Do you have a product or technology team that has been successful enough that it has to change more than it has in the past?
Are you realizing your team is going to need to change in the near future to stay successful?
Do you need to make decisions about how to structure a second (or n-th) team, project, product, or codebase, but worry you'll mess up what's been working well?
Do want to grow leaders from within, but need another experienced voice to help them navigate the difficult maze of "firsts" that come with growth?
Are you having trouble with hiring - be it your "replacement(s)" as you move up, or another person to "do what you do" or even a leader so you can _focus_ on what "you do?"
Are you looking at pieces that work well enough on their own to get where they are, but not to get where they're going, and trying to chart next steps?
I've spent over a decade studying and working with teams and technologists as they go through these kinds of transitions. I've worked with code owned by big open source foundations, proprietary projects big and small, and the interfaces and corners in between. I've worked with balanced product teams, groups of all engineers, and product and design people trying to get important things done with tight or otherwise non-ideal engineering allocations. My career has seen me talking with clients from U.S. Federal employees and contractors to nonprofits, major telecoms, banks, and retail giants to small companies approaching their first funding round.
I can help. With conversations, decisions, documents, coaching, role changes, hiring, firing, investigation, process work, planning - all the sinews of coordinated change.
I can help you sustain what is important about your organization while it grows into what it needs to be today, and tomorrow. I can help you make decisions - and defer them, and delegate or escalate them. I can help you get clear alignment that actually works through times of change and complexity, and help your organization through growing pains so it can have greater impact and better serve its purpose - and stay focused on that impact, that purpose, without sacrificing the things that have brought your organization to its current success.
I'm available for no cost, no-obligation consultations. If we find there's a fit, I offer ongoing fractional or no-commit frameworks, as well as various specific services, interventions, and efforts. I have a flexible schedule and an open mind.
Email me at consulting@jessealford.com if you think I've spoken to your situation. Organizations don't have to get worse or lose themselves as they change; they can improve, and grow stronger, and become what they could and should be.