The Clearing

Have you ever wondered what keeps organizations successful in an ever-changing world? It is their ability to swiftly adapt to changes—be they technological innovations, new processes, or evolving workforce behavior. The challenge with adaptability lies in engaging different stakeholders with distinct viewpoints to build alignment around a common vision and goal. A Washington, D.C.- based management consulting firm, The Clearing, has the passion, talent, technologies, and human-centric proven approach to iron out the frictions inherent in change management.

Organizations in the public, private, and social sectors benefit from The Clearing’s purposeful approach of convening stakeholders with diverse ideas, backgrounds, and knowledge in order to solve critical problems. This enables each organization to identify opportunities and risks related to people’s inherent resistance to change, to create more efficient and agile processes, and to leverage advanced technology to support a culture ready for enhanced ways of working. In this way, The Clearing turns organizational culture into an asset.

“We bridge communication and collaboration across multiple levels of the organizational hierarchy and even across agencies and programs, to expedite some of the hardest technical decision making and ensure smooth project delivery,” says Tara Carcillo, President and CEO of The Clearing. Whatever the challenge - be it modernizing the existing infrastructure or transitioning to a new business model built on cutting-edge technology - The Clearing acts as a force multiplier by creating a space for change leaders to move from idea to operational and market impact. “From up-skilling internal employees through training to engaging customers with new and yet consistent messages, challenges abound in smoothing the shift in paradigm. We ensure the right corners are covered to enable a leader to realize her vision.”

The Clearing employs a proprietary, human-centric visual language for describing universal patterns of group behavior, “The PRIMES,” to enable discussion of issues that might typically be avoided or considered landmines for some groups. When real and persistent issues are discussed in this manner, new solutions and paths forward are identified. These raw moments navigated skillfully are often a huge breakthrough for groups or organizations that enables them to become “unstuck” from legacy programs or approaches.

From up-skilling internal employees through training to engaging customers with new and consistent messages, challenges abound in smoothing the shift in paradigm. We ensure the right corners are covered

Organizations facing change in leadership have a tremendous responsibility to continue to advance the vision and mission as leadership changes hands. The Clearing ensures the success of this transition by facilitating dialogue and framing intractable dilemmas in a way that the group can coordinate and share set of actions. The firm helps existing leaders tell their story to incoming new leaders through simple graphical products that capture strategic vision, goals, new workplace prototypes, community connection features, and brand aesthetic. Thus, the organizations can reinforce their desired culture and maintain brand integrity over time.

Although some organizations may be inherently risk-averse, The Clearing helps leaders face change management across sectors. For instance, the company supported the leaders of a large government organization focused on government-wide access to secure and authorized cloud services. The Clearing employed its change execution approach to help the leaders reduce the length of the authorization process four-fold, from up to 24 months to less than 24 weeks. By convening cross-sector stakeholders and entities to identify process improvement opportunities, The Clearing helped the program office achieve its goals of secure, transparent, efficient, and cost-effective authorization of cloud solutions. The Clearing has brought its technical know-how to bear with other organizations faced with different challenges, as well. For instance, the company has leveraged agile software development techniques to pivot, iterate, and re-evaluate potential solutions to resolve thorny IT modernization challenges with a more robust approach to risk management.