Helping leaders and organizations turn strategy into action by strengthening leadership, creating stronger teams, building business alignment, and putting the customer first.
Sustainable performance is more than numbers. It's about the people, behaviors, and environment that create them.
The numbers behind our team's experience developing leaders, strengthening teams, and helping organizations perform.
750+Leaders Coached
300+Workshops Facilitated
50+Years of combined coaching and facilitation experience
97Average Net Promoter Score across our coaches' programs
The Impact
What this looks like in practice
Our partners have led leadership, team, and transformation work across organizations ranging from growing companies to global enterprises. Here are a few examples.
Turning a real estate portfolio into a product organization
The ask
Transform a multinational organization's Commercial Real Estate portfolio into a product organization.
Transform a multinational organization's Commercial Real Estate portfolio into a product organization capable of improving productivity, responding to customer needs, and making data-driven strategic decisions.
What we did
Led a six-month “Accelerate to Product” transformation with senior leadership and technology teams.
Led a six-month “Accelerate to Product” transformation in partnership with senior leadership and technology teams. We helped leaders create a shared vision, align teams around strategic outcomes and OKRs, make work and decision-making more transparent, and remove organizational barriers to growth. The program strengthened leadership alignment, empowered teams to take greater ownership, and established a foundation for continuous improvement.
The result
Leadership aligned around strategic opportunities and created an outcome-based roadmap.
The organization aligned leadership around strategic opportunities and created an outcome-based roadmap. Stronger business–technology collaboration and communication contributed to improved customer satisfaction and employee engagement while creating greater organizational alignment around product outcomes.
Modernizing management at scale
The ask
A multinational organization sought to modernize its management approach.
A multinational organization sought to modernize its management approach to improve productivity, strengthen collaboration, increase upward feedback, and accelerate delivery.
What we did
Onsite and virtual workshops developing managers' coaching, feedback, and trust-based leadership.
We designed and facilitated onsite and virtual workshops that developed managers' capabilities in coaching, mentoring, collaboration, feedback, and trust-based leadership.
The result
Managers moved from command-and-control toward a more collaborative leadership model.
Managers began moving from a command-and-control approach toward a more collaborative leadership model focused on coaching, mentoring, trust, and empowering employees to perform at their best.
Shifting leadership practice across asset management
The ask
Transform leadership practices across a worldwide asset management organization.
Transform leadership practices across a worldwide asset management organization to create greater consistency, collaboration, adaptability, and innovation across business segments and functions.
What we did
A comprehensive program covering adaptability, Empiricism, Systems Thinking, and Lean Thinking.
We initiated a comprehensive program that focused on educating leaders about principles of adaptability, fostering a mindset of continuous improvement, and emphasizing the importance of shared terminology. The program included training on Empiricism, Systems Thinking, Lean Thinking, and the leadership skills necessary for driving impactful change.
The result
Leaders shifted from managing work to creating the conditions for teams to learn and adapt.
Leaders shifted from simply managing work to actively creating the conditions for teams to learn, adapt, and perform. They committed to evolving their leadership approaches, strengthening accountability and collaboration, and fostering greater trust and empowerment. The organization established a stronger foundation for a high-performance culture built on continuous learning, adaptability, and innovation.
Building an adaptable, risk-aware culture
The ask
A mid-size company wanted to improve efficiency and adaptability.
A mid-size company wanted to improve efficiency and adaptability while equipping managers to recognize and reward thoughtful risk-taking.
What we did
Workshops strengthening managers' ability to assess risk and encourage self-direction.
We designed and facilitated workshops that strengthened managers' ability to assess risk, encourage self-direction, build trust, and foster an adaptable organization.
The result
Managers shifted toward greater employee autonomy, using KPIs to measure progress.
Managers shifted toward greater employee autonomy and development, using trust and empowerment to foster growth and KPIs to measure progress and accountability.
Aligning investment across financial products
The ask
A multinational organization sought to maximize return on investment in its Financial Products.
A multinational organization sought to maximize the return on investment in its Financial Products by strengthening stakeholder alignment, increasing transparency, and enabling more informed strategic decisions.
What we did
A two-month discovery initiative culminating in a three-day product planning workshop.
Led a two-month discovery initiative culminating in a three-day product planning workshop that brought business and technology leaders together around a shared understanding of customer needs, product performance, and organizational priorities. The effort surfaced inefficiencies, clarified strategic opportunities, and established priorities for future investment.
The result
Leadership gained greater visibility into system health and product performance.
Leadership gained greater visibility into system health, product performance, and opportunities for improvement. The initiative established a shared vision, prioritized objectives and key results, and a clear action plan — enabling leaders to make informed, data-driven decisions and align investments with strategic outcomes.
What We Do
Helping people and organizations perform at their best
Our programs are built around your people, your challenges, and your goals.
Leadership Development
Practical development for first-time managers and senior leaders alike: how to communicate, coach, decide, and lead through uncertainty.
Communicating with Impact
Leader as Coach
Strategic Thinking & Decision-Making
Leading Through Change & Ambiguity
Executive Presence & Influence
Team Effectiveness & Collaboration
Turning a group of capable people into a team that trusts each other, collaborates, and delivers results together.
Building High-Performing Teams
Psychological Safety
Difficult Conversations & Conflict Resolution
Team & Cross-Functional Collaboration
Team Decision-Making & Accountability
Strategic Planning & Business Alignment
Converting strategy into results.
Vision, Mission & Purpose
Prioritization & Decision-Making
Strategic Roadmapping
Creating Alignment Around Shared Goals
Data-Driven Decision Making
Measuring What Matters
Customer-First Mindset
Start with the customer, understand what they need, and map their journey to create an experience that delights.
Understanding Customer Needs
Design Thinking
Customer Journey Mapping
Creating Customer Value
Turning Customer Insights into Action
Flexible Program Formats
Our programs can be delivered in several formats depending on the topic, objectives, and depth of learning needed.
90-Minute Session
Focused learning around a specific topic or challenge.
Half-Day Workshop
An interactive experience combining instruction, discussion, and practice.
Full-Day Workshop
Deeper learning with more time for application, feedback, and real-world challenges.
Two-Day Experience
An immersive experience for topics that benefit from deeper exploration, practice, reflection, and application.
Extend The Learning
Continue the development beyond the workshop
Workshops can be paired with follow-up executive coaching to help leaders apply what they learned, work through real challenges, and reinforce new behaviors over time.
Tell us what you're actually trying to solve, and we'll tell you whether we're the right fit — or point you to someone who is.
We combine focused instruction with discussion, practice, coaching, and application. Each experience is tailored to the organization and built around challenges participants actually face in their work.
Learn
Discuss
Practice
Reflect
Apply
Customized to the Challenge
We start with understanding what the organization and its people are trying to accomplish, then tailor the experience to that need.
Practice, Not Just Presentation
Participants don't just hear about a concept. They discuss it, practice it, receive feedback, and explore how to use it in their work.
Built for Application
The goal isn't simply for people to leave knowing more. It's for them to leave better equipped to think, decide, and communicate.
Who We Are
Experience across leadership, team development, strategy, and organizational performance
Our team brings decades of experience helping leaders, teams, and organizations perform at their best.
Ed Ament
Ed Ament is a transformation leader, facilitator, and coach with more than 27 years of experience helping organizations turn strategy into action, strengthen how leaders and teams work together, and improve performance. His background spans leadership development, team effectiveness, strategic planning, organizational change, business transformation, and continuous improvement.
Ed spent more than two decades at IBM and has also worked with teams at Meta and Huntington Bank, where he coached leaders and teams, led complex transformation efforts, and helped organizations create greater alignment between strategy and execution. Throughout his career, he has been particularly effective at bringing leaders and teams together around shared goals, removing barriers to performance, and helping people navigate change. His approach combines business strategy, coaching, facilitation, and practical problem-solving to help organizations build stronger leaders, more effective teams, and sustainable capability.
27+ Years in Transformation & Facilitation
Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt
ICAgile Coach & Instructor
Certified Scrum Master & Product Owner
Andrea Cicogna
Andrea Cicogna is a transformational leader, executive coach, and organizational consultant with more than 25 years of experience helping organizations turn strategy into action and strengthen how leaders and teams work together. Her background spans leadership development, agile ways of working, design thinking, product strategy, learning and development, strategic planning, and enterprise transformation.
Andrea has held senior leadership and transformation roles at JPMorgan Chase and IBM, where she designed and delivered leadership programs, coached leaders and teams, and helped scale new ways of working across complex organizations. Her approach combines business strategy with experiential learning, coaching, and facilitation to help organizations create clarity, improve collaboration, navigate change, and build sustainable capability.
25+ Years in Leadership & Transformation
Executive Coach (CPCC)
ICAgile Coach & Instructor
Enterprise Design Thinking Co-Creator
Ryan Fox
Ryan Fox is a commercial leader, facilitator, and coach with experience across Johnson & Johnson and Amgen. He has coached and developed professionals, facilitated learning experiences, and led capability-building initiatives across commercial teams. His experience spans leadership development, strategic thinking, coaching, and commercial strategy, with a focus on helping individuals and teams turn ideas into practical action.
Ryan holds a degree in biomedical engineering from Georgia Tech and is completing his MBA at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
Sales Trainer & Coach
Georgia Tech Biomedical Engineering
Kellogg MBA Candidate
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