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Consulting

XPLANE is a TiER1 Performance brand. TiER1 Performance leads our consulting practice, partnering with clients to deliver transformation solutions using the best of XPLANE’s visual methods, tools, and facilitation practices.

Transformation Collection

Strategic Planning

Operate with clear direction and focus, where a shared vision for the future drives decisions, priorities, and resource allocation. This strategic planning solution helps leadership teams clarify where they’re headed, and realign priorities to their new direction. Through a dynamic, facilitated process, leaders emerge with clarity and stronger alignment on future direction—accelerating execution and business results.

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Client Stories

At a beverage manufacturer, rapid growth demanded a more scalable, disciplined supply chain—without losing the entrepreneurial drive that fueled early success.

Following a major divestiture, a specialty benefits organization set out to define its identity and activate a distinct culture—fast—by uniting leaders around a clear mission, vision, values, and employee experience.

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Program Management

Is your team stuck in silos when it comes to transformation? Struggling to see what’s on track or why deadlines slip?

Real transformation needs more than a project plan. It requires shared visibility and coordinated action across teams. What if your teams had shared tools and ways of working that connect strategy to execution in real time and help your leaders and teams to drive clarity, coordination, and measurable progress?

From PMOs to enterprise transformations and strategic programs, we help organizations build momentum through aligned dashboards and plans. 

Client Stories

When change became business as usual, this retailer enabled leaders to create a seamless change experience for employees by providing a brand-right change methodology, easy-to-use tools, and scalable training to enable ownership.

After years of ongoing modernization and shifting industry standards, employees at this Fortune 100 insurance company were asking “will this change ever end?”

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Organizational Alignment & Effectiveness

Even the strongest strategy fails if the organization isn’t aligned to deliver it. Friction in roles, decision-making, and structure slows execution and dilutes results.

Designed for leaders who need results—not more analysis—this solution aligns your organization to your strategy by addressing the structural friction that stalls execution. Together, we clarify roles, decision-making, and operating rhythms so your team can move faster, with greater focus and confidence.

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Client Stories

After years of ongoing modernization and shifting industry standards, employees at this Fortune 100 insurance company were asking “will this change ever end?”

When patient satisfaction scores started to decline, this large healthcare organization was quick to engage associates and clinicians to align on priorities and jumpstart a shared approach to experience redesign.

After a landmark acquisition doubled the size and complexity of operations, this Fortune 500 enterprise needed to streamline processes, data, and people on a common ERP—without disrupting customers. We built the business-readiness engine that made day-one execution possible and created confidence across the workforce.

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Accelerated Assessment & Action Plan

Seeing the symptoms, but not the source? You know something’s not working, but you’re not sure why.

We specialize in helping organizations get clearer, faster insight into what’s really happening beneath the surface—and what to do about it.

TiER1’s Organizational Assessment & Action Plan is a structured yet flexible approach designed to diagnose performance friction, build shared understanding, and translate findings into practical recommendations leaders can act on immediately.

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Learning Tech Ecosystem

Your learning technology ecosystems are complex. Providing a seamless experience for employees across multiple platforms and busines units is already difficult, and to do so in a cost-effective way can seem like an impossible task. 

TiER1’s Learning and Talent Tech Ecosystem Analysis helps organizations make smarter, more strategic decisions about their learning technology. By mapping your current ecosystem—including platforms, tools, user roles, and data flows—we identify gaps, redundancies, and under-leveraged assets that may be holding back your learning strategies. This actionable insight empowers your team to create a more integrated, personalized, and effective learning experience while aligning investments to the outcomes that matter most.

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Client Stories

In the U.S. Air Force, cyber threats evolve by the hour. To keep systems resilient, practices and training must move just as fast. CyberSTEPS equips software engineers and solution architects to learn and apply the latest, proven techniques when designing new systems.

Modernization That Scales Across a Global Enterprise

At a global pharmaceutical company, we partnered to transform the organization to a unified digital user experience across regions while building the capabilities needed to sustain future evolution at scale.

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Automation Opportunity Assessment

Every organization today is under pressure to do more with less.
 
You might be restructuring, rethinking roles, or reallocating talent to higher-value work—all with the goal of increasing efficiency, reducing cost, or improving decision-making and innovation. AI and automation hold tremendous promise. The challenge isn’t whether to automate or integrate AI—it’s where and how to do so in a way that optimizes human-AI teaming, drives results, maintains engagement, and empowers people to focus on what they do best. 

TiER1’s Automation Opportunity Assessment (AOA) helps you identify where automation and/or AI-integration will create the greatest impact so your people can focus on what they do best and your organization can achieve measurable results. 

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Client Stories

At a global media company, leaders needed a faster, more inclusive way to generate product ideas—one that could surface diverse perspectives and shorten time-to-market.

AI powered digital learning solutions transformed routine compliance training into an engaging, high-energy experience with AI characters and gamified escape rooms.