Impact
A closer look at the real-world results that emerge when leaders are empowered and teams are supported to do their best work.
Case Studies
STRATEGIC PEOPLE & CULTURE ADVISING
A Practical Path to Team-Wide AI Adoption
CLIENT TYPE
Mid-size tech operations team
CHALLENGE
Team was overwhelmed, reactive, and avoiding AI tools that could reduce workload. Meetings stalled, communication looped, and decisions bottlenecked.
APPROACH
Facilitated a structured intervention to surface assumptions, rebuild safety, clarify workflows, and co-create AI use cases and prompts tailored to their real work.
IMPACT
Team moved from avoidance to confident adoption within weeks. Now using AI across processes, running tighter meetings, moving faster, and feeling more energized and aligned.
EXECUTIVE TEAM COACHING
Creating a Shared Operating System for Senior Leaders
CLIENT TYPE
Executive leadership team at a national organization
CHALLENGE
Individual leaders excelled, but collectively they lacked alignment. Unspoken tension, unclear priorities, and slow decision-making created confusion across the org.
APPROACH
Multi-month engagement including individual coaching, facilitated offsites, communication mapping, leadership diagnostics, and new team agreements built around clarity and trust.
IMPACT
Team now operates with unified direction, healthier debate, faster decisions, and more mutual accountability. Described the shift as “finally functioning as a real team.”
LEADERSHIP OFFSITE
The Turning Point for a Growing Team
CLIENT TYPE
Cross-functional leadership team at a growing startup
CHALLENGE
Team struggled with friction, assumptions, and repeated conflict loops. Collaboration felt effortful and tense.
APPROACH
One on one debriefs and a half-day in person with the full team, using iEQ9® to explore personal leadership patterns, motivations, triggers, and team dynamics. Balanced structured learning, candid conversation, and shared agreements.
IMPACT
Team returned with deeper empathy, smoother communication, clearer roles, and renewed trust. Described as “the turning point in how we operate.”
SKILLS ACCELERATOR
Building Confidence and Capability
CLIENT TYPE
Product and operations team at a mid-stage technology company
CHALLENGE
High-performing individual contributors were expected to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives—but without direct authority. They struggled to get decisions made, gain buy-in from peers, and move work forward. Meetings stalled, priorities competed, and frustrations grew on all sides.
APPROACH
Our targeted, 2-hour Leadership Skills Accelerator on Influencing Without Authority that blended a practical influence framework, real-world scenarios, live coaching, roleplay, and language tools for making clear asks and gaining alignment. Participants created a simple “influence map” to identify key relationships and leverage points, and the session’s fast-paced, affordable format was designed to give them tools they could apply immediately.
IMPACT
Participants reported breakthroughs: faster alignment in cross-functional projects, more productive conversations with stakeholders, and a noticeable reduction in tension around decisions.
INDIVIDUAL EXECUTIVE COACHING
Helping a Leader Reclaim Values-Aligned Influence
CLIENT TYPE
C-level executive at a fast-scaling organization.
CHALLENGE
A senior leader was grappling with misalignment between her personal values and the company’s evolving strategic direction. She felt increasing pressure to conform to a culture that prioritized speed and performance over equity, inclusion, and collaboration. Over time, this tension began to erode her confidence, clarity, and sense of long-term fit, leaving her questioning how to lead with integrity without becoming marginalized or misunderstood.
APPROACH
During our work together, we focused on helping the leader reconnect with her values while expanding her influence inside the system she was operating in. Together, we clarified what was non-negotiable, surfaced the unspoken cultural dynamics at play, and redefined what effective influence looked like in this new chapter. The work included preparation for courageous conversations, reframing power and credibility, and practicing ways to lead visibly without self-betrayal.
IMPACT
The leader re-established credibility while staying true to her core values. She showed up with greater clarity, confidence, and presence. Her team experienced improved engagement and psychological safety, and she reported feeling reconnected to her leadership in a way that felt both sustainable and authentic. The shift was described as “leading from conviction again, not compromise.”