Vision First,
Culture Always®
We are here to influence the conversation on thriving. Building Thriving Teams™ can impact employee well-being, retention, creativity, and performance. Thriving Teams are your sustainable competitive advantage.
We help your teams thrive by focusing on:
- Building capabilities for getting learning to the team level, unleash the power of team learning
- Building capabilities for providing attachment security so you can experience the benefits of team psychological safety
- Building capabilities for designerly ways of thinking (design thinking) to enhance your creative problem-solving skills that will help you stay competitive across the ever-changing, uncertain, and ambiguous
Our Expertise: The Foundations of Thriving

Team Well-Being
Including employee and team well-being as a critical factor in all decisions allows you to influence a thriving culture that supports the people in your organization while also supporting the pursuit of your vision. The employee experience should include well-being. Team well-being impacts employee retention, productivity, and other critical factors to an organization’s success.

Team Psychological Safety
Creating a secure environment where employees can meet their basic attachment security needs creates the space for building team psychological safety. Secure environments and team psychological safety are foundational building blocks to a culture that supports thriving. Team psychological safety provides the pathway to team learning.

Team Learning
Teams are the lifeblood and central learning units of modern organizations. Implementing team learning across the organization creates the knowledge and systems needed for high performing teams and effective cross-functional collaborations as your organization pursues its vision. A misguided assumption leaders make– is individual learning is the same as team learning.

Team Creativity
Creativity is what shapes and builds the future of any organization. Building a team’s collaborative and creative problem solving and design thinking skills while also designing a culture that supports innovation and change allows your organization to not only thrive in the present but remain competitive as you tackle the uncertain and ambiguous future.

Who We Help
We find ourselves working with different departments and positions, but we find it works best when there is cross-functional collaboration on building the foundations of thriving.
How We Help
Bring thriving to your employees, teams, and organization

Leader and Team Development
We offer a variety of leadership and team experiences that will build the capabilities needed to thrive. Our offerings focus on well-being, attachment security, team psychological safety, team learning, and team creativity.

Leader and Team Assessments
Awareness is the first step in any learning journey. We offer a variety of assessments that measure levels of thriving and build awareness of opportunities to grow in a way that supports team and organizational thriving.

Organizational Transformation Consulting
Thriving during change is possible. We help organization’s push towards their vision, desired future state–while also having a culture of thriving. We custom design these engagements to meets your needs.
Our Beliefs
Thriving Teams™ are the biggest factors in individual and organizational thriving. Thriving Teams drive results that matter- well-being, energy, performance, and learning and growth. We can no longer just focus on each through a silo-based approach, but rather we need to take a holistic and systemic approach to create an environment where all the results that matter can co-emerge and co-influence each other— ultimately supporting thriving individuals, teams, and organizations.
Thriving Teams Institute™ provides research-based and practical solutions to creating Thriving Teams. Our holistic, design and systems-based approaches will help you build teams that are “Always Ready” for your team’s present and future challenges.
When you find the magic of designing a team environment that generates strength, security, energy, and creativity through navigating the tensions of Vision First, Culture Always ®- your teams will thrive. We help you address four critical components of a thriving team: strategy, people, learning, and environment.

What is a Thriving Team?

Common Problems We Solve
Team Performance
Team Productivity
Decision Making During Ambiguity
Lack of Creative Problem Solving
Managing Virtual/Hybrid Teams
Ineffective Leadership
Too Many Errors
Failure to Reach Goals
Human Aspects of Processes
Team Dynamics
Team Conflict
Team Communication
Employee Turnover/Retention
Employee Experience
Team Psychological Safety
Team Cohesion
Virtual/Hybrid Team Experience
Engagement/Motivation
Team Learning
Cross-Functional Knowledge Sharing
Lack of Innovation
Feedback Loops
Knowledge Creation
Learning from Experience
Learning from Failure
Leading Learning on Teams
Critical/Creative Thinking
Contact Us
Address:
800 Town and Country Blvd.
Suite 500
Houston, Texas 77024
Phone: 832-795-2096
Email: [email protected]
