Strategic Advising & Consulting
Our Capabilities & Services .
What We Do
Theeo elevates organisation potential and expands human value by helping leaders and their teams realise tangible change in themselves while evolving their businesses.
Do you see yourselves in any of these strategic pain points?
Structures
We don’t operate as a strategically cohesive, formed team.
Vision
Strategic mis-alignment is our ongoing frustration, horizontally & vertically.
Power
Unhappiness has spread in our culture.
Structures
We have a painfully lo-fi meeting game.
Brand
Our external brand story and internal culture experience feel mismatched.
Structures
Our adaptive skills and applied tooling are antiquated.
Vision
We’re working on an important initiative, and we aren’t pushing beyond our own thinking with enough rigor.
Culture
Our leadership strategies aren’t interwoven into a cohesive operating model.
Leadership
Our org chart creates conditioned dependence, not agency.
Power
Our internal trust barometer is low, resulting in a suspicion-based communication system.
Leadership
Leadership self-esteem fluctuates too much as we run in the constancy of change.
Structures
I feel inadequate to carve out operating system changes by myself.
Culture
The many languages spoken by our multi-generation culture inspires a lack of coherence.
Vision
We indulge our own complexity to the detriment of delivering on outcomes.
Culture
Complaining takes precedence over meaningful action.
Structures
Our workflow prioritisation practices lack an operating system strategy.
Vision
Our time wastes are financially unsustainable.
Structures
Complaints that nobody knows the strategy come from all directions, even though we have a strategy.
Vision
Our structures and systems lack a strategic design intent.
Brand
Our recruiting is strong; our retention comparatively weak.
Communication
Our origin story has a 200-lb. gorilla standing on her chest.
Structures
Our business’s transactional tendencies result in a scarcity of strategic depth.
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Ways Theeo Partners with Clients
- Leadership
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Advising Leadership Transformations
Leading is not a simplistic development nor oversight process. Leading is a dimensionally complex, strategic effort, day in and day out by a cohered group.
Working the constant levers of change, productivity, and delivery demands mental models, mindset shifting, and capabilities far beyond the rhetoric of the past.
Building the chops to be a transformative leader and do transformation as a way of operating deserves capable hands to support you.
Rarely does any single individual or leader team come with the leader, people, technical, and change chops this future requires.
Don’t go it alone. Engage reliable, strong, and experienced partners in change.
- Risk
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Discovering Pains, Risks & Opportunities
Using qualitative processes to enroll hearts and minds in broad and pointed strategy, we figure out a system's sense of itself, its strengths, weaknesses, desires, and capacities.
The interactive research brings voices to the surface emerging a shared story and becomes its own hypothesis, remedy, and recipe for change, evolution, and transformation.
Based on truth as told by the team, rather than launching or acting on assumption, the catalyst for change is instead owned early on through the team’s own weaving, held by a thoughtfully designed process.
- Transformation
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Designing Organisation Change
The modern organisation needs modern, system-wide organisation designs. Transforming means evolving what is not working using ways that will enable your business to meet the moment.
Change efforts fail because people want change to be easy. It is not.
Change efforts work when teams commit, understanding the truth about change.
Change efforts are an evolutionary process that meet each company, team, and individuals where they are at as a beginning point.
Change efforts succeed when everyone involved prepares and puts in the work to experience the growth journey change requires.
You know you are doing real organisation change because it is concurrently demanding and exhilarating. Yours won’t be like anyone else's because the many variables are completely different.
- Prioritisation
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Building Operating & Workflow Rhythms
Strategy, prioritisation, and operating rhythms need intentional wiring.
Alternative mental models, tighter timeframes, and modern approaches to design an operating model that serves your particular vision and strategy are applied effort.
Holding both long- and short-term objective, outcomes, and measures mean designing dimensional strategy and prioritisation levers.
Aligning these levers horizontally and vertically to operate systemically and rhythmically is the key to grounding strategy.
Strategy and delivering on priorities do not manifest spontaneously or by putting daily Stand Ups on the calendar. Design, rigor, and cadencing are critical.
- Communication
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Untangling Communication Systemically
All strategic roads and healthy cultures lead back to communication. Therefore, design wisely. Communication is
technology
interpersonal
information
team
system
brand
internal
external
messaging
channels
vehicles
video
phones
email
chat
voice
team dynamics
leader dynamics
sharing
hoarding
Untangling means laying multiple tracks for effective, optimised, and improved communication.
- Culture
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Curating Effective People & Culture Structures
People cultures are designed. Curating effective cultures is a matter of a system living into elevated and evolutionary ways of organising, structuring, teaming, communicating, leading, and serving the system's purpose, vision, and strategy — from agency, with voice, and understanding clear accountability. Healthy and effective cultures rely on healthy boundaries. Boundary work is systems designing at many levels within and across the Field.
Defaults to
conditioned dependence
blocked flow
lack of clarity
rigidity
enmeshment
are generally signs of ineffective people and culture structures.
How We Practice
Holding complexity to land change applied while elegantly working the dimensionality inherent in responsive organisations and on dynamic teams is an ongoing practice, rooted in discipline.
The truths about skillfully leading change projects at any scale are the practitioners' aptitude in facilitating people collectives, process rigor, personalities, and politics to then package grounded, iterative strategic outcomes in a highly dimensional field.
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AI will certainly enable a quantum leap forward and rational thinking needs to situate technology flows wisely, understanding they don't come into the collective consciousness to replace humans but to expand human capacity and elevate value add.
Humans are still and will need to be for a long while the ones to create, collaborate, prioritise, and drive on vision, strategy, and purposefulness.
Judgment, intuition, and emotion are skills and intelligences complexity asks humans to apply to data and contexts for innovations forward.
The change makers understand that transforming themselves while consciously building forward-looking teams and businesses is tangible, applied, and evolutionary work to build alternative futures in this next wave technology landscape.
Systems change themselves by doing the work of change, not by listening to speeches, participating in workshops or trainings, nor by simply reading about strategy and change.
Hard work is good work. You know you are doing the good work because it will feel hard before it becomes so obviously the right way.
The Field We Play On
Theeo Change Field offers the dimensionality, levers, and vectors involved in moving complex systems from a present state to a future state.
Doing what change requires means learning to be, think, and do in a constant state of re-imagination — individually and as a collective, while concurrently delivering outcomes.
The Lenses We Look Through
Systems are complex.
Theeo lenses enable a grounded way to grab hold of and peer into the amorphous field of complexity in any business and team.
Our Impact Strike Zone
Were we strategic? Is trustworthiness on the rise? Is joy present?
We carry a few easy-to-use measures in our pockets to lay the foundations for tangibly changing what client leaders envision transforming.
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