About CAST
OUR HISTORY / OUR SERVICE
Leaders align people by providing them with Connection – to meaningful work, shared values, and community; and Direction – through clear strategy, assignments and expectations. The result is an engaged workforce–employees fully invested in the right priorities, fully bought in to the right behaviors, and creating a meaningful, measurable difference for your business. Jim Knutsen founded Cast in 1999. The company is based in Colorado, and works with clients across the country.
01/ MISSION | VISION | VALUES
We help organizations identify and articulate the core ideology that sets them apart and makes decision-making clear. Our work is designed to create clarity of purpose across the enterprise, and to be deeply embedded in daily operations (not laminated and tacked to a wall).
02/ FACILITATED STRATEGIC PLANNING
We design planning sessions for better use of client time, better collaboration among participants, better decisions made, and better long-term outcomes. We partner with clients to co-create the meeting around clear, measurable goals, and then Cast manages design, logistics and overnight follow up. Jim Knutsen has designed and facilitated more than 500 client planning meetings since 1999.
03/ ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION
We help owners, boards of directors and senior executives transform organizational strategy and culture to meet the demands of a changing marketplace. Our work focuses first on building a strong employment brand, creating a culture that works hard for employees so they can deliver for customers. Transformation work begins with a culture audit, including a proven model for quantitative assessment, which we follow up with focus groups and leader interviews.
04/ HIGH-PERFORMING LEADERSHIP TEAMS
Healthy organizations are run by cohesive leadership teams. We work with senior leaders to align around shared purpose and goals, and a shared commitment to healthy, collaborative behavior. We teach leadership teams how to have difficult conversations, help teams discover how they are stronger together, and organization teams around the rights roles and responsibilities.