Comfort doesn’t sharpen anyone.
Make collaboration work where difference makes it hard.
Executive coaching and collaboration systems for leaders and enterprises working across cultures, generations, and borders.
Every organization runs on unwritten rules.
How decisions get made. Who speaks up and who stays quiet. What counts as a commitment. Most of those rules came from one culture, and nobody wrote them down. When people from elsewhere join, or two organizations merge, or a second generation takes over, the rules stop working and nobody can say why. I help you see the rules you are actually running on, then build better ones with you.
Sharpen the individual. Strengthen the collective. Build the system.
Individual
Coaching for leaders who operate across difference. Sharper self-awareness, wider range, the capacity to lead without defaulting to a single culture’s script.
Collective
Facilitation and team development that build trust across difference and turn a group of capable people into a collaborating force.
System
Assessment and design for the structures beneath collaboration: how decisions get made, how difference is handled, how the whole holds under pressure and over time.
Doug helped me clarify my goals and successfully pivot from private equity to Chief Legal Officer at a family office.
John C., New York City
His expertise in making difficult cooperation systems function was invaluable, across the German government and major food retailers.
Sandra Dusch Silva
Which of these is yours?
Global teams and market entry
Executive coaching and team development for multinational and multigenerational teams, companies entering foreign markets, and companies from abroad working to operate effectively in the United States.
Family enterprise
Executive coaching and leadership development where the family itself is the collaboration system, across succession, generational difference, and relational complexity.
Mergers and acquisitions
Buy-side collaboration culture assessment before and during integration, and leading the process of alignment afterward.
Twenty years making difficult collaboration succeed, across more than thirty countries, five continents, and in four languages. I have seen your situation before, in a harder version of it.
Co-author, Leading Transformative Change Collectively (Routledge) · Award-winning filmmaker · English, Spanish, French, German
Twenty years building collaboration across more than thirty countries, five continents, and four languages. I coach senior leaders and design the systems their organizations actually run on.
Start with a conversation.
Bridge6 takes on a small number of engagements. If this is the work you need, start with a conversation.
douglas@bridge6.net