What’s your ideal way of working with a business partner? My Grandpa asked me, “Why do you think you have 2 ears and only 1 mouth?” We listen, then we ask questions, then we suggest. Our mission and our passion: helping our clients thrive. Each of us has more than 2 decades of hands-on experience across a spectrum of industries.
No cookie cutters here – we jointly create each unique engagement with full involvement of the client leadership.
Organizations, individuals and communities working together to reach their full potential.
Inspiring, encouraging, and coaching leaders so that their organizations, employees, and communities flourish.
Respect; relationship; transparency; honesty; trust; seeing each person to be creative, resourceful, and whole.
Strategic Planning implements your Mission. It aligns all important stakeholders in designing an organization that will flourish five years and beyond.
Lean is a revolution; it focuses on what the customer wants. Everything else is waste which can be eliminated, thereby streamlining processes and increasing profits/performance. Lean harnesses the creativity and passion of the entire workforce, creating an unstoppable competitive advantage.
Organization change is difficult. But it is not impossible. Organization change is ALL about the people. Technology, physical assets, money? They’re part of the process, but the absolutely critical factor is the people. If the people involved don’t want the change, it will not succeed. And if they DO want the change, they can overcome technological deficiencies, lack of assets, and underfunding. So, what’s the secret sauce? Here are 5 rules that govern change, plus a look at one change model.
How do you know where to focus your time and efforts? Want to know what your employees are really thinking? Managing without that critical data is like driving with your windshield papered over.
“Gary guided us through some of the most challenging early stages of our board’s development with patience, clarity, and deep respect for the process. He helped us build trust where it hadn’t fully existed, and as a result, our board now works together with an openness and honesty, aligned around a shared vision.”
“We brought Gary and his team back to assist in our strategic planning, and they helped us develop a plan that was realistic given the organization’s staff capacity constraints. Gary brings not only decades of experience but is also a good listener and knows how to deliver hard messages in a way that will be well-received.”
“The Vantage Point survey is the best and most affordable tool I've encountered to determine and improve organizational health. I've utilized this tool for years to evaluate and create blueprints for improvement regarding how I lead. By revealing where you're struggling, tailoring action plans to your management team and yourself, and frequently validating those actions, you'll have visibility to whether the work you're doing is improving the health of your organization or hindering it. The tool works when you have an excellent resource like Gary Langenwalter to help guide you to the right actions."
“I've been interested in organizational health for years since reading Lencioni's The Advantage. His premise is that organizational health is the most significant competitive advantage, although it's not easily quantifiable. Not only does the Vantage Point survey quantify the health of your organization, it does so with enough granularity that you can create individualized action plans to improve how you and your team lead others. Couple the survey results with Gary Langenwalter's guidance and relentless desire to improve the lives of your people, and you've got a blueprint for building a successful, aligned, and engaged team. This directly causes improved operating and financial results."
“Gary and his team were instrumental in making our strategic planning retreat a success. The day went by quickly with active participation by everyone thanks to the structure and process that the team employed.”
"Greg was instrumental in establishing a high-performance, team-oriented culture at Con-way IT. He was an expert in being able to define and articulate the target culture, and he knew how to move us forward.”
“Your analyses and interventions helped steer us to a much improved and appropriate management paradigm. Your ability to listen to a variety of perspectives and interpret the salient factors into useful action items helped us so much. You shared excellent understanding of the obstacles that were tough for us to identify. It set us on a new course that will benefit the entire organization infrastructure. ”