Business Leaders:

You’re investing
40% to 80% of
gross revenue
in your staff.

Are you getting the performance you need?

Your Most Valuable Asset

Employees.

You invest time and money in them.

You can’t achieve your goals without them.

The frustration and cost of performance challenges are real and painful.

These may look like:

  • Falling short of company goals, missing project deadlines

  • Lack of clear operational focus

  • Declining morale and increasing turnover

  • Job openings sitting unfilled

  • Increasing employee relations issues and terminations

Ignoring the problem is tempting, but usually leads to bigger problems.

Far better to get performance back on track and get the results you want.

We can help. 

Problems Solved

Want a skilled, trusted partner to help improve business performance?

We’ll rapidly analyze, diagnose, and address performance problems to accelerate your results, and build a stronger foundation for your future growth.

Examples of how we help clients:

Strong leadership

  • Improve performance by clarifying company goals and implementing plans to achieve them

  • Strengthen leadership through clear accountability, executive coaching and training, leadership team development

  • Monitor operational alignment with overall company goals

Aligned, effective structure and roles

  • Support growth by redesigning organizational units and/or roles

  • Foster a continuous improvement mentality

  • Build operational resilience, confidence in managing change

Talented, productive people

  • Improve productivity through effective supervision, efficient communication, fair compensation, and skill-based learning

  • Apply Human Resources best practices aligned with your company goals; ensure legal compliance

  • Monitor employee engagement, address gaps to enhance productivity and improve retention

  • Strengthen recruiting through identifying your unique brand, interviewing best practices, and efficient, candidate-friendly processes

Check out these case studies to learn more.

Performance, Delivered

There are two parts to strong performance:

Business Performance: Relies on clear goals, effective leaders, and efficient organization design.

Employee Performance: Is fueled by clear roles and goals, talented, motivated employees, ongoing information, training and coaching, and effective compensation.

Your needs will guide our work. We can focus on strengthening performance in multiple areas or focus on one specific need.

“I had the pleasure of working with Ann at TNG. Simply put, Ann is a self-starter and a strategic thinker who knows how to drive human potential and organizational growth.
She has my highest recommendation.”

— Brian Heider, Founder Oracle Investigations Group, former VP, Investigations, TNG

Wondering what changes you may need?

This tool may help.

“Ann’s pragmatic and systemized approach would be an asset for any leaders looking to leverage talent to improve productivity and achieve goals.”

— Michelle Parisi, Owner, Core Strength Strategies

Why Us?

We get it.

Your performance problem is taking time from other priorities.

You needed it fixed “yesterday” and want to work with a partner who will do it well, and efficiently. We can help.

With Tic Tac Toe Consulting,
you’ll experience:

Laser Client Focus.

A custom solution designed to solve your problems and achieve your goals.

Experience & Expertise.

Broad business experience, human capital expertise, a fresh perspective, and creative solutions.

An Arrow, Not an Anchor.

Efficient, practical solutions to get rapid results.

Knowledge Transfer.

We share the tools we use, building your ability to solve future problems.

Confidential Confidante.

A discreet, committed, independent resource dedicated to your success.

“Ann is highly knowledgeable, intuitive, and capable. One of her superpowers is listening and she tailors her work to the client. I highly recommend her.”

— Deborah Vloedman, Founder, Rad Robots

Working Together

You may need specific help at the organization, team, or individual level.

Or, you may want a general assessment of what’s working or not.

Your needs determine the work to be done.

Your path to a solution is simple:

  • You share your problems, goals, and culture

  • We prepare a custom proposal

  • Work gets underway, we jointly evaluate results, and celebrate your success!

Ann Colby-Cummings, MBA, SPHR, leads most client engagements.

Ann understands the challenges and opportunities of leadership, having served in roles from management through C-suite assignments.

Expertise

About Ann

Professional Passion: Helping organizations and their people achieve shared success.

Working With Ann: Expect rapid progress. Ann is able to quickly review and synthesize information and develop trust relationships.

Industries Served:

  • Life Sciences and Pharma

  • Investing and Insurance

  • Consulting and Nonprofits

  • 10 to 10,000 employees

  • Regional, national, international

  • Start up, high growth, mature

Roles/Responsibilities:

  • Business Leader, Management Consultant, Non-Profit Leader

  • Strategic Planning, Marketing, Sales

  • Operations, Communications, Human Resources

Education/Certifications:

MBA, Bentley University. BA, Rutgers University.

Certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SHRM); Certified provider, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

Values

Our goal is to achieve your desired results. 
Our work is grounded in these values.

Excellence: Deliver exceptional client value to be proud of our work

Collaboration: Work to “win together”—clients with their teams, us with our clients

Integrity: Do the right thing by working hard, sharing knowledge, and being transparent.

Respect: Value each person’s diverse skills, experience, and perspective

The Name

Wonder, “Why Tic Tac Toe?”

  1. We move quickly to deliver results, using easy-to-understand approaches.
    Tic Tac Toe is easy to learn and fast to play.

  2. We want to be memorable.
    Tic Tac Toe is over 3,000 years old and played worldwide.

  3. The “X’s and O’s” look like a sports play diagram—the steps to success.
    Just what we’ll deliver for you!

Make Your Winning Move!

Let's Talk

Solving your problem starts with a conversation.

Call us at 484.459.9110

Email us at info@TicTacToeConsulting.com