CUSTOMIZED
INNOVATIVE
SOLUTIONS
THE QUAD INITIATIVE
Empowering organizations with transformational and aligned
learning solutions
Drawing on a deep and dynamic pool of organizational, educational, behavioral, and leadership expertise and processes, The Quad Initiative leverages design thinking to co-create individually tailored, inventive strategies and solutions across a wide variety of global sectors.
Our partnerships range from working with innovative start-ups to multinational businesses, from universities to government agencies, including public and private endeavors.
We add value deliverables, that transform the way organizations approach challenges and opportunities to foster new mindset and skill-sets that are transferable across the organization.
OUR APPROACH
Our approach begins and ends with you.
We creatively and collaboratively generate human-centered solutions to organizational challenges that are:
Desirable: aligned with mission, vision and values
Feasible: aligned with technical capacity and expertise
Viable: aligned with value propositions to catalyze ongoing success.
We harness cross-over expertise from a diverse set of disciplines and contexts.
We honor the institutional knowledge and capacity of our partners in our approach - an approach that empowers organizations to more fully realize your mission and continuously meet your goals.
We Engage Partners through Three Critical Stages of Success:
Applied Innovation
We created a proprietary, multi-phase, deep-dive process, called REM3, to identify:
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Bridge Opportunities
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Symbiotic Connections
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Grounded Tolerances
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Hidden/ Redundant Obstacles
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Competing Commitments
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Critical Pathways
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Timelines for Success
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Success and Progress Metrics
We illuminate possibilities to draw upon in order to create innovative responses that will be customized to optimize your current and future needs.
Organizational
Knowledge
Every organization has a vast repository of knowledge that can assist or inhibit growth and momentum. The absence of smooth access to that knowledge can create:
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Benign Historicals
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Hidden Incentive Levers
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Redundant Organizational Topographies
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Non-optimized Personnel, Policies and Practices.
We work with partners to identify and enact pockets of hidden knowledge and bring it to the forefront of the design process as sources of insight and opportunity.
Learning
Systems
People are the greatest catalysts for cultivating innovation and ensuring sustainable progress. Our process promotes the development of individual and team trajectories by leveraging an array of assets:
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Leadership Legacies
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Horizon Planning
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Threshold Policies
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Accountable Aspirations
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Efficiencies of Scale
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Sustainability Indices
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Individual, Team and Platform Growth Models
We engage individuals and teams in order to match the growth potential within the system to the mission, priorities, and goals for organizational success.
OUR PROJECTS
Projects the QUAD Initiative team has recently completed:
U.S. Navy & Marines: Developed and delivered the Navy Instructor Training Course and the Warrior Toughness Program for all Navy and Marine officers who will serve as ROTC instructors at universities across the United States.
U.S. Air Force: Designed and Implemented the Squadron Officer School’s first program on Leadership Coaching used throughout the Air Force.
U.S. Department of Defense: Multi-year project to develop a Leadership Coaching Framework for worldwide use across all DoDEA sites. Training was delivered at military bases across the world, and provided for key leaders at the Pentagon.
U.S. Department of Education: US$ 22 Million to support the Research, Design and Implementation of a 5-year federal initiative to develop accountable and effective leadership, boards of trust and student gains.
ADEC: Designed and Delivered the Abu Dhabi Leadership Capacity Building Program across the Model Schools in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Al Dhafra - this 4-year project involved group and individual training for key education leaders in Abu Dhabi.
MENA STEM Program: Collaborative US Embassy Sponsored program series providing representation from 15 universities in 13 countries across the MENA region for STEM implementation strategies and collaborative work.
Corporate Health and Executive Wellness: Multiphase annual program designed to identify, inform and enrich corporate health and wellness at the individual, team and unit level. Clients include American Express, multiple private banks and public/private entities.
Mind/BodyX: Physical and mental health awareness program for leadership development, team building and strength/weakness plotting. Participants are introduced to best practices in optimal physical and mental health at work. It relies on both individual and team participation and success.
OUR TEAM
The QUAD Initiative team is a diversely talented group of scholar and practice experts who have studied and held academic appointments at preeminent universities including Berkeley, Cambridge, Duke, Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, University of Chicago and Vanderbilt.
Our team has successfully partnered with public sector government agencies in Defense, Education, Military, Justice and State, including the Senate, House and Office of the President. We have also successfully worked in private sectors organizations that specialize in Banking, Education, Healthcare, Hospitality, Insurance, and Transportation.
Our team brings decades of expertise across the fields of artificial intelligence, business, cognitive science, engineering, innovation, instructional technology, leadership, learning theory, organizational behavior, psychology and public policy.
We are eager to partner with you and your uniquely talented leadership team and organization.
The Quad Initiative Logo: Our commitment is reflected in our team, our individualized processes, our deliverables and our client satisfaction. In fact, the Quad Initiative traces its name and logo back to the foundational relationship that developed between our founding partners at Vanderbilt University. Many of the conversations, derivative ideas, and solution sets occurred while walking the Vanderbilt quad.
That process continues to drive us through open-minded engagement, rigorous problem solving, personal respect and trust reflected in our logo:
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The white border: We circumnavigate the problem fully.
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The intersection: We converge and interact with pertinent experts, data and historicals.
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The green block arrows: We focus on and solve the central issue.
CONTACT US
To inquire about partnering with the QUAD Initiative, please fill out the form below.
In-Country Representation (Abu Dhabi):
Eric Kamal Hilgendorf, PhD
Chief Knowledge Officer