BUILDING SUCCESSFUL ORGANIZATIONS
THROUGH POWERFUL TEAMS & CREATIVE LEADERSHIP


Clients come to Outside Insights at important junctures to align the leadership team for future success. We often work deeper in the organizations of our core clients to develop leaders and teams capable of driving performance and accountability in an environment of support and respect.

Founded by Greg Ranstrom and Kelly Andrews (retired), Outside Insights has delivered world-class programs for large global and small local companies since 1988. Discover why some of the world’s most distinguished organizations choose Outside Insights.


GREG RANSTROM
greg@outsideinsights.com

President, Greg Ranstrom, brings over 20 years of experience in consultation, design, and facilitation of collaboration and leadership effectiveness solutions for a range of large, global enterprises like Cargill and Merck. He has also been successful with start ups and local firms. Greg designed and delivered training and development programs at key inflection points of growth for Invitrogen and Schilling Robotics.

Greg is the principal author of Outside Insights tools and processes. Greg’s passion lies in the leadership required for cross-boundary collaboration and he thrives on teaching leaders how to flip organizational chaos and conflict into creative cross-functional solutions. He is the author of the Maximize® collaboration workshop that has been licensed around the world.

Greg maintains a close relationship with the American Leadership Forum (ALF) designing and leading its year-long Fellows Program and acting as faculty for many regional chapters. ALF’s high-level, cross-sector development program offers an uncommonly powerful learning laboratory for understanding the nature and demands of 21st century leadership.

Greg started his career with Princeton-Blairstown Center running Outward Bound® inspired programs for inter-city youth and Princeton faculty, staff, and students. Greg lives in Bend Oregon with his wife, artist Alisa Huntley, and their three children, Madeline, Claire, and Cole. An active community volunteer, Greg recently launched CivilSay™ a process for citizen engagement in important community issues.
 

 

NETWORK OF CONSULTANTS:
Outside Insights relies on a large network of trusted colleagues to access capacity for larger projects. A few current partners include:

We relish the opportunity to link our work with others for our clients. In this way our clients benefit from the consistency of the message and the development process. One of our key strengths is our ability to partner with whomever we need to deliver the best service for our clients. A few current partners include:

NETWORK OF OUTDOOR VENDORS:
Outside Insights creates retreats at the locations which are most convenient for our clients. Because we have operated for many years in North America, Asia and Europe, we can typically staff our programs with some local Outside Insights-approved vendors. A few current partners include: