Insights
Smarter Collaboration Podcast
Hosted by Dr. Heidi K. Gardner and Ivan Matviak, the Smarter Collaboration podcast uses real-world examples to better understand what smarter collaboration looks like – and how it can go wrong.
Smarter Collaboration
This indispensable new book lays out a pragmatic action plan blending rich stories, new empirical research, and loads of practical advice to help companies thrive by collaborating more effectively.
Smart Collaboration
Organizations earn higher margins, inspire greater customer loyalty, produce more innovative work, and attract and retain the best talent when specialists engage in Smart Collaboration across boundaries.
Boards of Directors
Boards of directors face increasing pressure to diversify their ranks, stay on top of regulatory and technological advances, hold executives accountable, and improve their functioning. Yet, they’re susceptible to all the foibles of human dynamics.
Lateral hiring
To generate competitive advantage through lateral hiring, it’s not enough just to optimize laterals’ individual capabilities. You need to integrate them so that your whole business generates more value.
Over-committed organisations
The “dark side” of collaboration emerges when people are stretched too thin across many projects, often with competing priorities and deadlines. How can you mitigate the downsides of an over-committed organization while reaping the benefits of Smart Collaboration?…
In-house legal teams
Today’s complex business problems span departments, disciplines and geographies. Savvy in-house lawyers know that collaboration across organizational silos and with external organizations is critically important. But how?…
Leadership and performance
Leadership must permeate an organization—it’s too important to leave only to those with a formal title. Our research delves into the tools, techniques and topics that are essential for leading high performing organizations.
Sector leadership
Clients increasingly expect service that is tailored to their specific industry—and help in learning from more advanced sectors or those that pose potential threats. You need to collaborate with other sector experts to build an integrated, value-added offering.
Services
Smarter Collaboration Profile
The Smarter Collaboration Profile is the world’s only psychometric tool that specifically measures your collaborative attributes – that is, your natural ways of working with others. Smarter Collaboration Profile – For Individuals: Collaborate more effectively…
Smarter Collaboration 360
Based on input from you and your colleagues, the Smarter Collaboration 360 provides you with ratings across the nine core competencies of smarter collaboration. By understanding your superpowers, undiscovered strengths, watch-outs, and growth opportunities, you will have the knowledge to make the most…
Bespoke research
We deliver bespoke research and custom case studies for leading organizations. Our unique blend of academic rigor, empirical analysis, practical insights, and straightforward writing creates compelling material to deliver fresh insights for your business.
Board & executive advisory
Board & executive advisory I engage with boards, senior executives and their leadership teams as a thought partner and advisor on complex strategic issues with a human angle. I also commonly partner with other professionals (e.g., strategy or compensation consultants, economic advisors, process engineers) to contribute my unique expertise about…
Smart Collaboration Diagnostic
No two firms are alike, and so their approach for fostering Smart Collaboration must be highly customized. We run an in-depth Diagnostic to uncover specific, tailored actions to make measurable progress.
Keynotes
High-energy, interactive, research-based keynote sessions and longer workshops that spark innovative ideas and produce measurable results. This is not “edu-tainment”; it’s an investment designed to alter mindsets, behaviors and outcomes.
Leadership development
Leading companies hire us to design, chair, and teach their internal leadership development programs and Academies.
About
Applied research, real-world insights, pragmatic solutions, measurable impact.
We help our clients across professional services, industry, government, and non-profits drive change through smarter collaboration.
Combining our unique blend of empirical research, academic rigor, and top-tier consulting experience, we partner with the board, C-suite, and leadership teams to help transform organizations.
We are passionate about collaboration because it creates opportunities for every employee to thrive when they contribute with their full potential.
Gardner & Co. is led by Dr. Heidi K. Gardner (Harvard Fellow, best-selling author, sought-after advisor) and supported with a world-class team. Gardner & Co. also draws on its network of top-tier experts for both research and advisory work. We not only deliver smarter collaboration, we live it.
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