Driving Step Change

We collaborate with leaders and their organizations to drive, manage, and respond to change. We help organizations and individuals lean into rather than be overwhelmed by changes that can seem unmanageable. We challenge clients to cultivate new ways of thinking, seeing, and acting – reducing risk while unlocking opportunities.

We offer a different perspective, derived from a suite of Analytic Lenses refined over decades of domestic and international experience, from New York to Moscow, and across the array of issues clustered around sustainability. For us, purpose is an attitude, a culture, a mission.

The tools we use are as diverse as the needs of our clients, from The World Bank and Unilever to Mundo Verde Public Charter School and The Equitable Food Initiative.

Strategy is not a plan or department. Strategy weaves together values, purpose, operations and vision. It is the spine of every successful organization.

Effective communications starts with the design of an overarching narrative. Without that story, messages often fail to deliver. We have a recipe we share with clients to ensure alignment of the critical elements needed for successfully reaching targeted stakeholders.

We build partnerships between organizations and individuals to expand thinking, to provoke new ideas, to generate aha moments. The right partnerships drive brand value, protect license to operate, attract and retain talent, and engage thoughtful investors and donors.

• We believe in purpose – personal, organizational, and social.
• We change systems to create a better world – of shared prosperity
• We practice authentic leadership – inspiring change, remaining steady, ethical.
• We preach a new form of capitalism – regenerative, circular, and with people at the center
• We hold that listening is the core of effective communications – so we do it very methodically.
• We speak truth to power – especially with clients.
• We identify and harness strengths to drive change – our focus is solutions not problems.
• We think in systems, across functions, outside silos – because everything is connected.

Change happens.

Drive it. Manage it.

Or if it's too late for that, at least respond effectively.