I need my engineering managers to better understand the business strategy to motivate their teams to work with urgency.
Leadership and change partners
Know where you're going. Arrive together.
When funding shifts, leaders change or AI reshapes the work, we help your leadership team agree on where you're going, decide who owns what, and bring your people with you.
For directors and chief development, financial and learning officers at organizations of 40 to 2,500 people.
Recent result
A five-year plan for UCSF Global Health Sciences, built amid major funding disruption.
"A clearer path forward."
Andrea DeLuca, Deputy Director
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Where to start
1 day → 12 months
From a focused workshop, ready in 3 weeks, to a transformation partnership.
Find the right starting point
"A clearer path forward."
Andrea DeLuca, Deputy Director
See the case study
Where to start
1 day → 12 months
From a focused workshop, ready in 3 weeks, to a transformation partnership.
Find the right starting point
- 5-yearstrategic plan for UCSF Global Health Sciences
- 600+leaders and employees engaged across client work
- 3 weeksto a ready-to-run, one-day focused workshop
Who our consultants have worked with
Trusted by leaders
From global brands to public agencies and universities.
What leaders tell us
Sound familiar?
You do not need to diagnose the problem before we talk. Bring us what you are seeing.
I wish the other companies in our portfolio leveraged the insights and methodologies of our star company.
If only I had a go-to team to help with conflict resolution and a toxic employee situation that's killing the morale of the team and harming the culture.
I need some executive coaching to level up my management skills and leadership style.
The Caravann Navigation System™
Turn strategy into action. Bring your people with you.
Five checkpoints between you and where you're headed. Most teams need two or three, not all five. Pick one to see what changes.
Client results
Where clients arrived.
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UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences
A five-year plan, built amid funding disruption.
From federal funding shifts that put programs and staffing in question. To a shared strategic narrative, clear tradeoffs, and a roadmap tied to funding realities.
See the published plan
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UC Berkeley Development and Alumni Relations
Advancement teams moving on shared priorities.
From a strategy that existed but uneven execution across units. To clearer priorities, roles and handoffs, with less friction and duplication.
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LEAD Atlanta
Renewed clarity about its role in Atlanta's civic future.
From a turning point as the city's civic landscape changed. To alignment on how to modernize its impact while honoring its history.
Read the case
They helped us embrace the idea that you should never waste a good crisis… We emerged with a sound strategic plan that reflected a real diversity of perspectives across our organization and gave us a clearer path forward.
How we work
Built with your people, not just for them.
You know your organization best. We combine AI-powered insights, graphic facilitation and co-creation so your team sees the bigger picture and shapes the plan it will carry out.
The result: a strategy grounded in how work really happens, with the ownership to put it into action.
Research that informs our work
The team behind the work
Meet your crew before anything is signed.
13 specialists in strategy, culture, change, facilitation, research and visual storytelling.
Meet all 13 specialists-
Khaled El-Sawaf
Co-Founder and Principal
A senior strategist and program leader with more than 15 years of experience, he has guided cross-functional teams across product management and organizational change.
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Kia Afcari
Strategy, culture and DEI
Kia Afcari (he/him) is passionate about helping people and organizations succeed. He has over twenty years of experience helping leaders, teams, and organizations with collaborative change.
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Rama Atiya
AI and technology strategy
Rama Atiya is a technology executive and advisor who helps organizations turn AI, digital strategy, and governance into measurable business results.
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Emiliana Simon-Thomas
Wellbeing research
Having led the world’s largest Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) on the Science of Happiness (with over 800,000 participants worldwide), Emiliana is well-versed in what can help companies and organizations grow well-being and pro-social behaviors in the workplace.
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Terrell Holmes
Organization development
Additionally, Terrell works as a facilitator for the Stanford Graduate School of Business Interpersonal Dynamics course and adjunct faculty with the University of San Francisco’s MSOD program.
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Brenda Goodwin
Executive coaching
Drawing from brain-based neuro-leadership, the enneagram, and gold-standard coaching methodologies, Brenda helps leaders from myriad industries chart a path forward and take action.
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DB Bedford
Emotional intelligence
One of DB's groundbreaking literary contributions to the Emotional Intelligence field is the comprehensive EI Interactive Playbook.
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Trudie Mitschang
Executive Coaching + Comms
She has helped organizations as varied as Visa, VMware, and UCSF with manager enablement, employee engagement, and change management.
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Crystal Fulwood
Workplace wellbeing
Crystal Fulwood is passionate about co-creating healthy workplaces. With over a decade of experience as a Wellbeing Consultant, she has a strong background in change management, communications, strategic planning, employee experience, wellbeing, mental health, and trauma-informed practices.
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Deb Samuel
Organizational psychology
Her fervor lies in partnering with leaders and those on the leadership journey to cultivate workplaces that enrich our quality of life and facilitate the realization of human potential. Debra is deeply committed to helping leaders grasp the intersectionality of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the context of combating burnout.
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Rahul Khatod
Executive coaching
Rahul Khatod is an executive coach and leadership facilitator who partners with senior leaders and teams to build cultures of collective ownership. He helps leaders move from being the constant problem-solver to building teams that take shared responsibility for outcomes.
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Sarah Lightfoot
Organization development
Sarah Lightfoot, M.A., partners with leaders of business, government, and social enterprise to elevate organizational performance. She specializes in strategic planning, team development and training, and nonprofit board of director governance design.
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Trent Wakenight
Graphic facilitation
Trent Wakenight is an IAF Certified Professional Facilitator. He blends traditional facilitation with proven visual methods to engage audiences to reach desired outcomes. He has been doing this work since 2002.
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Engagement paths
Choose the level of support you need.
Bring us the problem, decision or initiative your team needs to move forward.
Fastest starting point
Focused Workshop
1day
Ready in 3 weeks
You leave with clear next steps on one problem, decision or team reset.
- Discovery session
- 3 to 5 confidential stakeholder interviews
- Custom workshop design
- Full-day expert facilitation
Time and scope
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90days
Clarity Sprint
You leave with a Clarity Map: where you stand on the five checkpoints and where to act first.
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3 to 5months
Alignment to Action
You leave with decisions, roles, priorities and a practical implementation plan.
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6 to 12months
Transformation Partnership
You get a partner through complex change across strategy, culture, communications and execution.
Bring us the messy version. We'll help you name the first useful step.
Get started
Start here.
Take the Navigation Scan, or talk your challenge through with us. Both are free.
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Navigation Scan
See which of the five checkpoints are working for your team, and which need attention first.
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