Consulting & Advisory
We work with leaders and organizations committed to transformation: those doing the hard work to build institutions, movements, experiences, products, and services that make today better than yesterday.
Low trust, mistrust, and distrust can sink your team.
High trust can take
your team to new heights.
Trusted by leaders from:
Google · Microsoft · Deloitte · KPMG · Shopify · Intel · RBC · UCSF · Telstra — and more.
Develop the mission-critical asset that sets amazing teams apart.
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Get my free playbookWhy should you spotlight trust?
Work isn't transactional. It's relational. And relationships are all about trust. Trust is the thread that stitches people, work, and our social fabric together.
You can have all the procedures, processes, tools, and technology in the world, but without trust, your team or operation is going nowhere.
“Organizations are no longer built on force, but on trust.”
Top-performing companies are high-trust companies. Organizations their own employees rate as high-trust beat the average annualized returns of the S&P 500 by a factor of three. Trust measurably lifts job performance, satisfaction, and commitment. We help you make it your competitive advantage — practical, comprehensive, and built for your context.
When trust is high, everything downstream gets better. We help you reap the gains reported by people at high-trust organizations:
- 50% higher productivity
- 74% less stress
- 106% more energy at work
- 13% fewer sick days
- 76% more engagement
- 29% more satisfaction with their lives
- 40% less burnout
Most organizational problems are trust problems wearing a different name. We help you get to the root.
Trust can feel like something you sense but can't put your finger on — fluffy, soft, “woo-woo.” It isn't. Trust is a system of skills and competencies you can deliberately develop, and we build them with you using our framework, the 5 Facets of Trust.
Diversity and inclusion are necessary but not sufficient for engagement and high performance — belonging is the missing part of the equation. We help you build a culture of trust that creates the psychological and cultural safety people need to connect, belong, and thrive.
Resilient organizations navigate change better than anyone else. We help you develop capable leadership at every level and a culture rooted in trust, so uncertainty and adversity don't knock you off course.
What high trust actually buys you.
Reported by people working inside high-trust organizations.
- 50%higher productivity
- 74%less stress
- 106%more energy at work
- 13%fewer sick days
- 76%more engagement
- 29%more satisfaction with their lives
- 40%less burnout
Let's work together!
Through Spotlight Trust's practical, flexible, and comprehensive approach, we help you develop the organizational and leadership capacity to earn, extend, strengthen, and restore trust so you can reap the benefits of a high trust culture.
Facilitation
From strategic planning retreats, to corporate meetings, to subject-matter conferences, to community conversations, we design and deliver engaging in-person and remote experiences that align, unleash, and include.
Virtual Training
Skills-based upskilling and leadership development, designed from the ground up for virtual — practical, actionable, and built to stick.
Leadership and Team Coaching
We provide coaching to leaders and cross-functional teams to give you an edge to solve problems and reach your most ambitious goals.
Speaking
We've taken the stage in front of thousands. Bring us to your conference, workshop, or private learning event — in person or remote — and we'll delight, inform, and entertain.
Make trust your competitive advantage
Get your FREE digital copy of Building Trust at Scale: The Practical Playbook. Twenty practical, actionable pages to help your team or organization build trust — the highest value leadership asset of our time.
20 pages · Free · No fluff.
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