About Us
Who We Are
Navalent is a leadership and organizational consulting firm that partners with senior leaders to address complex challenges in strategy, organizational design and leadership effectiveness. Our consultants bring deep experience helping organizations navigate moments of transformation, growth and reinvention.
We believe leaders make better decisions when they understand the underlying dynamics of their organizations. Our work begins by learning how your business operates, the challenges you face and the context shaping your performance, so the solutions we develop truly support your future.
How We Think
We are business people first … leadership, organization and strategy experts second.
While we bring deep expertise to guide your change, we start by first understanding your business and then determining how to meet the demands for competing and succeeding in your niches.
We believe that all great transformation begins with diagnosis.
We know you think you know what’s wrong when you call us but, like a good physician, we’ll ask you to back away from your WebMD search and let us generate a powerful diagnosis that may confirm some of your hypotheses, set a few on their heads, reveal insights you’d not considered, and help us build a path forward to accelerate time to impact.
Our relationship with you is the foundation of our impact.
Unlike consultants who arrive with “answers,” we form deep and lasting partnerships with our clients that allow you to thrive and grow during transformation. When you see us on your calendar or in your caller ID, we want you to be eager to connect with us. And we build every relationship with that in mind.
We search for the answer “within your room.”
Sure, we’re smart – we’ve been doing this for years. And we’re smart enough to know that real, lasting change comes mostly from within the organization, not imposed from the outside. We learn and work with your people within your business context, then apply our expertise – not the other way around. We know there are unsurfaced insights right under your nose, and we’ll find them.
We know that real transformation (personal and collective) is hard.
There’s no candy-coating it, sometimes you ARE part of the problem – or at least the approach you’ve taken is. You need a reality check and we promise to deliver candid, constructive feedback to elevate your performance and leadership throughout our work.
How We Get There
We believe transformation must occur across three interconnected domains:
- Within leaders — identity, behavior and decision-making
- Between leaders and teams — trust, alignment and collaboration
- Across the organization — structure, processes, culture and values
When these domains shift together, people feel connected to the change and organizations deliver on the promises they make.
Why Leaders Trust Navalent
Proven Experience
Navalent reports:
- 1,800+ organizational and leadership transformation projects
- 3,600+ leaders interviewed
- 220+ organizational diagnostics conducted
Recognized Thought Leadership
Navalent’s insights and contributions appear in publications such as Harvard Business Review and Forbes, as reflected in our resource library and leadership bios. Our writing and research help inform conversations about leadership, organizational health and executive effectiveness.
Meet Our Experts
We help you articulate a strategy for your enterprise. Then we help you design the organization you need to translate that strategy into results.
