Advisory

Advising for leaders navigating change.

Whether you are setting strategy, developing leaders, strengthening a team, or preparing for AI, we help executives and boards make clear decisions and bring their people along — with practical support to follow through.

Core focus

Strategic Advising

Clarity for complex decisions. A plan for what comes next.

An experienced, objective thought partner for leaders facing big decisions. We bring structure to the hard questions — where to focus, what it means for your workforce, how to govern well, and how to sequence the change — drawing on years of leading organizational change. When AI is part of the picture, we add PMI's CPMAI methodology for managing AI initiatives.

Ideal for: Executive directors, CEOs, C-suite teams, and boards at nonprofits, international development institutions, academic institutions, and private-sector organizations.

What's included

  • Organizational review and executive briefing (including AI readiness, if relevant)
  • Strategy sessions with leadership teams and boards
  • Workforce, role, and skills implications
  • Governance and risk, including responsible-use principles for AI
  • Prioritized roadmap with change management built in
  • Ongoing advisory retainer as a trusted sounding board
When you're ready

AI Adoption & Implementation

Turn your AI strategy into everyday practice.

Once direction is set, we help you put it to work: practical guardrails, a few high-value use cases with clear owners, and training that builds real skill and confidence across your teams.

Ideal for: Organizations ready to move from scattered experiments to deliberate, responsible use of AI.

What's included

  • Acceptable-use policy and practical guardrails
  • Use-case selection with owners and measures
  • Staff training in AI fluency, prompting, and critical thinking
  • Pilot design and lessons-learned reviews
  • Adoption measurement and course correction
Teams

Team Strengthening

Build teams that understand one another and adapt together.

Using the Birkman Method and other practical tools, we design sessions around your team's real challenges — so people leave with shared language, better communication, and concrete agreements for working through change.

Ideal for: Leadership teams, newly formed teams, teams going through change, and groups seeking stronger collaboration.

What's included

  • Individual Birkman assessments and reports
  • Team session designed around your goals
  • Communication, collaboration, and stress-pattern insights
  • Facilitated team agreements and action plans
  • Optional follow-up sessions and leader debriefs
Facilitation

Facilitation

Create the space for productive conversations and meaningful outcomes.

From planning the agenda through guiding the conversation and capturing next steps, we provide the structure so leaders and participants can focus on the decisions that matter — including leadership and board conversations about AI.

Ideal for: Strategic planning sessions, leadership retreats, board sessions, and stakeholder discussions.

What's included

  • Pre-session interviews and agenda design
  • Engaging, interactive facilitation
  • Decision and action capture
  • Post-session summary and next steps
Coaching

Executive Coaching

Strengthen how you lead — not just what you know.

Practical, action-oriented coaching for leaders navigating change — building self-awareness, handling difficult situations, communicating with impact, and leading teams through new ways of working. Birkman and 360 insights are available to ground the work.

Ideal for: Executives, emerging senior leaders, new leaders, and high-potential professionals preparing for greater responsibility.

What's included

  • Intake and goal-setting conversation
  • Birkman or 360 assessment debrief (optional)
  • Regular 1:1 coaching sessions
  • Between-session practice and reflection
  • Progress review and forward plan

Let's find the right starting point

Most clients begin with a short discovery call and a focused first step — an executive briefing, a readiness review, or a single leadership session — before committing to anything larger.