Our Ecosystem of Tools and Frameworks

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 Change isn’t linear. Your approach to your career challenges shouldn’t be either. The future isn’t something you fit into. It’s something you bend into being.

 REFRACT™ is a simple, flexible, real-world framework designed to help teams and leaders move forward even when clarity is incomplete and conditions keep shifting.  Most change frameworks are too rigid for today’s reality. REFRACT™ guides people through transformation in a way that is structured, iterative, and deeply human. 

7 Stages (Leveraging Tech Throughout):

• Reframe: Challenge assumptions
• Engage: Activate people early
• Focus: Prioritize traction points
• Recreate: Co-design a better path
• Activate: Launch with intention
• Communicate: Build transparent narratives
• Test: Learn, iterate, refine

Best For:

• Everyone

 Growth happens at the boundary of known and unknown. 

The Edge Effect™ is a mindset and movement for bold professionals and leaders who want to keep growing without losing themselves. It’s about the inner recalibration we do in moments of change, stretching toward possibility while staying rooted in purpose.

Explore It If You’re:

• Reinventing your career or leadership path
• Ready to lead into the unknown with clarity
• Ambitious but done with performative growth 

How It Shows Up:

• Coaching conversations
• Group intensives. workshops and retreats
• Speaking and podcasts
• An upcoming book by Alyssa K Borden

 Assess the human side of digital readiness. 

 The Digital Dexterity Index™ helps organizations identify how well their teams are equipped to navigate and succeed in a digitally accelerated world.  You can't automate your way to transformation if your people aren't ready to shift with the technology. 

What It Measures:

• Digital mindset and adoption willingness
• Strategic use of tools
• Change navigation and insight literacy
• Resistance patterns and self-efficacy

Best For:

• HR and workforce transformation leaders
• Strategy and enablement teams
• Functional leaders seeking AI readiness clarity

Build confidence where the map ends to turn ambiguity into advantage. 

 The Uncertainty Fluency Ladder™ is a personal and team development framework that helps individuals grow their ability to operate, lead, and decide in ambiguous conditions. 

What It Builds:

• Tolerance for ambiguity
• Purposeful experimentation
• Cognitive flexibility
• Confidence in iterative action

Use It To:

•  Coach mid-career professionals through reinvention 
•  Support teams facing disruption or complexity 
•  Anchor leadership development in today's reality 

 Change moves at the speed of trust. Communication is the accelerator.

 The CANDOR Framework™ helps leaders and their teams communicate with clarity and courage even during times of uncertainty, friction, or resistance.  When leaders are direct but empathetic, people engage more deeply even when the path isn’t perfect. 

What It Teaches:

• How to build psychological safety and a culture of openness during change
• Language patterns that increase transparency and trust
• The difference between overcommunication and honest leadership

Best For:

• Change leaders and team managers
• Executive communications and HR
• People navigating difficult conversations during change

 Not all resistance is the same. Understand it to overcome it. 

 The Change Resistance Archetypes™ help you interpret what’s really behind the pushback so you can tailor your approach, coach more effectively, and lead change with empathy and precision. 

What You’ll Discover:

• The 6 core resistance personas—and how they behave
• What each archetype fears, avoids, or needs
• How to shift resistance into contribution

Best For:

• Managers and HRBPs leading transformation
• L&D, change enablement, and internal consultants
• Internal SMES, coaches and facilitators

 Turn strategy into momentum with your people in the process. 

The Change Activation Canvas™ is a practical, creative tool that helps teams realistically map out how change will really happen including who needs to be involved, what conversations matter, and where traction is most needed. 

How It’s Used:

• Strategy sessions and kickoffs
• Cross-functional initiative planning
• Org design and transformation labs

Features:

• Simple, visual structure
• Can be used live or virtually
• Scalable for teams or large group facilitation

Best For:

• Project teams launching change
• Leaders seeking buy-in and alignment
• Internal change facilitators or consultants

 Transformation doesn’t start with technical tools. It starts with people. 

The People-Powered Transformation Map™ helps leaders visually connect the dots between strategic goals, culture, talent, and behaviors so they can activate change through human energy, not top-down mandates. 

Why Use It:

• Aligns vision with actual team behavior
• Makes intangible cultural drivers visible
• Sparks high-trust, strategic dialogue

Best For:

• Executives and strategy leaders
• Change, HR and culture teams
• Org development facilitators