Services

What We Do

In short: We advise leaders on high-stakes decisions and stay involved when those decisions need to be translated into action.

SW14 Group works with executives and leadership teams when something important needs to move forward and alignment is the constraint. We bring structure, judgment, and momentum to work that is complex, ambiguous, or stalled, often when the brief, the team, or the process is no longer serving the decision at hand.

Our work spans strategic advisory and hands-on consulting, depending on what the situation requires. Some engagements remain advisory. Others extend into execution to ensure direction holds once choices are made.

How Leaders Engage SW14

Instead of a fixed menu of services, we engage around specific leadership contexts and decision moments. You can jump to the areas most relevant to you below.

Strategic Advisory and Direction Setting

We work with executives and boards on decisions that shape growth, positioning, and long-term direction. This includes moments when leadership teams need to align on priorities, assess tradeoffs, or pressure-test assumptions before committing resources.

Our role is to help leaders translate market signals, customer insight, and internal realities into sound direction, particularly when the path forward is uncertain or contested.

This work may remain advisory or evolve into deeper engagement as decisions move toward action.

Consulting to Translate Strategy Into Action

When direction alone is not enough, we work alongside leadership teams to ensure strategy is grounded, actionable, and carried through with intent.

This can include work across growth strategy, marketing and brand direction, organizational structure, operating models, and decision workflows. The focus is not execution for its own sake, but ensuring that strategic choices are supported by the right structures, teams, and processes.

We engage selectively and deeply, particularly where follow-through is critical to outcomes.

Structural Discipline for High-Stakes Decisions

We also support leaders in moments where the process itself introduces risk.

This includes advising organizations on RFP strategy and optimization, helping leadership teams design briefs and selection processes that attract the right partners, surface meaningful differentiation, and lead to stronger decisions. This work often sits at the intersection of strategy, governance-adjacent discipline, and organizational effectiveness.

While RFP strategy is a specialized capability, it reflects a broader focus on rigor, judgment, and decision quality in high-stakes environments.

Perspective, Insight, and Thought Leadership

In select cases, SW14 contributes perspective through speaking, moderated discussions, and executive forums. These engagements are typically extensions of advisory relationships or opportunities to share insight with senior audiences in industry, academic, or leadership settings.

Speaking is not a standalone offering. It is a way we contribute to broader conversations shaping business, growth, and leadership.

Engagement Models

We shape engagements to fit the nature of the challenge and the organization’s needs. Common models include:

  • Strategic intensives focused on a defined decision or inflection point
  • Executive advisory relationships, including one-to-one support
  • End-to-end advisory and consulting projects
  • Ongoing retainers for sustained partnership and continuity

In all cases, we prioritize work where our involvement creates leverage, not dependency.

A Note on Fit

If your challenge sits at the intersection of strategy, structure, and leadership decision-making, we are likely a good fit. If what you need is volume execution or a predefined solution, we may not be.

The best way to determine fit is a conversation. Let’s talk.