Consulting Services

Executive Coaching

We offer highly individualized executive coaching using the Responsibility Method^™ of self-leadership as the core framework. Individuals and corporations engage us for a predetermined series of meetings or on an as-needed basis, in the format that works best: face-to-face, by phone and e-mail, or a combination.

Mastery Groups

A Mastery Group is a study group of 6-10 individuals, each highly committed to developing their self-knowledge and personal leadership abilities. They join a group to study, apply, and master the Responsibility Method^™ in their lives and work. These individuals commit to meeting together in a regular series (bi-weekly or monthly), for 90-150 minutes per meeting.

Mastery develops leadership by expanding the capacity of the individual to take ownership for both problems and opportunities. This is one of the most common descriptions of leadership: Leaders embrace responsibility (aka change, opportunity, problems). A Mastery Group is effective due to the leverage it brings. The keys to responsibility include intention, awareness, and confronting reality. Committing to study in, and with, a group leverages all three.

Custom Applications

Christopher Avery seeks clients and partners interested in incorporating the Responsibility Method as an integral framework for such applications as:

Interview and selection strategies
Performance management tools
Coaching and mentoring
Change management
Organization design
Leadership development

We are interested in your ideas for applying the Responsibility Method.

Organization Assessment

Christopher Avery examines, interprets, and assesses the ambient levels of responsibility and ownership in your organization and compares them across levels, units, and situations (such as standard ops, crisis response, and project management). You receive an assessment of your culture, strategy, leadership, people, and organizational systems. The assessment includes options for leveraging the development of responsibility and ownership in specific areas or all areas.

See Knowledge Team Effectiveness Profile (KTEP) Assessment Tool.

Deep Dive

We send in a crack team for large, seemingly out-of-control, expensive, and persistent problems. The Deep Dive team delivers:

Impartial, experienced analysis
Choices
A greater sense of control

Our experts assemble a small group of your leaders and experts and critically re-examine the problem and your approach to it according to the Responsibility Method. Your Deep Dive is complete when your experts confidently report having a set of profoundly new and expanded choices about how to address your problem.