Consulting

Make progress on the problems that do not have a single right answer.

Some challenges cannot be solved with a better plan, a new org chart, or another round of alignment meetings. They require leaders to surface what is really going on, make hard choices, and mobilize people to do difficult work.

CLA partners with organizations facing complex change, competing priorities, and high consequence decisions. We bring a clear way to diagnose the challenge, engage the right stakeholders, and build the capacity to keep moving after the engagement ends.

What Makes Our Consulting Different

CLA does not deliver a report and walk away. We help you create movement in the real system.

Key principles we centre:

Start with diagnosis. We clarify what kind of challenge you are facing and what is keeping it stuck.
Work with the whole system. We pay attention to relationships, norms, incentives, and informal power, not just structure.
Leadership is shared. We build capacity across levels so progress is not dependent on a few people.
Engagement creates ownership. People support what they help create, especially when tradeoffs are real.
Action and learning together. We design experiments that reduce risk and increase momentum.
Capability, not dependence. The goal is a stronger organization, not a longer contract.

What Organizations Gain

Our consulting combines strategy, facilitation, and hands-on support in real time.

Teams gain the ability to:

Name the real challenge beneath competing stories and surface-level symptoms
Align on what must change and what must stay stable
Surface tensions early so conflict becomes useful instead of corrosive
Engage stakeholders strategically including sceptics, power holders, and people on the margins
Improve decision-making under uncertainty without stalling or over-controlling
Build trust and accountability across silos and levels
Create practical next steps with clear ownership, timing, and learning loops
Strengthen adaptive capacity so progress continues after the engagement

Consulting Options

We tailor every engagement to your organization’s context, culture, and goals.

Options include:

Adaptive Strategy and Change Support
Clarify direction, diagnose the challenge, and design a path that builds learning and momentum.
Culture and Leadership Transformation
Shift behaviors, norms, and leadership practices that are limiting performance and trust.
Stakeholder and Alignment Facilitation
Design and facilitate critical conversations that create clarity, commitment, and shared responsibility.
Complex Problem Solving
Mobilize cross-functional groups to make progress on issues with competing values and high uncertainty.
Executive and Senior Team Advisory
Ongoing support for leaders navigating change, organisational tension, and high-stakes decisions.
Custom Engagements
Designed around your unique context, constraints, and strategic priorities.

Why Choose CLA?

Most coaching improves performance. CLA builds adaptive capacity.

Our coaching is grounded in the Adaptive Leadership tradition and delivered by senior practitioners who have worked with leaders across sectors and regions. You get a practical framework, a trusted thinking partner, and a way to make progress on challenges that cannot be solved by expertise alone.