Hello! We are CROSS M
We prepare leaders able to adapt, create, and succeed in a complex, highly-competitive world. Cross M has a proud history of pioneering experiential training to prepare high-performance leaders who identify opportunities, extract powerful insights, and design innovative solutions to real-world problems. In short, we prepare creative leaders to lead innovative, resilient organizations.
Our clients are quickly engaged through a hands-on process of “see one, do one, teach one” to connect their values and beliefs with mindsets and methods that increase their capacity for disruptive innovation, value creation, performance and leadership. Simultaneously, we support this creative talent with the culture, programs, infrastructure and partners necessary to innovate and win.
Talent + Innovation + Place + Partners, it's that simple.
Our clients' missions define our shared direction, collaboration and partnership. Our commitment is to guide them to new opportunities for creative disruption, help them prototype to test and learn, position them to seize real-world opportunities, and prepare their creative leaders to execute and win. We accomplish our mission through a tailored mix of on- and off-sight training, knowledge and technology infusion, design and innovation facilitation, facility design and a stable of execution capabilities.
Ultimately, our goal is high-performance teams creating breakthrough and breakout solutions for wicked problems worth solving.
PREPARING LEADERS WHO ADAPT, CREATE AND SUCCEED IN A COMPLEX, HIGHLY-COMPETITIVE WORLD.
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Phone:
919.632.1894
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Web:
crossmconsulting.com
CAPABILITIES
Surface Creative Disruption
IDENTIFY OPPORTUNITIES
Opportunities for disruptive innovation spring from powerful insights. We guide your team's development of transformative insights through robust customer empathy and discovery. Then we facilitate a rich, divergent design development process, looking for immediate opportunities to develop solutions and deliver value.
Prototype to Test and Learn
FAIL FAST TO SUCCEED QUICKLY
Whether improving the satisfaction of current customers or creating new offerings to meet the demands of new customers, speed to failure is critical - because the sooner you fail, the sooner you can win. We help you prototype, test and learn using minimum viable products to reduce the cost and time required to develop compelling solutions.
Seize Real-World Opportunities
LAUNCH AND GROW NEW PRODUCTS, MARKETS AND VENTURES
Without a bias for action and strong execution, a great idea is only a dream. We support you through robust customer discovery and development of compelling value propositions. We then guide construction of desirable, feasible and sustainable business models capable of seizing new opportunities.
Engage, Equip & Empower Talent
PREPARING DESIGN THINKERS AND CREATIVE LEADERS
We support leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs and new ventures early and intensely using a lean start-up approach built upon the pillars of Design Thinking, Disruptive Innovation, Mission Execution, and Servant Leadership. Our commitment is that you gain the creative confidence, skills, knowledge, abilities and muscle memory to catalyze positive change and enhance your performance and impact.
SERVICES
Leadership Training
EXPANDING WHAT'S POSSIBLE
Flexibility, adaptability and resiliency - these are the building blocks of success. We train your people, teams and organization for the creative leadership, disruptive innovation and robust execution needed to survive and thrive in dynamic, competitive environments.
Knowledge Infusion
BRINGING IDEAS TO THE TABLE
Through our team of subject matter experts and strategic partners, we bring fresh perspectives, ideas and technologies to bear on your biggest challenges.
Design & Innovation
BREAKING THROUGH & BREAKING OUT
We guide and work along side you and your team to ideate, design, prototype and test innovative products and solutions.
Execution
FROM CONCEPT TO REALITY
Only through robust implementation and execution do new ideas become innovative solutions, products and markets. We have rich experience solving problems and innovating with our education, industry, government, community and military clients. And our strong cadre of exceptional partners often serve as force multipliers in these efforts.
Creation Facilities
EMPOWERING CREATIVITY
We have extensive experience designing, up-fitting and operating design studios, makers spaces, innovation centers and incubators. Whether popping-up a creative environment on your site or through use of our dedicated facilities, we create the conditions for learning, innovating and winning.
CLIENTS
INNOVATIONS
We have been blessed with many opportunities to design, build and lead innovative enterprises delivering real-world solutions for education, industry, government, and military employers and clients. These accomplishments were only possible in collaboration with the incredibly skilled and talented people who shared in this work and the employers and clients that provided these value-creation opportunities.
Performance Facility
FORCE MULTIPLIERS
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