Clarity
Confidence Before Action
Leaders and organizations facing increasing complexity, seeking to align teams, or planning strategic change.
Cut through uncertainty.
When stakes are high, uncertainty multiplies: mixed signals, competing narratives, misunderstood markets and unspoken risk. Clarity cuts through it—diagnostics, signal work, and leadership sessions that surface what’s real, expose what’s in the way, and make the next move obvious.
Clarity's Flex
Decision-grade truth: taking a noisy, politically-charged reality and turning it into a shared, defensible call. It’s the stack that lets leaders move with confidence because the risks, stakeholder and market dynamics, and internal misalignment have been surfaced and dealt with up front.
Make the next move inevitable. Start with Clarity.
In consequential moments, assumptions are expensive. Clarity is how leaders surface reality, expose risk, and align the organization the move becomes irreversible.
What’s actually happening, internally and externally.
Where the blind spots live: stakeholders, reputation, and pressure points.
Whether culture and capability can support what you’re about to ask of them.
“The value wasn’t a deck, it was confidence.
Clarity gave us a shared view of the landscape: stakeholders, internal friction points, reputational risk, and the decisions that mattered most.”
Saxum Clarity Client
Clarity is your starting point when you’re saying things like:
“We’re carrying a complex decision and no one agrees on reality.”
Board, executives, and partners are reading the same situation in very different ways.
“We’re planning strategic change, but we don’t know what we’re walking into.”
You’re not confident about readiness, risk, or how stakeholders will respond.
“We’re hearing conflicting stories and can’t tell what’s signal and what’s noise.”
“I need confidence before I act.”
You won’t move until you can stand in front of your board, your team, and your community and say: Here’s what’s true, here’s where we’re exposed, and here’s why we’re moving anyway.
What Clarity Makes Possible
Clarity solutions enable:
Clarity is not a report or a research phase. It’s an outcome: Leaders emerge surefooted, aligned, and ready to move forward.
- A shared reality across leadership and key partners, no more parallel truth tracks.
- A grounded understanding of risk and reputation, including where issues are likely to surface and who they’ll matter to.
- A feel for organizational readiness, culture, capacity, and cohesion.
- A concentrated sense of what must be addressed first and what can wait.
The specific deliverables change by solution. The constant is the outcome: real, usable Clarity before you commit.
Assumptions are expensive. But the wrong next step costs more than standing still.
How Our Client Partners Work With Clarity.
You never need every solution at once. We design a Clarity program around your decision, your timeline, and your risk profile.
Project Sprints
Some leaders run Summit + Signal + Sentinel before a high-profile announcement, so the story, stakeholders, and risks are aligned before the spotlight hits.
Integrated Programs
Teams often leverage Signal + Context ahead of a major repositioning.
Enterprise Platforms
Building the Right Clarity Program
Clarity isn’t a workshop output. It’s a leadership condition. We build it through targeted diagnostics and working sessions that surface what’s true, map risk, align decision-makers, and make the next move obvious.
It’s modular. We bring the pieces your moment demands, so you can move with confidence, not consensus theater.
Let's gain Clarity together.
A Value Discovery is a focused, senior-level working session to clarify what matters, what’s at risk, and what would make progress real. If we’re not the right partner, we’ll tell you.
Clarity Solutions Guide
Summit
Leadership Alignment & Insight
Bring the right voices into the same conversation and get honest about what’s really at stake.
Summit is a facilitated working session that surfaces priorities, tensions, and assumptions across leadership (and, when needed, board and key partners). It creates a shared starting point before deeper diagnostics begin.
What it solves
Leaders talking past each other about “the problem” and “the plan.”
Unspoken tensions blocking momentum
A long list of initiatives with no clear sense of what really matters first.
How we work with clients
Half- or full-day facilitated leadership workshops (in-person or virtual).
Pre-work interviews and surveys to surface fault lines before the room convenes.
Follow-up working sessions to lock in priorities and decision criteria.
Example deliverables
Leadership Alignment Summary (priorities, tensions, non-negotiables).
Decision Criteria Framework for the issue at hand.
Draft problem statement and key questions to guide the rest of the work.
Clarity contribution
Summit = the alignment. It puts everyone in the same conversation with the same problem set, so Clarity has somewhere solid to land.
Signal
Signal delivers rigorous stakeholder, market, and audience research so you can stop leading from anecdotes and internal echo chambers. It surfaces what people actually think, feel, and do.
What it solves
“We think we know what our audiences want” with no recent proof.
Conflicting internal stories about reputation, satisfaction, or performance.
Strategy built on legacy perceptions that no longer match reality.
How we work with clients
Mixed-method research programs (quant + qual) tailored to your audiences.
Deep-dive interviews and focus groups with key stakeholders and partners.
Rapid surveys or pulse checks tied to specific decisions or campaigns.
Example deliverables
Audience & Stakeholder Insight Report.
Perception and Experience Baseline (by segment).
Key Drivers & Barriers Summary tied to your strategic questions.
Clarity contribution
Context
Cultural & Environmental Analysis
See the landscape you’re operating in, not just the one inside your walls.
Context examines cultural currents, policy moves, sector dynamics, and market forces wrapped around your current moment. It shows how external forces constrain or amplify your options.
What it solves
Strategies built as if your organization exists in a vacuum.
Blind spots around culture, policy, or competitor behavior that will shape outcomes.
Over-reactions to headlines without understanding underlying trends.
How we work with clients
Desk research and pattern analysis across culture, media, policy, and sector reports.
Driver mapping sessions with your team to connect external forces to internal decisions.
Short “sensemaking” briefings for leadership and boards.
Example deliverables
Cultural & Environmental Scan.
Driver Map: key forces shaping your context.
Implications Brief: what this environment means for the decisions in front of you.
Clarity contribution
Context = the landscape. It connects your internal reality to the environment your decisions will land in.
Sync
Readiness & Alignment Diagnostic
What it solves
Leaders assuming “the culture will follow” without evidence.
Mismatch between stated values and how decisions actually get made.
How we work with clients
Confidential interviews and listening sessions across levels and functions.
Culture and communication surveys focused on readiness and trust.
Cross-functional workshops to reflect findings back and co-own reality.
Example deliverables
Culture & Alignment Diagnostic Report.
Readiness Heatmap (by team, function, or site).
Recommendations for building internal cohesion before or alongside strategic shifts.
Clarity contribution
Sync = the cohesion. It shows whether your organization can realistically carry the decisions you’re about to make.
Stakeholder DX
What it solves
“Stakeholders” treated as a generic list instead of a dynamic ecosystem.
Surprise resistance from people or groups leadership underestimated.
Fragmented outreach efforts that don’t match how influence actually flows.
How we work with clients
Stakeholder inventory and segmentation (internal + external).
Influence and relationship mapping using structured frameworks and team input.
Co-created engagement strategies with your internal owners.
Example deliverables
Stakeholder Landscape & Influence Map.
Stakeholder Priority Matrix (power, stance, urgency).
High-level Stakeholder Engagement Blueprint.
Clarity contribution
Stakeholder DX = the power map. It reveals who really matters to this decision and how influence moves through your ecosystem.
Sentinel
What it solves
Crisis prep that only starts once something is already on fire.
Leadership underestimating how a decision will play with specific communities, media, or regulators.
Risk registers that list threats but don’t show how they might actually unfold.
How we work with clients
Reputational risk workshops with leadership, communications, and legal.
Structured scanning of media, policy, and stakeholder signals tied to your context.
Light scenario and pre-mortem exercises around specific decisions or moves.
Example deliverables
Reputation Foresight Report (issues, pathways, likely reactions).
Risk & Vulnerability Map with near-term priorities.
Early Warning Indicators & Monitoring Recommendations.
Crisis Readiness & Scenario Playbook (for priority risks).
Clarity contribution
Sentinel = the risks. It gives you clarity about possible threats to your reputation and how they’re likely to play out if you move—or don’t.
Counsel
What it solves
Insight that never makes it into actual decisions or messaging.
Leaders aligned on “the data” but not on what to do with it.
Fragmented guidance from multiple advisors pulling leadership in different directions.
How we work with clients
Standing advisory relationship with defined touchpoints (monthly, quarterly, or milestone-based).
Decision framing and option analysis sessions.
Prep and debrief for board meetings, public announcements, or key negotiations.
Example deliverables
Executive Briefing Packs for decisions or board sessions.
Decision Memos with options, tradeoffs, and implications.
Advisory Notes summarizing guidance, risks, and agreed next steps.
Clarity contribution
Counsel = the guidance. It turns Clarity into decisions leaders can stand behind.
When You Need Clarity Fast, Start with an Accelerator.
Each Accelerator is a defined, outcomes-based engagement designed to deliver clarity you can act on immediately. Lower friction, high impact, and a clear path forward if you choose to go deeper.
Baseline
A focused assessment of how your marketing and communications are really performing and where they’re quietly holding you back.
Calibrate
Check whether the engine can handle the journey you’re planning.
Calibrate is a readiness diagnostic for your brand, marketing, or communications function. It looks at structure, skills, process, partners, and tools through the lens of what leadership is asking that team to deliver.
Define the next move with Clarity.
Clarity is for moments you can’t afford to get wrong. If you’re carrying a decision with real consequences for your organization, your community, or your legacy. This is where we begin.