Invite • Illuminate • Inspire
Invite Truth. Illuminate Possibility. Inspire Change
We guide leaders through complexity to clarity—creating spaces where authentic dialogue sparks insight, proactivity, and lasting momentum.
✔️ Evidence based, tested in practice
✔️ Trusted by Fortune 1,000 companies, leading universities, and government agencies
✔️ Proven to unlock measurable impact
Let’s talk about how we can help. The call is free, and we will seek to bring you value whether work follows or not.
From Complexity to Clarity
We invite leaders to pause, illuminate hidden patterns, and inspire bold paths forward.
Invite
Leaders today face mounting demands: constant change, competing priorities, and fatigue that drains energy. Teams can feel misaligned, unclear, or stuck in old patterns - but they don't have to stay there.
Illuminate
Through guided dialogue, we help uncover the deeper truths—what’s really driving uncertainty, fatigue, or misalignment—and bring forward new clarity, confidence, and alignment.
Inspire
With clarity restored, leaders and teams step forward with renewed energy and resilience. They not only meet today’s demands but build momentum toward the future their strategy requires.
Our Services
Our services help leaders and teams invite truth, illuminate possibility, and inspire meaningful change. Each offering is designed to foster authentic dialogue and guide a transformational journey that strengthens both people and performance.
Insight & Alignment Assessments
Uncover where your leaders and teams are today—and what’s needed to move forward with renewed clarity, energy and ability to learn toward successful performance.
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Custom assessments and interviews that reveal hidden misalignments, capacity gaps, and readiness for change.
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Clear reports and facilitated debriefs with the leader and the team that catalyze insight and next steps.
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Activiation Labs
Hands-on spaces where leaders and teams experiment, test assumptions, and unlock clarity, trust, and momentum.
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Can be used to kick off initiatives, reset teams mid-journey or be stand alone.
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Examples are Change Readiness, Leadership Clarity, Leading in Uncertainty & Positive Deviance Labs.
Edge Coaching
For leaders at the edge of growth, transition, or reinvention.
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1:1 or small group coaching for executives, high potentials, or intact teams.
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Focused on shifting limiting beliefs, unlocking new capacity, and increasing leadership impact.
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Tailored to each leader’s context, challenges, and aspirations.
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Ledership Reset
Step away from the grind to process, connect, see clearly, and reset — alongside peers who understand the weight of leadership.
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Practice authentic dialogue with other executives to unlock more honest conversations with yourself and your team.
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Explore challenges, re-energize, and create fresh insight for re-entering your work — or clarifying when it’s time to move on.
Leadership Journeys
Build leadership capacity that supports your evolving strategy.
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Custom learning journeys that equip leaders to lead through uncertainty
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Practical tools grounded in research and real-world challenges
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Integration of labs, implementation, coaching and reflection to drive lasting change.
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Culture Storytelling Experience
Harness the power of shared stories to accelerate culture change, build resilience, and shape a desired future.
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Use the Competing Values Framework to clarify current and desired culture.
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Convene groups to share stories of challenge & possibility that build resilience, readiness & alignment.
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Weave voices into a collective narrative that inspires commitment and change.
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Results That Drive Impact
From manufacturing to healthcare, Lift Consulting supports leaders to create measurable change.
Helped a senior leader find the courage to champion a new product idea despite executive resistance. The pilot ultimately generated over £100 million in revenue and established a replicable innovation process.
European Telecom Company
Guided a high-potential group and helped one HR leader to challenge old beliefs and experiment with trusting and empowering plant teams. As leadership beliefs and habits shifted, engagement scores rose, monthly turnover dropped from 220 to 60 employees, and annual savings exceeded $3 million.
Global Automotive Manufacturer
Supported a major department to reconnect to purpose during restructuring. Turnover dropped by 18%, engagement improved, and new initiatives gained momentum.
Top U.S. Academic Health System
What Clients Say
“Shawn is a pleasure to work with. We were fortunate to have him in our VP leadership program, where he set the tone for leadership and brought a depth of thinking that most of us don’t often make time to explore.”
Director, Executive Leadership
Fortune 100 Global Consumer Brand
“Shawn and his colleagues helped us build an extraordinary culture during a major merger. His engaging approach opened our minds, strengthened engagement, and drove innovation. Many still say it was the best time of their careers.”
HR Senior Team Member
Global Financial Services Company
“All of this created meaningful change at both the organizational and individual levels. Shawn’s perspective and ability to invite us to a higher purpose made a lasting impact, and we look forward to continuing our partnership.”
Department Chair
Top U.S. University Health System
About Me
I believe leadership is about more than strategy and performance—it’s about courage, clarity, and connection. My purpose is to inspire introspection that sets people free.
I help leaders and organizations move from complexity to clarity by creating spaces that invite openness, illuminate hidden truths, and inspire meaningful change. At the intersection of professional pain and possibility, I guide leaders to process challenges, reconnect with purpose, and expand their capacity to lead.
As a faculty member in Executive Education at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and co-author of Leading Innovation, I bring a balance of research-based insight and hands-on experience. My work has helped Fortune 1000 companies, health systems, and government agencies strengthen resilience, alignment, and engagement.
Shawn Quinn, Founder & Principal Consultant
Trusted Collaborators
For larger engagements, I partner with a small group of trusted colleagues and firms. This includes The Right Hand Side, a UK-based consultancy with whom I regularly co-deliver programs, as well as select experts in leadership, culture, and organizational change.
UK Partner Firm
Let's Connect
We’d love to explore how we can help you energize your leadership.
+1 (734) 945-9142
