Mission Statement			Ian G. Cook, CSP
	Client List			Testimonials

We believe that the greatest single untapped potential leverage point for higher performance is the Manager. While employees bear the bulk of the responsibility for finding job satisfaction and contributing to results, managers can adopt proven leadership approaches to create an environment where their people will choose to excel.

We believe that the next greatest untapped potential leverage point for higher performance is the Team. Issues we face at work have become increasingly complex. Seldom any more does one individual have the best solution. Increasingly superior performance depends upon the collective effort of individuals in teams: departmental leadership teams, self-directed work teams, cross-functional teams, virtual (long-distance) teams, and limited life project teams.

And we believe that at all levels it is the so-called "soft" skills that drive "hard" organizational results. It is interpersonal and intrapersonal competence that differentiates the best leaders and the best teams from the rest. And at the individual contributor level the strongest organizations are sustained by people who take personal accountability for their goals, habits, attitudes and performance.

Fulcrum was founded in 1988. Over the years it has served hundreds of companies, government departments, not-for-profit organizations, and associations, providing them with professional facilitation, training, coaching and presentations in the areas of Leadership & Team-building.

We are a continental firm, headquartered in Northern Virginia, with an office in Toronto. For projects large or small we are able to draw on the talents of a select number of highly professional associates, each heading their own successful independent practice, who deliver programs tailored for today's organizations.