Your Success is Our Legacy

  • Leadership Development
  • Team Building
  • Strategic Thinking & Planning
  • Leading Change & Transitions
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Nonprofit Leadership & Management
  • Board Development

Since 1990, PITTS – ALDRICH ASSOCIATES excels in offering exceptional consulting and coaching to support people, organizations and communities to achieve & sustain excellence.

Our consultants and coaches bring a collective of vast and varied experience and expertise to all engagements, with unbridled enthusiasm and commitment to highest quality product and services, customized to fit the unique needs of each client.

We provide new perspectives, practical interventions and creative solutions. Inspired by the Parable of the Starfish to “Make a Difference,” we thrive on the challenge to continually innovate for excellence.

Our consultants’ hands-on leadership experience in manufacturing, commercial services, finance, law, nonprofit community services and more ensures synergy and high-impact interventions with our Clients’ executives, leaders and line staff.

EMPOWERED  Each PAA consultant/coach is a decision-maker, dealing directly with the Client, unencumbered by layers of hierarchy. And we’re connected! The BEST resources are OUR resources.

OBJECTIVE  We integrate our experience and expertise with appropriate best practices to find the optimum solution for our Client’s unique needs.  No “flavor of the month” for us.

FLEXIBLE  We’re acclaimed for superior responsiveness, agility and collaboration, free of the constraints of large consulting, coaching and training organizations.

INNOVATIVE  With courage and enthusiasm, we continually explore and adapt effective new, and tried-and-true, concepts and approaches.

EFFECTIVE  We guarantee highest quality product, on time, created by experts, at competitive rates.

 

HorsePlayPAA – Shifting the Learning Paradigm to Nature with Horses

HorsePlayPAAA unique and powerful experiential learning opportunity –for organizations, teams/other groups, and individuals– to enhance professional and personal skills in Nature with Horses as guides. Learn more >

Conflict Management: Lencioni’s 5 Dysfunctions + TKI Assessment

We facilitated a 3-day leadership conference in California for a client with locations throughout the West.  Leaders are thirsty to develop their skills in managing the “drama” that goes on daily  –from the front line to the mid-level; upward to the corporate offices.  Conflict around interpretation of values, best methods to achieve business results, interpreting information, and more.

Many admit to avoiding conflict, trusting that in the long run things will work out.  I know the feeling. I was pretty good at avoiding myself, until I realized that the problem nibbled constantly at my ankles and psyche.  If I wanted to be effective, then I needed to reframe my view of conflict.

Lencioni’s 5 Dysfunctions of Team really crystallized it for me.  Now we use this very simple and powerful model to build optimal team performance.  Conflict is an ally; a tool for growth:  business results and personal mastery.

And the Thomas-Killman Confict Mode Instrument is a “keep it short and simple” tool to help people understand that they can CHOOSE how to engage in conflict depending on the situation and the relationship. Choices…  It’s liberating to know I don’t have to stay stuck in one behavior that doesn’t serve every situation/relationship.  (See “Our Work” posts – 5 Practices:  Pause-Reflect-Choose and 5 Practices: Be Present.)