Elevate Leadership.
Transform Organizations.
Drive Sustainable Success.

We develop leaders, strengthen culture, and build organizational capacity.

Achieving your goals takes clear direction, effective leadership, and an organization equipped to deliver. We help you connect them—with practical experience, a human-centered approach, and support shaped around what you need to achieve.

Ryan Hodgson facilitating a business and brand strategy workshop with participants.

What’s getting in the way of your goals?

You have ambitions for yourself, your team, or your organization. But knowing what you want to achieve and creating the conditions to achieve it are different challenges.

  • You want to lead with greater confidence, delegate effectively, or navigate difficult conversations.

  • You are considering a career change or navigating a transition and want clearer direction for your next move.

  • Your team works in silos, avoids honest disagreement, or struggles with trust and accountability.

  • Leaders—or your board and executive team—have different views of the priorities and what success should look like.

  • Your strategy needs a rethink, or your mission, vision, and values aren’t guiding everyday decisions.

  • Unclear responsibilities, slow decisions, or inconsistent processes are making work harder than it needs to be.

  • You need experienced leadership to navigate a transition, strengthen performance, or move important work forward.

We help you address these challenges and more, so your people and organization can achieve their goals.

SUPPORT BUILT AROUND YOUR GOALS

Ways to work with us

Our coaching, consulting, and fractional leadership services can stand alone or work together. We help you find the right support for your situation.

Coaching

Develop your potential. Move forward with purpose.

Find direction in your career, strengthen how you lead, or improve how your leadership team works together.

Our individual coaching connects self-awareness with practical action, whether you are navigating a career move or developing your leadership. Team and cultural leadership coaching build trust, collaboration, and shared accountability. Leadership development and training help people apply new capabilities to everyday work.

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Consulting

Build strategy that delivers. Strengthen your organization.

Clarify where you’re headed and address what is getting in the way. Our work connects business and brand strategy, organizational design, governance, culture, and operational performance.

We help align leaders around priorities, clarify responsibilities and decision authority, translate values into everyday behavior, and improve how work gets done. We listen to the people involved and develop practical solutions that fit your organization’s priorities and capacity.

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Fractional Leadership

Add leadership capacity. Drive the results you need.

Bring an experienced CEO, COO, CMO, or Chief of Staff into your organization, with the role and level of involvement shaped around your needs.

Whether you need interim support during a transition or ongoing leadership capacity, we take on a defined role with clear responsibilities. We work alongside your people to make decisions, coordinate priorities, lead execution, and build capability that continues to serve your organization.

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WHY RYSING TIDE

Practical leadership experience.

A human-centered approach.

Goals give you something to work toward. Progress depends on the decisions, behaviors, and systems that support them every day.

We begin by understanding what you want to achieve, what your people are experiencing, and where progress is getting stuck. Together, we make priorities clear, establish ownership, and build practical ways to learn, adjust, and sustain progress.

Our team has led organizations, built teams and functions, and worked with boards. We bring complementary experience in coaching, strategy, culture, governance, and operations—and care about what you achieve and how you achieve it.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Our success is tied to yours.

Experience across businesses, public agencies, and nonprofits

A selection of organizations we have worked with, or whose leaders we have supported:

  • Microsoft

  • JPMorganChase

  • US Bank

  • Project Management Institute (PMI)

  • Entrepreneurs' Organization

  • US Navy (Gov)

  • US Space Command (Gov)

  • State of Washington (Gov)

  • King County (Gov)

  • BILL

  • Kate Quinn

  • International Justice Mission (NPO)

  • Stronger Families (NPO)

  • Pioneer Human Services (NPO)

  • Provail (NPO)

  • Lakeside School (NPO)

  • The Boys and Girls Club of Bellevue (NPO)

  • Seattle Symphony (NPO)

  • Rational Interaction (Wipro)

  • Ground Media

  • Vivid Candi Advertising & Marketing

  • Cushman and Wakefield

  • Cortland

  • RangeWater Real Estate

  • Realogics Sotheby's International Realty

  • WGM Group

  • Lexion

  • Esper

  • Shibumi

  • Concentric

  • Astraea Spirits

 
“Ryan worked with me personally as an Executive Coach and with my company to provide both leadership coaching for our full Exec Team and business and brand strategy work. I would recommend him whole-heartedly in both capacities, and especially for organizations that have experienced rapid growth. On the personal development front, I appreciated that his leadership development program starts with a focus inward on personal motivation and goals, before diving into some leadership fundamentals, and with ongoing support as needed. I know that he’ll tell me what I need to hear, even when it’s not what I want to hear, and I’m a better leader for it. On the business side, his work with our whole team has helped us develop a shared vocabulary as an Exec Team, and a focused business and brand strategy session helped bring clarity in goal-setting and how to get there. Ryan’s focus on clarity has been a touchstone we (and I) return to often.”
— Melissa Matassa-Stone, CEO, WGM Group
 

What would you like to achieve?

Tell us what you’re working toward, what is getting in the way, and where you could use support. You don’t need to know which service is right for you before reaching out.

Request a free 30-minute consultation to explore your needs and whether Rysing Tide is the right fit.

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