We unleash progress: enduring change and impact.
Strategic advising
Static strategies and metrics no longer make sense in our unpredictable and interconnected world. Adaptive strategy is an imperative. Every organization experienced this truth during the pandemic. Now virtually every enterprise must develop adaptive strategy acumen.
Strategy is the path you choose to close the gap between today’s reality and future aspirations. We help you discern those choices and investments. We ask provocative questions. We help you untangle assumptions and form hypotheses to test and iterate. Active stakeholder engagement enlivens strategies. Having a voice leads to collective understanding and commitment.
Transformation Consulting & Facilitation
Navigating change isn’t a program; it’s a core capability for enterprises determined to endure. Flexibility is the new normal. We support you to develop policies and practices that work for your business and your people.
We support teams of teams to develop psychological safety to collaborate with trust and flow, leveraging individual strengths and collective intelligence. We coach teams to pursue cycles of agile experiments. We build scaffolding for the organization to work nimbly, busting silos and breaking down bureaucracy. Our work touches many interconnected operations — structure, strategy, meetings, information transparency, human resource systems and learning, decision making and innovation. Transformation truly is a journey designed for workplaces to flourish.
Workshops
Change happens when people are open to new ideas and behaviors. Our workshops are designed to introduce new mental models and to try out new actions focused on real work. Learning sticks because it’s practical. We do public workshops and customized programs. We always pay close attention to create a safe and welcoming space for all who engage with us. We are equally adroit in person and online. Our secret sauce is to weave together intentionally designed in-person work with flexible hybrid collaboration.
Our awesome and eclectic clients are zealously committed to purpose and progress.
Their diversity is astonishing, across sectors, stages of growth, size and geography. Social impact nonprofits and B-certified companies, foundations and corporates, startups and leaders.
The pursuit of equity and justice requires each of us to step up especially amidst increasing toxicity.
The Kaplan Consulting network — individually and collectively — condemns violence, hate, and injustice in our communities. We advocate for equity, justice, respect, and generosity and remain committed to living, practicing and promoting these values.
“MJ helped our board and staff be more ambitious without losing focus. She is a great teacher, enthusiastic and demanding but also patient and encouraging. I can't recommend her highly enough.”
Christopher Finan, Executive Director, National Coalition Against Censorship
“Our UN project took off with Mj’s strategic advice and coaching. Her savvy opened up new possibilities we never imagined. She introduced Loomio to us which catapulted our reach during covid. On a personal level, our team gained immeasurably from MJ’s commitment to our work and the strenuous context we face in Colombia. She is powerfully empathetic and creative in a completely remote collaboration. We can’t wait to continue our work in person.”
Sanjay Fernandes, Founder, SOLE Columbia