Business Case

The Situation: Newly promoted executive
Bill was promoted to a new role. His responsibilities included leading a newly formed division. However, he struggled in thinking beyond the normal protocols in forming the new group. His new manager even expressed concern about Bill’s potential handling of the new responsibilities. And, in fact, Bill avoided taking charge of […]

The Situation:  Handling difficult team players
Suzanne became the new CEO of a nonprofit organization. The staff was used to managing special events for the last 15 years. The organization has a membership that is not attending these occurrences for various reasons. Suzanne wants to energize the members by getting them to attend these events.
The Solution:
Suzanne […]

The Situation: Preparing for a conference opening speech
Sarah has been selected to give a state of union speech as the incoming president of this company.
The Solution:
To prepare, she has been traveling to different subsidiaries gathering stories and issues that are important to the employees. Sarah collected their comments and matched them to her road-trip talking […]

The Situation: Professional to professional casual dress
Jayne’s company has gone casual in the last few months. It has been four years since we last worked on her wardrobe. At that time, she had just been promoted to an executive vice president reporting to the CEO and met regularly with the board of directors.
The company went […]

The Situation: Speak with Impact
Marta has been with the organization more than 12 years. She is responsible for marketing and communications for the organization. She continues inspire her team and others around her. However, she tends to stray off subject easily and sometimes ramble when presenting in front of groups. Our goal was to help […]

The Situation: Becoming a leader
Jane has been working in the organization for more than twenty years. Now, she has been promoted to the senior manager of the group she has been in for ten years as a team member. Jane is having a difficult time getting the team to see her as the manager. She […]