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Jack Industries asks the question your pitch deck dodges
Can someone else retell your idea? Rafferty Jackson’s advisory practice helps space and autonomy founders answer that question - then tackle the work of scaling the company behind it.
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 Firm That Put Three Verbs on the Door
A 38-year-old St. Louis consultancy changed owners and names, then reduced its work to three ordinary verbs: communicate, operate, advocate. The clever part is how often clients need all three at once.
The Publisher Who Turned a Rolodex Into a Consulting Firm
After 250-plus publications and a decade of community events, Scott Costello made an intriguing wager: the real product was never the magazine. It was the ability to turn relationships, strategy and follow-through into institutional momentum.
Oak Lane and the Four-Letter Test for Strategy
Most strategy firms sell answers. Oak Lane sells the harder thing: a way for leaders, staff, funders, and communities to arrive at the same answer - then do something with it.
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.
OCEANX sells the work behind Saudi Arabia’s startup ambition
The Riyadh consultancy has moved from helping young businesses to running the programs around them. Its mix of incubators, management advice and Arabic research offers a close look at how economic ambition becomes a working brief.
Most Leadership Training Fails. Droste Group Bet Its Business on the Fix.
A woman-owned firm in the shadow of Detroit's auto plants built its business on a blunt premise: most leadership training doesn't stick. Here is how Droste Group tries to make it stick anyway.
ibelong
ibelong is a San Francisco-based consultancy that helps organizations build inclusive, resonant workplace cultures using a neurochemical framework grounded in affective neuroscience, relational neurobiology and epigenetics. Led by CEO and epigenetic coach Rajkumari Neogy, the company translates the brain science of trust and belonging into practical programs - immersive courses, leadership coaching, compassion circles and layoff (RIF) support - aimed at reducing conflict, burnout and turnover. Formerly known as iRestart, ibelong has worked with leaders at more than 175 startups and enterprises.
KRW International
KRW International is a global leadership consulting firm that treats character as a measurable business input, not a soft one. Built around the seven-year Return on Character research led by co-founder Fred Kiel, the firm uses proprietary assessments and predictive analytics to help CEOs, senior teams, and boards close the gap between who they intend to be and how they are actually experienced. Its pitch - coaching based on data, not opinion - reframes integrity, responsibility, forgiveness, and compassion as habits that correlate with returns, engagement, and reduced risk.
Balloon
Balloon is a behavioral-science-based collaboration platform that helps teams surface ideas, feedback and insights without groupthink. Through its 'Flights' feature, teams share and evaluate input anonymously and asynchronously, removing the cognitive biases, hierarchy and group dynamics that silence quieter voices in meetings. Founded by public-health researcher Amanda Greenberg and engineer Noah Bornstein, Balloon counts companies like Google, Amazon, Capital One and MasterClass among its users and reports cutting meeting time by roughly 70% while surfacing information that has never been heard inside an organization.
AceUp
AceUp is a Boston-based leadership development company that pairs human coaches with AI-powered people analytics to make executive and team coaching measurable and scalable. Through a network of thousands of ICF-certified coaches and a data platform it calls Ally, AceUp helps enterprises like IBM, L'Oreal and LVMH turn coaching - long treated as a perk for the C-suite - into a quantifiable driver of engagement, alignment and performance.