About Rysing Tide
Elevate leadership. Transform organizations. Drive sustainable success.
We develop leaders, strengthen culture, and build organizational capacity.
Rysing Tide brings together experienced leaders, coaches, and consultants to help people and organizations achieve their goals. We combine practical leadership experience with a human-centered approach, connecting clear direction with the people, relationships, and systems that make progress possible.
Through Coaching, Consulting, and Fractional Leadership, we help you understand what needs attention and put meaningful change into practice.
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Unleashing potential—in people and organizations
Rysing Tide grew from a commitment to helping people and organizations realize what they are capable of achieving.
Since its founding in 2017, Rysing Tide has worked with organizations and their leaders including Microsoft, JPMorganChase, the U.S. Navy, the State of Washington, King County, Entrepreneurs’ Organization, International Justice Mission, RangeWater Real Estate, and Lakeside School.
That purpose continues to guide our work. Our team brings complementary experience in leadership development, business and brand strategy, culture, governance, operations, and executive leadership.
We work with businesses, nonprofits, and public-sector organizations facing different opportunities and challenges. Some are preparing for growth. Others are navigating change, strengthening performance, or building a healthier and more sustainable way to work.
We start by understanding what success means to you and what it will take to get there.
Leadership and organizations develop together
A leader may need to delegate more effectively, while their team needs clearer responsibilities. A strategy may establish the right priorities, while the organization lacks the capacity to deliver them. People may want to collaborate, while the way decisions are made keeps pulling them apart.
These connections matter.
We consider leadership, culture, strategy, structure, and systems together. That helps us identify where the work should begin and what else needs to support it.
Your engagement might focus on one leader, one team, or a specific organizational challenge. When broader support is useful, we connect the right capabilities around your goals.
Practical experience. A human-centered approach.
Our team members have founded and led organizations, managed functions, developed people, worked with boards, and navigated the demands of change.
That experience shapes how we work. We understand that decisions involve tradeoffs, capacity is finite, and a recommendation needs to work for the people putting it into practice.
Understand before prescribing
We listen to the people involved, explore different perspectives, and examine what is happening in practice. We want to understand the conditions behind a challenge before deciding how to address it.
Connect ambition with everyday action
Goals need support from clear decisions, useful habits, shared expectations, and practical systems. We help make priorities specific enough to guide choices and commitments clear enough to follow through.
Pay attention to what and how
Results matter. So does the way people achieve them.
We bring attention to trust, candor, inclusion, and accountability alongside strategy and performance. The aim is progress that strengthens the organization and the people carrying its work.
Build capability that lasts
We work alongside you to develop understanding, ownership, and confidence. Whether the engagement involves coaching, a consulting project, or an executive role, we help build practices your people can continue using as their needs evolve.
Meet the Rysing Tide team
Different challenges call for different experience. Our team’s complementary strengths allow us to bring the right perspective and support to your situation.
Ryan Hodgson
Founder & CEO
Leadership Coach | Strategic Consultant | Fractional COO
Ryan connects leadership development, business and brand strategy, and operational execution. His experience spans executive leadership, marketing, operations, and nonprofit leadership, informing a practical understanding of how organizational direction and people’s everyday work need to come together.
Through coaching, consulting, and fractional leadership, he helps leaders make clear choices, strengthen teams, and build the habits and systems that support sustainable performance.
Bryony Schwan
Leadership Coach & Organizational Development Consultant
Bryony helps leaders and teams deepen self-awareness, navigate change, and strengthen organizational culture. Her experience founding, leading, and advising organizations informs her understanding of both the personal and organizational demands of leadership.
A Certified Associate Integral Coach®, she combines coaching, facilitation, and organizational development to help people examine established patterns, develop new capabilities, and put meaningful change into practice.
Dana Hill
Cultural Leadership Architect | Consultant, Trainer & Speaker
Dana helps organizations build workplace cultures where people feel respected, valued, and equipped to contribute. Her work explores how differences in background, identity, experience, perspective, tenure, and generation shape relationships and collaboration.
Through consulting, training, facilitation, and speaking, she helps leaders and teams strengthen cultural awareness, build trust across differences, and develop more inclusive ways of working together.
Sarah Brownell
Strategy & Operations Advisor | Fractional Chief of Staff
Sarah is a systems and operations problem solver who helps CEOs and leadership teams make their organizations easier to lead and more effective.
She connects priorities with practical execution: preparing decisions, improving coordination, making dependencies visible, and strengthening follow-through. Through consulting and fractional Chief of Staff support, she helps create useful structure around important work while reducing unnecessary complexity.
Mike Hatzenbeler
Strategy & Governance Consultant | Fractional CEO & COO
Mike helps boards and executive teams clarify direction, strengthen governance, and lead through complex decisions and organizational change.
His experience leading nonprofit and mission-driven organizations informs a practical approach to connecting mission, leadership, operations, and financial sustainability. Through consulting and fractional CEO and COO roles, he helps organizations establish shared priorities and build the capacity to act on them.
Three ways to work with us
Coaching
Support for your career, your leadership, and the way your team works together. Develop self-awareness, strengthen capabilities, and turn reflection into practical action.
Consulting
Build strategy that delivers. Strengthen your organization.
Make clear strategic choices and address the organizational challenges getting in the way. Our work connects business strategy and alignment, organizational design, culture and team performance, and operational performance.
- Business Strategy & Organizational Alignment
- Organizational Design & Optimization
- Organizational Culture & Team Performance
- Operational Performance
Fractional Leadership
Add leadership capacity. Drive the results you need.
Bring an experienced leader into a defined role with clear responsibility for moving work forward. Our CEO, COO, CMO, and Chief of Staff support provides interim or ongoing capacity while strengthening the people and practices that sustain progress.
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These services can stand alone or work together. We help you find the right support for your circumstances, starting with what you want to achieve.
A rising tide lifts all boats
Our name reflects a simple belief: our success is tied to the success of the people and organizations we support.
We care about the goals you reach and the capability you build along the way—the confidence to lead, the trust to work together, and the organizational capacity to keep making progress.
That is the contribution we want to make: helping people and organizations become stronger together.
What could your people and organization achieve?
Let’s talk about your goals, what is getting in the way, and the support that would make a difference.
You do not need to know which service or team member is the right fit before reaching out.
Request a Free 30-Minute ConsultationTell us a little about your situation through our contact form. We’ll follow up about the best next step.