From our work
Articles, videos, and conversations from our work with founders and leadership teams: what each stage of growth demands, what companies outgrow, and how leadership evolves through it.
AI Transformation
SF Tech Week gave us a chance to launch Cicada’s new leadership assessment and sharpen our thinking about what leaders need as businesses grow and AI changes the work. We left with a clearer purpose: helping leaders turn self-awareness into practical growth.
Article · October 20, 2026
Founder Evolution
As companies grow, founders have to shift from being involved in every decision to enabling others to make them. That transition starts with a conversation most founders were never taught to have.
Article · September 1, 2026
AI Transformation
We’re using AI to transform individual productivity, but are we missing the bigger opportunity? The hardest work in organizations rarely happens inside a single role.
Article · August 18, 2026
Organization Evolution
Every organization has a moment where its growth begins to push the boundary of how it operates. This process, reveals a need for organizations to emerge from what they have been, shed the things that are no longer serving, and expand into their next phase of grow. This process mirrors the evolution of the Cicada, which is how we got our name.
Article · August 10, 2026
Leadership & Executive Teams
Scaling a company isn't about becoming a better version of the leader you already are, it's about recognizing when the behaviors that made you successful have become constraints.
Article · July 27, 2026
Organization Evolution
Sustainable growth comes from evolving with your customers. Explore why the fastest-learning organizations are becoming tomorrow's market leaders.
Article · July 23, 2026