Accelerators
Lower friction, high-impact solutions.
Not every leader needs a full-stack engagement on day one. Sometimes you need a sharp, time-bound project that answers a specific question, proves a concept, or unlocks momentum without committing to a longer transformation.
Accelerators are how we do that.
Each Accelerator is a defined, outcomes-based engagement and delivers a concrete win you can act on immediately. Lower friction, high impact, and a clear path if you decide to go deeper.
Accelerators Act As...
- On-ramps into the Outcomes-based Delivery System℠.
- Pressure relief valves when you’re stakes are high.
- Targeted tune-ups inside larger client relationships.
- Pilots to test new concepts, products, or technology.
How Accelerators Fit in the Mix
They’re built to stand on their own and to connect seamlessly into something bigger if and when you’re ready.
Starters
Many of our client partners choose to start their Saxum journey with an Accelerator.
Enhance
Accelerators sit inside your Stack Program as focused, high-intensity expressions of Clarity, Vision, Momentum, Influence, or Adapt.
Inject
They slot into our advanced Sequences at key moments for a focused surge, without derailing the overall arc.
Accelerator Guide
Baseline
Marketing Performance Assessment
Understand what’s true, align leadership, and move forward with strategic focus. This is where diagnostics, research, stakeholder truth, and internal alignment live—the work that makes every next move sharper.
Ideal when
- Leadership is hearing “we’re busy,” but not seeing clear business results.
- Campaigns and content feel fragmented or duplicative.
- You’re about to change partners, add spend, or restructure, and need a baseline first.
What you get
- A structured performance and maturity assessment across key domains.
- Clear view of strengths, gaps, and risks.
- A prioritized improvement roadmap—where to focus first, and what can wait.
Calibrate
Department Readiness Diagnostic
Vision gives shape to your brand, strategy, and go-to-market path. It’s where identity, narrative, positioning, and audience targeting come together so leaders can move in the same direction with certainty.
Ideal when
- You’re asking for enterprise-level outcomes from a modest team and budget.
- There’s friction between leadership ambition and what the team can realistically deliver.
- You’re unsure whether the issue is strategy, structure, process, partners, or skills.
What you get
- A readiness and capability assessment for your department.
- Clarity on people, process, and tooling gaps.
- Phased recommendations for right-sizing structure, investment, and focus.
Compass
Leadership Alignment Sprint
Compass is a short, sharp sprint with your leadership team to align on direction, positioning, and non-negotiables before you commit to full brand or GTM work.
Ideal when
- Leaders agree change is needed but disagree on what it should look like.
- You’re considering multiple strategic directions or narratives.
- You want to reduce friction and rework before investing in a larger Vision engagement.
What you get
- A shared articulation of “who we are, who we serve, and where we’re going.”
- Clarity on the guardrails and ambitions for brand and story.
- A defined brief for subsequent Vision or Brand work.
Morph
Brand Refresh
Morph is a lighter-touch brand sprint designed to refine, not reinvent—tightening visual identity and key messaging where the fundamentals are sound but execution is dated or inconsistent.
Ideal when
- Your brand is basically right, but the expression feels tired or fragmented.
- You need to show progress to the market while planning for a deeper evolution.
- You’re entering a new season (e.g., campaign, fundraising, new leadership) and need the brand to keep up.
What you get
- Updated messaging essentials and high-priority visual refinements.
- A focused playbook for immediate rollout across key channels.
- Clear recommendations on whether and when a deeper transformation is warranted.
Boost
Targeted Digital Campaigns
Ideal when
- You have a clear, measurable goal and a tight window.
- Your existing digital efforts are scattered and underperforming.
- You need a visible win while broader brand or strategy work is underway.
What you get
- A targeted campaign concept rooted in your brand and audience insight.
- Smart channel and creative plan across priority platforms.
- Short-cycle measurement and optimization.
Spotlight
Executive Visibility Sprint
Ideal when
- A new or existing leader needs to be seen as the face of a strategic priority.
- Your sector is shifting and you need a sharper voice in the conversation.
- You’re preparing for a major announcement, initiative, or campaign.
What you get
- A focused leadership narrative and positioning.
- Visibility plan across speaking, media, and digital.
- Content and support to activate quickly.
Media Prep
Training & Simulation
Media Prep is hands-on simulation and coaching for interviews, hearings, panels, and high-stakes conversations—rooted in your actual issues and likely scenarios.
Ideal when
- Leaders are stepping into new levels of public exposure or scrutiny.
- Upcoming interviews, hearings, or forums carry real reputational risk.
- You’ve invested in strategy but haven’t pressure-tested how leaders will carry it live.
What you get
- Message and scenario prep tailored to your landscape.
- On-camera or live-practice sessions with feedback.
- Practical guidance on presence, framing, and recovery when things go sideways.
Leadership Lab
Immersive Agility & Readiness Workshop
Leadership Lab is an immersive experience that exposes leaders to future pressures, ambiguous scenarios, and cross-functional challenges—then helps them build the mindsets and rhythms to respond.
Ideal when
- You need leadership to move from reactive to adaptive.
- You’re rolling out new systems, CX, or data capabilities that demand new ways of working.
- You want to stress-test how leadership behaves under future-like pressure.
What you get
- A tailored lab experience with scenario-based challenges.
- Debriefs that translate insights into concrete leadership and team habits.
- Recommendations for embedding adaptability into your operating rhythm.
War Room
Crisis Simulation Sprint
Practice the crisis before you meet it.
War Room is a compressed simulation of a crisis or high-stakes issue—cross-functional, messy, and time-bound, like the real thing.
Ideal when
- You haven’t stress-tested your crisis plan or team in years (or ever).
- You’re in a sector where crisis is a matter of when, not if.
- New leadership, partners, or systems have changed how you’d actually respond.
What you get
- A custom-built scenario based on your risk profile and history.
- A custom-built scenario based on your risk profile and history.
- A custom-built scenario based on your risk profile and history.
Forge
AI-Native Production Sprint
Scale production without losing fidelity.
Forge is an accelerator that augments your team with the right mix of people, tools, and AI-enabled workflows—so you can produce what the moment demands and learn new ways of working while you do it. It’s how organizations modernize production without lowering standards or losing control.
Ideal when
- You need additional capacity and specialized support to carry a high-consequence initiative from plan to reality.
- You’re ready to test AI-enabled production pathways, but want them governed, repeatable, and leader-safe.
- Your current production model works—until it doesn’t—and you need a stronger system before the next surge hits.
What you get
- A tailored surge team that expands capacity and covers key roles (strategy-to-production coordination, content/creative, QA, distribution readiness).
- An AI-enabled workflow playbook with guardrails—built around your brand standards and approval realities.
- A production model you can keep: reusable templates, operating rituals, and recommendations for how to staff and run it going forward.
Smokejump
Rapid Response Activation
Smokejump is rapid support when an issue flares: a short, intense activation to bring order, clarity, and direction to your early response.
Ideal when
- Leadership is hearing “we’re busy,” but not seeing clear business results.
- Campaigns and content feel fragmented or duplicative.
- You’re about to change partners, add spend, or restructure, and need a baseline first.
What you get
- A small, senior team plugged into your response command structure.
- Rapid assessment of risks, narratives, and options.
- Short-horizon response plans and key messages for the first critical days.
More to Explore
Stacks
Sequences
Choose a Sequence when multiple outcomes have to land together. We choreograph the path, across teams, systems, and time.
Start Small.
Move Fast.
Stay Strategic.
If you need tangible progress in weeks, not months, Accelerators deliver. We’ll help you choose the sprint that matches your pressure, your timeline, and your appetite, and we’ll be ready with the next step if you want to keep going.