Management Consulting for San Francisco Companies
Build the Company Behind the Growth
An end-to-end external people solution for San Francisco companies. We embed with your leadership to clarify mission, set the goals that align everyone, design the org that scales, and excavate the values already shaping your culture. Diagnostic from day one. Built to operationalize after.
5
Core Consulting Pillars
OKR
Goal-Setting Framework
Custom
Per Engagement
WHY TANDEMLY
More than a Deck and a Handshake
Most consulting engagements end with a polished slide deck and a goodbye. We’ve spent the last fifteen years across consulting, executive coaching, and clinical practice building the part that comes after. Three things set the work apart.
Diagnostic, Not Decorative
We borrow from clinical practice. Before we recommend a single change, we diagnose what's actually stuck. The engagement we end up running is rarely the one you came in asking for.
Built in Tandem, Not Handed Off
We embed with your team and do the hard work alongside you, rather than dropping a framework and leaving. The plan gets built for your company, not pulled from a shelf.
Built to Operationalize
Mission statements and OKRs are easy to write and hard to live. We stay close while the structure becomes the operating cadence on Monday, then the Monday after that.
What an engagement includes
The Building Blocks of a Tandemly Engagement
We mix and match these to fit where your San Francisco company is today.
Most engagements start with a diagnosis and grow from there.
01
Mission & Vision Design
We work in tandem with you to craft a compelling mission and vision that gives your team a shared purpose and a clear direction forward.
02
Goal Setting (OKRs)
Adopt the same OKR framework used by top companies to align your team, focus efforts, and achieve ambitious results.
03
Organizational Architecture
Optimize your structure and culture to build a resilient, high-performing organization ready for tomorrow's challenges.
04
Diagnostic Tools
Get a clear picture of your organization's health, with tools that surface hidden issues and opportunities for improvement.
05
Values Excavation
Whether you have made them official or not, your values already exist and define your culture. We excavate what is already there in a way that reflects both your current and future culture.
06
Operating Cadence
A mission and a set of OKRs are only as good as the rhythm that keeps them alive. We design the meeting and review cadence that turns the plan into how your team actually runs, week after week.
The San Francisco economy
The Industries that Drive San Francisco and Where We Fit In
San Francisco runs on a dense mix of technology, AI, and life-sciences businesses.
We know how leadership challenges show up differently in each one.
Local Market, Not a Generic Playbook
From the AI labs of Hayes Valley to the biotech campuses of Mission Bay, San Francisco leadership teams face pressures shaped by their industry. A hypergrowth AI founder, a fintech operator, and a hospitality leader are solving very different people problems.
We tailor every engagement to that context, so the work lands faster and the assumptions we have to unwind are fewer.
Technology & Software
SoMa · Mission · Financial District
Turning fast-promoted doers into managers before the org outgrows them, with manager training and workshops built for high-growth scaling.
Artificial Intelligence & Startups
Cerebral Valley · Hayes Valley · SoMa
Building a management layer at the speed hypergrowth demands, with executive coaching and offsites that hold confidentiality as structural.
Fintech & Financial Services
Financial District · SoMa
Building the management structure behind fast fintech growth, with workshops and leveling that keep pace with headcount and regulation.
Biotech & Life Sciences
Mission Bay · South San Francisco
Scaling crises, founder succession, and post-acquisition culture integration, met with executive coaching and retreats that hold confidentiality as structural.
Tourism & Hospitality
Union Square · Fisherman’s Wharf · Nob Hill
Building frontline and mid-level leaders who hold standards through seasonal swings and high turnover, with people management and training.
Higher Education & Research
UCSF · USF · Berkeley
Navigating academic governance, politics, and ego with facilitated retreats and coaching for university and research leadership.
HOW IT WORKS
Four Steps from Discovery Call to Operating Cadence
DIAGNOSE
Discovery Call
A one-hour conversation where we listen for the real issue under the stated one. Most clients arrive describing a symptom. Our first job is to find the cause.
DESIGN
Tailored Roadmap
We scope the right mix of mission work, OKRs, org design, and diagnostics for your goals. No templates, no off-the-shelf plans. The roadmap gets built for your company, not pulled from our shelf.
Embed
In Tandem with You
Senior partners working alongside your leadership, not from a distance. People who have run companies, doing the hard work in the room with your team.
Operationalize
Ongoing Partnership
The hard work begins once the plan is set. We stay close while the systems become how the company actually runs, the Monday after and the Monday after that.
Tell Us Where You're Headed. We'll Build the Path to Get There.
A one-hour discovery call is usually enough to know where the leverage is for your San Francisco company, and what the right engagement would need to do.