Consulting

A clear strategy sets the priorities for an organization, defines how and where to compete, and most importantly, how to win. It’s a focal point for action, galvanizing leaders and functions. When the strategy is clear, execution follows and energy is unleashed. When the strategy is full of mixed messages or divergent intentions, execution is compromised. Strategies must be co-created with the people tasked to execute them, otherwise they're never fully understood nor brought to life. Our approach isn't about putting it in a PowerPoint deck. We help leaders develop, clarify, and communicate strategy by engaging their teams in meaningful dialogues to create sustained alignment and a commitment to getting the job done brilliantly.

What we do: Work on strategy and execution can take many forms. Often, our work starts with clarifying a strategic vision for an organization and building a roadmap to achieve that vision. With the roadmap in place, we work with clients to define critical execution priorities and initiatives, shape those initiatives, and catalyze meaningful and measurable action around them. Often, this work leads to the creation of dashboards or scorecards, supported by OKRs (Objectives and Key Results). Once all of those pieces are in place, we also help our clients create a compelling strategic narrative that can be communicated to the organization at large so that strategic and execution priorities are supported by shared context and understanding.

Putting together an organization isn’t simply about building an org chart and clarifying roles and responsibilities. It’s about building an integrated operating system that allows the pieces of the organization to work together for maximum benefit. It’s about ensuring that everyone understands where they fit, what’s expected of them, and what they can count on from others. It’s about clear handoffs and crisp accountabilities. It’s about putting together a shared mental model for how everything fits together and enables people to focus their energy to ensure that the sum is greater than the parts.

What we do: We partner with our clients to design organizational structures and processes that enable operation at pace and scale. Whether it's supporting a fundamental reorganization of the business, building a new governance model, or simply clarifying decision rights, our work on structure and process is always about supporting the execution of the strategy and making sure that roles, accountabilities, and handoffs always support efficient and effective decision making. A key distinction of our work often involves building skills around the language of commitment so that people have a sharper sense of what accountability really means.

Teams and their leaders are the lifeblood of any organization. Increasingly, leadership is not simply about setting direction & priorities; it's about enabling change and unleashing potential. Great leaders understand and master practices that inspire collaboration, connection, and innovation. Teamwork isn’t something that happens by accident. The best teams set crystal clear intentions, have rules and rituals for working together, and practice – they’re always working on becoming better together. Trium has deep expertise in supporting leaders at all organizational levels, from the C-team to emerging leaders, to help them execute more effectively.

What we do: For us, team building is not about rope courses or going out for beers, it’s about helping leaders understand the neuroscience, mindsets, and practices necessary for high performance. All of this is done in the context of real, collaborative business problem solving. Whether it’s people coming together for a C-team offsite, top 100 meeting, or leadership development program, our work with teams and leaders always results in higher quality dialogue, deeper levels of trust and cohesion, and vastly improved performance.

Culture may be the only sustainable source of competitive advantage. A powerful culture is difficult to build and even harder to replicate. Culture is much more than a set of values, it’s about enabling a way of being that creates a sense of connection and authenticity. It's about enabling teams to come together and behave in ways that ultimately speak to the common purpose of the organization. Culture is not fixed. It's not tops down. It’s something that's defined and continually recreated to meet the goals of the system and the realities of the business. Culture change is one of the most prevalent yet least understood disciplines in business. Trium has more than 20 years of experience helping our clients build meaningful and strong cultures by precisely defining the culture needed to execute any given strategy and equipping the leaders with the values, tools, practices, definitions and distinctions needed to effectively and intentionally shape and build distinctive cultures.

What we do: We’ve helped our clients design system level culture change and put in place all of the programs and practices that enable it. Often we start by defining a cultural narrative that clearly answers the question of how we need to behave to execute our strategy. Then we cascade the narrative through the organization often in partnership with key leaders and influencers. We also believe that culture change must be closely connected to the “vertical development” of key leaders so that they have the skills and mindsets needed to live the aspirational culture. Our work on culture is often connected to broader change efforts. In all cases, it helps people to understand who they’re trying to be and the behaviors their trying to embrace in their organization.