About | C'S|3 Consultancy

20+Years in consulting & leadership
25+Years in security, technology & managed IT
35+Years in coaching & training
25+Large-scale projects delivered

Why C'S|3

Every part of an organization is connected to every other part

An organization’s health runs across its whole ecosystem — systems, structures, communication, marketing, HR, accounting, departments, business processes, suppliers, customers, vendors, and strategy. All of it connected and managed by your most important resource: people.

We believe any part that doesn’t work well affects your overall efficiency, effectiveness, profitability, and long-term sustainability in the marketplace. That belief is why the firm has two practices instead of one.

The gap we exist to fill

Small and mid-sized organizations are usually insight-strapped and resource-strapped at the same time — running operations while trying to work out where the gaps are and make the right course corrections at the right moment.

We come alongside your leadership at every level: data-driven insight and foresight, an extra pair of experienced hands to save you time and energy, and enough structure that you stay tracking against your operational goals and strategic objectives.

The C'S|3 organizational framework: strategy, systems, structures, cultures, competencies, and people arranged around a central vision and mission, with the soft side of the organization on the left and the tangible side on the right — Our organizational framework. The soft side of an organization is easier to create and implement; the tangible side is harder to transform. Both have to move together.

Corporate vision

Help create and sustain healthy leaders, systems, and organizations

Three verbs, and the firm has been named after them since the beginning: consult, create, coach.

Consult

Help your organization through assessments and audits, to gain the insight needed to implement strategies and roadmaps connecting your systems, structures, vision, culture, and the competencies of your people.

Create

Help organizations build digital systems and fine-tune structures, through the engineering or re-engineering of business processes, workflows, and strategies.

Coach

Ongoing development and training for the leaders, managers, and users who work inside those systems and processes. At the heart of it we specialize in leadership coaching and cross-cultural coaching.

Core values

Eight of them, and they all start with C

That’s not an accident, and neither is the fact that people here can recite them. Strategic sits in the middle because it is the one that holds the other seven together.

Character

Do the right thing with the best intent for yourself, the company, the customers, the marketplace, and the communities we serve.

Courage

Be courageous to stand for the right thing and the right cause.

Creativity

Be creative at every level, in a way that leads to innovation in the design of services, business process improvements, applications, and products.

Connected

Be partnered with our customers, vendors, networks, and consultants, to add value so they can be the best at what they do.

Camaraderie

We are a fellowship of loyal and close friends who can do things together far better than one person could achieve alone.

Commitment

We promise to strive for excellence in our services and products, for all of our stakeholders.

Curiosity

We are curious learners, and our curiosity gives us open minds — to learn, experiment, fail, and try new things in pursuit of knowledge, solutions, and advancement.

Strategic

Be strategic in thinking about long-term value for our customers, vendors, networks, and consultants.

Our team

We run SDI on ourselves

We sell relational intelligence for a living, and it would be difficult to do that with a straight face without having sat through it. We know where our own overplayed strengths cause friction — which is the honest reason we think the work is worth doing for anyone else.

The practical version for you: senior consultants directly, and the same people from assessment through remediation to audit.

Consultants and teammates work from all over the world. Once a year we gather everyone in one place for C’SCon — to review goals, track progress, and be a team in the same room rather than a set of overlapping calendars.

What SDI is, and what it does for a team