The Shift® Partnership
Build the organization your mission deserves.
One partnership. Everything your organization needs to operate at the level your mission demands.
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stronger strategy execution and team alignment
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teams feel their work contributes to the success of the mission and priorities
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team members cite they would recommend their organization as a great place to work
Leading a mission-driven organization has never been more complex.
You’re expected to deliver greater impact with limited resources, navigate constant change, develop strong leaders, retain great people, and keep your organization moving forward, all at the same time.
Most organizations respond by tackling one challenge at a time.
Each can make a difference. But lasting change happens when they’re connected.
That’s why we created The Partnership.
The Shift® Partnership is built around your organization’s priorities.
Every Partnership is different, but our approach is rooted in the same philosophy:
Meet your organization where it is, build what’s needed, and stay alongside you as your needs evolve.
Your Partnership May Include:
Clarify Vision and Strategy
The strategic clarity, direction, structure, and infrastructure to execute against it
Strategic Planning
Executive Advisory
Organizational Design and Infrastructure Planning
Board Advisory and Development
Develop Leaders at all Levels
Growing leaders individually, together, and at every level
Executive Coaching
Senior Team Development
Manager Development
Leadership Cohort Programs
One-on-One and Paired Coaching
All-staff learning
Competency Models
Build Healthy Cultures and Teams
The culture, cohesion, and team health that make your mission sustainable
Culture Assessment and Transformation
Team Alignment
Organizational and Team retreats
Team Health Measurement
From a single session to a standing partnership.
Rather than offering one-size-fits-all programs, we build a Partnership around your organization’s goals and evolve it alongside you.
Some organizations bring us in for one focused piece of work: a strategy session, a leadership offsite, a culture assessment, a team retreat. Others build an ongoing partnership that evolves over time.
Either way, we start with what you need right now.
” The strongest organizations aren’t built through one-time initiatives. They’re built by leaders who are willing to look honestly at the whole system, and stay committed to what they find.”
— Dynasti Hunt Harris, Founder & CEO, Tayden Impact Partners
How is this different from what you’ve tried?
HR Consulting manages the people function — recruiting, compliance, compensation, policy.
We build the systems and transform how people function and work together.
Traditional Consulting delivers recommendations and exits. You implement what they designed.
We stay through implementation to ensure what we build together is sustainable for you.
Executive Coaching develops the individual leader but doesn’t always touch the organizational system.
The Shift® Partnership builds the leadership capacity, cultural systems, and people infrastructure as one integrated model.
The Shift ®Partnership in Action
There are many different ways to design your own partnership:
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DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION
Every partnership is designed around what your organization actually needs and can include one or multiple of these areas.
The scope, the structure, and the length, all of it is built with you, for you.
CO-CREATION AND DESIGN
Next, we build your Partnership, with you.
Rather than selecting from a menu of services, we design a customized plan that aligns with your priorities, your team, and your capacity.
Some organizations begin with strategic planning. Others focus on leadership development, executive coaching, manager effectiveness, culture, or organizational systems. Every Partnership is intentionally designed around what will move your organization forward.
INTENTIONAL IMPLEMENTATION
We don’t hand you a plan and walk away. We build tools, trainings, and systems with you, and implement them side-by-side.
SUPPORT AND SUSTAIN
Our goal isn’t simply to solve today’s challenge. It’s to help your organization build the capacity to lead, adapt, and thrive long after our work together.
We reinforce new ways of working, strengthen internal capability, and continue serving as a trusted thought partner as your organization grows and changes.
Because the strongest organizations aren’t built through one-time initiatives.
They’re built through intentional partnership.
Who Does All of This?
We do, in close partnership with you.
Each organization is supported by a consistent Partnership team
Lead Partner
Your ecosystem thinker
Your primary thought partner who helps guide strategy, align the work, and ensure everything stays connected.
Executive Coaches*
Present in the in-between
Supporting individuals and teams as they navigate complex decisions, growth, and change.
Leadership Facilitators*
Consistent, never rotated
Designing and leading engaging learning experiences that build practical leadership skills.
Project+ Partner Support
The engine behind the scenes
Keeping work moving, coordinating logistics, and ensuring a seamless experience from start to finish.
With built-in collaboration with you, so that with every step, nothing is intentional guesswork or yours to carry alone:
ALL DESIGN AND BUILD
We design the curriculum, build all materials, and create the frameworks from your ongoing input.
FACILITATION AND DELIVERY
We run every session, every lab, every retreat, and stay available between them for real-time thought partnership as things come up.
VENDOR INTEGRATION
We stay connected to your other vendors and manage the integration layer so you’re never coordinating between providers.
Ecosystem planning
We hold the whole picture, tracking what’s shifting across every layer, connecting dots between initiatives, and bringing you what you need to know to make the right decisions at the right time.
Impact Measurement
We establish baseline internal and external measurements at the start of every engagement, and track what’s actually shifting inside your organization and in your mission impact over time.
Consistent Alignment
We pace our work to your organization’s actual calendar, peaks, seasons, and board cycles, so it’s part of the work, not an add-on. We know your capacity may be tight, and our role is to lighten the load of transformation work.
Your Investment
Partnerships typically start scale based on scope and capabilities activated. Investment is finalized after your ecosystem conversation.
Is the Partnership Right for You?
This work tends to be a strong fit if you:
Are leading an organization or team through growth, complexity, or change
Believe culture is shaped by daily decisions and systems — not just values statements
Are navigating complexity that requires clearer people systems and shared ownership
Are leading a team that has grown beyond informal ways of working
Want to strengthen how leaders manage people and how teams take responsibility for outcomes
Are ready to invest in durable change, not one-off initiatives
Organizations Making the Shift®
“Tayden’s guidance created a measurable shift in our culture, policies, and practices – aligned with who we say we are.”
“The Shift® Partnership gave us a framework to grow without losing our values. It’s had a lasting impact on our team, culture, and results.”
Frequently Asked Questions
How is this different from hiring a consultant for a project?
We’re not brought in for a single deliverable and gone. The Partnership is ongoing — built to hold your organization’s leadership, strategy, and culture together over time, not just fix one thing and leave.
Do we have to activate everything?
No. Every partnership is built from the same set of capabilities, assembled around what you actually need right now — not a fixed package you have to buy in full.
How long does a typical partnership last?
Most partnerships run ongoing rather than toward a fixed end date — the length is part of what gets built with you, not set in advance.
What if we're already working with other consultants or vendors?
That’s common, not a blocker. We stay connected to your other vendors and manage the integration layer, so you’re not the one coordinating between providers.
Who's on our Partnership team?
Who sits on your team depends on the scope of work we define together — but continuity is the constant. Once your team is set, those are the people who stay with you; we don’t rotate facilitators mid-partnership.
How is pricing determined?
Investment is scoped to what your organization actually needs and finalized after an initial ecosystem conversation — not a flat rate applied to everyone.
Will this feel like one more thing on our plate?
It’s designed not to. We build the curriculum, run the sessions, coordinate with your other vendors, and hold the ecosystem view — so your team can focus on the work itself, not managing us.
What does getting started actually look like?
One honest conversation first. No pitch deck, no proposal until we’ve done real discovery together.
Ready to build the organization your mission deserves?
30 minutes. We’ll identify exactly where your people infrastructure is breaking and what it would take to build it. No pitch. Just clarity.
