Different angles.
Same diagnosis.
We are a collective of org designers, operations leaders, behavioral scientists, technologists, and people-and-culture experts.
We've worked inside organizations like Google, CHANEL, Two Sigma, John Deere, Ford, GE, Spotify, Slack, Wikipedia, General Assembly, Intuit, and Nitro.
Every engagement starts with real work, not a study.
Core Team
The people you'll work with directly.
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Bob Gower founded Splendid Torch after two decades helping organizations like John Deere, Ford, and GE navigate large-scale change. He's an org designer, author, and MBA who believes the hardest problems are never technical — they're human.
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Hannah Keen helped scale Nitro from startup to IPO leading revenue and business operations across global teams, then served as COO of a UK digital agency where she embedded AI into content and operations. She brings an operator's eye to the gap between strategy and what actually gets done.
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Joe O’Connor designed and led the world's most high-profile four-day workweek trials across the US, UK, and Australasia. Author of Do More in Four (HBR Press), he helps organizations redesign how work actually works — not just what tools people use.
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Julie Clow is a behavioral scientist who spent nearly a decade shaping people development at CHANEL, after leading learning and org development at Google and Two Sigma. She brings a PhD-level understanding of why people and systems resist change — and what it takes to shift them.
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Usha Gubbala has spent 15 years coaching leaders inside complex, bureaucratic organizations — the kind where transformation stalls not because of the technology, but because people don't feel safe enough to change how they work. She builds the psychological ground that makes real adoption possible.
Delivery Partners
Senior practitioners we bring in for specific capabilities.
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Erin Hinkle-Robertson is an organizational diagnostician. She comes into companies, figures out why things aren't working the way leadership thinks they should, and helps fix it. Her focus is culture as operational infrastructure — the thing that makes hiring, retention, and performance either easy or impossible.
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Maaria Tiensivu sees the gap between AI experimentation and AI that actually works inside an organization. With a background spanning Aalto University, design consultancies, and distributed-first teams, she runs structured implementation sprints that turn scattered pilots into operational systems.
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Rajkumari Neogy is the CEO of ibelong and brings more than two decades of experience in neurobiology, culture, and organizational epigenetics. They've trained leaders at Google, Facebook, Adobe, Slack, and Salesforce — helping organizations surface the invisible dynamics that drive exclusion and dysfunction.
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Tiani Jones is a socio-technologist with two decades spanning aerospace, healthcare, energy, and consumer electronics. A keynote speaker at QCon London and Agile Cambridge, she helps organizations understand why their teams and delivery models behave the way they do — and where small interventions can change outcomes.
Advisors
People whose thinking shapes ours.
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Bree Groff is former CEO of NOBL and Senior Advisor at SYPartners. She has partnered with companies like Google, Microsoft, and Pfizer on large-scale transformation. She sees where performance culture and human experience pull in different directions — and knows how to close that gap.
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Brittany Martin is President and co-founder of Chrysalis, where she's building privacy-first AI identity infrastructure. A former President and COO who scaled a digital education company from startup to eight figures, she thinks in systems — where governance, consent, and organizational design have to work together.
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Caralanay Cameron is founder of PartnerWork Innovations and Adjunct Professor of AI at Dominican University. She helps startups and mid-size companies move AI from concept to working product. A Techstars and IDEO alum, she brings a builder's bias toward implementation over abstraction.
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David Porcaro leads the Learning Design Alliance, a nonprofit bringing human-centered AI to learning design. A former VP of Learning and Innovation at General Assembly and Fulbright Fellow, he treats AI adoption as a learning problem first — one that requires design, evidence, and iteration to solve.
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Jenny Blake is the author of Free Time and Pivot, and co-created Google's Career Guru program, which is still running today. She helps leaders and organizations move from friction to flow — redesigning systems so people can do their best work instead of their busiest.
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Lisa Lewin is the former CEO of General Assembly, and has led a global education company across 40 markets and 10 countries. Now a board director and early-stage investor, she brings rare depth on how organizations build capability at scale — and where most talent strategies quietly fall apart.
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Patty Simonton founded the Big Table Institute to strengthen the impact economy through ecosystem capacity building and values-aligned finance. With a career spanning entrepreneurship development and economic policy, she helps mission-driven organizations design for sustainable impact — not just growth.
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Scott Meyer co-founded Chipp, an AI platform that helps businesses build secure, white-labeled AI tools connected to their own workflows. A former digital agency founder turned education innovator, he sees AI adoption as a practical enablement problem — and builds the infrastructure to solve it.
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Sinéad Condon spent five years as Chief People Officer of a publicly traded InsurTech company, leading through a cloud transformation and growth past $1B in recurring revenue. She treats people strategy as operating infrastructure — the system that determines whether strategy gets declared or actually delivered.