Be the leader who takes a 5-week vacation and returns to a healthy organization.
Julia Cuba Lewis partners with CEOs, senior teams and boards to examine what is shaping their organization and build the systems that make it sustainable.
ORGANIZATIONAL CLARITY · SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS · HIGH-PERFORMING TEAMS
Prisons. Emergency rooms. Domestic violence shelters. Crisis hotlines. Public schools. Board rooms. State legislatures. The White House. Before she was a CEO or a consultant, she was a social worker who learned to read what's actually happening in a room — and that's the same attention she brings to the organizations she works with now.
Ways to Work Together
For CEOs, senior teams and boards examining the organization together.
Julia works alongside the people responsible for the organization, on strategy, succession, team dynamics, governance, growth, or whatever question is in front of you now.
Consulting
For leaders who want a partner in examining the organization on their own.
A one-on-one space to think out loud about the decisions, relationships and questions that come with leading, with someone who has no stake in the answer.
Executive Coaching
For experienced nonprofit leaders who want a recurring practice of examination.
A weekly facilitated space to examine the organization alongside other experienced leaders.
Six Accelerator
Most of what shapes an organization happens beneath the surface.
How we respond to disagreement. Who gets included in a decision. What we step in to solve. What gets questioned, protected, repeated or left alone. Most of the time, we're simply leading. Over time, these moments become patterns, expectations, and ways of working that are visible to everyone except the people closest to them.
Examining it well surfaces what's easy to miss: a pattern, a question, a system quietly holding things together, or quietly not. That's what makes it possible to build something that lasts.
My organization did not become sustainable over night.
We built it over time.
We got clear about our purpose. We measured whether we were accomplishing it. We built stronger systems for raising and projecting revenue. And eventually, we built a senior team that could examine and lead the organization together.
By the end of my tenure, I could leave for five weeks in the summer and come back to an organization that was humming.
Not because I had become less important. Because the organization had become more capable. And that’s what I love to help other organizations do too.
“Julia Cuba Lewis is a remarkably perceptive individual who has the skills and experience to determine why some organizations function well and others do not, particularly at the level of senior management.”
John Wikswo, University Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, and Physics, Vanderbilt University