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Lead Your Company to a Better Future

Master the principles you need to transform your business from the inside out.

WHAT WE DO TO HELP YOU TRANSFORM YOUR BUSINESS

Understand the Vision and Strategies

We work directly with your executive team to understand and define the Mission and Purpose of your organization as well as the True North and Vision. This step allows us to get a deeper understanding of the current strategies in place and how to move your organization towards the vision.

Align on Guiding Principles

Guiding principles are the cornerstone of Operational Excellence. By teaching and aligning on these principles, we develop a shared ‘mental model’ of how to achieve your desired results. This also provides a framework for us to assess and recommend solutions for your organization.

Deliver the Assessment

An assessment is conducted and presented to the leadership that focuses primarily on your Capabilities and Behaviors. Between your leaders and our team, we will gain a shared understanding of the effectiveness or relevance of current strategies in place.

DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT A STRATEGY

When we have a shared understanding of the assessment findings and the desired results (whether it’s performance, culture, leadership, or something else), we will collaborate to develop a Transformation Strategy that will allow you to lead your company to a better future.

Implementing the Transformation Strategy may take the form of:

Our Promise to You

Mutual Respect

We build our relationships on trust and empathy. That means every bit of effort is focused on understanding you, your company, and its mission, culture, vision, and goals. You are the authority of your company, and we want to keep it that way.

Collaborative Efforts

With our expertise of operational principles coupled with your deep industry knowledge together we will build your team and transform your business.

Full Accountability

We won’t just recommend a plan and ride off into the sunset. We’ll work side-by-side with you to see your project through to the end. Our job isn’t done until your company is measurably better.

Who We’ve Helped

As Medical Director for Continuous Improvement and Innovation at Seattle Children’s, I have had numerous opportunities to work directly with Larry and several of his staff at Emerge Business Strategies over the last 15 years. On each occasion I was impressed with their professionalism, superior knowledge of critical lean concepts, and their experience with practical application of these lean principles. We have used them again and again as we have been pleased with their efforts and our outcomes. I hope to work with them in the future and give them my full endorsement.

Lynn D. Martin, M.D., M.B.A.

Medical Director, Continuous Improvement and Innovation Medical Director, Bellevue Surgery Center

Seattle Children's

Larry has an amazing ability to cut through complicated processes and lead teams to amazing results. I have worked with him over the course of many years at multiple companies. Achieving results like quadrupling output with a small increase in staff, reducing defects/errors by 80% and cutting cycle times on products AND administrative processes by 50% or more are not uncommon. We even achieved Supplier of the Year award with a customer that was ready to cut us from their approved supplier list before we started with Emerge Strategies. I would highly recommend Emerge Strategies!

Elizabeth Havlicek

Vice President, General Manager

John Hassall, LLC

Larry was instrumental in my own success in developing our internal resources to independently support our Lean transformational journey. He was able to connect and coach all levels of internal stakeholders, from the front lines to the executive tier. Larry helped to push where growth and stretching was needed, and partners where new internal leaders were learning taking the lead with Lean process improvement efforts. I appreciated his engineering background and teacher/coach approach to the new-to-Lean healthcare delivery industry. I highly recommend Larry for those who wish to imbed a culture of continuous improvement both personally and at an organizational level.

Brian Stuckman

Sr. Vice President

Emerge Business Strategies is an outstanding company! I have had the pleasure to work with Larry Godt and his team on many initiatives over the years and always 100% satisfied. Their approach to innovation and improvement is evidence based, engaging, collaborative and adaptable, while providing opportunities to develop people along the way. I highly recommend Emerge Business Strategies if you are seriously seeking sustainable solutions that produce extraordinary outcomes.

Greg Blackburn

CEO | Dignity Health East Valley Rehabilitation Hospital

East Valley Rehabilitation Hospital

We at Seattle Children’s have partnered with Larry Godt for over 15 years. He has provided expert consultation and facilitation on our most complex projects, particularly within the realm of lean facility design. His style is professional, yet flexible and approachable. He is particularly skilled at bringing diverse groups of patients, families, staff and faculty together to achieve the right outcomes, always focused on the customer first. I personally appreciate the way he coaches me, as a member of the senior leadership team, to ask good questions to help keep us focused on the right process to achieve the best outcome.

Cara Bailey

Sr. VP, Chief Innovation and Improvement Officer

Seattle Children’s

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I have worked alongside Larry for ten years. He has mentored, coached, taught, and supported me as I grew in my leadership skills. Larry has an amazing ability to see the current state and push clients to envision a future state that is far beyond what they imagined. Over several projects, I saw him artfully push the thinking of both front-line staff and senior leadership focusing on development as well as achieving the project outcomes. When engaging Larry on a project you can be sure you will get the full spectrum of consulting support from analytical to leadership development.

Mandy Hansen

Sr. Director | Facility Planning, Design & Construction

Seattle Children’s

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Learn the principles, mindsets, mental models, and methods you need to solve your business problems. Let’s have a conversation now to start growing your business, developing your people, and fulfilling your mission today.

Larry Godt

President