Company Culture Soul Search
Is your team disconnected? Now accepting brave case-study clients who want to do better.
Is there a disconnect in your organization?
Maybe it’s generational, maybe it’s between business silos, or maybe you can’t quite put your finger on it, but you know it’s there.
Whatever the specifics, challenges like these can make it difficult to build company culture, let alone serve customers or deliver on strategic initiatives. High turnover, stalled progress, and worse client outcomes usually follow.
But diagnosing the situation internally can be tough, and doing it with objectivity & in a way that people feel safe to speak their truth is even more difficult.
I can help.
Two things have always been true about me at work—I can connect with anyone in an organization, and I speak truth to power whether it gets me promoted or makes me persona non grata.
I’m very interested in putting those two skills to work in a consultative, ethical interview process designed to identify those disconnects and construct impactful solutions that make work better for everyone involved.
Will you like everything I say? Probably not.
But that also means you probably need to hear it.
Why me?
As an endlessly curious former music journalist, I am really great at asking questions.
As an ex-Senior Manager of Marketing & Business Development, I know a lot of these challenges firsthand.
And as someone who once had to go to counseling with a coworker, I have a lot of ideas about the right and wrong ways to address these types of challenges.
How does it work?
After a free fit call to see if we should work together …
I will interview management stakeholders to map the current situation including goals, challenges, and opportunities.
I will interview team members who volunteer to offer their perspectives on that situation.
I will produce a report of my own findings, recommendations, and ideas based on those interviews, and the team members will OK the report before it goes to management to ensure anonymity.
At that point you can use that report to get to work, or we can work together on a project to help you make quicker progress toward becoming the organization you truly want to be.
What will you get?
I will conduct the interviews and provide a report that gives you:
An unvarnished opinion on your current situation.
Pragmatic recommendations for remedying immediate challenges.
An opportunity to live up to your leadership potential.
Are you brave enough to be better?
Why me?
Journalistic Approach
I don’t know more than you and so I treat you like an expert that I need to learn something from, which leads to asking good questions that help us get smarter together.
Adaptable Intelligence
I have a lot of interests, endless curiosity, and a ton of random knowledge from across disciplines. This makes me really good at listening to you and making connections that can give you new ways of looking at things.
Strategic Experience
Before joining Kind & Funny I was a senior manager with a lot of responsibility over sales, marketing, content creation, company culture, project management, strategic planning, and a few more things. It was a lot, but it also resulted in A LOT of experience and growth.
Rent my brain and I’ll ask great questions about your project, challenge, or opportunity to generate momentum-building ideas
It’s an amazing way to smash through a work challenge, come up with creative and strategic solutions, or kick around a few ideas with a partner.
If the conversation is enough, that’s great! If we want to make one of those good ideas great together through an ongoing project, I’ll create a custom proposal for you.
$150 for our first meeting
Too much for you to swing right now? That’s OK, buy me a coffee or beer and we can talk over that.
Proof:
“When I requested a call with Jed, I was deep in the weeds with my brand—absolutely stuck. I had a million ideas bouncing around, and none of them felt right. Honestly, I couldn’t see the forest for the trees, and it was driving me nuts.
Jed asked these deceptively simple, spot-on questions that had me going, ‘Oh wow, why didn’t I think of that?’ He reflected things back to me in a way that just made sense, like clearing fog from a windshield.”
— Elizabeth
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Funniest compliment Jed ever received (4 different times!): “You sorta look like Val Kilmer.”