chris houston

What We Do Best

To be in the "change management business means we find ourselves with our clients in many different transitions, often substantial and profound. But most often they involve five primary ways we add value:

  • Thinking and crafting organizational STRATEGY
  • Coaching and developing effective LEADERS and DIRECTORS
  • Building and maturing high performance TEAMS and BOARDS
  • Designing and implementing changed ORGANIZATION structures
  • Guiding (often) lengthy organizations and cultural TRANSITIONS

In practice, that means our consulting craft consists primarily of:

  • The design and facilitation of workshops, retreats and learning programs that are part of a larger organizational transition
  • The delivery of individual leader and director performance feedback
  • The crafting and articulation of organization strategy - its ideas, logic and implications
  • The design of organization and governance structures and senior roles
  • The personal coaching of teams, boards, leaders and directors

Many other consultants make the same claims. If we are better at our craft than they, it is because we are probably smart than some, less personally remote than others and more adaptable and creative than most. Most of our clients, it seems, keep us around for a while - that is perhaps the best evidence of all.

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