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Technology Partners built an IT business by showing its cut
A transparent staffing margin was the opening move. Technology Partners now tackles the harder problem: getting the people, the software, and the leadership to work together.
Perceptyx wants your employee survey to earn its keep
For years, companies have asked employees what is wrong. Perceptyx is building a business around the more awkward question: what happens on Monday morning after the answers arrive?
The Six-Minute Assessment That Followed You Into the Meeting
The Predictive Index began with a wartime question about teamwork. Seventy years later, its business rests on a more awkward one: what happens after you hire the right person?
The Future Has a Tuition Fee
Singularity University once asked students to solve problems affecting a billion people. Now it sells executives five days to rethink the future - and its own history shows how hard prediction can be.
The Mentor Was Free. The Machinery Was Not.
Everwise built a business around the most old-fashioned career advantage: a useful person who gives you time. Then its customers asked for the machinery without the concierge.
Alfa & Omega and the Strange Problem of the Strategy Nobody Uses
For more than three decades, the Oslo consultancy has worked on a deceptively simple idea: a strategy is only real when people can see what to do on Monday morning.
The Business of Making Strangers Useful to One Another
For 128 years, the Virginia Peninsula Chamber has sold a simple regional advantage: put the shipyard executive, the banker, the professor and the small-business owner in the same room - then give them a reason to talk.
The Company That Thinks Your Engagement Score Is Lying
Integral built an employee-experience agency around a small heresy: a healthy engagement score can hide a workforce that is stuck, skeptical or quietly checking out. Its answer is to measure what people actually do next.
The Consulting Company That Built a Stage - Then Turned the Lobby Into a Job Market
Corp4ness began with a language problem: companies had good intentions and forgettable ways of expressing them. Its answer now stretches from strategy decks to television studios, conference stages and a free arena built around real job vacancies.
The $305 Handshake: How Grand Prairie Turns Repetition Into Business
The Grand Prairie Chamber sells something no directory can manufacture on command: familiarity. Its real product is a calendar that lets local businesses keep showing up until strangers become customers, partners and advocates.
The Chamber That Sells a County - Then Teaches It How to Grow
In Lawrenceburg, the same organization courts factories, trains civic leaders, markets Amish Country and still finds time to organize the Christmas parade. The interesting part is not the variety - it is how the pieces reinforce one another.
Sage Strategies Sells the Government’s Rarest Commodity: Context
The Sacramento consultancy turns statehouse fluency into strategy, systems and culture. Its public work also reveals the bargain at the center of government consulting: access gets you into the room; a clear record of what happened there keeps you credible.
The Muslim Voice With One Foot on Capitol Hill and the Other in Hollywood
For nearly four decades, MPAC has worked a two-room strategy: influence the rules in Washington, then influence the stories in Hollywood. The bet is that representation needs both policy and plot.
San Bernardino County PERC and the education of a bureaucracy
A class can teach someone the rules. San Bernardino County’s training center has a harder assignment: helping employees use them when they get back to work.
Notion Strategies wants your next big idea to survive the meeting
A message, a messenger, and someone to do the work. This California consulting collective puts all three on the same assignment - with a $5,000 leadership cohort that makes its approach unusually tangible.
HiPower grew to 18. Then it made the room smaller.
A community for women and nonbinary leaders found a limit to getting bigger. Its answer: small circles, candid feedback, and a public identity that survives a change of job.
Greater Vancouver Board of Trade: The business of getting things moving
Born after Vancouver’s Great Fire, the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade now tackles a different kind of gridlock: trade barriers, slow growth, and the challenge of getting the right people in the room.
MovingWorlds puts your day job to work for social good
A Ugandan enterprise may need a finance manual more than another pitch competition. MovingWorlds connects it with people who know how to write one - and companies willing to support the work.
At xHub Addis, the startup homework leaves the classroom
Five young companies. One practical assignment: make agricultural training easier to use. Inside the Ethiopian hub that puts leadership, fieldwork and local problems on the same syllabus.
TrepCamp’s real pitch: meet the people who might build with you
The founders of Nowports met at TrepCamp before building a billion-dollar logistics company. Inside the academy selling aspiring entrepreneurs a place to practice, find collaborators and test what comes next.
At EEB, the Boss Goes Back to School
At Québec’s École d’Entrepreneurship de Beauce, business owners check in for lessons from people who have signed the payroll. Its wager: time away from the company can make the person running it more useful.
TWOW wants women in the room - and in the economy
Timeless Women of Wonder connects African women with leadership training, construction skills and business networks. Its most revealing work starts where the conference speeches end.
ignore gravity wants your next big idea to survive the workshop
The Berlin consultancy puts executives, founders and unlikely collaborators to work together. From a Jägermeister test kitchen to women’s startup programs, its real subject is what happens after the brainstorm.
A good résumé does not make a good mentor
Red de Mentoring de España has built a business around the gap between having experience and knowing how to share it. Its offer combines mentor training, managed programs and the machinery that keeps people talking.
Big Think put experts on your screen. Now it wants a place on your desk.
The interview publisher has built a business around making expertise accessible. Its next chapter pairs workplace learning with a surprisingly old-fashioned product: a print magazine.
The Regis Company Spent 20 Years Building Simulations. Now AI Is Cutting the Cost by 90%.
Corporate training has long measured who finished the course. Regis built SimGate to measure what people do when the decision gets uncomfortable - and to make a once-bespoke format affordable enough to scale.
Cloverleaf Built an AI Coach Before Anyone Wanted One. Now the Office Has Caught Up.
In 2018, calling software a coach made buyers nervous. Cloverleaf renamed the idea, kept building, and waited for the market to learn its language.
Talentism Turned Executive Confusion Into a Product - Now It’s Teaching AI to Ask the Hard Question
The Westport coaching firm built a business around a contrarian idea: confusion is data. Its next act combines veteran coaches, organizational diagnostics and an always-on AI advisor - but the useful part is a method any manager can test before buying anything.
Rypple Built an AI Coach for 15,000 Managers - Then Learned Advice Wasn’t Enough
Most leadership software gives managers another lesson and another login. Rypple’s bet is more practical: remember the people, prep the awkward meeting, track the promise - and charge less than lunch.
Petra Coach Turned the Quarterly Offsite Into a Business Operating System
Most business coaches sell advice. Petra Coach sells a cadence - one strategic coach, one accountability coach, and enough public scorekeeping to make a leadership team’s promises difficult to forget.