Strategic clarity and leadership support for organizations navigating complexity.

Ochre Way provides strategic guidance, organizational insight, and communication frameworks for leaders working through periods of growth, alignment, or transition. The practice brings together systems thinking, neuroscience, and a sustainability ethic to help teams focus on what matters, make grounded decisions, and communicate with clarity.

Engagements emphasize structure, alignment, and long-horizon thinking — the elements that strengthen leadership capacity and support effective execution. The work draws from experience across sustainability, public-sector strategy, corporate advisory, and mission-driven organizations.

Consulting

  • Org & Team Diagnostics: Uncover structural misalignments, leadership gaps, and performance risks across teams

  • Strategic Planning: Translate business priorities into focused plans, aligned decision rights, and operational clarity

  • Leadership Alignment Sessions: Align executive teams around priorities, responsibilities, and ways of working

  • Role Clarity & Success Profiling: Define core responsibilities, decision rights, and success criteria for individual roles and leadership positions

  • Capability Mapping: Assess the collective skills and behaviors needed across teams to deliver on strategic priorities and scale effectively

  • Change Readiness Pulse Checks: Assess how prepared your teams are to absorb and act on upcoming shifts

01. Organizational Strategy & Alignment

Clarifying priorities, roles, and structures for effective work.

This practice area supports leaders in aligning goals, understanding organizational dynamics, and refining how decisions flow across teams. The focus is on clarity, coherence, and the structures that enable better collaboration.

Core capabilities:
• Strategic planning & priority mapping
• Organizational diagnostics
• Leadership alignment
• Operating models & decision pathways
• Role clarity & structural design

02. Leadership & People Development

Strengthening leadership capacity across teams and levels.

This work integrates neuroscience, communication science, and developmental frameworks to help leaders grow in clarity, effectiveness, and confidence. It supports talent strategy, leadership transitions, and capability-building across departments.

Core capabilities:
• Leadership development & coaching
• Succession and continuity planning
• Competency modeling
• Team capability & capacity assessments
• Insight synthesis & 360 analysis

03. Strategic Communications & Narrative Alignment

Using communication to build trust, clarity, and shared direction.

This practice area focuses on articulating vision, simplifying complexity, and building communication structures that align teams around shared purpose. It blends narrative strategy with operational insight to create clarity during everyday work and pivotal moments.

Core capabilities:
• Narrative and message architecture
• Executive communication advisory
• Internal communication frameworks
• Stakeholder alignment
• Decision explanation & framing

04. Sustainability & Systems Strategy

Integrating environmental insight with long-term organizational planning.

Shaped by training at the Yale School of the Environment and experience in energy, hydropower, and regenerative agriculture, this work brings a systems-aware, future-facing perspective to strategic decision-making. It supports organizations in strengthening resilience, aligning values with operations, and communicating impact with integrity.

Core capabilities:
• Sustainability-oriented strategic planning
• Scenario modeling & systems mapping
• Environmental strategy integration
• Risk & resilience perspectives
• Impact communication

ONGOING
CAPACITY-BUILDING

Support the growth of your
people intentionally. Assess
talent, align development
plans, and expand
leadership capacity.

  • Talent Assessment & Strengths Mapping: Identify high-potential talent, development needs, and future leadership fit

  • Verbal 360 Assessments: Gather behavioral feedback from key stakeholders to surface strengths, development areas, and
    blind spots

  • Targeted Development Plans: Align individual growth with role demands and business outcomes

  • Leadership Labs: Facilitate small-group sessions where leaders work through real challenges, exchange feedback, and build shared practices for how they lead

  • Coaching Tracks: Strengthen leadership performance, clarity, and decision-making through structured coaching

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TRANSITIONS
AND SUCCESSION

Navigate transitions with
confidence. Strengthen
succession plans, support
new leaders, and build for
the future.

  • Succession Planning & Pipeline Reviews: Assess bench strength and prioritize readiness for key roles

  • Successor Gap Analysis: Identify where future leaders fall short of current demands — and what’s needed to close the gap

  • Executive Onboarding & Transition Coaching: Accelerate time-to-impact for leaders stepping into critical roles

  • Continuity Playbooks: Codify key responsibilities, decision paths, and relationship dynamics during handoffs

  • Facilitated Transitions: Lead sessions between outgoing and incoming leaders to clarify priorities and expectations

  • Peer Cohort Facilitation: Align rising leaders around shared goals, communication norms, and transition strategies

  • Knowledge Transfer Sessions: Facilitate structured exchanges to preserve institutional knowledge during transitions

DURING AND
AFTER DISRUPTION

Guide your teams
through disruption.
Engage stakeholders,
communicate clearly,
and reinforce adoption.

  • Change Architecture: Design structured change strategies that clarify purpose, scope, and leadership roles, and ensure alignment across teams and timelines

  • Stakeholder Engagement Strategy: Build desire and commitment through targeted engagement of sponsors, influencers, and those impacted by change

  • Strategic Communications Planning: Create clear, consistent messaging to raise awareness, reduce uncertainty, and build understanding at every level

  • Enablement & Capability Building: Equip leaders and teams with the skills, knowledge, and tools they need to carry out new behaviors and expectations

  • Reinforcement & Sustainability Plans: Embed change through feedback loops, accountability structures, coaching, and alignment with ongoing operations