Leadership Consulting & Organizational Development Services
Thunderbird Leadership Consulting partners with organizations to strengthen executive team effectiveness, develop leadership capability across all levels, and improve the organizational practices and culture that support effective execution.
what we do
Over 20 Years of Leadership Consulting & Organizational Development Experience
Whether you’re strengthening organizational effectiveness, improving how your executive team leads together, or developing leadership capability across your organization, Thunderbird provides consulting partnerships shaped around your goals, operating environment, and priorities.
01 · ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
Organizational Development Consulting
Turn organizational priorities into more effective ways of working.
Thunderbird partners with organizations to strengthen strategic alignment, organizational culture, decision-making, accountability, and coordination. Our organizational development consulting helps leaders improve how their organizations function and translate priorities into consistent action.
Focus: Organizational effectiveness · Culture assessment and enrichment · Strategic execution · Organizational alignment
02 · EXECUTIVE TEAM EFFECTIVENESS
Executive Team Effectiveness Consulting
Help your executive team lead as one team, not just individual leaders.
Thunderbird partners with executive teams to strengthen collective leadership, strategic alignment, decision-making, trust, and shared accountability. Our ongoing executive teaming engagements help senior leaders work more effectively together and strengthen organizational execution.
Focus: Executive team alignment · Decision-making · Team accountability · Executive teaming
03 · LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS
Leadership Development Consulting
Build more effective leadership across your organization.
Thunderbird helps organizations strengthen leadership effectiveness across executive, director, manager, and emerging-leader levels. Through integrated leadership development, coaching, and team-based learning, we help leaders apply more consistent practices that improve communication, accountability, collaboration, and leadership readiness.
Focus: Organizational leadership development · Leadership effectiveness · Coaching · Succession readiness
WAYS WE MAY ENGAGE
Additional Ways We Support Your Organization
Some organizations begin with a focused leadership or organizational priority. Others incorporate these services into broader consulting partnerships. Thunderbird tailors the work to what your organization is seeking to accomplish.
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Executive & Leadership Coaching
Strengthen leadership judgment, self-awareness, communication, and effectiveness through individualized, context-based coaching.
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Organizational Culture Assessment & Enrichment
Understand employee experiences and organizational practices, then strengthen the conditions that support trust, collaboration, and engagement.
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Strategic Planning & Facilitation
Establish organizational direction, clarify priorities, and build shared understanding and commitment to execution.
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Organizational & Leadership Assessments
Generate evidence-based insights into leadership behaviors, team effectiveness, organizational capabilities, and opportunities for focused improvement.
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Emerging Leader & Succession Development
Prepare future leaders, strengthen leadership readiness, and support continuity as organizational responsibilities evolve.
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Executive & Leadership Team Facilitation
Help leadership teams address important issues, strengthen working relationships, and make progress on shared priorities.
EXPLORE ORGANIZATIONAL PRIORITIES
What Is Your Organization Working Toward?
Whether you’re strengthening leadership effectiveness, preparing for growth, supporting a leadership transition, or navigating organizational change, explore the priorities and experiences that may shape your next steps.
STRENGTHENING LEADERSHIP & ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
NAVIGATING GROWTH & ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
ORGANIZATIONAL PRIORITY 01 OF 09
Strategic Execution
Our priorities are clear. How can we improve execution?
What you may be noticing
- Important initiatives compete for resources, attention, or decisions.
- Progress is strong within departments but slows when work crosses organizational boundaries.
- Ownership, coordination, or follow-through becomes less clear during implementation.
What may deserve closer attention
Effective strategy execution depends on more than a well-developed plan. Decision authority, prioritization, cross-functional coordination, and accountability practices all influence how reliably strategy becomes action.
A useful place to begin
Examine where strategic priorities become difficult to translate into decisions, coordinated responsibilities, and timely action.
ORGANIZATIONAL PRIORITY 02 OF 09
Executive Team Effectiveness
We have capable executives. How can we lead more effectively together?
What you may be noticing
- Executives perform well individually, while opportunities remain to strengthen collective leadership.
- Cross-functional decisions require additional discussion or alignment.
- Expectations for shared accountability, communication, or follow-through differ among team members.
What may deserve closer attention
Executive team effectiveness depends on how senior leaders operate collectively. Shared expectations, productive dialogue, decision practices, and peer accountability can strengthen the team’s ability to establish direction and lead across the organization.
A useful place to begin
Explore how the executive team makes decisions, navigates differences, establishes shared commitments, and reinforces collective accountability.
ORGANIZATIONAL PRIORITY 03 OF 09
Leadership Capacity
How can we strengthen leadership effectiveness across our organization?
What you may be noticing
- Employees experience different leadership practices across departments or teams.
- Technical experts and experienced professionals are assuming increasingly complex leadership responsibilities.
- Leadership training occurs, but opportunities to apply and reinforce new practices vary.
What may deserve closer attention
Organizational leadership effectiveness grows when leaders have opportunities to develop, apply, and reinforce effective practices. Shared expectations can strengthen consistency while allowing leaders to exercise judgment appropriate to their responsibilities.
A useful place to begin
Identify the leadership practices that would benefit from clearer expectations, intentional development, practical application, and reinforcement.
ORGANIZATIONAL PRIORITY 04 OF 09
Organizational Culture
How can we enrich our organizational culture and employee experience?
What you may be noticing
- Employees are committed to the mission, but their everyday experiences differ across the organization.
- Trust, collaboration, communication, and recognition are stronger in some areas than others.
- Leaders want to preserve positive cultural strengths while creating a more consistent employee experience.
What may deserve closer attention
Organizational culture develops through everyday interactions, leadership practices, and operating conditions. Understanding employee experiences can reveal strengths worth preserving and opportunities to enrich trust, collaboration, employee voice, and engagement.
A useful place to begin
Explore where employee experiences are most positive, where they differ, and which organizational practices shape those experiences.
ORGANIZATIONAL PRIORITY 05 OF 09
Workforce & Succession Readiness
Are we preparing our future leaders and strengthening succession readiness?
What you may be noticing
- Experienced leaders hold important institutional knowledge and relationships.
- Potential successors are identified, but developmental opportunities vary.
- The organization wants greater confidence in leadership continuity as responsibilities change.
What may deserve closer attention
Succession readiness extends beyond identifying future leaders. Leadership continuity is strengthened through intentional development, knowledge transfer, opportunities to exercise judgment, and preparation for responsibilities leaders may not yet hold.
A useful place to begin
Examine leadership depth, succession pathways, knowledge continuity, and the experiences that will prepare future leaders for expanded responsibility.
ORGANIZATIONAL PRIORITY 06 OF 09
Organizational Effectiveness
How can we make our organization work more effectively?
What you may be noticing
- Routine decisions or operational matters frequently require senior leadership involvement.
- Coordination becomes more complicated when responsibilities cross departments.
- Leaders spend considerable time navigating recurring organizational processes or decision pathways.
What may deserve closer attention
Organizational effectiveness is shaped by how structures, responsibilities, decision authority, and operating practices work together. Clearer coordination and appropriate distribution of authority can help teams operate effectively while maintaining necessary oversight.
A useful place to begin
Examine decision pathways, role clarity, cross-functional coordination, and the organizational conditions that support effective work.
ORGANIZATIONAL PRIORITY 07 OF 09
Organizational Growth & Expansion
How do we prepare our organization for its next stage of growth?
What you may be noticing
- New services, facilities, partnerships, or responsibilities are creating opportunities for expansion.
- Leadership teams are preparing to operate at greater scale or complexity.
- Leaders want to preserve the organization’s strengths while evolving the practices that support growth.
What may deserve closer attention
Organizational growth often requires leadership practices, decision structures, communication, and coordination to evolve alongside the organization. Preparing these capabilities intentionally can help expansion remain aligned with strategic priorities and organizational values.
A useful place to begin
Consider which leadership capabilities, organizational practices, and decision structures will need to evolve as the organization grows.
ORGANIZATIONAL PRIORITY 08 OF 09
Executive Leadership Transitions
How do we position a new executive leader for success?
What you may be noticing
- A new CEO or senior executive is joining or assuming expanded responsibilities.
- The executive team is establishing new working relationships, expectations, and priorities.
- The organization wants to maintain continuity while welcoming new leadership perspectives and direction.
What may deserve closer attention
Executive leadership transitions affect more than the individual entering a new role. Effective executive onboarding, relationship development, team alignment, clear expectations, and context-based coaching can support a successful transition for both the leader and the organization.
A useful place to begin
Identify what the new executive and surrounding leadership team need to establish clarity, trusted relationships, shared expectations, and early momentum.
ORGANIZATIONAL PRIORITY 09 OF 09
Mergers, Acquisitions & Integration
How do we bring leadership teams, cultures, and organizations together effectively?
What you may be noticing
- Organizations, departments, services, or operating units are preparing to combine.
- Leadership teams are establishing shared expectations, responsibilities, and decision practices.
- Employees are navigating changes in organizational identity, relationships, communication, or ways of working.
What may deserve closer attention
Organizational integration involves more than combining structures and operations. Leadership alignment, cultural understanding, clear communication, decision authority, and coordinated practices influence how effectively people and teams work together following a merger or acquisition.
A useful place to begin
Explore the leadership relationships, cultural strengths, organizational practices, and decision structures that will help the combined organization work effectively.
OUR WORK IN ACTION
Real People. Meaningful Partnerships.
Organizational Progress.
Our work creates opportunities for leaders to connect, exchange perspectives, strengthen working relationships, and develop practices they can carry into their everyday responsibilities.
Shared Learning
Meaningful Dialogue
Building Connections
EVIDENCE OF IMPACT
Thunderbird’s client assessments provide insight into the ways leaders strengthen their effectiveness, collaboration, and decision-making through our consulting partnerships.
What Becomes Stronger Through Our Partnerships
96%
Coaching & Self-Awareness
Rated coaching as having a moderate or high impact on leadership self-awareness.
Cross-client · 50 respondents · 7 assessments
91%
Decision Confidence
Reported favorable confidence in making decisions in complex or uncertain situations.
Community hospital · 23 respondents
83%
Team Collaboration & Accountability
Provided favorable ratings for team collaboration, accountability, and culture modeling.
Community hospital · 23 respondents
PARTNERSHIPS ACROSS SECTORS
Some of Our Past Clients
Organizations across healthcare, higher education, public service, and more have partnered with Thunderbird to strengthen leadership and organizational effectiveness.
LET’S WORK TOGETHER
Let’s Strengthen What Matters Most to Your Organization
Whether you’re strengthening executive team effectiveness, developing leaders across your organization, or improving how your organization works, Thunderbird can help you determine a practical path forward.
Organizational capability is how sustainable performance is built.
Sustainable performance grows when the right engagement pathways are shaped around an organization’s current conditions, priorities, and evidence. Coaching, assessment, teaming, discovery, and facilitated work may take different forms, but each is designed to strengthen the shared organizational capabilities that help performance endure.
Sustainable performance grows when the right engagement pathways are shaped around an organization’s current conditions, priorities, and evidence. Coaching, assessment, teaming, discovery, and facilitated work may take different forms, but each is designed to strengthen the shared organizational capabilities that help performance endure.
