How We Help

A partner for the shifts that matter most.

Organizational change consulting for the shifts too big, too fast or too tangled to lead alone. We work alongside your leaders to find what’s driving the friction, design the right move, deliver it, and leave your organization stronger than we found it.

Change is the event. Shift is the work.

How an engagement runs ↓
“IPL operates as a true extension of your team. They are responsive, and their approach is tailored to us, not one-size-fits-all.”
Vice President, Global Talent Management
Industrial equipment manufacturer
When to call us

When the plan is set, but the people side is stalling it.

You see it before you can name it: people still asking what’s changing weeks after the announcement, agreement that never turns into commitment, and leaders with no room left to take it on. It shows up most in these situations:

A major transformationA merger or integrationAn operating model changeA strategic pivotA CEO or leadership transitionA restructure that needs to settleLeaders who need to grow into what’s next
Three practices

Organization, leaders and teams.

Each practice is customized to your situation, and all three draw on the same framework and diagnostics.

Activating Organizational Shift

Organization design and transformation

Aligning organization design, processes and capabilities with where the business is headed.

Best for major transformations, mergers and integrations, operating model changes, and enterprise-wide culture work.

Includes

  • Organization effectiveness assessment
  • Organization architecture and redesign
  • Change readiness assessment
  • Transformation measurement
  • Executive change coaching
  • Shift Leadership upskilling at scale

Often uses Shift Compass · Strategy-Fit · Condition-Strength · Our Shift Journey

Growing What’s Next Leaders

Leadership development, coaching and succession

Building your leadership pipeline, and the development experiences that get leaders there.

Best for organizations taking on new strategic priorities, navigating leadership transitions, or developing leaders from within.

Includes

  • Executive coaching
  • Leadership development program design and delivery
  • Talent and succession planning
  • Competency modeling
  • High-potential development

Often uses Shift-Maker Profile · My Shift Atlas · the Field Guide

Leading What’s Next Together

Leadership team effectiveness

Aligning leadership teams for cohesion and performance when the pressure is on.

Best for senior teams facing a strategic pivot, a CEO transition, settling in after a restructure, or a post-merger integration.

Includes

Often uses Shift Compass · Our Shift Journey · Shift-Maker Profile

Looking for a session for leaders from different teams? See our open Leading What’s Next sessions →

How we work

Four steps. The depth varies; the rigor doesn’t.

Every engagement follows the same four steps. What makes them ours is where the Shift Leadership tools come in.

  1. 1

    Discover

    The diagnostics show what’s driving the friction, before anyone picks a solution.

    Confirm where you are and where you need to be. Find root causes, not just symptoms.

  2. 2

    Design

    The four layers point to the move that fits the friction you found.

    Co-create the solution with you: custom where it matters, ready-made where it scales.

  3. 3

    Deliver

    Workshops, working sessions, coaching, and practical action guides for your people.

    Put it to work at the level of the organization, the team and the individual.

  4. 4

    Determine

    Run the diagnostics again to see what moved; certify your own practitioners.

    Measure the impact, build in what makes it last, and grow your own capability.

The methodology that runs through it all

Every engagement is built on the Shift Leadership Framework™.

It finds what’s driving friction in a shift (how people see it, where they are in it, what creates traction, and how they show up) and matches the move to the layer where the friction lives. You can also use it without a consulting engagement:

When Shift Gets RealA Field Guide for Individuals, now online Shift DiagnosticsSix diagnostics, from strategy to the individual Workshops and keynotesA shared language for leading the human side of change Practitioner CertificationBuild Shift Leadership capability inside your organization
Why IPL

Built by operators, not observers.

3 decades
of practitioner experience across the principals
95%
of clients hire IPL for more than one engagement (since 2019)
HealthcarePharmaMedical devicesManufacturingFinancial servicesMediaHigh-growth consumer brandsNot-for-profits
Logos of organizations IPL has worked with
Lead the Shift

Ready to talk through your shift?

A 30-minute discovery call, no prep needed. Tell us what’s changing, and we’ll suggest where to start.