Helping our clients conduct successful strategy offsites is our firm’s exclusive focus. Our only goal is to help your organization derive tangible, lasting results from your senior team’s discussions about high level strategic issues. We think of each of these conversations as a potential ‘pivot point’ – an opportunity to drive strength and effectiveness from the power of an aligned executive team.

1. We're Offsite Specialists.

Our extensive experience in offsite design and facilitation has given us a world-class capability to assemble the optimal offsite process to reach your specific objectives. We not only leverage best practices, we create them. Methods we pioneered have been widely recognized as leading edge by business publications ranging from Fortune Magazine to the Journal of Business Strategy to the Johannesburg Sun. Our founding partners were asked by the editors of Harvard Business Review to develop HBR’s first-ever article on the subject of strategy offsites,
Off-Sites That Work (June 2006).

We have designed and conducted strategic offsites in the US, Canada, England, France, Norway, Germany, China and South Africa, working for clients from a broad cross-section of industries.

2. We're Strategists.

Our professional staff and affiliate network is composed of strategy experts from industry, consulting and leading business schools. We've spent our careers working with senior executives of a wide range of organizations – from Fortune 10 corporations to family owned firms - to solve critical and complex strategy problems. We view issues through the disciplined, analytical lens of the strategist.

We are expert facilitators, but we bring much more to your offsite than just facilitation. We bring a unique strategic point of view.

3. Our Only Priority is Your Successful Offsite.

Since this is the only type of work we do, you can be sure that our goals and priorities match your own, and that all of our knowledge, skills and energy will be applied toward achieving those goals.

As Tom Rodenhauser, the former editor of Consultants’ News, noted in his white paper, Advisor-Client Perceptions on Strategy Offsites
“…management consultants often ‘give away’ the strategy in order to gain knowledge that is then used to secure additional business for the consultancy. Clients, therefore, cannot accurately measure the true cost (or benefit) of such subjective strategic development.”

We do not use your offsite as a ‘loss leader’ to sell lengthy and expensive consulting projects. Our top interest is our clients’ agendas, not our own.

4. We Partner with Your Internal Strategy Capabilities.

We are often asked to form joint client-consultant teams with client strategy executives. In these cases, we pride ourselves on our ability to effectively collaborate from the beginning of the initial planning phase, making sure that the offsites we jointly design fit well with both your organization's unique attributes and your ongoing planning calendar.

Our emphasis on skills and methodology transfer also helps enhance your permanent internal capabilities, driving value long after the offsites themselves are complete.