The Reality

Most leaders don't start by saying "I need a coach"

They start by saying "I need someone who can help me think through this." A strategic pivot. A team that's reorganized but hasn't actually integrated. A succession conversation that keeps getting deferred.

Strategic Facilitation gives leaders a direct experience of deep, ontological inquiry and systems thinking — without requiring a long-term commitment. Every engagement is designed around the specific leadership challenge, not a templated agenda.

This is for you when…

Your strategic planning process keeps producing the same stale outputs.

Your post-acquisition or post-reorg team hasn't actually integrated.

Your board retreat needs to produce real decisions, not slide decks.

Succession planning has been deferred for too long.

You've been told you need coaching but aren't ready to call it that.

The Difference

This isn't generic facilitation

Unlike traditional consultants who provide specific answers, strategic facilitation focuses on the process — helping leaders and teams discover their own solutions while ensuring every voice is heard.

What shifts:

From circular conversations → Decisive clarity

Where discussion moves beyond information sharing into committed action.

From internal bias → Neutral perspective

Where groupthink breaks down and leaders participate fully.

From stale outputs → Strategic momentum

Where plans transform into clear, owned decisions with real follow-through.

Engagement Formats

Three ways to engage

Every engagement is designed around your specific leadership challenge — not a templated agenda.

Strategic Session

A half-day intensive focused on a single, high-stakes decision point. Designed for 1–3 key stakeholders who need clarity and resolution — fast.

Outcome: A clear decision, aligned stakeholders, and a path forward.

Strategic Arc

A series of 4 facilitated sessions over 4–8 weeks, designed for a leadership team that needs to align on narrative, trust, and direction. Not a retreat — a reset.

Outcome: Shared clarity, rebuilt trust, and a team moving together.

Strategic Partnership

Multi-month facilitation for complex organizational transformations — post-acquisition integration, restructuring, or strategic pivots involving 10+ stakeholders.

Outcome: An organization operating with new clarity and collective alignment.

The Process

How every engagement unfolds

Whether it's a single session or a multi-month partnership, every engagement follows a deliberate arc.

Pre-Engagement

Discovery call. Stakeholder interviews (for multi-session engagements). Custom session design built around your specific challenge — never a template.

During the Engagement

Ontological inquiry. Real-time reframing. Decision-forcing structures that cut through surface-level conversation and get to what actually needs to be said and decided.

Post-Engagement

Synthesis document capturing themes, decisions, and commitments. A follow-up call within 48–72 hours. And a conversation about what comes next — if anything.

Your Facilitator

Thomas Stelter

30+ years leading, building, and advising at the intersection of strategy and human performance.

3x founder. Former Chief Strategy Officer. ICF and Hudson certified coach. United States Marine.

He's advised leaders at Microsoft, Ford, Nestlé, and Amazon — and coached founders, C-suite executives, and leaders of U.S. Olympic teams.

Thomas doesn't deliver slide decks or run workshops from a playbook. He creates the conditions for leaders to think clearly, decide honestly, and move with confidence.

More About Thomas

Background

Training & Credentials

Thomas is Hudson Institute trained, holds professional coaching certifications from the ICF, and in NLP, Leadership Circle, and Collective Leadership assessment, and continues training from the Neuroleadership Institute while pursuing his masters in behavioral decision sciences at UPenn.

Thomas served in the US Marine Corps, studied at Loyola and DePaul Universities, is a three-time founder, and has served as a Chief Strategy Officer for global tech/media company WPP.

Founder

ThomasMarc & Co.

Former

CSO, SVP
Media & Tech
NYSE, NASDAQ, PE/PC

Featured In

Huffington Post
Contagious
Venture Beat
Adage
Digiday
The Next Web
Campaign US
The Drum

Author

Drift
Signal

Speaker

Seattle Interactive Conference
OMMA
CA World Technology Conference

Investment

Flexible models, premium outcomes

Every engagement is scoped to your challenge. Here's how we typically structure the investment.

Value-Based

Outcome-Anchored

Fees anchored to the perceived business outcome of the strategic goal. For engagements where the stakes — and the potential impact — are clearly defined.

Project-Based

$5,000 – $15,000+

per engagement

Covers all pre-work, facilitation, and post-session documentation. Scoped to the complexity and duration of the engagement.

Retainer / Advisory

$3,000 – $10,000

per month

For ongoing strategic support. Depends on team size, engagement format, and cadence. We'll scope the right structure after understanding your team's dynamics.

Next Step

Let's talk about what you're navigating

No pitch, no pressure — just a conversation about whether strategic facilitation is the right tool for what you're facing.

Schedule a Conversation

Explore

Other ways we work with leaders

For Individual Leaders

Private Coaching
Partnership

A high-cadence, 1:1 strategic partnership for leaders navigating complexity, transition, or the desire to operate at a fundamentally different level.

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For Leadership Teams

Leadership Team
Engagement

Most leadership teams operate as a collection of strong individuals. We help them operate as a collective intelligence — aligned, decisive, and moving as one.