We help organizations strategically think and plan – deliberately, mindfully, effectively.
At ThoughtCore™, the lights are always on.
The light of inquiry. The light of discovery. The light of insight. All the lights that illuminate avenues to your organization’s growth, impact, and success.
ThoughtCore models and maps pathways for leaders and stakeholders at all levels to hone and expand their capacities for thinking and planning strategically. ThoughtCore guides and mentors them in applying advanced thinking skills to strategy-shaping and strategic planning.
Along the way, we assess your organization’s need and readiness for more formalized and intentional strategy and planning activities. If you are ready to launch or mature a strategy function or a strategic planning process, we can architect the design and help drive the implementation.
No matter the size or type of your organization, no matter the industries or constituents you serve, ample opportunity awaits for you to evolve as a strategy-minded, planning-oriented force in the marketplace.
There is always a next phase, a new aspirational goal, a higher level to attain.
ThoughtCore is here to take you there.
What ThoughtCore Does
Turn to ThoughCore to support the advancement of your strategic mindset in any or all of these ways:
As your strategy sounding board.
Need to pressure-test a strategy or initiative to see if it holds water? Run it by us.
As your strategic thinking guide for leaders.
Is thinking strategically a muscle that leaders in your organization need to strengthen? Follow our lead.
As your strategy function and strategic planning designer.
Ready to become a more formally and intentionally planful organization? We’ll show you how.
Meet ThoughtCore’s Founder
Tom von Gunden, founder and chief thought officer, has launched programs and guided strategic thinking and planning in both corporate and academic settings. He is regularly relied upon for posing the questions others aren’t asking and for designing strategic functions others aren’t envisioning.
“At the core of strategy is thought. At the core of thought are questions. I ask the questions you may not be thinking of.”
Tom von Gunden, ThoughtCore Founder & Chief Thought Officer