Your Growth Problem Isn't Strategy.
It's Relationships.
Most companies fail not because they lack smart people or good plans, but because they can't collaborate well.
Through a mix of relational ontologies, psychoanalysis, and business strategy, I help startups and scaling companies unlock value trapped in silos, broken partnerships, and disconnected teams.
You're Hitting Walls You Can't See
Your team is talented. Your product is solid. Your strategy makes sense on paper. But:
Departments work in silos while value creation happens in the spaces between them
Partnerships start strong and fade fast because you're managing contracts instead of relationships
Innovation stalls despite hiring smart people, because collaboration doesn't just happen
Change initiatives fail not from poor planning but from relational friction nobody names
AI is disrupting everything and you need to reorganize how work flows, not just what tools you use
You've tried the usual fixes: better processes, clearer org charts, more meetings, new software. They help at the margins, but they don't touch the real problem:
You're failing to organize around relationships.
Some data:
4 of the top 20 reasons startup fail are relationship-based
CB Insights
65% of high-potential startups fail due to conflict among co-founders
The Founder's Dilemma, Noam Wasserman
Teams with above average trust are 3.3 X more efficient and 5.1 X more likely to produce results
McKinsey
Teams with above average communication are 2.8 X more efficient, 2.7 X more likely to produce results, and 3.1 X more innovative
McKinsey
Employees who collaborate work 15% faster, 73% do better work; 60% are more innovative; and 56% feel more satisfied.
Deloitte
13% of startups fail due to disharmony within team or with investors
CB Insights
Only 12% of ecosystems live up to their potential
Accenture
Failure rate for alliances hovers between 60% and 70%
HBR
The Relational
Organization
Beyond teamwork — toward relational intelligence.
Most teamwork advice treats people as isolated performers who must learn to “communicate better.” But real collaboration begins when we shift the question from “How do we work together?” to “What kind of system are we creating together?”
Relational thinking helps teams see themselves as living ecosystems — networks of attention, emotion, and exchange. When we learn to see and care for the relationships themselves, performance becomes a natural outcome.
Training,
tailored to you
External Collaboration
Ecosystem Strategy & Partnerships
Designing collaborations that expand the pie instead of dividing it.
We explore partnership models, collective intelligence formats, and shared-value ecosystems that turn competitors into allies and co-creators.
Example: multi-startup innovation alliances, nonprofit–corporate coalitions, and cross-sector labs.
Internal Collaboration
Culture & Team Dynamics
Helping teams become systems of trust, not silos of productivity.
We surface invisible tensions, rewire communication flows, and redesign work as a web of mutual learning.
Example: redesigning meetings as meaning-making spaces, mapping relational dynamics across teams.
Soft Skills
The Inner Architecture
Because every organization is made of inner worlds.
Here we cultivate the emotional literacy, listening capacity, and self-awareness that allow complex collaboration to unfold.
Example: programs on relational communication, emotional regulation, and unconscious dynamics at work.
Where relational thinking transforms results
Change Management
Innovation
Partnership Strategy
Team Management
Start with a conversation
Most growth problems look like strategy issues but are actually relationship issues. Let's figure out what yours really is.
Relationships, rather than things, constitute the basic structure of the world, the network which gives consistence to existence.
— Riccardo Carli