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Our clients are often in major leadership roles – Mayors, CEOs, Board Chairs, Executive Directors, Governors, Founders, etc. They come to us with what we call “leadership challenges”. We help our clients step into these challenges through strategizing, coaching, designing, teaching, and facilitating real time problem solving.

“If you are not stepping into challenges and conflict then you are not leading. Leading is about challenging the status quo.”-Steve Boyd

For more than three decades, we’ve helped people and teams address their most pressing leadership challenges. These recent projects and case studies exemplify some of the in-depth work we do with our clients every day.

Client List | Case Studies | Project Highlights

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Case Studies

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Seattle University

Organizational Effectiveness & Governance

challenge

Becoming the premiere independent University in the Northwest

STRATEGY

  1. Create a balanced governance structure between the board and executive team.
  2. Create an ongoing strategic planning function.
  3. Challenge the status quo to create change.
  4. Build cross department collaboration.

SERVICES

  • Strategic Planning
  • Retreat Planning and Facilitation
  • Conflict Management
  • Leadership Coaching
  • Team Interventions
  • Cross Team Collaboration Design

TESTIMONIAL

“Steve Boyd has greatly helped Seattle University over the past several years working as a facilitator and guide with its Board of Trustees, its Executive Team, and several departments of our university. He combines wide experience and a comprehensive knowledge of how to lead change with a creative, refreshing, personable style of interaction. I find that this opens a leadership group to its own best inspiration and sense of empowerment.”

- Stephen V. Sundborg, S. J.,  President; Seattle University

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Case Studies

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Mayor Greg Nickels, City of Seattle

 

challenge

Build accountability and distributed leadership model into local Government.

 

STRATEGY

  1. Create a cross-organizational leadership development program for emerging city leaders (the City Leadership Institute). Participants engage in 9 months of weekly training, and complete a city wide policy project to develop solutions to the City’s most pressing management and policy issues.
  2. Develop a Mid-level Managers Training Program to introduce all managers to leadership development and organizational improvement strategies.

 

SERVICES

  • Training Curriculum Development
  • Workshop Facilitation
  • Retreat Design and Facilitation
  • 360 Leadership Assessments
  • Individual Leadership Coaching

 

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Wave Broadband

 

challenge

Build a high performing, fast growing company from the ground up.

 

STRATEGY

  1. Develop a strong senior leadership team through an annual planning, evaluation, and retreat process.
  2. Create a distributed leadership model by engaging the middle managers in on-going problem personal development and cross-organizational problem solving.

 

SERVICES

  • Executive Leadership Coaching and Strategy
  • Senior Management Team 360 Evaluation
  • Design and Facilitation of Mid-Level Manager Training Program
  • Retreat Design and Facilitation
  • Individual Coaching
  • Company-wide Employee Survey

 

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Seattle Foundation

Youth Philanthropy Camp

The Seattle Foundation, one of the nation’s largest community foundations, hired MBA to guide the curriculum design process and provide facilitation services for their youth philanthropy camps. The camps teach middle and high school students the basics of philanthropy and grant making by allowing them to experience the grant making process first hand. After site visits with local not-for-profits, the group engages in a rigorous evaluation and decision-making process to award a grant to a deserving organization.

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1st Security Bank

Executive Leadership & Governance

A small regional bank with several locations in the Puget Sound area, 1st Security recently completed a major transition from an credit union to a commercial bank. MBA helped the bank’s leadership navigate the comprehensive changes to its governance structure including redefining board and executive leadership roles and strategic business planning.

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Space Needle Corporation

Executive Leadership & Governance

The Space Needle -Seattle’s iconic landmark- is a privately owned family business governed and managed by the second generation of the Wright family. MBA has worked with the Board of Director’s on general governance issues including strategic business planning, CEO leadership transition, CEO evaluation, meeting effectiveness, and annual retreat design and facilitation.

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REI (Recreational Equipment Inc.)

Board of Directors Retreat

With over 100 retail stores and annual revenue over $1 billion, REI is one of the nation’s largest and most successful consumer co-ops. MBA has worked with CEO Sally Jewell and several successive board chairs to design and facilitate the board’s annual planning retreats. MBA has also conducted assessment processes for the board to determine how the board can continue to improve its effectiveness.

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The Meridian School

Strategic Planning

The Meridian School, an independent K-5 school in Seattle, hired MBA to design and facilitate a strategic planning process. Working with the school’s Board of Directors and Head of School we designed an inclusive process that engaged faculty, staff, board members, parents, and outside partners. Planning elements included an oversight committee, planning retreat, school-wide survey, and focus groups involving faculty & staff. The resulting five year strategic plan was put into action in the fall of 2007 with the full support of the entire school community.

Strategic plan

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Gary Locke, Washington State Governor & King County Executive

Leadership, Planning, Executive Transition

Prior to President Obama appointing him Secretary of Commerce, Gary Locke was the King County Executive and Governor of Washington State. During his three terms in these two offices Locke relied on MBA’s leadership coaching, strategy, team development, design, and facilitation skills. MBA provided key organizational development services to Locke’s transition teams and executive teams as well as his broader executive cabinet.

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