Questions past clients have hired us to help them answer:
How do we leverage the collective wisdom of our community?
How do we make our processes inclusive, fast, and effective?
How do we get better at learning from each other?
How do we shift our partnerships with others from "accidental adversaries" to "intentional allies"?
How do we encourage good leaders of individual functions to become great leaders of the whole organization?
We have over three decades of combined experience helping Fortune 500 companies, startups, nonprofits, foundations, government agencies, and grassroots movements solve meaningful, wicked problems collaboratively. Now we're aiming even higher. We want to work on bigger, harder challenges, share our learnings and practices openly and broadly, and foster a community of high-performing practitioners.
In many circles, “consultant” seems to be a dirty word. Perhaps only lawyers have a worse reputation as cash cows. I’m guessing House of Lies hasn’t helped that reputation, but at the heart of the stigma, as I see it, is a frustration at how much money consultants cost versus the impact they deliver. We [...]
Groupaya brown-bags are back! We’d love you to join us April 16th at 1pm for a conversation about navigating high conflict groups. Kristin Cobble, our coach, consultant, and facilitator extraordinaire with years of experience helping groups lean-in to conflict has volunteered to share her experience and wisdom. We’d also love to learn from the field, [...]
A few weeks ago I got a call from Joe Mathews, our storyteller for the Delta Dialogues, who is a career journalist. Pope Benedict XVI had resigned–the first pope in six hundred years to do so–and speculation was swirling about who would be elected next. Joe asked me a fascinating question: How would an organizational [...]