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Our work
Cultivating 'leaderfulness'

Inspired by frameworks such as design-thinking, the right use of power, and co-active coaching, our work with teams focuses on the real impact of workplace leadership and culture.

Because our work with teams explores underlying systems and structures, power dynamics, human behaviour, and other similar forces, it typically requires an openness and readiness for new levels of depth, breadth, and urgency.

Find out if we are a match

The role of power in the workplace

Workplace power dynamics are shifting

The frequency and intensity of change continues to introduce new power dynamics and relational challenges that most leaders and organizations do not (yet) have the skills, tools, and strategies to navigate.

Employees are finding their voices

People are demanding clearer accountability and real action from their leaders and organizations to operationalize (or codify into culture) diversity and inclusion, connection and autonomy, and real change to outdated systems and ways of working.

Work is adapting to people's values

Personalized working environments, autonomous team structures, and genuine allyship, are examples of growing employee expectations for having more control over their work-lives.

Understanding our work

While the scope and flow of our work can vary from team to team, it can be described as three waves - each consisting of a series of activities that work together to generate shared understanding, alignment, action, and accountability.

Understanding your culture's (true) impact

Understanding your culture's (true) impact

Helping engage your team in meaningful conversations that lead to shared understanding, alignment, and agreement.

Learn about our culture assessments
Cultivating new levels of awareness, skill, and capacity

Cultivating new levels of awareness, skill, and capacity

Helping equip your team with learning and development experiences that deepen their connection, ability, and impact.

Check out our team learning experiences
Operationalizing your team's new ways of working

Operationalizing your team's new ways of working

Helping ensure the activation and traction of your team's impact plan(s) by meaningfully supporting their areas of growth.

Ask about our leadership support services
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Approaching change meaningfully
Our work follows an approach guided by our values, and is described by our clients as iterative, experiential, and feedback-informed. We like to refer to our approach as the 'Five D's for creating meaningful change'.

A diagram showing TACO's 'Five D's' of meaningful work -> Discover, Define, Design, Debrief and Deliver

Discover. Be conscious of inferences, biases, and assumptions and choose to engage people in meaningful conversations to surface needs, values, and hopes and fears.

"What do we know about this from our team's perspectives?"

Define. Make sure that people are aligned on the understanding and meaning of problems, opportunities, words or terms, and any other signals that have surfaced.

"What is our shared understanding and agreement of existing challenges and opportunities?"

Design. Acknowledge the feedback, perspectives, and ideas that people have contributed, and clearly communicate the connection to what you will (and will not) be prioritizing as a team.

"What are we choosing to prioritize, and how might we approach this work?"

Deliver. Create the roadmap, get the right people in the right roles, and establish your ways of working. Do not forget to confirm agreement (different from understanding) and to set up accountabilty rhythms.

"How are we ensuring alignment, agreement, and traction"?

Debrief. Continue to have meaningful conversations - asking powerful questions, surfacing helpful feedback, and making important decisions - to ensure the alignment of intention and impact.

"What is here for us now, and what is next"?

In our experience, leaderful teams use some version of 'the Five D's' to adapt to - and even shape -change.

Learn more about the 'Five D's'

Testimonials

Kind words from our Fantas-TACO clients!

“I've made progress in setting stronger boundaries. I've also passed some of the concepts and assessments to my team, which they have found helpful. I'm already seeing some of the changes surface in how we work and communicate, which has been fulfilling.”
Executive leader at AMASS
“Leadership and healthy corporate culture work in these trying times needs a collaborative, multi-faceted approach. Working with The Ally Co has given me the opportunity to brainstorm solutions with some incredible minds. Specialists in the work they do, they have truly proven to be a valuable ally to the work I am doing. Workshop development, asking the right questions to get the right solutions, world-class leadership coaching and a new refreshing approach to onboarding staff – and everything in between!”
Lisa Almond, Director of Organizational Strategy and Culture at Cochrane

Questions? Thoughts? Feedback? Whatever it is, we would love to hear from you!

team@theallyco.world