Executive Leadership | Strength with Compassion | Consulting
With years of experience serving in leadership and executive leadership positions across multiple industries and organizations, Bluphrog is comfortable in rallying teams together, clarifying vision, translating vision into actionable missions, and orchestrating organizational leaders to achieve a healthier posture or position themselves for improved performance and satisfaction. Bluphrog’s founder as an individual contributor has overseen an entire IT software and services delivery team of over 130 members and 7 practice leads - successfully implementing practice area processes, improved communication and transparency with customers, and a user-centric approach to solutioning. The Bluphrog approach resulted in a decrease in customer dissatisfaction and was called the new standard for one Federal Agency that experienced the difference of Bluphrog’s highly effective approach on multiple projects.
Leading with Quiet Strength - A Better Way to Earn Respect, Empower Others, Share Success
Engaging with peers, team members, customers, and board members in a way that is human-first, respectful, transparent, agreeable (and possibly down-right fun), yet with an unwavering strength in its resolve - Bluphrog is able to lead change and find the winning formula that maximizes the strengths of team members without compromising the cooperative spirit of an organization’s leaders and rock-star performers. Bluphrog excels at getting to the root of situations and identifying the best-approach forward to addressing the complex set of variables facing any leadership team committed to a mission.
Guiding Principles of Bluphrog Leadership - What You Get with Bluphrog
People matter - no matter what is happening, the human factor is THE key factor that must be considered in any leadership effort.
Effective communication is critical and uncommon - a majority of leadership failures go back to a lack of effective and respectful communication. Bluphrog has unique, clinically-based approaches to ensure everyone is speaking the same language and messages are shared with integrity.
Consensus is measured on a continuum - winning people over matters, but every decision won’t be made with the benefit of 100% blind agreement. Instead, successful leadership looks for concurrence on and commitment to a shared vision - with the flexibility to allow variations in the team’s approach to get there.
Efforts should always be aligned to meaningful objectives - if it isn’t addressing a problem/weakness, or isn’t moving an organization or team along a strategic path, why is anyone investing time in doing it?
Respect is a given - all people, regardless of position, title, immutable characteristics, or background, deserve professional respect. Everyone has something to teach.
People rise (and fall) in accordance to their leaders’ perceptions and expectations - One of the most important values Bluphrog brings to leadership engagements is looking for the unique strengths and potential in all team members, and progressing with the assumption that they will succeed when allowed to lean into their strengths. Anything less from a leader means that leader is robbing the organization of maximum team member contribution, and robbing those team members of their best chance at success.
Mistakes happen - Leaders must remain open and flexible - willing to analyze, shift gears and continuously adjust to best guide forward momentum.
A Few Examples of Bluphrog Leadership Initiatives (This is a Drop in the Bucket - More to Come)
As an executive leader serving a healthcare IT solution provider, completed an organization-wide SWOT analysis and a resulting strategic plan-to-health, adding a tactical "improving project by project" to help get them back on track.
Conceptualized, designed and built a data-driven approach to projecting staffing growth for a new FedRAMP program with nothing more than my ideas of how it should be constructed and how the "calculator" should deliver re: a great user experience.
Took the initiative to create an actionable "Better Culture by Design" for a company that desperately needed to improve their employee morale and company focus.
Designed a Skills Assessment program as an investment in an organization's workforce. Using a combination of employee or manager-input questionnaires with well-defined (objective) rating measures, results are input as structured data and used to populate a dynamic dashboard that visually reflects each employees strengths and weaknesses, as well as goals and utilization.
Provide company-wide strategic and organizational leadership, defining processes, synergies, handshakes, and repeatable standardized operations.