Accelerators
Focused sprints for fast, visible progress.
Not every leader needs a full-stack engagement on day one. Sometimes you need a sharp, time-bound sprint that answers a specific question, proves a concept, or unlocks momentum without committing to a long arc.
Accelerators are how we do that. Each Accelerator is a defined, outcomes-based engagement that plugs into a Stack, Clarity, Vision, Momentum, Influence, or Adapt, and delivers a concrete win you can act on immediately. Lower friction, high impact, and a clear path if you decide to go deeper.
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Accelerators Act As...
- On-ramps into the Outcomes-based Delivery System.
- Pressure relief valves when you’re under scrutiny or behind on delivery.
- Targeted tune-ups inside larger client relationships.
- Pilots to test new concepts, products or technology.
How Accelerators Fit in the Mix
They’re built to stand on their own and to connect seamlessly into something bigger if and when you’re ready.
One-shots
Accelerators can work as turn-key engagements on their own. Many of our client partners choose to start their Saxum journey with an Accellerator.
Add-on to Your Stack Program
Accelerators sit inside your Stack Program as focused, high-intensity expressions of Clarity, Vision, Momentum, Influence, or Adapt.
Inject into a Sequence
They slot into longer journeys at key moments for a focused surge, without derailing the overall arc.
Accelerator Guide
Baseline
Marketing Performance Assessment
Understand what’s true, align leadership, and move forward with strategic focus. This is where diagnostics, research, stakeholder truth, and internal alignment live—the work that makes every next move sharper.
Ideal when
- Leadership is hearing “we’re busy,” but not seeing clear business results.
- Campaigns and content feel fragmented or duplicative.
- You’re about to change partners, add spend, or restructure, and need a baseline first.
Calibrate
Department Readiness Diagnostic
Ideal when
- You’re asking for enterprise-level outcomes from a modest team and budget.
- There’s friction between leadership ambition and what the team can realistically deliver.
- You’re unsure whether the issue is strategy, structure, process, partners, or skills.
Compass
Leadership Alignment Sprint
Compass is a short, sharp sprint with your leadership team to align on direction, positioning, and non-negotiables before you commit to full brand or GTM work.
Ideal when
- Leaders agree change is needed but disagree on what it should look like.
- You’re considering multiple strategic directions or narratives.
- You want to reduce friction and rework before investing in a larger Vision engagement.
Morph
Brand Refresh
Morph is a lighter-touch brand sprint designed to refine, not reinvent—tightening visual identity and key messaging where the fundamentals are sound but execution is dated or inconsistent.
Ideal when
- Your brand is basically right, but the expression feels tired or fragmented.
- You need to show progress to the market while planning for a deeper evolution.
- You’re entering a new season (e.g., campaign, fundraising, new leadership) and need the brand to keep up.
Boost
Targeted Digital Campaigns
Boost is a focused campaign sprint designed to drive a specific outcome—enrollment, appointments, sign-ups, participation—without spinning up a full new marketing ecosystem.
Ideal when
- You have a clear, measurable goal and a tight window.
- Your existing digital efforts are scattered and underperforming.
- You need a visible win while broader brand or strategy work is underway.
Spotlight
Executive Visibility Sprint
Spotlight is a sprint to elevate a key leader’s presence in the arenas that shape your reputation—media, events, policy, industry forums, digital platforms.
Ideal when
- A new or existing leader needs to be seen as the face of a strategic priority.
- Your sector is shifting and you need a sharper voice in the conversation.
- You’re preparing for a major announcement, initiative, or campaign.
Media Prep
Training & Simulation
Prepare leaders for the toughest rooms and questions.
Media Prep is hands-on simulation and coaching for interviews, hearings, panels, and high-stakes conversations—rooted in your actual issues and likely scenarios.
Ideal when
- Leaders are stepping into new levels of public exposure or scrutiny.
- Upcoming interviews, hearings, or forums carry real reputational risk.
- You’ve invested in strategy but haven’t pressure-tested how leaders will carry it live.
Leadership Lab
Immersive Agility & Readiness Workshop
Build leaders who can adapt in real time.
Leadership Lab is an immersive experience that exposes leaders to future pressures, ambiguous scenarios, and cross-functional challenges—then helps them build the mindsets and rhythms to respond.
Ideal when
- You need leadership to move from reactive to adaptive.
- You’re rolling out new systems, CX, or data capabilities that demand new ways of working.
- You want to stress-test how leadership behaves under future-like pressure.
War Room
Crisis Simulation Sprint
Practice the crisis before you meet it.
War Room is a compressed simulation of a crisis or high-stakes issue—cross-functional, messy, and time-bound, like the real thing.
Ideal when
- You haven’t stress-tested your crisis plan or team in years (or ever).
- You’re in a sector where crisis is a matter of when, not if.
- New leadership, partners, or systems have changed how you’d actually respond.
Forge
AI-Native Production Sprint
Scale production without losing fidelity.
Forge is an accelerator that augments your team with the right mix of people, tools, and AI-enabled workflows—so you can produce what the moment demands and learn new ways of working while you do it. It’s how organizations modernize production without lowering standards or losing control.
Ideal when
You need additional capacity and specialized support to carry a high-consequence initiative from plan to reality.
You’re ready to test AI-enabled production pathways, but want them governed, repeatable, and leader-safe.
Your current production model works—until it doesn’t—and you need a stronger system before the next surge hits.
What you get
Smokejump
Rapid Response Activation
Get organized and on-message in the first critical hours.
Smokejump is rapid support when an issue flares: a short, intense activation to bring order, clarity, and direction to your early response.
Ideal when
- An issue is emerging, and you don’t have the internal bandwidth or structure to manage it.
- You need immediate help framing the situation, prioritizing stakeholders, and coordinating actions.
- You want to avoid improvising your way into a bigger problem.
More to Explore
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.
Start small. Move fast. Stay strategic.
If you need tangible progress in weeks, not months, Accelerators deliver e. We’ll help you choose the sprint that matches your pressure, your timeline, and your appetite, and we’ll be ready with the next step if you want to keep going.