Co-creating effective, aligned strategies with empowered, engaged, high performance teams.
Our Philosophy
You can dream, build and create the most beautiful place in the world, but you need people to make it a reality. Walt Disney
Bringing Walt to the work place: Organizations can create the most award-winning strategies, however, without the buy-in of their people, it's nothing more than a piece of paper. Every individual, every team, and every organization is unique and therefore warrants a tailored approach through aligned and effective strategies and the appropriate team coaching to move towards sustainable success.
Why the Protea
The Protea is one of the oldest flowering plants.
With its many facets, it encompasses the complexities of teams, teamwork and the beauty and magic of teams.
It displays a fascination of another time and the resilience to adapt in an ever-changing environment. It boasts an effective survival strategy that allows it to flourish quickly, following a drought, flood or fire.
These are characteristics that organizations today are demanding from their people.
At Protea Consulting, we endeavor to give teams, the space and tools to sustainably develop these characteristics.
Why Us
Protea Consulting embraces the diversity of a group of executive consultants, with many years of experience in consulting, advising and accompanying clients in various industries on their individual journeys.
Our incentive is customer value and our interest is deeply embedded in developing actionable solutions together with our clients.
What we do
Teams
Like spices, every individual is unique and has its specific talents, specialties and gifts. Bringing different spices together, carefully and considerately is what creates bombastic taste sensations and new, amazing culinary creations, and this ... is the magic of a TEAM.
- Analyzing and working through team dysfunctions
- Appropriate Agile Methodologies
- Enhancing collaboration and breaking down silos
- Focus on clarifying goals, structure and roles, contribution to the bigger picture and shared goals
- Fostering Psychological Safety in teams
- Feedback supported by challenging professionally and caring personally
- Quantifiable and effective Retrospectives
On a higher level
When we are clear in our communications, and our people know, what the bigger picture is, how their individual contributions impact the bigger picture, this is the simplest form of ensuring success. Success for each individual which culminates in success for the organization.
- Define and establish and align: Purpose, Vision, Mission, Values.
- Linking Purpose, Values and Mission to daily work
- Making the company strategy tangible
- Effective communication
- Design thinking
- Process optimization
- Value stream mapping
Transition Management
Change is situational, transition is psychological. When organizations experience any kind of change, accompanying people through this transition is crucial for the change to be sustainable.
- Leadership is about change: we align, engage and support leaders on this journey
- Numbers don't move people. Emotions and stories do. We help leaders find their stories
- Establishing a joint vision of success, your postcard destination
- Establishing role model behaviors
- Analyzing the status quo
- Engaging individuals and teams on all levels
- Stakeholder assessment
- Customizing communication: the right information to the right person through the right channel at the right time
- Assessment and prioritization of feedback
- ROE: return on engagement, keeping track of the most important metrics
What people say
Lisa is the perfect sparring partner to strategically align, adjust and critically challenge your company's goals. She really helps to give an exceptional outside view and helps teams to fully leverage their potential. Her positive energy is contagious and makes it fun to work with her.
Benjamin Michel, Finanzguru
Great team player, very engaging facilitator with an ability to identify individual strengths and demonstrate their benefits to the team goals.
Sarah Bean, IQUW
Lisa is the type of professional who combines qualities of analytical vision and sensitivity to make an exceptional reading of situations and proposes alternatives that make you look beyond. I strongly recommend her work to any organisation.
Susana Paes, Manager People & Culture- HDI Brazil
Whilst working with Lisa, I have always been impressed by her work ethic and focus on the team/customer. She is always fully committed, demonstrates a 'can-do' attitude with great passion and positivity.
Brian Birch, Insurance Software Consultant
Give us a shout today to chat about how we can accompany you on your journey.
© Lisa Schulz