The CDE Accelerator™

A disruptive approach to culture + compliance consulting.

Modernize your program. Get results. Faster.

The Accelerator™ is a cost-effective, educational, and engaging way to give your strategic plans a jolt. A typical Accelerator™ is structured as a full day, in-person series: you bring the dilemmas; we curate the day; and together, we design solutions. Because finding better ways doesn’t just happen, it requires time, intentionality, and work. Click below to learn more.

Common themes explored through the Accelerator™

1

Culture

How to define culture.

How culture shapes (and is shaped by) behavior and performance.

How to measure culture.

Workshopping culture change ideas and initiatives.

2

Data

What do all the data ”buzzwords” even mean?

How can data help us better understand our organization?

How to use data to measure risk—and culture.

Designing measurable, outcomes-driven goals.

Using data to tell culture and compliance stories.

3

Ethics

Assessing and modernizing your ethics and compliance program.

How to empower your organizations’s values and shape behaviors at all levels.

How to enable ethical decision-making.

What does it mean to “do the right thing?”

  • How long is an Accelerator™?

    Typically, we design at least one full day of activities. But one of the first things we’ll do together is discuss your desired outcomes—and your audience—to shape an agenda that connects with them and ensures you achieve your goals.

  • Does it have to be in person?

    There are some things you just can’t do remotely (or at least, that benefit from being in the same room). So, we prefer to do the Accelerator™ in person. But we also recognize that teams are more geographically dispersed than ever before—and for that reason, we can make the Accelerator work remotely or in a hybrid format.

  • Is there a lot of prep work involved?

    Not at all. We typically do 1-2 prep sessions to align on goals and outcomes, collect the real world challenges you are trying to solve, and to preview an agenda. In rare cases, we may collect and review a few background materials; but we almost never give you or your team homework.

  • How many participants is normal?

    This varies—a lot. We have done Accelerators™ for 400+ people as part of a department’s annual full team, global off-site; and we’ve done intimate sessions for less than ten people (in that case, we were working with a team to finalize their annual strategic plan). It all depends on your goals. But we can work with just about any number of participants.

    Also, the number of participants can vary throughout the day For example, we might do two sessions in the morning with a smaller group of core team members, and then a working lunch and afternoon with a broader set of internal stakeholders.