Glass Ball Consulting

Operations · Culture · Change

Your best people already know what's wrong.Most of them have stopped saying so.

The things slowing an organization down are usually visible to the people doing the work. They just never reach the room where decisions get made. I help leaders hear what's actually happening, then I stay and help turn it into change that sticks.

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What I Work On

Hand-drawn crown — brand promise delivery
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Brand Promise Delivery

Hand-drawn interlocking puzzle pieces — internal alignment
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Internal Alignment

Hand-drawn applauding hands — customer trust
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Customer Trust

Hand-drawn chessboard and pieces — strategy and change
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Strategy & Change

Hand-drawn team gathered around a laptop at a meeting table

Where It Breaks

Strategy that survives contact with the floor

People want the plan to work. They'll tell you where it won't, if you ask them. Most of the time nobody asks.

Hand-drawn magic wand — transformative approach

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The Breakthrough Blueprint

The clarity you need. The momentum you're missing.

You have the right vision, the right team, the right strategy. But execution keeps hitting friction. Decisions take longer than they should. Teams aren't fully aligned. The right insights aren't reaching the right people.

The problem isn't your systems. It's your information flow. The Breakthrough Blueprint finds the bottlenecks by asking the people who are already working around them.

  • 01A custom intelligence flow map
  • 02Tailored, data-backed recommendations
  • 03A realistic execution plan
  • 04A priority matrix

$3,500 · Full credit toward a larger engagement

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The Partnership

01

Diagnose

Interviews on the floor, not just in the boardroom.

02

Design

Forums, rituals and measures your managers will actually run.

03

Embed

Ninety days of coaching until the new behavior is the default.

How I Work

Hand-drawn iceberg — uncovering the root cause

Uncovering the Root

I go past the symptom to the operating habit underneath it.

Hand-drawn summit with a flag — the challenge

Naming the Challenge

Plain language about what is broken, said early enough to matter.

Hand-drawn speedometer with flame — driving real results

Driving Real Results

Measured against retention, service and trust — not attendance.

In business (and life), some priorities are rubber balls that bounce back when dropped. But others are glass — fragile, irreplaceable things like customer trust and team alignment.

Something Extraordinary

Ordinary organizations manage change. Extraordinary ones absorb it.

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Hand-drawn conductor leading a string ensemble — an organization in harmony

Latest Thinking

The Next Leadership Advantage Isn’t AI. It’s Collaboration.

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The Next Leadership Advantage Isn’t AI. It’s Collaboration.

The employer-employee contract has been eroding for years and AI is accelerating it. The advantage goes to companies that close the gap between people doing the work and people deciding what's next.

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The $605B Problem Hidden in Plain Sight (And Why It's Just the Tip of the Iceberg)

The $605B Problem Hidden in Plain Sight (And Why It's Just the Tip of the Iceberg)

Every day, organizations lose millions in a cost center that never shows up on their balance sheets. Gallup calls it disengagement. I call it the “Silence Tax” – and it’s far more expensive than…

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The Hidden Costs of Frontline Burnout – And What Leaders Can Do About It

The Hidden Costs of Frontline Burnout – And What Leaders Can Do About It

Mark Perna’s recent Forbes article highlighting frontline worker burnout resonated with me, particularly the stark statistic that 83% of Gen Z frontline workers are experiencing burnout.

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Success Stories

Real results, told with context.

Empowering Voices: The Cross-Functional Shadow Board

Empowering Voices: The Cross-Functional Shadow Board

By giving employees a seat at the table and empowering them to drive change, this supply chain company transformed its culture, unlocked the wealth of knowledge within its workforce, and positioned itself for continued success in an increasingly competitive industry.

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