Our Approach

We employ a straightforward and effective four-step process designed to help you identify and achieve your desired outcomes. Our expertise in strategic planning, ownership exit strategy planning, succession management, and leadership and organizational development enables us to customize solutions that would work best for your unique situation.

Our Four-Step Process

Understand Desired Outcomes

The first step in the process is to understand and confirm your desired outcomes and the driving forces behind those outcomes. While this sounds simple, identifying desired outcomes—the results you want to achieve—can be challenging when working with multiple decision makers who have conflicting objectives. However, identifying the most important desired outcomes creates the clarity needed to move forward.

Diagnose and Analyze Root Causes

With desired outcomes in mind we then assess your current situation This assessment may include interviewing key players in your organization as well as key advisors and others closest to the leaders, reviewing critical data and core processes, and observing team behaviors and dynamics. This allows us to diagnose and analyze underlying causes of the current state of affairs. We then provide a candid assessment and recommendations for how to best achieve the desired outcomes.

Design and Implement Customized Solutions

We work closely with you to develop and implement customized and holistic solutions to achieve desired outcomes while taking into consideration the unique qualities and characteristics of your ownership and leadership teams. Developing organizational buy-in is a critical part of this step and one frequently overlooked when trying to implement change in any organization.

Coach and Evaluate Results

We provide ongoing coaching and accountability during execution of solutions to ensure that agreed-upon expectations and timelines are met and that obstacles are addressed immediately and effectively. Systematically reviewing results is fundamental to ensuring that your short- and long-term objectives are being achieved and that your desired outcomes are ultimately fulfilled.

We also use the Integrated Leadership Disciplines™ Model as a tool to support the overarching objective of enabling our clients to achieve their desired outcomes. We have observed that leaders who consistently achieve their professional and personal goals do so as a result of the combined effect of routinely and systematically exercising the disciplines of Discernment, Alignment, Execution, and Balance. We call these the Integrated Leadership Disciplines™. Pathway’s inter-disciplinary approach to leadership consulting provides a framework that promotes and supports the systematic integration of these disciplines into your business model and daily routine so that you can thrive on a sustainable basis.