Cecilia leads every engagement. She designs the process, facilitates the critical sessions, and is accountable for the engagement, start to finish.
Cecilia Lynch, Founder and Chief Strategist
Cecilia Lynch is a seasoned strategist and management consultant who has led strategic planning for companies, nonprofits, and academic departments for more than 25 years. Clients ask her back because she builds plans their organizations can carry out and stays accountable throughout the engagement.
Her outside-in approach to strategic thinking means clients reflect on their context before identifying strategic priorities, and her planning projects are anchored by her proprietary methods, including the Strategy Summit®, Strategic Focus Market Mapping, and Strategic Success Structure and Role Clarity.
Cecilia is passionate about making strategy possible for everyone, so to extend her capacity to deliver on this, she founded Strategy Class®. This training platform teaches the tools behind her work in strategic thinking, strategic planning, and strategic leadership.
Graphic Facilitation
Emily Shepard, graphic facilitator, illustrator, and teacher with more than 20 years of experience, uses visuals to help groups clarify and align their thinking. She has supported board retreats, conferences, and strategic visioning sessions for corporations, start-ups, nonprofits, foundations, and government, and has taught visual thinking at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Stanford University's School of Business, and California College of the Arts' dMBA program.
Leadership Development & Coaching, and Team Training
J Israel Greene, a professional speaker, leadership trainer, and coach, has led cross-functional teams across North America and Europe, including as a global director for a fast-growing e-commerce consulting firm. He helps leaders strengthen culture and build organizations where every team member can contribute. Israel is also a Focused Momentum Certified Strategist.
Brand Building and Marketing Strategy
Tricia Montgomery, a marketing executive with more than 25 years of experience, has helped companies accelerate revenue growth through brand transformation, product launches, and go-to-market strategy. Since 2018 she has worked independently as an executive advisor and outsourced CMO. She holds an MBA in marketing from the University of Cincinnati. Tricia is also a Focused Momentum Certified Strategist.
Organizational Assessment and Leadership
Debbie Gisonni brings more than two decades of corporate and nonprofit leadership across publishing, technology, health and wellness, education, and hospitality, including full P&L responsibility for $50 million business units. Her strength is assessing an organization's structure, positioning, and people to find its path to growth. She is certified in board education and integrative health and life coaching.
