About

Obelisk Consulting Services

Obelisk Consulting Services delivers turnkey strategy and design solutions for education and business organizations. Our combined experience of over 60 years, customer knowledge and expertise provides comprehensive design solutions for education and business challenges. Our consultants and partners are particularly skilled in assisting you with design, strategy, and implementation. The processes and facilitation combined have organizations influence their own future and achieve results and wins. Obelisk’s niche services include professional learning, planning, digital and technology solutions, and cyber protection for education, small businesses and non-profits.

At Obelisk Consulting Services, we believe meaningfulchange begins with clarity — clarity about where an organization is today, where it wants to go, and what it will take to get there.

We work with leaders and organizations that are navigatingchange, pursuing new opportunities, or simply asking an important question: How can we become better at what we do?

Obelisk Consulting Services partners with schools, schooldistricts, education service agencies, state and federal organizations, associations, nonprofits, higher education institutions, and other mission-driven organizations across the country.

Our work is not built around a one-size-fits-all solution.Every organization has its own history, culture, challenges, opportunities, and aspirations. We begin by listening.

Then, we help organizations turn what they learn into action.

One of our core areas of expertise is strategic design andstrategic planning. We help organizations look beyond simply creating another strategic plan. Together, we explore emerging trends, changing customer needs, organizational capabilities, workforce challenges, and the opportunities that may define the next severalyears.

The goal is not just to create a document. The goal is tocreate direction.

Obelisk also helps organizations improve their internal systemsand processes. That may mean redesigning how services are delivered, clarifying roles and responsibilities, strengthening leadership teams, streamlining processes, developing new organizational structures, or helping teams work more effectively across traditionalboundaries.

We facilitate difficult conversations and complex planningsessions. We design leadership retreats, stakeholder engagement processes, focus groups, interviews, workshops, and collaborative planning experiences that give people a meaningful opportunity to contribute.

And because good decisions require good information, evaluationis another important part of our work.

We help organizations understand whether their programs,services, and initiatives are producing the intended results. More importantly, we help leaders use that information to make better decisions, strengthen programs, demonstrate impact, and tell the story of their work.

Across all of these services, our approach is highly collaborative.

We do not arrive with a predetermined answer.

Instead, we bring structure to complicated conversations,help organizations identify patterns and priorities, introduce tools and frameworks that support decision-making, and help leaders build the internal capacity to continue the work long after our engagement is complete.

Our consultants bring decades of leadership, organizationaldevelopment, education, government, evaluation, and strategic planning experience to every engagement.

But experience alone is not what defines Obelisk.

What defines us is our commitment to helping organizationsmove from conversation to clarity, from clarity to strategy, and from strategy to action.

Whether an organization is preparing for its next generationof leadership, redesigning services, developing a new strategic direction, evaluating impact, strengthening organizational culture, or responding to a rapidly changing environment, Obelisk Consulting Services can help.

We believe the strongest organizations are those that arewilling to ask difficult questions, listen carefully to the answers, and intentionally design their future.

At Obelisk Consulting Services, that is the work we are privilegedto do.

Obelisk Consulting Services.
Helping organizations design what comes next.

At Obelisk Consulting Services, we believe meaningful change begins with clarity — clarity about where an organization is today, where it wants to go, and what it will take to get there.

We work with leaders and organizations that are navigating change, pursuing new opportunities, or simply asking an important question: How can we become better at what we do?

Obelisk Consulting Services partners with schools, school districts, education service agencies, state and federal organizations, associations, nonprofits, higher education institutions, and other mission-driven organizations across the country.

Our work is not built around a one-size-fits-all solution. Every organization has its own history, culture, challenges, opportunities, and aspirations. We begin by listening.

Strategic Design and Strategic Planning

Improve Internal Systems and Processes

Facilitate Conversations and Planning Sessions

Evaluation and Better Decision-Making

A Highly Collaborative Approach

We do not arrive with a predetermined answer. Instead, we bring structure to complicated conversations,help organizations identify patterns and priorities, introduce tools and frameworks that support decision-making, and help leaders build the internal capacity to continue the work long after our engagement is complete.

Experienced Consultants

Our consultants bring decades of leadership, organizationaldevelopment, education, government, evaluation, and strategic planning experience to every engagement.
But experience alone is not what defines Obelisk.

Committed to Your Future

What defines us is our commitment to helping organizationsmove from conversation to clarity, from clarity to strategy, and from strategy to action. Whether an organization is preparing for its next generationof leadership, redesigning services, developing a new strategic direction, evaluating impact, strengthening organizational culture, or responding to a rapidly changing environment, Obelisk Consulting Services can help.

Our Belief

We believe the strongest organizations are those that arewilling to ask difficult questions, listen carefully to the answers, and intentionally design their future. At Obelisk Consulting Services, that is the work we are privilegedto do. Obelisk Consulting Services. Helping organizations design what comes next.