Acute Disruption
The Forge
You have real structural damage and need a brave space to redefine and rebuild your relationships.
The problem this solves
Somewhere along the way, your team stopped trusting one another. Maybe it was a restructure, a threat to the business, or a significant departure. Now your team is in survival mode trying to deliver at the same time. The old playbook wasn’t built for that.
The shape of the engagement
01
See It
An in-depth assessment. We interview across the team, and where it matters, adjacent teams and partners too. We need to see the damage clearly, all of it, before we name anything.
02
Name It
We name the actual structural damage out loud, not the polite version everyone's been repeating. The emotional temperature gets dealt with directly here, before anything new gets built on a shaky foundation.
03
Build It
We rebuild the working agreements and roles the damage exposed: new decision rights, new norms for how your team communicates and holds itself accountable. Not optional.
04
Shift It
Small, deliberate changes get practiced inside the rebuilt structure, and tested in your team's next real meeting, not staged in a workshop built to feel safe.
What changes
Illustrative - what shifts depends on your team, but here’s what tends to show up:
You get a real foundation to rebuild trust on, not a temporary patch that cracks under the next pressure.
Shared norms and real accountability for the culture replace the finger-pointing at "the org" or "the structure" that trust damage tends to produce.
Less tension running underneath the work, replaced by daily habits your team can actually lean on to keep the infrastructure holding.
Who it’s for
You’re ready to dance through fire, not around it.
Duration
10 to 12 weeks.
Pricing
Starting at $50K. Scoped and finalized after assessment.
Ready to work through it?
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