How we help
The challenge is rarely just leadership, process, or culture.
As companies grow, these systems affect one another. Cicada Agility works across leadership, operations, product, people, and ways of working to solve the underlying conditions that create friction.
One connected system
Friction shows up in one place. Its cause is usually somewhere else.
Companies don't outgrow everything at once. Strategy stays clear at the top while delivery stalls. The leadership team holds together while the structure underneath it strains.
That is why we work as one connected system across leadership, operations, product, people, and ways of working. Each practice below is a different doorway into the same work: helping the company evolve how it leads and operates for the stage it is entering, not the one it just left. Most engagements draw on more than one.
Leadership & Executive Teams
Your leadership team is working harder and agreeing less.
For the team at the top. Build trust, clarify decision rights, and create accountability so the leadership team functions as one team instead of a collection of strong individuals.
Operating Model & Execution
Strategy is clear at the top and blurry everywhere else.
For the organization. Design the operating model, priorities, governance, and delivery systems that turn strategy into consistent execution.
AI & Ways of Working
AI adoption is happening inconsistently, and without shared norms.
For how work gets done. Adopt AI intentionally, establish practical working norms, and create systems that help people make better decisions and move faster together.
Founder Evolution
The company scaled. The founder's role has to change with it.
For you, the founder. As your company grows, your role has to evolve too: learning to delegate, building a true leadership team, and stepping out of the center of every decision.
Engagements
Focused engagements
Every engagement is designed around the company's current stage and need. These are the shapes the work most often takes.
Growth Stage Diagnostic
Name the stage the company is in, the friction beneath the symptoms, and the capabilities that must evolve next.
Leadership Intensive
A focused alignment sprint for the top team: direction, decision rights, and the working agreements to hold them.
Team Reset
Rebuild the trust, clarity, and cadence of a team that matters too much to leave stuck.
One-on-one
Executive & Leadership Coaching
One-on-one coaching for founders, executives, and rising leaders, grounded in 360° feedback and focused on the behaviors that shape the culture around them.
Operating Model and Product Effectiveness Assessment
A clear-eyed read on how work actually moves through the organization, and where it stalls.
Scale Plan and Operational Roadmap
A sequenced plan for evolving structure, systems, and ways of working ahead of the next stage of growth.
HR Operations and IPO Readiness
Build the people systems and operational maturity later stages demand: HR operations that scale with headcount, and the governance, reporting, and process discipline public markets expect.
Ongoing Leadership and Organizational Advisory
A retained partnership through the messy middle of organizational evolution: leadership, systems, and change that sticks.
Not sure where the friction starts?
That is normal. It usually starts in more than one place. A short conversation is the fastest way to find out.