Our services

Consulting services

Consulting is at the core of what we do. We offer a full range of consulting services in all phases of planning, marketing, and leadership development—guidance, surveys, design, facilitation, and implementation. We have consulted on strategic planning for many organizations whose reach extends from local communities to 30 countries. As we stated on our homepage, we believe the keys to world-changing success are effective strategies, marketing, and leadership. Though we can consult on a broad range of topics, these three subjects are the core of our expertise. That’s why we’ve written eight guides and workbooks on them.

• Strategic planning. One of our primary services is helping organizations design breakthrough strategic plans using our unique approach to strategic planning.
• Strategic marketing. We also help our clients better understand, engage, and serve those who determine their success—their target audiences. Most world-changing organizations should be able to make significant gains in performance by adopting our approaches to strategic marketing and branding.
• Organizational development. Because our organizational development services draw from many disciplines, we can easily tailor them to an organization’s specific challenges. For example, we help leaders and managers adopt better ways to lead and manage their organization, staff, and projects. We also help organizations shift from traditional, top-down organizational structures to higher-performing, team-based ones. And we have helped many organizations save money and improve the quality of what they do by assisting them to streamline their operations and work processes.

Training programs

• We offer a wide range of highly rated training courses on many subjects crucial to world-changing organizations. See our Training web page for a list of our training courses and to download our Training Catalog.

Planning and facilitating retreats and board meetings

• Retreats and board meetings are often the best times to gain strategic insights and forge strong bonds among leaders. We help leaders plan these gatherings and then facilitate them. We help them set strategic goals, design creative ways to achieve them, and ensure discussions are both honest and respectful. Topics range from emerging opportunities to resolving underlying issues.
• But perhaps the best topic is “How can we make our organization more successful?” We’d welcome the opportunity to explore this question with your leaders and board from an hour-long meeting to a weekend retreat. Participants would consider what success means to their organization; what supports, produces, and drives it; and how to strengthen the forces behind it.

Keynote addresses

• Topics for our keynote addresses include world-changing strategy, marketing, and leadership, which we can tailor to your organization; inspirational stories to motivate staff; and other topics.

Printed guides and workbooks

• We print our guides and workbooks on 28-lb paper and 80-lb cover stock. We punch and spiral bind them using heavy industrial punch binders. You could help us defray our ‘opportunity costs” associated with the years we spent researching and developing the ideas and tools in these guides by buying our printed leadership guides. We charge $25 for each printed guide and workbook you order, which includes free shipping in the US and Canada.