Our Approach

We are seasoned practitioners with the hard-won scar tissue that comes from decades of operating experience. We’ve stood in your shoes, and we work tirelessly to be the kind of trusted partners we valued most. CLS is committed to providing the judgment, responsiveness, and discretion that you deserve.

CLS help clients excel in rapidly changing environments.

CLS acts nimbly and quickly to help clients resolve challenges that span business, law, policy, and operations. We offer:  

    • Deep industry knowledge across a wide array of sectors
    • Discretion, judgement, and trust
    • Hard-to-find, accurate information from customers and stakeholders
    • Long-standing relationships with global, national, and local decision-makers
    • Up-to-the-minute mastery of market and policy landscapes and trends

We combine a specialist’s subject-matter expertise with an operator’s problem-solving mindset.

CLS consultants are senior executives with day-to-day operational experience in our clients’ industries. We apply systems-thinking, deep subject-matter knowledge, and a detailed understanding of nuts-and-bolts execution to identify practical through-lines to success.

 

We respond to our clients’ specific strategic and organizational needs.

CLS has the agility and pattern-recognition skills to develop quick situational analysis, adapt to clients’ business cultures and practices, and deliver value in a low-overhead, cost-effective manner. We don’t rely on repurposed, generalized analyses, we never deliver template reports, and we don’t charge for training apprentices.  

We believe that values-driven organizations have a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Companies that align business interests with social values deliver better returns to their employees, owners, and communities. Ethical, diverse organizations build more productive workforces, demonstrate resilience under stress and form deeper relationships with their customers. That is why we help clients resolve crises and system-level problems, so they may achieve business success and, ultimately, advance the public interest. 

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