"The team at Four Corners didn't just conduct the technical aspects of collecting and analyzing data; they were patient educators and cheerleaders for our program practitioners operating in leadership spaces internationally. Throughout our partnership, they excelled at delivering timely strategic counsel that helped us think enterprise-wide and decades forward. They shared our organizational values and adapted to meet the needs of our fast-growing program portfolio. Our partnership far exceeded our expectations, resulting in meaningful culture change: we are now well-practiced at celebrating collective learning as a vulnerable and non-linear endeavor and we will continue to hunger for emerging data best practices as our work continues."
The Obama Foundation
Four Corners’ support to teams extends well beyond the successful development of high-quality contract deliverables; we intentionally integrate strategic accompaniment and capacity building into each partnership to help institutionalize learnings and optimize teams’ ability to turn insights into action in the months and years ahead.
Four Corners also provides this type of counsel and training as customized, standalone offerings for those teams eager to elevate their practice via a targeted approach.
Standardized Introductory Trainings: Staff often have varying levels of knowledge about core concepts and practices related to organizational measurement and strategy.
Sometimes, teams are looking for a straightforward introduction to a topic to ensure that staff have a similar baseline understanding before they delve into more robust projects, workstreams, or partnerships. Our trainings provide foundational knowledge, creating a common framework that enables teams to develop shared language for and approaches to their work.
Specialized Training and Support for Staff: As organizations continue to evolve their reach and scope in response to new opportunities and environmental realities, Four Corners provides longer-term accompaniment and customized capacity building in a wide range of technical areas related to strategy and measurement.
These partnerships are co-developed together with our clients in order to align on key outcomes, preferred learning modalities, and optimal cadence as part of a tailored capacity building plan.
Four Corners has developed a series of interactive, foundational trainings on the following topics, which provide an opportunity for introductory learning and exchange, and can be modified to reflect an individual’s or organization’s key learning objectives:
As the global pace of change continues to accelerate, so too does the social change landscape. From evolving considerations on efficient, cost-effective operations, to timely reflections on organizational culture and leadership practice, to the complex nexus of strategy, growth, and impact in an increasingly resource-constrained ecosystem – Four Corners’ partners are navigating it all, often all at once. But they’re not doing it alone. Our team provides customized strategic counsel to individual leaders seeking 1:1, human-centered accompaniment as they make thoughtful and informed decisions, lead others with intention and integrity, and facilitate meaningful organizational change.