Working With Us
We help organizations win through how they work.
We start all partnerships with a question: “What do you want to be true by next year?”
Whether your aim is to grow, accelerate, or transform, we work with you to create structures and workflows that evolve, practices that make teams more collaborative & consistent, and a culture that harnesses the highest potential in people.
Who We Partner With
Ambitious
You are bold, visionary, and clear about where you want the organization to go.
Frustrated
You feel stuck in some way – by the organization, your team, or yourself.
Open
You’ve accepted that change may bring discomfort, and are (truly) open to experimenting with new ways of organizing, leading and working.
Plural works with a broad range of organizations – from global enterprises and non-profits to city agencies and scale-ups. Regardless of their scale or trajectory, all of our partners understand that their ambitions for the future require fundamental shifts in how they organize, lead, and work.
Every organization is facing the need for change, but not all are ready.
Our collaborations are most successful when our partners are:
How Plural Helps
We help to unblock and accelerate organizations in five ways:
Clarify direction.
Evolve Structure & Rituals.
Mobilize Leaders.
Accelerate Performance.
Activate Change.
Clarify direction.
An organization’s direction isn’t clear until heads are nodding, tradeoffs are understood, and leaders are choosing collaboration over competition. Are you there?
Vision.
Mobilize people around a clearer Direction, and clarify its implications for how your structure, systems and ways of working need to shift.
Strategic Planning & Goals.
Transform a slow, bureaucratic planning process into one that is lean, dynamic, and flexes naturally as priorities inevitably shift.
Operating Principles.
Define a set of principles that clarify how you work, and mobilize people to bring mindsets, practices, & systems into alignment.
How Our Approach is Different
Change becomes everyone’s work
Conflict is transformed into shared solutions
Holistic change:
Evolve Structure and Ways of working
and Mindsets
Continuous experimentation & iteration
Treating adults
as adults
As direction gets clearer, a broader coalition emerges to accelerate progress.
Clarify direction & shared principles with extended leaders
Frame a set of bold missions, and invite open participation
Tensions are disarmed as groups clarify root causes & co-design improvement together.
Teams in conflict clarify tensions and craft proposals to ‘edit’ the organization
Learning to separate feedback for people from feedback for systems
Teams get more out of new structures & workflows by committing to the shifts in mindset & practice that enable them.
Prototyping changes to structure, processes, and rituals
1:1 Coaching to frame enabling micro-shifts in leadership practice
How you organize and work is meant to evolve, not last. We’ll help build the rituals and habits for lightweight, continuous change.
Rapid experiments with structure, scaling what works
Ritualized reflection to learn fast, together
Your team’s full potential is unlocked by gradually letting go of Parent <> Child dynamics that inhibit everyone.
Defaulting to open, to grow context & trust
Safe distribution of authority for speed, focus, and real empowerment
