Our Approach

LUMAN provides the training, systems, and support needed to thrive on change.

Our scalable, proven approach helps leaders and their teams build  capacity for adaptability and scale.

The result is a culture that can evolve, respond, and lead, without waiting for outside disruption to force the change.

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Holistic and Systemic by design

ASSESS

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Gain Perspective

To take a systemic approach we map current capabilities, surface barriers, and identify opportunities.

ALIGN

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Decide on Direction

To move with focus, we align leaders around shared priorities, boundary conditions, metrics and decision making.

BUILD

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Create Capacity

To turn ideas into outcomes, we build infrastructure, platforms,  process and trainings. 

SCALE

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Sustain Momentum 

To scale across organizations, we equip internal catalysts, establish governance, resolve bottlenecks, and staff critical roles. 

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more collaboration across hierarchies and silos

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increased sense of loyalty 
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Assess: Innovation requires perspective. 

LUMAN’s assessments leverage quantitative and qualitative data to surface needs and opportunities. By analyzing culture, identifying barriers, and clarifying what’s possible, we help you build the case for change - grounded in evidence, not assumptions.

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Align: Leadership requires a shared plan. 

Teams want to move faster, waste less time, and make confident decisions, but without strategic alignment, growth stalls or splinters. 


We work with leaders to define priorities and boundary conditions, so everyone knows what matters. We align teams, boards, and multi-agency groups around a shared direction. This alignment unlocks momentum, reduces friction, and keeps teams focused. 

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Build: Innovation requires pipelines that turn ideas into results. 

To move forward, teams need clear processes, structured workflows, and the discipline to sunset what no longer serves. These systems reduce chaos, accelerate learning, and protect your most valuable resources.

Together, we design the infrastructure that supports effective execution at scale, from governance and decision flows to staffing and communication systems. Then we develop training programs that equip your people to lead with clarity and confidence.

The result is a repeatable, adaptable foundation your organization can rely on to grow, respond, and deliver.

 

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Scale: Momentum requires distributed ownership and decision-making.

Through Train-The-Trainer programs your people learn to teach and reinforce not just the skills, but the mindsets and behaviors needed to enable continuous learning at every level across the organization. 


We design governance structures that support accountability and speed. We identify and resolve barriers and bottlenecks that slow momentum, staff critical roles with the right SMEs and support teams to adapt to changing demands.

Grounded in Science

Building on decades of research, our programs integrate best practices from psychology, neuroscience, team and individual performance management, coaching and development, creativity and innovation, and even art and philosophy, as well as the world’s wisdom traditions - all explored through the lens of the scientific method.

The central element connecting all these domains is the human and how we function in the world. By understanding the human operating system, how we develop, and how we evolve through our relationships allows us to design programs that don’t just teach skills, but have lasting personal effect on the participants and their environments.

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PSYCHOLOGY

Integrating and building the latest models in psychology, we focus on how humans deal with anxiety and ambivalence, expand their awareness, and operate from a place of ownership and intrinsic motivation.

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NEUROSCIENCE

Utilizing insights from neuroscience, we provide practical tools that are experiential and immediately applicable, while providing the underlying scientific background for participants.

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HABIT AND BEHAVIOR CHANGE

Building on recent research on how to shift even deeply ingrained behavior patterns, we teach participants how to successfully adopt new habits and make lasting changes.

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ADULT DEVELOPMENT THEORY

Using best of breed methods and frameworks from adult development, we combine decades of research from Piaget to Tim Leary to the findings of Robert Kegan and other current thinkers.

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MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY

Rooted in a systemic design approach, we incorporate design and innovation tools from Agile development, Design Thinking, and the 5th Discipline of Systems Thinking.

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INTEGRAL

We believe in a holistic approach and that interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches are key. Integrating and expanding on integral theory and systemic design, we approach every project as a new design challenge.

What our clients are saying

We believe in creating lifetime relationships with our clients and customers

  • I really appreciate LUMAN’s approach to fostering high functioning teams, their focus on empowering individuals, and their ability to create safe and creative spaces for people and ideas to flourish.
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    Shannon Lucas

    CEO, Advisory Board Member
  • LUMAN has been a great purpose-driven business partner to work with! Their abilities as innovation leadership consultants and deep understanding of the evolvement of organizations and people today were key in developing the Siemens Intrapreneurs Bootcamp initiative.
    Ilaria Carrara Cagni

    Ilaria Carrara Cagni

    Innovation Strategist * Siemens
  • LUMAN brings an incredible depth on highly relevant topics for the new age, such as organizational culture, purpose and innovation. They think in systems and processes to develop long-lasting, repeatable concepts for real change in organizations. It was an absolute pleasure.

     

    Daniel Nowack

    Daniel Nowack

    Head of Social Innovation, WEF
  • LUMAN is one of those rare gems in a sea of transformation specialists that can help leaders vision what's around the corner and cultivate the critical human skills to get there. Teams and leaders are forever changed by the work they do.
    Mary Gilbert

    Mary Gilbert

    CMO
  • LUMAN is creating the language and highest-level frameworks required to understand the organizational transformation needed of us to succeed in our next chapter of growth; they are defining a best-in-class end-state and vision for us. They are doing this as a fractional CPO – plotting a transformation path for us as we navigate substantial leadership and strategic change.

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    Eliza Adams

    VP Corporate Strategy at Clarify Health

    Get ready for continuous growth.