Where mission meets market.
Strategy, operations, and partnerships for organizations expanding economic opportunity.
Passion is rarely what’s missing
The leaders we work with have plenty of it.
What's harder to come by is strategy grounded in reality, operations built to execute, and the right partners at the table.
Passion powers performance. It doesn’t predict it.
If you accept that distinction, we should talk.
Strategy
We help mission-driven organizations envision, design, articulate, and execute. We map the market, sharpen the value proposition, chart the course, and leverage our network to get you off the launchpad and beyond.
Whether you're expanding a social enterprise, launching a new program, repositioning for growth, or developing the investment thesis that unlocks your next round of funding, we bring the rigor to match your conviction.
Operations
Great strategies fail without the infrastructure to support them. We've worked from the boardroom to the mailroom and we've seen what actually breaks execution.
Whether you need interim leadership, a turnaround, or a blueprint for working smarter, we'll help you deal with the immediate and build the systems to get beyond it.
Partnerships
The challenges facing our communities won't be solved by any single organization. We specialize in building cross-sector partnerships — especially between uncommon bedfellows — that let your impact go farther, faster.
We help you negotiate roles and resources, align incentives, and build the kind of mutually reinforcing relationships that hold at the local, regional, and national level.
Specialized Practice
Procurement Transformation and Supplier Strategy
TSG also works with enterprise procurement organizations navigating AI and technology transformation, supplier inclusion strategy, and supplier development.
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Why an anvil?
An anvil is as massive as it is practical. The higher its inertia, the more efficiently it transfers the energy of the striking tool to the work piece.
That's the role we play. When you're deeply passionate about your work, sometimes you need something in your way — a forcing mechanism to test your assumptions, surface what you're missing, and sharpen what you've got. Your passion is the striking tool. Your idea, plan, or initiative is the work piece.
If we do our jobs right, our grounding in reality transfers more energy to your mission — not less.