About the Crossland Group
What We Do
We are a management consulting firm that has been working at the intersection of the public and private sectors since 2000. We create impact by leading organizations through change.
We specialize in helping leaders of major corporations and international nonprofits design their organizations to execute on their strategy. Our best work is done with clients that know what they want their future to look like, but struggle to put it into action. Working alongside them, we assess their ability to act on their vision by understanding how their organization works and looking for potential obstacles to change. Where obstacles exist, we figure out what talent and skills will be needed to overcome them, design the organization to match the vision, and inspire and involve all key players to co-create a future together.
Our current work finds us in places as diverse New York, London, Boston, Nairobi, and Rio de Janeiro, doing everything from redesigning a state university from the perspective of its students to helping an insurance and financial services company build a sales force engine to developing and executing a new strategic plan for the largest youth organization in Latin America.
"Crossland had the expertise, staff, and style to really bring out a very appropriate solution for us and our culture. The solutions felt like "us," and what we were trying to achieve. I think that’s hard to do as consultants, and they did that amazingly well."
- Betsy Constantine, VP of Giving Strategies, the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo
A Foundation of Trust, Co-Creation, and Capacity Building
Engaging With Hearts and Minds: We invest in people first and meet every client where it's at. Trust and intimacy are paramount to mobilizing resources and co-creating value, and we would not succeed if we built simply transactional relationships. We focus on getting to the truth of our client’s problem by breaking through unspoken politics and encouraging candid conversations—in our experience, it's the only real way to effect change.
Co-Creating Solutions: Successful execution of strategy is not about rigid processes that fit clients to a methodology. Instead, we believe the methodology must fit the client. The way we make this work is simple: we walk the path with you and build solutions together. As a result, we can anticipate obstacles and surface opportunities, which otherwise might prevent practical solutions. We are convinced that applying our diverse experiences in both the public and private sectors to co-design custom solutions really matters—because every client deserves more than a cookie-cutter approach to solving its most pressing problems.
Building Capacity: Change is hard, and it is also personal. As a result, we know that any successful transformation relies on developing the capacity of individuals and organizations to lead and manage change. We are invested partners who work side-by-side with our clients so they can learn and feel ownership along the way. Learning from the process is critical to leaving behind a more agile, aligned organization that is better equipped to grow, iterate, and sustain the change.
The Crossland Group is proud of its commitment to offsetting its annual carbon footprint by planting 259 trees per year through American Forests, the oldest national nonprofit conservation organization in the country.