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Consulting
Achieve sustainable breakthroughs around your most compelling business, social, and environmental issues.
About Consulting
Some problems resist quick fixes because they aren’t simple problems — they’re systemic ones, produced by the very structures meant to solve them. Our consulting practice works alongside you to achieve sustainable breakthroughs on the business, social, and environmental issues that matter most.
Our Approach
We use applied systems thinking to help you see the whole system at work: the feedback loops, incentives, and mental models sustaining the status quo. From there, we co-design a coherent strategy that targets the highest-leverage points for change.
Engagements
- Strategy and theory-of-change design
- Facilitated systems mapping workshops
- Multi-stakeholder alignment processes
- Long-term advisory partnerships
We’ve partnered with foundations, nonprofits, universities, multilateral institutions, and Fortune 500 companies to turn complexity into a coherent path forward.
What We Do
Through keynotes, presentations, and introductory workshops ranging from 1-3 days, we introduce participants in your organization to the core elements of systems thinking. Depending on the time available, we cover such topics as:
- Illuminates the often non-obvious causal interactions, mindsets, and payoffs that perpetuate the issue
- Identifies leverage points that can shift performance
- Supports implementation
Results In Action
A California-based software firm wanted help with problems related to rolling out and ramping up sales of their new products. Their new products were not “taking off”, and they were not able to shift their client base to the next generation software. In a kickoff session at the very onset of the process, Mike asked for a show of hands from participants as to whether they thought they knew what the problem was and how to fix it. About 80-90 percent of the hands went up indicating they were pretty sure they knew what the cause was and what the solution was. Mike then repeated the same questions at the end of the process, and the results were quite startling. No one raised their hand! In a relatively short time using systems thinking, the group truly came to “admire” the roll-out problems they faced. They recognized the systemic roots of the issue, that there was no simple obvious fix, and that everyone was implicated. After years of struggle, this was progress.
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