Fostering Entrepreneurship through Capability Building.  At the core of Connect & Transform’s capability are proven methodologies that help companies generate future value through growth-oriented business solutions and the implementation of innovative ideas that complement existing portfolios, and the critical support to shift the current business models. Connect & Transform is able to flush out organizational constraints to innovation, sabotaging behaviors and activities that threaten existing or imagined power bases, and entrepreneurial ideas that exist inside the organization.  Through a collaborative and appreciative inquiry process, Connect & Transform facilitates the dialogue as to how these viable ideas can be turned into robust business plans. Processes, culture, enabling structures, and people capability development are examined and assessed for their contributive aspects, and an alignment path created for sustainable transformation.

Enhancing Employee Engagement. Connect & Transform supports organizations to systematically improve employee engagement using proven interventions at the local, regional, and enterprise level. Beyond setting the proper strategy, this process includes finding the right performance metrics that drive accountability, effective leadership dynamics, values and ethics, creating a comprehensive communication strategy, and designing development opportunities for every employee, manager, and leader.  Connect & Transform utilizes its Ascesis Stakeholder ModelTM to explore common ground perspectives, emerging workplace and social media implications, vertical and horizontal networks and connections, and contemporary labor relation urban myths.

Developing Leadership Laboratories (or Leadership Lab for short). Many senior managers today are facing leadership roles and responsibilities without the luxury of natural progression and growth into that role. They are expected to step into leadership positions and transform the role contribution, from managing processes to creating breakthrough innovation, or from creating breakthrough innovation to transforming the business model. The theories and models that guided their past decision making successes no longer seem to provide them with much needed insight and answers.  The financial and market pressures for companies to become increasingly more productive and lean demands that leaders rely on their own judgment and management runway to make decisions. Leaders must develop the ability to optimally navigate both paradox and surprise, uncertain risks, black swan events and their associated ambiguities. Facing increasing complexity, global competition and viral / virtual social media, leaders need to be able to re-conceptualize situations in terms of their own particular challenges – this is perhaps the most important thinking skill to develop. Connect & Transform builds Leadership Labs on the insight that efficient leaders not only master the What (technical/analytical components) and the How (behavioral components) of their activity in a specific role. An essential element of Leadership Labs in the integrative notion that leaders must also master a broad range of dialectical thinking tools -- tools that are fundamental to examining problems and opportunitites through multidisciplinary lenses rather than through the blinders of a single approach or discipline. The Leadership Lab process takes the participant through a challenging and transformational multimonth leadership and personal development journey. The process to develop a Leadership Lab can take multiple forms, building on current leadership development initiatives and how the impact of these programs can be strenghtened and  improved, or by building a new program based on recent insights in what makes a significant difference at higher Work Levels.