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Trailhead Advisory Services.

Your trusted partner for navigating the path forward.

Overview

You know your organization best. Our role is to help you make the most of that – by creating the conditions for you and your team to define your path forward, together. The challenge isn’t a lack of ideas – it's knowing which ones matter most and how to act on them. We work with your team to create clarity and translate decisions into impact. 

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What We Do

We support leaders through critical moments of strategy, transformation, and execution.

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Our work is grounded in structured, human-centered problem solving—combining discovery, facilitation, and practical guidance.

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We focus on co-creation, working alongside your team rather than advising from the sidelines.

How We Work

Embedded & Collaborative

We work alongside your team as a neutral, trusted partner.

Structured & Practical

We bring proven approaches to create clarity and momentum – adapted to your context.

Focused on the Right Problems

We invest time upfront to clearly define what matters – before jumping to solutions.

Guided by Experience

We don’t impose answers,
but we bring perspective from working across many organizations and transformations.

Built through Co-creation

We bring the process and structure; you bring the expertise.

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Our Relationships

>80% of our work comes from repeat clients

Trusted across multiple years and engagements

Engaged across
the full lifecycle
from strategy
through execution

Selected for high-trust, high-impact work
where clarity and action matter most

Where We Help

Set Direction

Clarify priorities and make confident decisions – especially during periods of change or transformation.

Align Stakeholders

Build shared understanding and commitment across teams when failure
isn’t an option.

Drive Execution

Translate strategy into structured plans, accountabilities, and momentum – particularly when initiatives risk stalling.

Solve Complex Problems

Work through ambiguous, cross-functional challenges where structure – not more analysis – is needed.

Our Work

Turning strategy into execution, Large healthcare organization

Following an intensive enterprise-wide strategic planning process, the organization needed to move from vision to action. We worked with leaders and cross-functional teams to establish governance, clarify priorities, and launch key workstreams. This produced clear accountability and a structured path to deliver on priorities.

Meet Our Team

We’re a small team of experienced professionals who are, at our core, problem solvers. We’ve worked together across the domains of strategy, transformation, and execution, bringing experience from multiple industries and environments. Having led change from the inside and supported it from the outside, we understand both the pressure and the practical realities of getting things done. 

What to expect from us: honesty, curiosity, authenticity, commitment, results.​

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Rob Short

Founding Partner

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David Batchelor

Partner

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Laura Byng

Engagement Manager

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Bryson McLachlan

Engagement Manager

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Mel Botembe

Engagement Practitioner

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Laura Dwinnell

Engagement Practitioner

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Judy Wolf

Engagement Practitioner

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