FIREPOWER Teams Strategic Growth
By Maria Forbes, FIREPOWER Teams
January 23, 2026
Your 2026 People-Powered Season
DISRUPTION
We’ve never followed the traditional path to strategic growth, and for good reason. Too often, organizations cycle through the same familiar process: teams are invited into strategic planning, buy-in is encouraged, and by year-end, the goals haven’t fully materialized.
The result? A reset and another round of planning, year after year.
We disrupt that cycle and jump-start real progress!
Strategic growth begins when teams help define what growth actually means and can clearly visualize their unique contribution to it. Where needed, we translate high-level strategy into language teams can act on, not watered down, but precise and often technical. The language is tailored to individual roles and responsibilities and directly connected to business value.
We educate at every contributor level, walking your people through the journey to transform low-fire teams into a talent-driven force that delivers measurable business success.
Don’t refine the status quo — re-fuel it.
FIREPOWER Teams clients are leaders of privately held businesses who want to get their people on board with growth. We get it done together by putting critical growth goals into the proper context for individual contributors.
This is THE place where strategic growth gets stuck!
We work with our clients every year to uncover opportunities within their organization and put them into action. They also benefit from new creative capabilities without hiring additional people.
We break strategic language into actionable tasks that your teams can understand and implement. Making growth realistic for your teams means they can visualize their contribution and explore what is possible with the tools they use every day.
We will help you mobilize stalled strategies by turning low-fire teams into a people-powered force for growth.
WHO’S ON YOUR TEAM?
Introducing FIREPOWER Teams 4-Part Series:
Optimizing People-Powered Growth
Four-Part Series Overview
- FUEL: Validate individual strengths, simplify strategic goals, and optimize collaboration.
- IGNITE: Recognize progress, maintain alignment, and engage in ideation.
- FIRE: Shift from owner control to team contribution, enhancing leadership and collaboration.
- POWER: Implement strategy and align people with a focus on real projects that foster teamwork.
This structured approach aims to mobilize stalled strategies and create a people-powered organization where responsibility and momentum are shared across teams.
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Ready to transform hope into strategy? Let’s talk.
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