Working With Us

We help organizations win through how they work.

We start all partnerships with a question: “What do you want to be true by next year?”

Whether your aim is to grow, accelerate, or transform, we work with you to create structures and workflows that evolve, practices that make teams more collaborative & consistent, and a culture that harnesses the highest potential in people.

Who We Partner With

Plural works with a broad range of organizations – from global enterprises and non-profits to city agencies and scale-ups. Regardless of their scale or trajectory, all of our partners understand that their ambitions for the future require fundamental shifts in how they organize, lead, and work.

Every organization is facing the need for change, but not all are ready. Our collaborations are most successful when our partners are:

Ambitious

You are bold, visionary, and clear about where you want the organization to go.

Frustrated

You feel stuck in some way – by the organization, your team, or yourself.

Open

You’ve accepted that change may bring discomfort, and are (truly) open to experimenting with new ways of organizing, leading and working.

Our Services

We help to unblock and accelerate organizations in five ways:

How Our Approach is Different

Change becomes everyone’s work

As direction gets clearer, a broader coalition emerges to accelerate progress.

  • Clarify direction & shared principles with extended leaders

  • Frame a set of bold missions, and invite open participation

Conflict is transformed into shared solutions

Tensions are disarmed as groups clarify root causes & co-design improvement together.

  • Teams in conflict clarify tensions and craft proposals to ‘edit’ the organization

  • Learning to separate feedback for people from feedback for systems

Holistic change:
Evolve Structure and Ways of working
and Mindsets

Teams get more out of new structures & workflows by committing to the shifts in mindset & practice that enable them.

  • Prototyping changes to structure, processes, and rituals

  • 1:1 Coaching to frame enabling micro-shifts in leadership practice

Continuous experimentation
& iteration

How you organize and work is meant to evolve, not last. We’ll help build the rituals and habits for lightweight, continuous change.

  • Rapid experiments with structure, scaling what works

  • Ritualized reflection to learn fast, together

Treating adults
as adults

Your team’s full potential is unlocked by gradually letting go of Parent <> Child dynamics that inhibit everyone.

  • Defaulting to open, to grow context & trust

  • Safe distribution of authority for speed, focus, and real empowerment

Start by Starting

We love to connect with ambitious and hopeful people who are determined to build a better workplace. Your challenges don’t scare us – in fact, they’re why we bounce out of bed in the morning. We’re energized by helping people just like you make progress.