Leading Conscious Change
Since 1992, the Piñon Group has developed creative solutions to our client’s most challenging problems. We help them make sustainable, effective decisions about their business, and we use innovative approaches to build the capability of their people. By combining technology, global experience and creativity, we help our clients achieve their business objectives with superior results.
And we do it 60% faster than with more traditional methods.
We align everything we do with your business strategy and tailor our work to meet your exact requirements. That’s how we’ve built our reputation as a responsive and trusted advisor. We do this by leading companies through conscious change – organizational change, team change and individual change.
“The Piñon Group partnered with us on the development of the Executive Lead Institute program. All our participants agreed it was a great success.”
Director of Human Resources
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What We Do
Change is a constant, and you are either consciously changing to adapt to the market place…or you are doing it unconsciously. We view your organization as a dynamic, integrated system of critical activities that need to be managed through change. That’s why we make sure that everything we do impacts each area of your company in a positive way. As a fact-based consultancy, we remain unbiased in our assistance, and offer clarity and sustainable actions to help our clients move forward in the right direction.
We have vast global experience that we bring to each project to provide our clients with the insight required for today’s global business. We also stay current with the best cutting edge theories and transform them into practical applications for your immediate use.
We don’t camp out in companies; rather our clients contact us when they have pressing challenges that require our global experience and our expertise in three main areas:
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ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE CONSULTING
We help your company make strategic organizational changes by leading you through conscious organizational changes.
2.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
We create tailored, dynamic leadership programs to help lead you through a conscious change at the team and personal level.
3.
EXECUTIVE COACHING
We help individuals and teams to reach their next level with three flexible coaching frameworks that guide you through the conscious change process.
About the President
Nic Smith
Piñon Group President
Nic Smith has been President of the Pinon Group since 1992. His experience as an organizational effectiveness consultant focuses upon advising global businesses across a wide range of industry sectors. He has worked in over 30 countries for corporate clients and undertaken projects for many local nonprofit organizations. His role in organization design and effectiveness includes, developing and implementing business strategy, conducting organizational assessments, and building new operating and service delivery models. Having created a more efficient and effective organization design he then advises clients on how best to build their organizational capability to manage the change and integrate people, processes, and technology. This includes change management strategies, leadership development programs and cultural initiatives to transform organizations.
Originally from the UK, Nic began his consulting career in 1988 with Robert Purvis Consultants then joining Crane Davies Consultants, before starting the Pinon Group in the US in 1992. His most recent role was as Managing Director of the Organizational Design, Change and Transformation practice at CBRE, the largest global corporate real estate company. Here he worked with Fortune 100 clients across a range of industries to support their organization design and transformation initiatives. He previously spent 3 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory where he led the People & Organizational Development group and built the teams OD capability to support mission critical projects across the laboratory.
He has delivered keynote speeches on organization, leadership and change at conferences in Shanghai, London, and various US locations.
Nic is located in Santa Fe, NM
