AI readiness & opportunity assessment
Identify priority use cases, organizational strengths, adoption risks, and a practical 90-day path forward.
Consulting services
The expertise to move your organization forward.
From a focused project to a complex transformation, Foster + Foundry brings together strategy, people, technology, and practical execution around the outcomes that matter.
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Built around the need
Start with one challenge—or connect the whole system.
Some organizations need a training program, an AI roadmap, or experienced technology leadership. Others need to align people, operating practices, and technology around a larger change. We can work at either scale, and expand the team through trusted partners when the work calls for specialized expertise.
Concrete ways to begin
Choose a starting point—or bring us the challenge.
You do not need to diagnose the problem or design the engagement before reaching out. These are common, useful places to start; each can stand alone or become part of a broader transformation.
AI & digital transformation
AI adoption sprint
Move one high-value opportunity from idea to a well-designed pilot with workflow, learning, and change support.
Responsible AI foundations
Establish principles, decision roles, acceptable-use guidance, governance practices, and employee expectations.
Technology & transformation roadmap
Connect business priorities to systems, process changes, investments, sequencing, ownership, and measures of progress.
People, leadership & organization
Employee engagement diagnostic
Listen to employees, identify the most important patterns, and translate findings into focused, credible action.
Leadership & manager development
Create a practical program, workshop series, tools, or coaching experience around the capabilities leaders need now.
Organization effectiveness review
Clarify roles, decision rights, structure, collaboration, workflows, and the conditions that help teams perform.
Change & adoption plan
Build the stakeholder, communication, learning, reinforcement, and feedback plan required to make change stick.
Programs, learning & communication
Program or curriculum design
Turn a goal into a structured program with learning objectives, content, activities, resources, and a delivery plan.
Program evaluation & measurement
Define intended outcomes, indicators, data collection, feedback tools, and a useful approach to reporting results.
Strategic facilitation
Design and lead a retreat, planning session, stakeholder workshop, or decision process that produces alignment and action.
Communication & digital experience
Shape the narrative and create the web, video, presentation, graphic, or employee communication assets people need.
Advisory leadership & delivery
Fractional CIO or technology advisor
Add experienced technology leadership for planning, governance, vendors, investments, risk, and executive decision support.
Strategic initiative leadership
Bring structure, facilitation, coordination, and follow-through to an important project that crosses functions.
Core IT & process improvement
Strengthen onboarding, support, standards, security basics, workflows, automation, and the everyday employee experience.
Integrated transformation engagement
Coordinate talent, teams, technology, communication, and implementation around a complex, organization-wide outcome.
AI strategy & adoption
Turn AI from a source of pressure or experimentation into a thoughtful, useful part of how work gets done.
How we can help
- AI opportunity and readiness assessments
- Use-case discovery and prioritization
- Human-centered adoption strategy
- Responsible-use principles and governance
- Workforce learning and AI fluency
- Workflow design and practical implementation
Useful when: You know AI matters, but need clarity about where to begin, how to engage employees, or how to move from pilots to sustainable value.
Employee & leadership development
Build the skills, confidence, and leadership capacity people need to perform, grow, and navigate change.
How we can help
- Learning and development strategy
- Leadership and manager programs
- Custom training and facilitation
- Employee engagement initiatives
- Career and capability frameworks
- Learning content and digital experiences
Useful when: Your people need new capabilities, your managers need better tools, or important learning must translate into changed behavior.
Organization development & change
Strengthen the structures, relationships, and practices that allow people to do their best work together.
How we can help
- Organization and team effectiveness
- Role and operating-model clarity
- Culture and engagement strategy
- Change planning and enablement
- Collaboration and process improvement
- Strategic retreats and facilitation
Useful when: Growth, restructuring, new leadership, or changing expectations have created friction between the organization you have and the work you need to do.
Digital transformation & technology leadership
Connect technology decisions to business priorities and the people whose work those decisions affect.
How we can help
- Digital and technology strategy
- Fractional CIO and executive advising
- Transformation roadmaps
- Process and workflow redesign
- Technology selection and implementation guidance
- Core IT assessment and modernization
Useful when: Technology is fragmented, a major decision is approaching, or your organization needs experienced leadership without adding a full-time executive.
Program design, evaluation & communication
Transform a worthwhile idea into a clear, credible program people can understand, use, and improve.
How we can help
- Program and initiative design
- Evaluation strategy and measurement
- Research and stakeholder discovery
- Curriculum and resource development
- Executive and employee communications
- Video, web, presentation, and graphic content
Useful when: You need to build a new program, demonstrate its value, or make complex work clear and compelling to the people it must reach.
Specialized project capacity
Add experienced hands and the right mix of expertise without forcing the work into a rigid service package.
How we can help
- Focused advisory and problem-solving
- Interim or fractional leadership
- Project planning and delivery support
- Web, video, and graphic production
- Technology and operational support
- Partner expertise across people, culture, operations, and supply chain
Useful when: A valuable initiative needs momentum, specialized expertise, or extra capacity—but not a large consulting team or a long-term hire.
Ways to engage
The right shape for the work.
Scope should serve the outcome. We can begin with a defined need and grow the engagement only when it creates additional value.
Focused project
A defined deliverable or challenge with a clear beginning, end, and practical outcome.
Advisory partnership
Ongoing counsel, facilitation, and decision support for a leader, team, or critical initiative.
Fractional leadership
Experienced executive capacity for a transition, transformation, or growing organization.
Integrated transformation
A coordinated engagement connecting talent, teams, and technology around a shared result.
Not sure which service fits?
Start with the challenge, not the category.
You do not need a finished scope of work. Tell us what you are trying to accomplish and where things feel stuck. We will help clarify the need and identify a sensible next move.
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