Strategic Business Advisory

Every strategic decision an organization makes is built on the foundation of clear purpose. Through appreciative inquiry and collaborative dialogue, I focus on helping organizations set the course for their future while engaging stakeholders as co-creators in determining and upholding their unifying vision and values.

Locating Your Shared Vision

My approach is different. I believe the wisdom to solve your challenges already exists within your organization, waiting to be discovered through the right process.

Using appreciative inquiry, a research-backed methodology employed by organizations from Google to Stanford University, I help teams acknowledge where they’ve been, celebrate what’s worked, identify what hasn’t, and collectively design their future based on their shared vision for the next three to five years.

Begin a Strategic Dialogue

My Approach

Working together, we’ll:

Lead your team through strategic planning sessions that identify gaps and opportunities
Develop clear mission, vision, and values statements that genuinely reflect your organization’s purpose
Engage diverse voices across your organization through carefully crafted questions

Capture, distill, and reflect back the collective wisdom that emerges
Connect your team to their unique purpose and direction from their own perspective
Create frameworks for ongoing alignment and accountability

This approach, sometimes called “transformational facilitation,” creates space for learning and connection at scale. Rather than imposing external solutions, it empowers your team to co-create their future, resulting in deeper commitment and more effective implementation.

Creating Truly Collaborative Teams

Organizations that engage in this process build cultures of collaboration and shared ownership. When people participate in creating the vision, they become naturally committed to making it reality.

My clients find that this approach leads to strategies that are both more innovative and more implementable, as they’re built on the foundation of what already works within their unique culture. The process itself becomes a powerful team-building experience that strengthens relationships and clarifies shared purpose.

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No one has made me feel more welcomed and inspired. Sean not only excels in entrepreneurial and leadership realms but possesses an innate ability to connect with others. He has challenged my conception of what a leader can be, demonstrating firsthand the possibilities of managing with both empathy and dependability.

- Meagan Hatton-Mishra,
Learning Content and Community Manager, YPO

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Winston Churchill

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

- Joseph Campbell

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.

- George Bernard Shaw

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.

- Brother David Steindl-Rast

If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you’ll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification. If you look at personal lives through that lens, you’ll see the same stunning and sobering pattern: people allocating fewer and fewer resources to the things they would have once said mattered most.

- Clayton Christensen

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

- Joe Batten

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Peter F. Drucker

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

- Albert Einstein

Let’s talk about what matters most

Whether you’re navigating growth challenges, considering leadership transitions, or building more meaningful connections within your team, I welcome the conversation and opportunity to collaborate. Share what’s on your mind, and let’s figure out how I might help you achieve your most important goals.

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