Move fast.

When time matters, drift is expensive.

Stay human.

Under pressure, trust carries the work.

Discern clearly.

Make the call that holds up.

Saxum is a strategic consultancy and transformation partner for visionary leaders.

Why Saxum

Consequential Momentum.

When you’re responsible for institutions built to last, noise isn’t the risk. Drift is.

You need strategy, communications, and intelligent systems working as one, so you can act early, act wisely, and keep moving when scrutiny rises.

For more than two decades, leaders of mission-critical, bedrock organizations have relied on Saxum when the stakes are high.

We’re who leaders call when the work has to hold up in the real world—across stakeholders, systems, and scrutiny. We pair clear strategy with accountable execution, unifying brand, communications, experience, and media into one coordinated operating approach. Our teams move fast, stay human under pressure, and bring disciplined judgment to complex environments, earning trust, rebuilding it when it breaks, and protecting it while momentum builds.

Our mission is to strengthen the organizations that serve citizens, community, and country. Our vision is to constantly reimagine how transformation happens—blending integrity, ingenuity, and humanity so you can meet what’s next with confidence and leave a lasting, positive impact.

 
 
Philosophy of Partnership

Momentum is Built, not Bought.

Working with Saxum

Your organization doesn’t move in isolated campaigns.

It moves— with shifting priorities, rising expectations, and decisions that ripple across stakeholders.

You need a partner who understands that cadence and builds with you, not around you. Depending on where you are in your journey, you may need a quick win, a structured program, or an embedded growth platform.

We build momentum with our client partners, often starting with projects, then building deeper integrated programs until we become an embedded enterprise platform for their growth.

Project
Sprints

When you need to solve an urgent challenge, uncover quick wins, or lay the foundation for future momentum—without dragging your whole organization into a long engagement.

Fast and focused.

Integrated
Programs

When you’re ready to align strategy, systems, and storytelling across teams to accelerate growth and deepen engagement over time.

Structured and scalable.

Enterprise
Platforms

When you want an embedded strategic partner who can operate alongside your leaders, enabling long-term value, continuous learning, and durable transformation at the speed of change.

Embedded and enduring.

Custom
Engagements

High-touch and high-trust.
When you’re facing a high-stakes initiative—like executive alignment or a new venture launch—where nuance, focus, and trust are non-negotiable.

High-touch and high-trust.

To move from project to platform, you need both the right people and a system that keeps every move aligned.

Method

How We Deliver Outcomes

Outcomes Delivery System

Outputs are evidence of effort. Outcomes are evidence of progress.

In bedrock organizations, effort is rarely the constraint. Orchestration is. Competing priorities, overlapping initiatives, and high-stakes stakeholders can create motion without momentum.

Outcomes Delivery System℠ is Saxum’s method for tying our work to measurable outcomes: aligning priorities, sequencing moves, and building momentum leaders can defend.

Stacks are curated solutions built around a single outcome.
Sequences coordinate complex shifts across multiple outcomes over time.
Accelerators are targeted engagements that add lift, reduce risk, and remove friction at pivotal moments.

Saxum's Outcomes Delivery System℠ connects the right people, the right structure, the right strategy to the outcomes that matter, so transformation becomes aligned, measurable, and unstoppable.

Get into the Outcomes Delivery System℠

 

We don’t start with deliverables. We start with the outcome you’re accountable for.

Choose the entry point that fits the move you’re making: one specific outcome, multiple outcomes in tandem, or a sharp focused lift.

Stacks

Choose a Stack when you have a defined outcome. We organize the right solutions around that outcome, so work stays aligned.

Sequences

Choose a Sequence when multiple outcomes have to land together. We choreograph the path, across teams, systems, and time.

Accelerators

Accelerators deliver fast, targeted burst when you need quick validation and visible progress on a specific initiative.

Outcomes Delivery System℠ ties work to outcomes. The Transformation Arc℠ is how those outcomes compound into durable advantage.

Our Transformation Pathway

Transformation Arc

We don’t just stabilize strong organizations; we harness their strength into consequential momentum, through the Transformation Arc™.

Saxum’s Transformation Arc℠ is our end-to-end path for moving leaders and organizations through uncertainty to durable advantage. It’s the organizing logic behind how you go from “we need to change” to “change is real, adopted, and resilient.” 

Most consultancies either stop at strategy or jump straight to execution. The Arc℠ and ODS℠, together, prevent both failure modes by connecting diagnosis → direction → movement → credibility → resilience.

With our method in motion, it's our people and the intelligence behind them, that make it powerful. Because even the smartest system is only as powerful as the people behind it.

Talent

Our Talent Model

Transformation Demands Talent. You get a Team of Owners.

You don’t need layers.

You don’t need passengers.

You need a team that carries the outcome with you — clear thinkers, steady operators, and collaborators who act with conviction. Saxum’s talent model brings that discipline to every engagement.

 

We assemble the right minds for the right moments, because transformation isn’t off the shelf.

Core Strategic Intelligence

Domain Catalysts

Senior sector and practice leaders who bring deep context, insight and accelerate decisions.

Embedded Executive Intelligence

Executives-in-Residence

Experienced leaders who step inside your world to guide and elevate complex initiatives.

Agency Intelligence

Saxum OS

Generative + analytical AI systems that sharpen insight and accelerate decisions — without sacrificing human judgment.

Capability On Demand

Talent Network

Specialists and partners who scale with your needs when precision or capacity matters most.

Meet Our Team

Peter
Farrell
CEO
Hart
Brown
President, AI & Transformation
Jessica
Robbins
CPO
Chelsea
Watkins
Chief of Staff
Mia
Derrick
CFO
Tiffany
Eitzmann
Vice President
Taylor
Nelson
Vice President
Taylor
Butler
Vice President
Macie
May
Senior Client Manager
Mark
Steele
Executive Creative Director
Anthony
Triana
Director, Media Relations
Kadi
Irvin
Director, Strategy & Engagement
Abbey
Stanley
Strategist
Meghna
Vaidyanath
Strategist, MBA
Thomas
Carton
Strategist, MBA
Cody
White
Designer
Dallas
Goodson
Accountant
Alan
Joyal
Data Ops, MBA
Damon
Gardenhire
Strategic Communications & Public Affairs
Emily
Grober Trotter
Client Impact & Strategy

Built for consequential work?
Check our openings.

We assemble teams of owners—strategists, creatives, technologists, and operators—who thrive in high-stakes environments and strengthen bedrock industries serving citizens, community, and country. If that’s you, start here.

Solutions

Outcomes Delivery System

Choose Your Outcome. See the Solutions.

Clarity Stack — Confidence before action.

Understand what’s true, align leadership, and move forward with strategic focus.

This is where leaders find the grounding: research, insight, diagnostics, stakeholder truth, and strategic alignment — the work that makes every next move sharper.

  • Ideal for leaders and organizations facing complexity, seeking to align teams, or planning strategic change.

Vision gives shape to your brand, strategy, and go-to-market path.

It’s where identity, messaging, and audience targeting come together to drive meaningful progress. Here is where brand strategy lives — narrative, identity, positioning, and audience clarity — the foundational work leaders expect before stepping into the market or redefining their place in it.

  • Ideal for brands repositioning, entering new markets, re-aligning leadership, or refining their story.

Momentum transforms ideas into impact through smart execution, stakeholder engagement, and creative delivery.

This is where campaigns, content, creative activation, stakeholder outreach, and integrated delivery take shape — the visible moves that bring strategy to life.

  • Ideal for teams activating campaigns, engaging communities, or scaling visibility through content and delivery.

Influence turns credibility into momentum.

From executive thought leadership to earned media and cultural relevance, this stack positions you at the center of conversations that matter. Here you’ll find what leaders traditionally expect from visibility work — PR, executive visibility, narrative shaping, reputation building, and thought leadership systems that elevate presence and trust.

  • Ideal for leaders and brands seeking to grow visibility, shape narratives, and elevate public presence.

Adapt equips organizations to evolve with speed and confidence.

From CX integration to trend monitoring, this stack builds scalable systems for content, coordination, and intelligence—now powered by automation and AI. As your operations mature, Adapt ensures your strategy keeps pace with change. This is where CX, automation, systems design, AI integration, and strategic foresight live — the infrastructure that keeps strategy moving and prepares teams for what’s next.

    • Ideal for organizations scaling operations, improving CX, or embedding future-focused infrastructure.
Popular Solutions

A representative set of our most in-demand solutions, helping bedrock organizations build alignment, accelerate execution, and earn trust at scale.

Sequence
Brand-to-Demand

For organizations that have, or are defining, a strong brand, and now need that brand to drive real-world demand, loyalty, and reputation.

Brand Refresh Accelerator
Morph

A focused brand refresh when you don’t need a full rebuild. Think of it as a brand facelift.

Marketing Assessment Accelerator
Baseline

A clear read on how your marketing and communications are really performing across five domains.

The Thought Ecosystem

The Loop
&The Lab

If you want to see transformation in practice, and where it’s heading, start here.

The Loop is Saxum’s monthly briefing: frameworks, case notes, and signals for leaders navigating stakeholders, systems, and scrutiny.

Featured

The Case for Transformation

Transformation is not a campaign, a rebrand, or a technology rollout. For bedrock organizations, it is a leadership decision to evolve in public under scrutiny without losing what made you trusted in the first place. This article draws a clear line between real transformation and theater, explains why the timeline feels compressed, and outlines the arc that makes change stick: face reality, choose direction, build traction, earn trust, and stay adaptive.

Playing the Long Game

What a Championship City Demands of Its Leaders

AI Theater: Who Do You Trust?

Places People Believe In: From Oklahoma to the World

When strategy meets momentum, growth becomes legacy.

That’s how the unshakeable becomes unstoppable.

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