Services

Choose the level of support that fits your moment, from quick clarity to sustained momentum. Time commitments are approximate and depend on your management structure and portfolio.

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  • A short, focused assessment to identify what’s blocking progress across people, process, and outcomes.

    Best for: partner alignment, growing pains, friction in project delivery, strategic resets.
    Includes: leadership interviews, a clear scorecard, and a prioritized 90-day action plan.
    Typical timeline: 2-4 weeks

  • A fast, decisive program to sharpen how your practice is understood beyond your team, and to establish the competitive strengths of your firm.

    Best for: clarifying differentiation, avoiding messaging drift, avoiding the “we do everything” syndrome, and establishing a clear, authentic identity.
    Includes: messaging your architectural process effectively, establishing a clear backbone that defines your firm’s story, developing a project story template, and initiating talking points.
    Typical timeline: 2-4 weeks

  • Support for high-stakes pursuits: defining a sharper strategy for a proposal narrative, researching external assets that can reinforce your messaging, and the internal choreography that helps teams perform as one.

    Best for: competitive RFPs, design competitions, shortlist interviews, strategic pursuits.
    Includes: pursuit strategy, narrative structure, interview preparation, and leadership role clarity.
    Typical timeline: 2–4 weeks (depending on schedule)

  • Hands-on training for partners and emerging leaders: clearer communication, stronger decision-making, and more consistent leadership behaviours.

    Best for: studio-wide alignment, leadership development, practice reinvention.
    Formats: half-day intensives or two-session workshops.
    Outcome: language, habits, and tools your team can actually use.

  • For firms in growth or reinvention who need follow-through. I temporarily join your leadership team to help align partners and key staff, strengthen pursuits, tighten internal and external communication, turn strategy into repeatable decisions, and provide tools and a handover plan that lasts beyond the engagement.

    Best for: firms in a season of growth, transition, or reinvention, where the challenge is follow-through. You have talent and opportunity, but the practice needs to reinforce its leadership infrastructure with clearer decisions, a shared narrative, and a rhythm that keeps the studio aligned while the work accelerates.

    Includes: sustained implementation plan, translating strategy into consistent decisions, tighter communication methodology, stronger pursuit discipline, evolving firm-wide leadership habits.

    Typical timeline: minimum 90-day retainer

  • Best for: Firms that need assistance in curating, publishing and broadcasting their identity and purpose through articles, policy statements, campaigns, publications, exhibitions or video storyboards.

    Includes: Guidance on initiating, curating and implementing projects. description.

Not sure what fits for you? Contact us and let us know what success looks like for you in the next 90 days.

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