Get the expert advice you need, when you need it.
On-demand micro-consulting radically rethinks the traditional consulting model and includes pre-scheduled half-day or full-day blocks of dedicated focus and attention.
Structured to address specific challenges, provide quick insights, and offer practical paths towards solutions, these sessions are designed for flexibility and impact.
Whether you’re facing an urgent decision, a strategic challenge, or simply need a second opinion, micro-consulting allows you to engage at the level that meets your needs, with no long-term commitments or unnecessary complexity.
Immediate Solutions for Your Most Pressing Challenges
When you need answers quickly, there’s no time to waste. Micro-consulting provides you with immediate, actionable solutions to your most pressing challenges.
Whether you’re facing a complex situation, a sudden obstacle, or an urgent opportunity, I’m here to offer the expertise and insights you need to navigate the situation effectively.
These sessions are not about generic advice or one-size-fits-all solutions. Every interaction is unique, reflecting your specific circumstances and goals.
Drawing from extensive experience across various domains, I provide practical, experience-based guidance that you can implement right away.
This is about getting you the results you need, when you need them.
Tailored to Your Needs
Micro-consulting is not one-size-fits-all. Each session is customized to meet your specific needs, whether you’re an executive, a manager, or leading a team.
For Executives and Senior Leadership: Strategic Insight and Decision-Making
As an executive or senior leader, your decisions carry weight. Micro-consulting provides the rapid, strategic insights you need to make informed decisions and lead your organization effectively.
Strategic Alignment [Vision and Strategic Alignment]
Ensure that your organization’s strategic vision aligns with technology architecture and operational execution. I help you navigate complex challenges and make decisions that support long-term success.
Risk and Opportunity Assessment [Critical Thinking and Decision Support]
Evaluate potential risks and opportunities to make informed decisions that protect and thoughtfully grow the business. This involves uncovering and analyzing internal and external factors that could impact strategy or the ability to execute.
Strategic and Adaptive Communication [Leadership and Influence]
Enhance your strategic communication to ensure your vision, goals, and decisions resonate across all levels of your organization. Influence key stakeholders and align diverse teams and perspectives. Master the art of adaptive communication to bridge domains, thinking styles, and cultural backgrounds, fostering a unified, safe environment for sharing ideas.
Scaling Strategies [Innovation and Change Management
Develop and refine strategies for scaling your organization, ensuring growth is disciplined and aligned with long-term goals and objectives.
Objective Second Opinions [Critical Thinking and Decision Support]
Sometimes you need the impartial perspective of an outsider with no horse in the race. I provide objective second opinions and “red team” analysis, walking through scenarios and options, weighing trade offs and potential returns to challenge your thinking on assumptions, bets, or long-term strategic investments to ensure you’re thinking about things in the right way.
Change Management and Transformation [Innovation and Change Management]
Lead your organization through transformation initiatives with confidence. From cultural shifts to enterprise architecture strategy and design, I provide a holistic understanding of the problem space and guide you down the path of driving change to enable your organization to achieve its potential and create value in new ways.
Complex Problem Solving [Critical Thinking and Decision Support]
Address complex, multi-faceted challenges that require a deep dive into underlying issues, identifying root causes, and developing comprehensive solutions.
Crisis Management [Leadership and Influence]
Navigate urgent issues with expert advice, ensuring quick and effective resolutions that maintain stability and protect your organization and brand’s reputation.
For Managers and Organizational Leaders: Alignment and Execution
Managers and organizational leaders are the linchpin of successful execution. Micro-consulting helps you align your team’s efforts with broader strategic objectives, optimize processes, and enhance overall performance.
Team and Departmental Alignment [Vision and Strategic Alignment]
Ensure your team’s efforts are fully aligned with the broader organizational strategy, driving collective success.
Process Optimization [System and Process Optimization]
Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency, productivity, and team performance. This includes streamlining workflows, eliminating bottlenecks, and implementing positive feedback loops to continuously improve end-to-end process performance.
Decision Support [Critical Thinking and Decision Support]
Get tailored advice for making informed, effective decisions that drive your department forward. This could involve framing situations, assessing options and tradeoffs, understanding potential risks, and seeing the best paths forward.
Change Facilitation [Innovation and Change Management]
Change is difficult when you are under pressure and there is competition for your attention and input. Guide your team through organizational changes with minimal disruption and come out stronger on the other side.
Capability Development [Leadership and Influence]
Assess and develop the capabilities of your team to ensure they are equipped to meet current needs and future challenges. Identify areas for improvement and achieve personal and team growth through upskilling and leadership development.
Cross-Functional Communication [Communication and Collaboration]
Enable collaboration across departments by strengthening communications and bridging gaps between diverse teams and functions. Ensure that all parts of the organization are aligned and thinking together cohesively by aligning efforts and messaging around shared impactful goals.
Performance Improvement [System and Process Optimization]
Improve team and organizational performance through targeted interventions, including setting clear expectations, providing and receiving feedback, and creating a mindset and culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Resource Management and Prioritization [Leadership and Influence]
Master the art of managing resources and priorities effectively, ensuring that your team’s efforts are focused on what matters most.
For Teams: Optimizing Workflows and Collaboration
Effective teams are the backbone of any successful organization. Micro-consulting provides the guidance needed to optimize workflows, improve collaboration, and ensure your team is performing at its best.
Workflow Optimization [System and Process Optimization]
Streamline processes to maximize efficiency and team productivity, making sure that resources are allocated effectively and that teams are working together cohesively with minimal friction in interactions and handoffs.
Team Performance [System and Process Optimization]
Improve dynamics and collaboration within your team to create a foundation for continuous learning and growth. Assess team strenghts and weaknesses, develop a strategy for achieving goals and objectives, and put in the work to create the conditions for teams to thrive.
Approaching and Framing Challenges [Critical Thinking and Decision Support]
Clearly define and address challenges with a structured, focused, and holistic approach. We can facilitate workshops and day-in-the-like observations to frame and make sense of a problem space, map out the interconnections and dependencies with other areas of the organization and systems, and plan out an effective approach to solving the challenge at hand.
Strategic Alignment [Vision and Strategic Alignment]
Ensure your team’s activities are fully aligned with broader organizational goals, driving towards common objectives and avoiding common traps along the way.
Knowledge Sharing [Communication and Collaboration]
Create the conditions for a culture of continuous learning and collaboration to emerge, focusing on improving how your team captures, stores, and shares information and knowledge to grow the collective wisdom and capabilities of the organization.
Retrospective and Reflective Processes [System and Process Optimization]
Conduct regular retrospectives to celebrate successes, review past performance, identify areas for improvement, and implement the necessary changes to enable future enhancements. By incorporating reflective practices into team and performance management processes, you learn to identify blind spots and develop systems to facilitate ongoing improvement moving forward.
Conflict Resolution and Team Dynamics [Communication and Collaboration]
Address and resolve conflicts directly, in a mature and objective manner, to maintain a psychologically safe environment that encourages the team to achieve its full potential. We can facilitate tough conversations, break down disputes and work towards mutual understanding, and build stronger interpersonal relationships both within the team and with diverse stakeholders throughout the organization.
Information and Knowledge Management [System and Process Optimization]
Build out the systems and processes your team needs to effectively manage information and knowledge, ensuring communication silos are broken down, tribal knowledge is distributed and institutionalized, and critical insights are made available in the right context, at the right time, to drive informed decision-making.
Flexible, High-Impact Engagement
Micro-consulting services are designed to be as flexible, impactful, and directly aligned with your specific needs.
Engage in pre-scheduled half-day or full-day blocks, depending on the complexity and urgency of your challenges.
These focused time blocks allow for deep dives into specific issues, ensuring thorough analysis, thoughtful recommendations, and actionable solutions.
Experience-Based, Customized Solutions
Every micro-consulting session is customized to address your unique needs.
Drawing from extensive experience across various domains, I provide insights and strategies that are practical, actionable, and grounded in real-world knowledge.
This is all about delivering results that matter, exactly when you need them.
Options For Working Together
Half-Day Sessions
Ideal for addressing complex challenges, strategic planning, or in-depth problem-solving that requires focused attention. These sessions are perfect for when you need thorough analysis and actionable steps to move forward on pressing issues.
Full-Day Sessions
Perfect for comprehensive analysis, project support, or large-scale initiatives that need extensive consultation and detailed guidance. These sessions provide the time needed to dive deep into challenges and work together to develop robust solutions.
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If you would like to book multiple sessions, or if your organization requires an invoice, vendor onboarding, or negotiation of a services agreement prior to engaging, please take a look at Concierge subscription services, which include 12, 24, or 48 reserved weekly half hour or full hour focused time blocks as well as portfolio membership benefits.
