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ADVISING

Executive Advising.

Executive Advising.

QIMA works with founders, boards, executives, and institutions at moments of transition, pressure, or ambiguity. We clarify what is happening, identify the decisions that must be made, and design the structure needed to move forward.

QIMA works with founders, boards, executives, and institutions at moments of transition, pressure, or ambiguity. We clarify what is happening, identify the decisions that must be made, and design the structure needed to move forward.

Engagements often center on leadership transitions, board and executive alignment, organizational restructuring, mergers or closures, institutional conflict, strategic decision-making, and complex cultural or public initiatives.

Engagements often center on leadership transitions, board and executive alignment, organizational restructuring, mergers or closures, institutional conflict, strategic decision-making, and complex cultural or public initiatives.

Where We Enter

Where We Enter

Where We Enter

Organizational Moments

Organizational Moments

  • Leadership and executive transitions

  • Board and executive team alignment

  • Board development and onboarding

  • Organizational restructuring

  • Mergers, closures, and strategic resets

  • Institutional conflict and ambiguity

  • Complex cultural and public projects

  • Leadership and executive transitions

  • Board and executive team alignment

  • Board development and onboarding

  • Organizational restructuring

  • Mergers, closures, and strategic resets

  • Institutional conflict and ambiguity

  • Complex cultural and public projects

  • Leadership and executive transitions

  • Board and executive team alignment

  • Board development and onboarding

  • Organizational restructuring

  • Mergers, closures, and strategic resets

  • Institutional conflict and ambiguity

  • Complex cultural and public projects

Ways We Engage

Ways We Engage

  • Listening sessions and strategic diagnosis

  • Stakeholder conversations

  • Retreat and meeting design

  • Facilitation of consequential conversations

  • Strategic and transition planning

  • Project or program design

  • Roadmap and implementation design

  • Listening sessions and strategic diagnosis

  • Stakeholder conversations

  • Retreat and meeting design

  • Facilitation of consequential conversations

  • Strategic and transition planning

  • Project or program design

  • Roadmap and implementation design

  • Listening sessions and strategic diagnosis

  • Stakeholder conversations

  • Retreat and meeting design

  • Facilitation of consequential conversations

  • Strategic and transition planning

  • Project or program design

  • Roadmap and implementation design

Olivetti Leadership Institute, Ivrea, Italy 2022

Within an Engagement.

Within an Engagement.

QIMA does not begin with a predetermined solution or another generic strategic plan. We begin by understanding the system, locating the real decision, and designing a process the organization can actually carry.

QIMA does not begin with a predetermined solution or another generic strategic plan. We begin by understanding the system, locating the real decision, and designing a process the organization can actually carry.

Diagnose.

Diagnose.

  • Listen across leadership, staff, boards, and partners

  • Clarify what is happening beneath the presenting problem

  • Identify what is blocked, unresolved, or at risk

  • Map authority, stakeholders, and competing commitments

  • Listen across leadership, staff, boards, and partners

  • Clarify what is happening beneath the presenting problem

  • Identify what is blocked, unresolved, or at risk

  • Map authority, stakeholders, and competing commitments

Decide & Design.

Decide & Design.

  • Name the consequential decision

  • Determine who must be involved

  • Establish criteria, boundaries, and responsibilities

  • Sequence what must happen now, next, and later

  • Name the consequential decision

  • Determine who must be involved

  • Establish criteria, boundaries, and responsibilities

  • Sequence what must happen now, next, and later

Deliver.

Deliver.

  • Build the process, structure, or roadmap

  • Facilitate critical meetings and conversations

  • Align roles, communication, and accountability

  • Support implementation through transition

  • Build the process, structure, or roadmap

  • Facilitate critical meetings and conversations

  • Align roles, communication, and accountability

  • Support implementation through transition

Selected Advisory Work.

ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS FOR NATIONAL SCALE

ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS FOR NATIONAL SCALE

Led a 20-state organizing network in unifying its CRM and membership infrastructure, strengthen digital organizing and leadership practice, and expand its base by tens of thousands of members.

BEHAVIORAL SYSTEMS FOR CIVIC LEADERSHIP

BEHAVIORAL SYSTEMS FOR CIVIC LEADERSHIP

Led product strategy, stakeholder research, rapid prototyping, and user testing for an AI-supported coaching platform designed to make civic-leadership development more continuous and scalable.

INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Designed and led two intensive residencies for international cohorts at the Olivetti Leadership Institute in Ivrea, coaching emerging leaders from across Europe through financial systems, institutional complexity, and collaborative leadership.