We want to innovate and are not sure how to get started.
Look within, look back, look ahead
We teach you how to draw from the perceptions of stakeholders with practices that you can sustain. We provide tools to map the student experience to launch your creativity about what is possible. Those findings along with a future focused look at trends that impact learning are synthesized to inform strategy.
Create strategy
Our approach is user centered, a departure from conventional improvement approaches. We use a dynamic planning process adapted from a variety of approaches including service design, design thinking, and the Business Generation Model. We apply relevant research in and outside education to inform strategy creation.
Organize and mobilize
Learning conditions for both the providers and the users are created by intentional design or by default. We provide you with practices to create conditions for structure, support, and oversight to monitor and adapt. The result is alignment across roles and focused attention.
We want better results from our initiatives.
Analyze the now
We assist you in reviewing the alignment of what’s on paper, what’s in practice, and what’s the priority. If these fundamentals are not in sync, we assist you in determining the drivers keeping you where you are. Research of implementation science is adapted to the education context.
Recommit, tweak, or abandon
We facilitate a review of the fit of the strategy, the actions you have taken, and those you desire to take. We help you crystalize the results you want from these efforts. Strategic thinking practices that we teach you can become part of the DNA of your leadership team.
Do it better next time
We help you apply what is revealed in implementation research. We bring in practices and tools to accelerate your progress customized to your context.
We need to work better together.
We blame people. When we cannot change people, we change people. The problems persist.
Leaning into the conflict
Working together to solve difficult problems is hard work. Ignoring them does not work. Tensions arise and relationships may become fractured. We believe you have to change the way people feel before they change the way they think. We facilitate difficult conversations and assist you in replacing the patterns of work that contributed to the breakdowns with more constructive approaches.
Dive deeper
Every organization manifests its deeper problems in how people feel, talk and think as a member of the educational enterprise. We examine the challenges you face within your enterprise to help you identify contributing factors.
Customize solutions
Different situations require different solutions. We don’t have a recipe. We offer possible options that you can pursue to change the habits of work that influence how people work together.