Create Excellence

Transform Your Organization with Lift

Lift Consulting is a leadership & organizational development consulting firm that builds belief in unconventional assumptions that lead to excellence.

We get excited about teaching people to see beyond existing norms and patterns. We turn problem solvers into leaders who see the value of using the organizational vision to guide their actions.

Our services focus on leadership, team and culture development. That isn't unique, but the fact that we only accept clients willing to do the real work of change is. Our purpose is to facilitate true transformation - not compliance.

Let's create excellence together, while achieving your unique goals.

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Clients

Leading Brands Use Lift Consulting

We pride ourselves on giving our clients the utmost attention and dedication they deserve. Here are just a few of the clients we have worked with.

Our Sevices

Our Services

Leadership Development Journeys

Bruce Ovolio's research highlights that there are 3 things that need to occur to create significant growth in leaders. 1. Learning new ideas, 2. experimenting or creating new experiences based on that learning, and 3. reflecting on the new experiences. We believe the greatest impact to a team is realized through long-term developmental journeys for executives and high-potential individuals. These journeys are meticulously designed to incorporate these three keys. They foster an environment conducive to self-transformation and allow participants to create environments that are both energizing and capable of delivering exceptional outcomes.

Keynotes and Workshops

We are available for keynote presentations and one day workshops to help convey key concepts, facilitate conversations and co-create the right experience with our client.

Leadership Team Development

Research shows that few teams are truly high performing. Many teams lack the psychological safety and trust necessary to have the hard conversations that are needed to get alignment and creative action that models a high performing culture for the rest of the organization. We help teams to develop their capacity to simultaneously challenge and support each other while understanding how their behaviors are impacting the rest of the organization.

Executive Sounding Board

As executive coaches, we've observed a frequent need among executives for strategic conversations. These discussions serve to reframe their perspectives, foster brainstorming on alternative strategies, provide external viewpoints, and pose stimulating questions. Such interactions are vital for their preparation and effectiveness in tackling imminent challenges. With some executives we schedule one-off conversations, and with others we schedule monthly sessions of 60 to 90 minutes. This structured time allows them to pause, reflect, and utilize us as a sounding board, enhancing their deliberation on significant tasks at hand.

Online Learning

We have two online learning courses designed to help a small cohorts or teams to learn a principle at the beginning of the week, apply the principle to an experience each person will have that week, and then come together to share what they learned from the video, articles and application of the principle.

Sample Work

Unleashing Potential

One of the things we care deeply about is our connection to the University of Michigan's Center for Positive Organizations. Members of our team pioneered research on how to build more successful organizations.

We have learned that early on we are culturally programmed to believe ideas that hold us back from reaching our greatest potential. These ideas are reinforced by most organizations, but there's good news. Our mental maps can be changed to tap into latent resources that allow us to achieve more and create excellence.

Here are a couple of our e-learning videos on changing mental maps.

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Shawn Quinn

Founder, LIFT Consulting

Shawn’s purpose is to inspire introspection that sets people free. He is the Managing Partner of Lift Consulting and an adjunct faculty for Executive Education at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Shawn teaches courses on leadership and change and is the faculty director for the Positive Leadership program. He sits on the faculty advisory board of the Center for Positive Organizations. Shawn has designed and run leadership development programs, coached, facilitated and consulted for many Fortune 500 companies, Universities and Governmental Agencies. He is the co-author of the McGraw-Hill book, “Leading Innovation: How to Jumpstart Your Organization’s Growth Engine.” Shawn loves to partner with those who embrace collaborative and emergent learning, leading to the achievement of excellence.

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Individual Affliates

Meet the colleagues I partner with on a variety of exciting projects, at home and abroad. Many of them are pioneers in the field of Organizational Behavior and Positive Organizational Psychology.