Management Consulting

Developing exemplary leaders, solving mission-critical business problems, creating healthy organizational cultures, and delivering exceptional employee experiences are how we help you and your team to maximize potential, performance, and profitability. We leverage the genius and efforts of talent, strategies, analytics, research, and insights to guide you in driving for results.

By focusing on identifying the root cause of a business challenge, we save you both time and money. The goal is to move beyond treating symptoms and offer a solution that results in lasting organizational effectiveness. Your organization needs experienced consults with an uncanny ability to connect the dots to both your big picture as well as your immediate need. Our consultants are skilled in challenging you to think more broadly about decisions, assess future implications, view situations from various angles, and help you see what’s possible.

The methodology centers on research, learning, collaboration, and solutions. We’re here to provide you with creative, innovative, and optimal solutions as we work to meet your need, while exceeding your expectations. We bring strategic counsel, clear guidance, a keen eye, and a listening ear to the decisions you face, the goals you set, and your vision of the future.

Collaboratively, we co-create a custom, simple, and practical solution for ease of execution. Strategies we provide are based upon your organization’s unique identity, data intelligence, research, and science. The outcome is a workable solution and a return on investment

Need Help Developing Exemplary Leaders?

Contact one of our experts to see how we can help your organization develop leaders capable of delivering extraordinary business outcomes.

Our Capabilities

Our capabilities help power yours. Our strategic alliance equips executives and their teams to maximize, potential, performance, and profitability through intentional business alignment and a proven solution framework.

Moving the needle on your most pressing business challenge is carried out with data, techniques, and insights that save your organization time and money allowing for accelerated results.

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“Becoming recognized for successfully solving problems that’ve stumped others has been rewarding. Being able to contribute in a meaningful way is what every human desires and we’ve been fulfilled by creating a life that centers around helping others.”

Dr. Sharalyn Payne

“Becoming recognized for successfully solving problems that’ve stumped others has been rewarding. Being able to contribute in a meaningful way is what every human desires and we’ve been fulfilled by creating a life that centers around helping others.

Dr. Sharalyn Payne

Developing the Leaders You Need, Creating the Company Talent Loves ™ Framework

Attracting, developing, inspiring, and sustaining talent in today’s world requires the intentionality on creating an organization that talent appreciates today. Listening to employees, executing on recommendations that align with the company’s current and future vision, while responding to those that can’t be executed on are essentials to building trust and loyalty with the people who take care of your customers and clients. When your employee experience encompasses the moments that matter and you’re committed to building people, you’re well-positioned to attract and retain the best and the brightest. The best and brightest get behind the vision to execute, help you innovate and grow and lead the market, and create a better world for all.

What Does It Take Maximize Potential, Performance, and Profitability?

Exemplary leaders, an engaged workforce, a meaningful mission, clear goals and objectives, a focus on the customer, and an exceptional employee experience are key to remaining competitive in an ever changing world.

Building Exemplary Leaders

  • Executive Coaching
  • Leadership Frameworks
  • Leadership Journeys
  • Succession Planning
  • Leadership Offsites

Creating Healthy Organizational Cultures

  • Culture Assessments
  • Culture Optimization
  • Culture Transformation
  • Culture Architecture
  • Employer of Choice

Solving Pressing Business Problems

  • Visioning & Strategic
  • Action Planning
  • Thought Networks
  • Operational Excellence
  • People Strategy and Performance
  • Balanced Perspectives

Developing Superior Talent

  • Leadership Development
  • Personal & Professional
  • Development
  • High-Performance Teams
  • Assessment Tools
  • Business Retreats

Engaging Employees

  • Engagement Diagnostics
  • Engagement Models
  • Program Design and
  • Implementation
  • Engagement Drivers
  • Talent Acquisition and Retention

Delivering Exceptional Employee Experiences

  • Employee Lifecycle
  • Communication Channels
  • Policy Review
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Rewards and Recognition
  • Wellness and Wellbeing
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Talent Management Organizational Effectiveness Solution Offerings

As your partner, we’ll uncover your strengths as well as your opportunities. We’ll survey your people, offerings, systems, policies, and processes to help you identify a path to becoming and sustaining a healthy, progressive organization.

Develop Exemplary Leaders

Develop responsible and competent leaders who reflect organizational values, promote and reward desired behaviors, and drive for results. Our leadership development program equips leaders with the tools to inspire talent to achieve operational goals, manage human performance, improve decision quality, and navigate the complexities of an ever changing workplace and world.

Attract and Retain Superior Talent

An organization’s performance, sustainability, and speed to market is largely dependent upon its ability to retain high-performers. We help our clients design targeted employee value propositions for key roles, deliver on expectations, and leverage technology and data to support decisions and reduce attrition. We take a deep dive in your organization’s business strategies, programs, processes, and programs to understand your strengths and opportunities so that we can co-create an actionable plan that leads to increased retention of your most productive population.

Create High-Performing Teams

Achieving superior results requires leaders with the capability to form high-performing teams to solve organizational challenges. We help leaders examine the composition of a diverse team well beyond who is on the team. We help leaders assess the required capabilities of team members needed to achieve mission-critical business priorities, while analyzing teams for gaps and redundancies in skills needed for successful execution. We provide leaders with a review of individual team members strengths, gaps in areas of expertise, fresh ideas, and customer viewpoints. We help leaders create alignment on key focus areas, team dynamics, and the establishment of project management offices to execute strategy.

Build Competitive Advantage

Gain and maintain an edge over your competition by identifying what makes you most attractive to employees and customers. Together, we can leverage data, surveys, and market position and trends to uncover your unique competitive advantage. Working with your leadership team, we can help formulate a strategic plan for building competitive advantage based upon your organization’s vision, priorities, and growth strategy. Our plans are designed based upon who you are, who you want to become, and where you’re headed.

Solutions For Building Competitive Advantage Include

  • Leader Assessment and Evaluation
  • Change Leadership
  • Benchmark Organizational Culture
  • Operational Excellence
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Rich Employee Experience
  • Employee Engagement
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Talent Management Programs
  • Human Capital Agenda
Deliver Best-In-Class Employee Experience

Your best-in-class employee experiences is the result of the policies, programs, and engagement strategies implemented and consistently executed to retain those essential to business success. By assessing your employee lifecycle, we can focus on the moments that matter so that you can attract and retain talent. We partner with you to create best-in-class employee experiences that result in optimal work environments for former employees rejoining the organization as well as employees acquired through a merger or acquisition.

Our strategies include creating programs and initiatives such as diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, wellness programs, rewards and recognition, corporate social responsibility, employee engagement, talent development, leader development, culture. In addition, we craft internal communications, assess

and recommend collaboration tools, streamline processes, build alumni networks, and assess policies and practices for bias.

We’re ready to help your company create an employee experience that begins prior to an applicant entering the recruiting process and extending beyond offboarding. Based upon the organization’s business and growth strategy, we partner with you to create your company’s journey map, employee engagement plan, and measures of success to become a destination organization where top talent can contribute at a high level, thrive personally and professionally, and grow into their full potential.

Create Healthy Organizational Cultures

High employee engagement and satisfaction leads to increased productivity and profitability. We partner with you to create a culture that engages and retains top talent. Together, we can create a healthy culture that supports your company’s continued growth and evolution. We leverage surveys, data, and best practices to align culture with your organization’s business strategy. As your organizational health partner, we can help you create a listening, high-performance culture of creativity and innovation – a place where your employees are willing to share their ideas and contribute their best.

Optimize and Manage Superior Talent

We help you create a talent management strategy that optimizes talent, advances careers, and builds bench strength for future growth and sustainability. We partner with you to support the growth and development of your leaders, successors to key positions, and maintain talent in critical roles. We help you align talent with business goals, performance, and strategic priorities. We’ll create a strategic talent management program that encourages diversity of thought, culture, and lived experiences. Together, we will bring about the new mindsets and behaviors to foster an agile culture.

Create Scalable, Sustainable Business Operations

Drive alignment on prioritization across business lines, project owners, and business models. Implement lean methods, design thinking, and socialize new concepts for value creation and business efficiencies.

How We Achieve Results

Our focus is identifying the root cause of a business challenge so that you can move beyond treating symptoms and experience lasting organizational effectiveness. We have an uncanny ability to connect the dots to both your big picture as well as your immediate need, while challenging you to think more broadly about decisions, assess future implications, and see what’s possible with a few key changes in approach.

Our process centers on research, learning, collaboration, and solutions. We’re here to provide you with creative, innovative, and optimal solutions as we work to meet your need, while exceeding your expectations. We bring strategic counsel, clear guidance, a keen eye, and a listening ear to the decisions you face, the goals you set, and your vision of the future.

Collaboratively, we co-create a custom, simple, and practical solution for ease of execution. Strategies we provide are based upon your organization’s unique identity, years of experience, data intelligence, fresh perspectives, industry research, and rich insights.

See how we’ve helped clients with ambitious goals create extraordinary outcomes.

Featured Client Success Stories

Wellness Strategy

Build Competitive Advantage

New Leader Assimilation

Synergy Creation and Value Capture

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategy

Employee Experience and Engagement

Talent Pipelines: Critical Experiences Program

Corporate Social Responsibility Program

What Clients Are Saying

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Director of Marketing, D+I Council Lead

“Dr. Sharalyn Payne is a consummate professional with invaluable management experience and keen strategic insights. Her leadership has been essential in developing and expanding our diversity and inclusion programs. Dr. Payne identified several issues that were hindering our D&I efforts, including inadequate training for employees and a lack of clear career paths to executive management. She then outlined steps to achieve measurable goals and gained consensus on how to raise our company’s profile regarding proactive D&I initiatives. These plans have been key to our progress in improving representation above the manager level and positioning our company as a preferred destination for a wider spectrum of candidates. Dr. Payne’s insights were also aligned with corporate strategic goals to support business outcomes.”

Let’s Talk About How We Can Help Your Organization Attain A Competitive Advantage

Build competitive advantage, sustain company performance, and create extraordinary business outcomes.