders stay committed to carrying the work forward, and people feel invested, progress doesn’t stall after the initial push. The change endures because the organization owns it.
Ready to move toward your vision?
There is a way forward. Let’s talk about how we can make it possible together.