Marco Polo Insights
Fractional leadership and advisory consulting to get your team from strategy to results
Strategic Planning
We believe organized thought solves the biggest problems.
We bring the right tools from an ever-expanding library of frameworks and methodologies to help you get to the heart of the problem and find the opportunities at annual offsites, M&A activity, budget planning, new product development, and ad hoc problem-solving workshops.
Operational Engagement
We believe we don’t rise to the level of our goals; we fall to the level of our systems.
Even the best-laid plans need communication, tracking, and adjustment. We help you select and manage the right metrics, KPIs, OKRs, Big Rocks, or customized systems to see your strategy through to results.
People-first Growth
We believe any solution engages people before process before technology.
We engage every member of your team to ensure our solutions will be effective. From Board and Investor communications to All Hands communication plans and change management, we’ll drive focus, buy-in, and engagement.
Growth focus
We’ve seen firsthand that ubiquitous business problems uniquely impact smaller teams and growing organizations. Those challenges were our inspiration to offer solutions learned in management consulting and global organizations to teams not yet at that scale. We bring experience across multiple industries, government, and nonprofit to bear in finding the right solution for you.
Practical priority
Our passion is to get you to the right results. If that means running a workshop to do blue-sky brainstorming with you, we can run the show. When it means being an extra set of hands because yours are full, we thrive in that role. We aren’t interested in building our ego — just supporting your organization’s needs.
Flexible engagement
We’re proudly based in Chicago and love to sit around a table with our clients whenever we can. But as digital natives, we’re proud of our ability to engage remotely, too. We’ll meet you where you are.