Why Intension?

How we work

Whether your organization is navigating disruption, designing for growth, activating AI, or reshaping how (and what) teams and suppliers deliver, our approach helps you create momentum – and sustain it.

Built on in-the-chair experience, and shaped by real-world execution and continuous feedback, our process is designed to unlock value that lasts – through alignment, insight, and action.

Here’s how we work:

01

Identify tensions
and opportunities

We uncover the tensions that stall performance – and the hidden opportunities inside them. We use our proprietary tools at every step, here surfacing the disconnects between strategy, operations, and execution – whether in your supply network, teams, partnerships, or planning models. Our holistic approach clarifies what matters, aligns decision-making, and builds resilience across functions – so your organization can move forward, faster, especially in uncertainty.

02

Assess relationships

We analyze the relationships that shape influence, alignment, and decision-making across your teams, functions, suppliers, and partners.

Through structured interviews, surveys, and behavioral insights, we surface the power dynamics, trust gaps, and motivational drivers that impact how value moves – or stalls – inside your organization. This clarity helps you move beyond silos and stakeholder friction – designing for cohesion, shared ownership, and progress that sticks.

03

Prepare the ground

Once we understand your dynamics, ambitions, and constraints, we help you prepare for what's next – by designing the conditions that make change possible, and sustainable. We engage your teams early – not just to inform them, but to involve them – clarifying priorities, surfacing resistance, and building trust and readiness into every step.

When transformations demand it, we activate ICARE – our AI-powered change readiness engine – to ensure the right conversations happen early, and that every initiative is designed with, and for, the humans who’ll carry it forward. Because progress doesn’t stick unless people are ready to lead it.

04

Drive momentum

We activate your transformation with pace, structure, and relentless follow-through – whether embedded with your team or working alongside trusted partners. Our hands-on approach drives clarity, removes friction, and keeps the right people focused on the right work at the right time – amplifying progress, accelerating impact, and keeping your strategy moving forward.

05

Support & Integrate

Our "future-back" approach ensures every transformation is designed to endure – by embedding the capabilities, behaviors, and systems that carry momentum forward. We align talent, operating rhythms, and partner strategies around long-term goals – so your teams don’t just deliver short-term wins, but continue to adapt, grow, and create value well beyond our involvement. Because true impact isn’t what we deliver. It’s what we leave behind.