Founded in 2002, Vertical Leap Consulting LLC is headquartered in the Maryland suburbs of Washington D.C. and assists executives and boards who face compelling reasons to take their organizations to a new level. 

Providing process consulting, strategic analysis, group facilitation and executive coaching, Vertical Leap enhances market value and accelerates organizational performance, while helping clients navigate through periods of strategic transition.

Steve Lane is the Founder and President of Vertical Leap Consulting, LLC.  His "insider perspective" is based upon spending 25 years on executive teams in organizations that varied widely in size, structure, and industry.  Spanning the marketplace from public to private to not-for-profit, these included mortgage banking, electric and telephone utility financing, a wireless communications trade association, a publicly held printing corporation, and two healthcare systems.  While on the inside, Steve served in various strategy, operations leadership and organizational effectiveness management roles. 

A common thread throughout Steve's career has been his impact on organizations entering periods of strategic transition (deregulation, rapid growth, restructuring, IPO, technology conversion, and competitive re-positioning).  Some were rapid-growth companies needing scalable practices and infrastructure, while others were mature organizations seeking to re-position in the marketplace and regain the external focus and innovation that drove their early success.

Described by various business leaders as a strategic thinker and a trusted advisor, Steve's extensive experience in leading change initiatives, provides a blend of leading-edge theory and practical applications.  Steve excels in the areas of strategic audits and organizational diagnosis, strategic planning, organizational dashboards, leadership assessment, and executive coaching.  A specialty area for Steve is coaching in-coming senior executives during their first six months, to optimize their window of opportunity in business environments that Steve characterizes as "fast-drying cement".

Steve is active in, and a frequent speaker at, a wide variety of association, technology, healthcare, and executive forums.

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Each member of our team is a seasoned executive and consultant, and is skilled in helping you assess strategic opportunities, develop action plans to integrate stakeholders, align organizational systems, leverage core staff competencies, and overcome threats and obstacles.  Like you, they have been in the trenches, fighting for market share, driving quality and managing change.  Together with our alliance partners, we are able to move quickly to provide a scalable breadth of expertise and support to meet your needs.

We have aligned ourselves with a number of other consulting firms, which allows us to move quickly to meet your needs, and to provide a scalable breadth of services, across industry and functional expertise. We believe you are buying a relationship and the values of Vertical Leap Consulting. Therefore, we are extremely selective when it comes to aligning ourselves with business partners. Examples include: