A day in the life of Meredith Westfahl

The Clearing combines data science, social science, and visual tools in a manner uniquely suited for the strategic transformation of federal systems through organizational design.

Designing and sustaining a strategic transformation requires a basis of theory along with a set of skills that reinforce people, processes, and systems as they change. Sustaining and thriving in change demands that leaders focus on four areas:

• Strategic Communications:
• Explicit Behavior Shifts
• Performance Indicators and Measures
• Multifaceted Risk Management

The Clearing’s approach to project and program management focuses on identifying and delivering the fewest, most important initiatives that will provide an organization with the best customer results and the highest growth.

Our certified project managers use best industry practices and our custom project management methodologies to create a program structure that provides clear governance, enrollment of stakeholders, strategic communications, and risk management roles to ensure successful outcomes.

Our management consulting approach aligns and builds trust among leaders and stakeholders and creates clarity on which initiatives should be tackled first. Our project managers then work with clients to drive the initiatives to successful completion.

The Clearing’s strategy facilitation services help clients design and run successful in-person or virtual strategy sessions that ensure the group’s goals are met.

Our facilitation sessions allow participants to exchange information, engage in meaningful dialogue, and discuss actionable matters. In each session, The Clearing’s strategy consultants will work to balance the passion of the group, the agenda, and the leaders’ needs to guide the group to the intended outcome. We facilitate senior leadership discussions, business meetings, and off-sites, as well as negotiations in and across organizations.

The Clearing’s strategic communications consultants are skilled at developing communication strategies that work within the culture of the organization and meet diverse stakeholder needs. Additionally, our strong graphics capabilities allow us to create compelling, concise, and impactful presentations and thought leadership products to support strategic communications initiatives.

The Clearing provides forward-looking management strategy consulting services to increase organizational effectiveness, growth, and innovation.

We combine our innovative strategic thinking with our client’s existing organizational strategy knowledge and expertise to develop pragmatic and actionable solutions to strategic challenges.

Our corporate strategy consulting services blend strategy and design with the critically important voice of the customer and build alignment across the organization to deliver lasting, meaningful, and actionable change.

The Clearing’s agile change management consultants help our clients “lead through change” by:

1. Assessing the organization’s current environment
2. Diagnosing underlying issues that keep the organization from realizing its vision
3. Implementing short sprints to develop testable, timely solutions
4. Iterating quickly based on feedback.

Our agile change management methodology creates a shared perspective and shared intent among critical stakeholders, mitigates risks, enrolls stakeholders, and determines behaviors necessary to implement and sustain the change.