Strategic Partners

Accenture Workday Practice (Formerly Sierra-Cedar) delivers innovative change management services to help our Workday clients prepare for and manage the business, organizational and workforce transitions in environments that are moving at an accelerating pace. Most traditional transformation and adoption approaches use either/or and from/to thinking, searching for "one right answer." This approach can unintentionally distort the picture of an organization's present realities, putting them on an unsustainable course and preventing the organization from achieving desired results.

Our approach is a quantitative, results-based process where actionable activities are developed to address opposing opinions or desires specifically identified by an organization’s stakeholders. We leverage distinctive, data-driven insights to increase the certainty of a successful Workday deployment and help organizations obtain clarity about their strengths and vulnerabilities when approaching a Workday deployment.

Our goal is to help organizations become thriving, self-sufficient and empowered to embrace the continuous change inherent with a Workday solution.

 The Innovative OD Center (IOC) was founded in 2010. It is the first institution in China to introduce the OD professional theory and practical course system and explore organizational development practices that integrate Chinese and Western innovation. IOC has established long-term strategic cooperative relationships with leading international organization development institutions and more than a dozen well-known senior professors/consultants in international organization development. Since its establishment, IOC has introduced the curriculum systems of the two most influential OD schools in the world and Continuously generated courses that are combined with local needs and contribute to the cultivation of local organizational development professionals.

The IOC Consulting Ecosystem Team (IOCC) is committed to exploring organizational development practices that integrate Chinese and Western wisdom, and future-oriented ecological organizational operation models. IOCC is committed to forming a strong cooperative relationship with CEOs & senior management teams to help companies achieve key leaps and organizational breakthroughs. From sorting out mission, vision and values, matching strategy with organizational capabilities and culture, building containers for the core team and expanding leadership awareness to empowering the internal HR/OD team, the IOCC ecological consulting team teaches people how to fish and learns from the fake. The concept helps customers release organizational potential from the inside out and find unique paths for business breakthroughs and healthy organizational development under complex uncertainties.

The Leadership Alliance exists to help individuals, organizations and communities who are advancing peace and security to improve their effectiveness and capability to achieve their desired impact. Launched in 2015 by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), the partnership combines deep knowledge and expertise on issues of peace and security with world class leadership development experience developed over several decades.

Our experiential approach to leadership development is based on the principle that: “There is no learning without change; there is no change without learning.” For learning to occur, change is required at three levels: Mindsets, Skillsets and Toolsets. We include elements of each of these three levels throughout our programmes and activities to ensure a pedagogically robust, interactive and retainable journey.

The Leadership Alliance is housed at GCSP’s headquarters in the heart of international Geneva, a global epicenter for multilateral dialogue and engagement.  GCSP is an international foundation established in 1995, with 51 member states, for the primary purpose of promoting peace, security and international cooperation through executive education, dialogue and policy analysis.  Specialties Include:  Security Policy, Dialogue, Courses, Executive Education, Policy Analysis, Crisis Management, Peace-building, Cyber Security, Defense and Diplomacy, Outer Space Security, Arms Proliferation, Global Risk and Resilience, and Geopolitics.  

SEBRAE is a Brazilian micro and small business support service working to transform entrepreneurs' lives and their environments. 

If you are already an entrepreneur or dream of becoming one, count on Sebrae/PR. Located in every state in Brazil, for 45 years, we have supported small businesses throughout Paraná.  

• WE TAKE SOLUTIONS to small businesses in Paraná.

• WE BELIEVE in entrepreneurship and micro and small businesses as being fundamental in promoting the development of our country.

The Center for the Advancement of Well-Being (CWB) catalyzes human well-being by promoting the science and practices that lead to a life of vitality, purpose, resilience, and engagement.

As an interdisciplinary center at George Mason University, we are dedicated to helping individuals and organizations thrive in a world of complexity and uncertainty.

Individuals who engage with the center learn to build a foundation of well-being that enables them to

• experience a deepening sense of personal meaning in their lives

• increase their ability to creatively solve problems 

• become more resilient and develop a greater capacity to respond to challenging and stressful situations

• build and deepen meaningful, supportive relationships

• be a ripple effect for others' well-being

• lead teams and organizations for greater well-being 

These qualities increase well-being, performance, and success in all areas of life. Learn more at: https://wellbeing.gmu.edu/

For information about the Fall 2021 Polarity Thinking™ Certificate Program at the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being, programs, go to https://wellbeing.gmu.edu/lead/polarity-thinking.

For 40 years, the Key Executive Leadership Programs have developed extraordinary leaders with a passion for public service. Initially established to serve the federal sector, our program has grown to include executives from the state and local levels - along with their peers in the nonprofit and private sectors who partner with, and influence, the federal government.  Our programs are applied programs based on relevant theory. We structure our curriculum and our classroom experience to create a shared learning environment where executives take what they learn, and apply it immediately in their workplace. 

Program Goals

1. Faculty, staff, and students create an environment where students work and learn collaboratively and choose to replicate that environment in their workplace.

2. Offer an evolving curriculum that reflects the changing environment, technological advancements, and changing stakeholders, customers, and student needs and ensures students acquire knowledge of substantive public administration principles and practices.

3. Students choose to increase their leadership capacity and change their behavior to become better leaders.

4. Students apply substantive public administration principles and practices, increase leadership capacity, and change behavior to effectively and efficiently implement public policy and practices needed to create and sustain vital public service organizations.

5. Provide top-notch administrative support services to students, allowing them to focus solely on learning.

BSEA is a Strategy and Performance Management Consulting and Training firm. We work with organizations to provide simple and practical performance improvement solutions and ways of seeing. Founded in 2008, we facilitate companies, government departments and not-for-profit organizations of different sizes to develop and implement transformational strategies and

performance management systems. Our greatest uniqueness is in our ability to support leaders, executives and individuals to design and execute strategy, recognize the multiple paradoxical dimensions present, and to harness and leverage the energetic tension between so that they can quickly and successfully build high-performing organizations.

We do this in our earnest believe that each in an organization, at whatever level they are at, is a performance leader with the desire and ability to learn and change the way they do things to get better results.

Our endeavor is to empower individuals and teams to generate possibilities, make decisions, and take actions that create a better world.

FCC Services has worked with clients across the US to help them achieve organizational and operational excellence for over 40 years. As a business services and consulting firm, we provide:

• Governance and Leadership Development

• Conferences, Programs, and Events for Professional Development

• Executive Coaching

• Thought Leadership and Professional Speakers

• Strategic Talent Management

• Merger, Acquisition, and Corporate Finance Advisory

• Risk Management and Insurance Management

• Passkey (Client Affinity Program)

 Through close collaboration with clients and partners, FCC Services’ consultants and associates apply years of knowledge and expertise to meet our clients' needs better. Drawing on decades of experience, each member brings a unique perspective to deliver on a collective goal – to empower our clients to Be more.

LEADERSHIP MATTERS! At the Leadership Forum Community (LFC) we imagine a world where Conscious Leadership is empowered in everyone everywhere so that all have the opportunity and tools to exercise leadership in organizations, communities, and societies.

We are a lifelong learning community where individuals and organizations connect to further the practice of leadership. The LFC uses experiential, innovative learning experiences, mentorship, and personal rejuvenation to enhance the leadership journey. We are a non-profit organization that invites leaders from around the globe, of all generations and from diverse work environments to contribute their challenges and ideas and then learn from each other to create a supportive community. Community members can access learning opportunities, development tools, courses and leadership training. Our organization develops leaders and creates ripples of impact that inspire meaningful change.

Polarity ThinkingTM closely aligns with our conscious leadership goals as it facilitates increased awareness, promotes dialog, and enhances how people work together with understanding. We are pleased to have Polarity Thinking be part of our leadership programming to expand conscious leadership and advance more equitable and human structures, organizations, and cultures.

Healthcare is complex and full of persistent, unsolvable problems. The common approach is to apply problem-solving logic and “quick fix” or single-focused solutions.

At MissingLogic, LLC, we equip individuals and healthcare organizations with game-changing logic, principles and processes that enable them to leverage the tensions they experience and differentiate them from problems to be solved.  Assessments and real-time metrics guide action strategies that prevent vicious cycles where money, time and resources are wasted.  As a result, individuals and organizations can achieve short-term goals and sustainable long-term outcomes. 

Our aim is to become the catalyst for applying Polarity Thinking™ throughout the healthcare industry.  We have developed a unique online program for clinicians and a step-by-step phased service methodology for healthcare organizations.

Our passion and focus are to guide healthcare organizations toward a sustainable Quadruple Aim (improving population health, reducing costs, enhancing the patient experience and improving clinician well-being) and to move individual clinicians toward well-being and a dynamic balance between work and life. 

MissingLogic, LLC is based out of West Michigan.

SixSEED Partners shares a common vision of success—one we think you will find appealing:

“We help to create fully capacitated leaders, teams and healthcare systems who effectively improve the health of their patients and employees, as well as the communities they serve.”

To achieve this vision, SixSEED Partners is committed to guiding forward-thinking healthcare leaders to create sustainable, transformational change within healthcare organizations amidst increasing complexity and ambiguity. Our customizable, multi-prong approach focuses on increasing leader, team and system-level capacities so that whatever comes your way, your people will respond effectively in the short-term as well as long after our engagement ends.

We are passionate about making HEALTHCARE HEALTHIER.

Our senior healthcare leaders and certified leadership coaches focus on a combination of horizontal and vertical development approaches to create custom-designed and interdependent services in collaboration with our clients and their specific needs.

From our own leadership experiences, we know that both development foci are vital for creating the strategic, operational and cultural capacities needed to secure and sustain a dynamic future.

We also leverage our many decades of experience in our own internal teamwork to be living examples and learning environments for ourselves and our clients. We walk our talk and are there with you—that’s how EVERYONE SUCCEEDS.

Chalmers Brothers is a certified ontological coach, best-selling author, leadership & organizational consultant and speaker extraordinaire.  He helps clients build a powerful new foundation for dramatic, sustained improvements by introducing them to a new, empowering way of understanding language,  conversations, relationships and ultimately, themselves.  Beginning with self-awareness and including proven tools and new distinctions in the domains of workplace relationships, culture and execution, Chalmers’ programs allow leaders and employees to see their organizations, teams and interactions with “new eyes.” This expanded perspective makes visible an entirely new set of options for sustainable improvements in both the quantitative (bottom-line) and qualitative (culture, trust, alignment, quality of relationships) aspects of organizational performance.  

The primary emphasis of Frew & Associates programs is to expose leaders at every level to foundational and often invisible performance and leadership concepts, that, if mastered, can result in peak-performing individuals, teams, and organizations.  We promote a High Order Thought ™ framework that promotes higher clarity of thought.  The concept includes mind state awareness, appropriate thinking and mindsets, effective communications, and using reflection as a way of generating new and better insight.  We illuminate typical illusions and explore the use of energy in an effort to expand boundaries and horizons.   The application of Polarity Thinking is often used to help our clients meet increasingly complex business challenges and that feeds conflict and inhibits growth and change.  We provide a variety of forums and interventions that improve trust, alignment, communication, performance and organizational health.

Our work has proven valuable to organizations to build stronger bench strength, be more agile and adaptive, and create useful new cultures to deal with uncertain futures.  We facilitate provocative, honest dialogs, encouraging attendees to question their thinking and beliefs.  Our combination of custom-designed content, expert facilitation, integrated design, and provocative discussion have generated stronger organizations.

Real Time Strategic Change is a global consulting firm specializing in helping organizations create fast and lasting results.  Our mission is to support companies, communities, and countries in creating fast and lasting results — whatever they may be.  We work with our clients using these values:

• Fast change and lasting change

• Predictable outcomes and flexible processes

• Creating change and “change-able” organizations

• Clear guidance and innovative solutions

• A great experience and solid results.

At first value, pairs may seem to conflict with each other. However, they’re no more in conflict than choosing between changing your organization and keeping the status quo in place. But that’s a false choice. The best way to bring about change in an organization is to paradoxically reinforce what is going to stay the same.

These values that guide our work are based on this same concept called Polarity Thinking™.

Robert "Jake" Jacobs, founder and CEO of Real Time Strategic Change, is a pioneer in the field of large group interventions.  He has authored and contributed to seven books and worked with some of the largest corporations in the world, including American Express, Corning, Ford, The Home Depot, Marriott, Mobil Oil, and TJ Maxx.

The Center for Character-Based Leadership - All of our character development work is addressed with a keen awareness of the larger performance culture. How does your culture support collective performance success? And, even more important, do you have the kind of resilient culture that sustains organizational success over time?

All our character development work is guided by these questions:

• How will the performance culture support and sustain the development of individuals and teams?

• What performance culture variables need explicit attention so that there is greater alignment for achieving and sustaining results?

When left unattended, culture can become an unintended barrier to putting new ideas into action. This “cultural drift” gets in the way of action. We work with your leaders to see themselves as active culture builders. We work with you to identify and focus on the cultural levers that will make a real difference to your performance culture. With clear intentions we can focus on the right indicators to help everyone track and have robust conversations about action and accountability for shaping a productive, resilient culture.  

What's the one change in you, in your team or company—that will bring about the biggest ROI? What current job/life challenge is igniting your energy to learn and grow? What current market condition or industry shift is challenging your organization to change?

The key metric that reveals an organization’s cultural and financial health is voluntary employee turnover. Low turnover is correlated with teamwork, collaboration, engagement, productivity, efficiency, and profit. High turnover is correlated with unresolved conflict, silos, workarounds, territoriality, and wasted time and money. 

Based on the work of pioneer executive coach Dr. J. W. Thomas beginning in the 1950s and continuing today, Opposite Strengths is the only psychological system that applies the universal concept behind Polarity Thinking to the psychology of individual and organizational growth. As more and more individual employees internalize and understand the concept behind Polarity Thinking in terms of three pairs of opposite psychological strengths (Thinking/Risking, Practical/Theoretical Thinking, and Dependent/Independent Risking), the organization increasingly benefits from teamwork, collaboration, and engagement that result.

Our experience in cascading the Opposite Strengths language throughout client organizations proves that adopting Opposite Strengths as a common language of communication and relationships throughout an organization creates an energized culture in which turnover rates plummet, productivity increases, and the organization’s bottom line becomes healthier.

Big Futures Inc. -  For over 30 years, Big Futures Inc. has supported and inspired individuals and entrepreneurial businesses, large and small, to achieve their Moon Shots through the Moon Project Program®. Inspired by the accomplishments of the Moon Missions in the 1960s, Adrienne and Patrick Duffy, founders of Big Futures Inc., realized that the metaphor of these missions had an inspirational quality and a contemporary appeal to individuals of all ages. This led to pioneering work in Moon Shot mindsets, tools, and strategies with transformational and often exponential 10X results. Through the Moon Project® Platform, Big Futures has worked with entrepreneurial and family business clients across North America and internationally to clarify their vision strategy and harness the accountabilities of their teams to achieve inspirational targets that impact their part of the world.  Big Futures Inc. offers services ranging from Executive/Leadership Coaching to Corporate Consulting, Workshops and Retreats.

In 2016, Big Futures Inc. launched its new platform, The Nexus Project™, which integrates Polarity Thinking™ as a nexus point of the inner and outer growth factors required for individuals and organizations to thrive in today’s demanding business environments. It harnesses the 30 years of experience supporting Moon Shots - the outer, aspirational growth of client results - while strengthening the internal and cultural elements required to produce sustainable, long-term results during periods of volatility and change. In addition to the services of Big Futures Inc., the company has produced two inspirational films, The Moon Project and Above and Beyond - Exploring the Power of Inspiration in Action, and published two books: Pathway to Freedom, a roadmap for individuals and organizations who choose to be entrepreneurial in spirit and action; and Soul Sense – Your Breakthrough to Soul-Full Living and Leadership.

Big Futures Inc. is thrilled to become a Strategic Partner of Polarity Partnerships and bring the technologies of the Polarity Approach to Continuity and Transformation (PACT™) framework to assist their clients in an ongoing commitment to achieve transformational results.

Threshold Associates facilitates transformational change in organizations and communities through stakeholder engagement, large-scale change processes and leadership development. We work with business, community and public service leaders (within Canada and Internationally) to develop their capacity to bridge differences and work effectively across sectors. Our approaches to transformational change help our clients learn to rethink issues, create innovative solutions to persistent challenges, and foster long-term growth and resilience.

We address what we have come to call "messy opportunities" – social problems or business opportunities that defy ordinary conflict resolution strategies or technical fixes, issues that go beyond problem-solving and into the realm of stakeholder co-creation. This is where polarity thinking comes in. We use polarity thinking to help organizations, teams and leaders use the tensions and trade-offs that arise in their strategic and operational planning as levers for faster and more sustainable change. 

We value partnering and building capability with our clients. This means that our clients can continue the work we begin together, whether the focus is on leadership development, polarity thinking, or large system change. We build capability throughout an engagement, working shoulder to shoulder with business leaders in designing and implementing approaches to address messy opportunities they face and sustain momentum and change after we leave. 

The Institute for Polarities of Democracy leverages theoretical Idealism and practical realism.
Dr. Bill Benet’s “Polarities of Democracy” unifying theory is powered by practice tools and processes of Dr. Barry Johnson/Polarity Partnerships, LLC.

PLEASE VISIT US TO LEARN MORE!: www.InstituteforPOD.org

The Initiative Advancing the Blue and Black Partnership has as its mission to heal the community-police relationship and create safer communities. It works with local leaders, communities and law enforcement leaders to create scalable solutions that create systemic change. Its approach involves partnering with stakeholders to evolve legal and institutional practices that would eliminate the indiscriminate killing and violent policing of black and brown people in our society.

We collaborate with all key stakeholders (local leaders, the community, schools and the police) to establish a shared vision and strategy for a scalable community policing model. To that end, The Initiative worked with its strategic advisors to develop the first and only center of excellence that measures the effectiveness of community-oriented policing. CENTRAL™ uses qualitative and quantitative data and analytics to measure, test and scale the approaches to community-oriented policing that are most effective. n, the center’s constituents include students, faculty and community partners from local, regional and international settings.

Have you ever found yourself trapped between the day-to-day challenges you face as a leader and what you know is possible? Such dilemmas can feel like competing priorities, especially when we are pressured to take quick and decisive action. 

Partnership Advantage™ supports the continued, accelerated growth of organizations and builds the capacity of its leaders to navigate during times of uncertainty, ambiguity and change.  Our proprietary Five Leadership Practices™ framework is the foundation for our leadership development, coaching and organizational consulting services and provides leaders a holistic approach to delivering optimal and lasting results.