Organizational Effectiveness
Strengthen how your organization works.
Develop the capabilities, culture, and infrastructure that help people lead, collaborate, and perform together through change.
Explore Organizational EffectivenessOrganizational effectiveness • Strategic planning • Special projects
Nobody who is building something real gets a straight path.
Outside Angle helps leaders build organizations that thrive through change. Through organizational effectiveness, strategic planning, and special projects, we connect fresh perspective with the rigor and practical work that turn possibilities into progress.
The next chapter asks more of your organization.
Your ambitions may be growing. Funding, leadership, or expectations may be shifting. The ways of working that got you here need to evolve with what comes next.
Too much depends on a few people.
Decisions and coordination keep returning to the same desks.
The priorities are clearer than the path.
The team needs a practical way to turn direction into action.
Important work crosses the org chart.
Progress depends on people who need to work differently together.
We help you move the work forward while building the organization’s capacity to carry it.
Three ways to work with Outside Angle.
Strategic Planning
Choose a direction you can act on.
Make clear choices about impact, priorities, and resources. Connect your strategy to ownership, action, and learning as conditions change.
Explore Strategic PlanningSpecial Projects
Bring an important initiative to life.
An experienced team to think with you and carry the work—connecting strategic judgment, people, and practical execution across the initiative.
Explore Special ProjectsLeaders we work with
Built for people who are building.
Founders, executive directors, and executives inside large systems. Strong leaders who want a partner for what comes next. You might recognize yourself here.
You’re scaling fast.
Headcount, products, maybe an acquisition. The culture that got you here has to stretch without breaking, and you can’t be in every room anymore.
Read the Joyful Reading Co. storyYou founded it, and it still runs through you.
Every real decision lands on your desk. You want a company that can carry more without you, and a team that wants to carry it.
You inherited a strategy that needs rethinking.
You’re new in the seat, the original plan isn’t holding, and the team needs a direction it can believe in and act on.
Read the WPS Institute storyYou’re leading change inside a big system.
New role, new strategy, a lot of stakeholders. You need a thought partner and people who can help carry the work.
Read the AdventHealth storyYou’re building where the ground keeps moving.
Funding, policy, or the market shifts every quarter. You need ways of working that hold up when the plan has to change.
Your mission is steady. The conditions aren’t.
A respected organization in an uncertain field. Your managers need to lead through it and your systems need to keep up.
Read the Literacy Pittsburgh storyClient work
Built through real work, with real teams.
HCM Strategists
Building the next version of the firm.
Over three years, Outside Angle partnered with HCM Strategists as the firm moved from HCM 2.0 to 3.0. The work connected leadership development, ways of working, and shared ownership. HCM is now moving toward 4.0 with greater independence and more selective support from Outside Angle.
Read the HCM Strategists story“Outside Angle gets our team and understands our vision. They brought the process skills and expertise we needed to thrive through change.”
Kristin Hultquist, HCM Strategists
Literacy Pittsburgh
Strengthening the whole operating system.
A multiyear partnership with Literacy Pittsburgh has connected leadership and manager development, culture, and the infrastructure of everyday work. Together, these layers help the organization carry its mission through change.
Read the Literacy Pittsburgh story“It’s been a time of heightened uncertainty in our field and Outside Angle has been instrumental in helping us succeed through it. They help build the systems we rely on and strengthen our culture along the way.”
Carey Harris, Literacy Pittsburgh
Joyful Reading Co.
A culture that can grow—and a team that can carry it.
From Zoobean to Joyful Reading Co., Outside Angle helped build and evolve an operating system through growth and combination. The organization is now taking greater ownership of its systems, with Outside Angle shifting toward guidance and targeted support.
Read the Joyful Reading Co. story“Bias towards action, focus on culture, and relationship building with individual team members continue to differentiate Outside Angle.”
Felix Brandon Lloyd, CEO, Joyful Reading Co.
Partners across sectors
Nonprofits, education, healthcare, public agencies, and growing companies—from defined initiatives to multiyear partnerships.
Our approach
Expansive thinking. Precise follow-through.
We look for possibilities and work through the details that make them real. We call it climbing the ladder: moving between strategic choices and practical work, learning from each as we go.
Illustration of the approach
We might help you choose a strategic priority, work through what it asks of your team, and build the agenda, communication, or working rhythm that helps people act on it. What happens in that work informs the next decision.
Our Navigational Leadership approach connects that work to what helps a team thrive through change.
Explore our approachCapabilities
The mindsets and skills to lead and manage through change.
Culture
The way people create direction, organize work, build relationships, and solve problems together.
Infrastructure
The cycles, systems, and communication that keep effective work moving.
Grounded in Navigational LeadershipThese reinforce one another across every service. The emphasis fits the work you need to do.
How we partner
Trust over comfort.
You need a partner you can tell the truth to—and who will do the same for you. We bring care, candor, and practical help to the assumptions worth testing, the tensions worth addressing, and the choices that need to be made.
A useful partnership makes it possible to question an assumption, acknowledge uncertainty, and work through a difficult decision with care. Then it helps the team act on what it has learned.
“I’ve turned to and trusted Outside Angle in some of my most challenging leadership moments. They helped me and helped my team transition into new roles and activate new strategies.”
Jessica BrazierAdventHealth
The people behind the partnership
A perspective shaped by doing the work.
I’ve built a school, helped lead large-scale organizational change, and worked through transitions where the choices were hard and people were counting on us. Those experiences shaped how I work: look for what is possible, be honest about what it will take, and stay close enough to help make it happen.
Sam FranklinCo-founder and CEO
Meet Sam and the teamIdeas you can put to work.
Navigational Leadership
A way to act, learn, and adjust when uncertainty is part of the terrain.
Read the articleThe Four Domains of Team Performance
Vision, Process, Relationships, and Problem Solving work together. Use them to see where the team needs attention.
Read the articleCulture by Design
How leadership, calibrated domains, and learning cycles shape the culture people experience.
Read the articleWhat is your organization navigating?
Tell us what’s changing, where the work is getting stuck, and what you want to make possible. You don’t need a polished brief to start the conversation.
Together, we can handle what comes next.