Strategic Advisory
Some challenges cannot be solved with standard playbooks.
Strategic advisory engagements help leaders reframe complex decisions, align stakeholders, and design paths forward when conventional strategies stall.
Strategic Advisory
Working directly with founders, executives, and boards to navigate high-stakes decisions and moments of transformation.
Advanced Planning
Structured strategy work designed to reframe complex challenges and produce actionable strategic pathways.
Strategic Projects
Focused engagements where leadership teams need outside perspective to unlock stalled progress.
Service Areas
Are you trying to lead your organization at 200 mph with 65 mph tools, skills, and thinking?
Strategy &
Decision Architecture
Crisis and Complexity Navigation
Leadership
Alignment
Organizational
Transformation
Innovation &
New Venture Strategy
Long-Range
Strategic Planning
Approach
I think differently, and that difference changes how problems are approached.
Over the past 30 years I’ve worked with leaders across industries and countries, helping them challenge assumptions, uncover hidden opportunities, and design strategies that move organizations forward.
Every engagement begins with understanding the real decision being faced — not just the symptoms surrounding it.
From there we work together to clarify the path forward.
Where This Work Has Been Applied
We work with decision makers in commerce, nonprofits, government, military and education.
Our research and 30+ years of experience show that leadership challenges and solutions are universal across industries and sectors.
The number of industries we've worked with is too large to count, but we estimate 300 thus far.
If you'd like to see how we can work with you, please call or email. We welcome your questions!
Client Feedback
Reshaping a 4000 Person Organization
“When we first started working with David, I was skeptical. Another member of our executive board had heard him speak and then hired him to work with our leadership team to help us develop our 5-year strategic plan. I thought, ‘How can this industry outsider be knowledgeable enough about our company and industry to deliver for us?’ To compound my skepticism once we started the project, I had never experienced an approach like his from any other consultant I had worked with over the 27 years of my career.
By week three, I had become a believer. David’s non-traditional approach, his side-by-side methodology, and his innate ability to sense what each exec member needed from him to push progress forward was transforming each of us to become best versions of ourselves and was producing results faster than any of us had ever seen before.
The initial project was for three months, but we recognized that David’s understanding of leadership, markets, and industries could help us in a variety of ways. We more or less developed an intimate working relationship with him over the course of three years during which he helped us prioritize, plan, and execute on major projects that not only revived our company but prepared us to face an oncoming recession from a position of strength. Because of our work with David, we drastically improved the customers’ experience, defined and elevated our brand, developed a culture of innovation throughout our organization, and became much more proactive and forward thinking as a result of our strengthened abilities to strategize and forecast.
What I would say about working with David is this: Be willing to open your mind to new ways of thinking and approaching challenges, and have faith that his innovative approaches will produce rapid results and make previously invisible opportunities visible.
My skepticism has changed; if not for David’s work with our executive board, I am skeptical whether our company, which is a market leader in the Asia Pacific region, would even be in business today.”
-Name withheld due to NDA
Consulting at 50,000 FEET
"I was ecstatic, because David changed our business development model in ways we never could have dreamed. With hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, he integrated sales, marketing, management, and operations into one comprehensive model. He even turned some 20-year veterans around with remarkable finesse: no arguments, no fights, no battles."
-John Redinger
Vice President Sales and Marketing, DialAmerica
Strategic Project Support
"Within as little time as a week, David learned about our company and industry to the extent that you facilitated two completely interactive programs with 300+ members of our staff, guiding us in the strategy we should use to get the highest return on our project. We were told he would go beyond the project scope as a futurist and strategist, and he exceeded our expectations."
-Michael Wilson
National Sales and Marketing Director, Comerica