Executive advisory · Thought partnership · Scenario planning
You know what you’re trying to accomplish. When something hard to name is blocking the path, Mick Consulting helps you investigate the context, make sense of the complexity, and choose a way forward that fits.
Start with context.
The answer should fit the person, the organization, and the moment.
Context before prescription
Generative, not formulaic
Comprehensive by design
Focused or ongoing support
How I help
The goal is not a standard answer. It is to understand you and your organization well enough to expose the hidden constraint, generate useful options, and support movement.
Focused or ongoing partnership for accomplished leaders who have hit a barrier they cannot fully see or solve from inside the situation.
Deep investigation and tailored guidance for organizations at a crossroads, entering a new chapter, or trying to weather a consequential moment.
A comprehensive process that brings varied perspectives together to explore uncertainty and move a consequential body of work forward.
Engagements can range from a one-month investigation of a defined challenge to years of ongoing thought partnership or on-call executive support.
Scenario planning
A comprehensive scenario-planning process brings together participants with different views of the organization. Together, they widen the field of vision, make change discussable, and build direction that is useful across several plausible futures.
Ryan’s approach draws on the research-based model developed by Thomas J. Chermack, professor at Colorado State University and founder and director of its Scenario Planning Institute. About the methodology ↗
Investigate
Gather people who see the organization differently, study the context, and surface the forces and uncertainties shaping the road ahead.
Generate
Build a set of plausible scenarios that expands the team’s field of vision, tests assumptions, and reveals choices that a single forecast would miss.
Move
Translate what the scenarios reveal into durable principles, strategic options, and—when useful—a complete plan for the next chapter.
The ideal team is willing to engage with uncertainty, curious about what it may reveal, and ready to navigate change rather than wait for certainty.
What the work can unlock
Representative engagements are anonymized to protect client confidentiality.
Inherited leadership
The patternA family-business successor felt responsible for staying close to every decision—a pattern rooted in the pressure to honor the legacy they had inherited.
The movementMaking that pressure visible helped the leader understand the micromanagement beneath it and begin building a healthier path toward trust, delegation, and shared leadership.
Strategic growth
The patternA leader’s focus on small, immediate wins kept momentum high but made it difficult to invest in the customers and opportunities that best fit the organization’s ambitions.
The movementA values-connected strategy expanded the time horizon, clarified the right customer base, and created a more intentional route to sustainable growth.
Trust & delegation
The patternAfter damaging experiences with former partners, a CEO’s understandable mistrust made it difficult to share authority—even when the business needed others to lead.
The movementA gradual-release approach honored what had happened while creating practical ways to rebuild trust, delegate responsibly, and let the organization grow.
Scenario planning
The patternOrganizations in nonprofit and corporate settings needed to make consequential choices without pretending the future was predictable.
The movementScenario work helped one nonprofit establish the foundation for a five-year growth strategy and helped a company surface considerations that later informed its path toward a merger.
About Ryan Mick
Ryan Mick is an executive advisor, organizational strategist, and facilitator who works to understand who a leader is—and how an organization really functions—before offering a path forward.
Across more than 20 years in education, nonprofit, consulting, and business settings, Ryan has investigated complex problems, developed leaders, facilitated groups, and built strategies through moments of growth, transition, and change.
Ryan holds a J.D. from George Washington University and a master’s in educational research. He is completing a Ph.D. in organizational learning, performance, and change, with research focused on artificial intelligence and scenario planning.
“I help leaders see what the situation is asking of them—then build a way forward that fits.”
Intro call
An intro call is a conversation about your goal, the context around it, and whether Ryan can be useful. Engagements can be remote or in person, with location kept flexible.
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