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"The key to leadership is not authority, it's influence. And the key to influence is listening."

- John C. Maxwell

Purpose fuels passion, and passion drives exceptional results

You’re embarking on a major technology program, planning rapid growth, undergoing a significant restructuring, or expanding nationally or internationally—all while managing high expectations from the Board and investors.

The pressure to move quickly can leave organizations unprepared, draining resources, impacting team morale, and skipping critical steps that ultimately slow progress.

Embarking on a major change

Approximately 70% of acquisitions, integrations, and restructures fail to deliver deal value, often due to organizational culture and leadership misalignment.

While significant efforts are made in financial, commercial, and technological due diligence, only some companies fully grasp the cultural differences between acquirer and seller in critical areas like identity, communication, decision-making, incentives, and performance management. This oversight often leads to a contentious environment, loss of intellectual capital, and talent departures. However, there are proven ways to overcome these challenges.

Seeking Deal Value

Amid endless meetings, long hours, and an increasing workload, questions about ROI often arise. Many organizations must enhance their workforce's skills in estimating, calculating, measuring, and monitoring the value generated for the business, customers, workforce, and communities. As a result, people lose sight of their north star, may need a compelling sense of urgency, and miss the incentives to connect their actions to measurable value generation.

Chasing ROI

Organizations often mistake busyness for productivity, leading to neglected priorities and stalled progress. Surface-level harmony, often driven by passive-aggressive siloed cultures, stifles true collaboration, innovation, and effective conflict resolution.

Many companies fail to invest in teaching their teams how to collaborate and manage conflict as drivers of productivity and innovation. This can leave leaders frustrated, believing culture can't change, accepting dysfunction as inevitable, or lacking the tools to transform it into a driver of profitability and well-being. Refocusing on meaningful outcomes is essential for sustainable growth.

Synchronizing the Organization

Your Challenges

Our Services

C-Suite, Board, PE Advisory

Executive Leadership Coaching & Alignment

In-Flight Business Transformation program in distress "health checks"

M&A Organization and Culture Due Diligence & Integration Strategy

Board Governance Effectiveness Reviews

Forensic Investigations and disputes

Data-Driven Decision-Making Advisory

Organizational and Operational Excellence

Helping companies of all sizes assess, prevent, and resolve organizational, team, or post-acquisition performance challenges and conflicts, identify cultural enablers and blockers, and create upskilling strategies.

We untangle organizational gridlock, break down silos, redesign processes leveraging data and automation, and develop measurable, outcome-driven, actionable plans to foster high-performing, engaged teams and ensure long-term adaptability and resiliency.

Positioning for Success

An in-depth assessment of your company's readiness for significant business transformations, pre-acquisition due diligence, restructuring, or expansion into new markets, focusing on leadership and governance, stakeholder alignment, cultural fit, program office, dependencies, sourcing, intelligent automation opportunities, and teaming.

Minimize preventable risks, optimize resource allocation, and be prepared to manage unexpected challenges for successful enterprise initiatives.

Immersive Cocreation Workshops

Our immersive workshops transform meetings, unlocking efficiency and saving you weeks or months. We generate actionable outcomes by encouraging creative thinking and constructive dialogue, harnessing collective intelligence, and using innovative tools that foster engagement, open discussion, accountability, and ownership.

Research shows that people support what they help create. With thorough preparation, strategic stakeholder involvement, and a carefully designed experience, we tackle critical challenges like executive alignment, problem framing, solutioning, or industry disruption.

KreArc Partner Network

We’ve strategically partnered with subject matter experts across industry, finance, organizational psychology, advanced analytics, AI, design, creative fields, facilitation, and software engineering, maintaining joint business agreements with specialized firms and vendors. However, our most important partnership is with you—ensuring that your team is actively engaged and involved at every stage.

We bring in the right expertise at the right time and in the right measure. Whether you need help assembling your project team or overseeing multiple consultants, we’re here to ensure your initiatives are executed with precision and impact.

Our Vision and Values

Empowering People-Centric Business Transformation

At our core, we are enablers of true people-centric business transformation. We believe in the power of people to build resilient, adaptable, healthy, and impactful businesses and institutions that drive lasting profitability and positive change.

Deep Listening and Tailored Solutions

We excel in the art of deep listening, enabling us to tailor our approach, methods, and frameworks, generating innovative solutions that deliver meaningful outcomes aligned with your specific situation and goals

Empowering your Teams

Our aim is to help your teams thrive independently, empowered by the skills and knowledge we transfer, ensuring your long-term sustainable success

Co-Creation and Constructive Collaboration

We champion the impact of co-creation, fostering an environment where constructive conflict leads to better ideas, greater accountability, and true ownership.

Commitment to Fairness and Ethics

We are committed to fairness and ethics in all we do, focusing on two key areas:

Ethical Behavior: We prioritize integrity and fairness in all human interactions, guiding our actions and decisions by strong ethical principles.
Ethical Design in Software and AI: We ensure ethical practices in software and AI design, working to prevent bias and build technologies that are fair, transparent, and responsible.

Humberto Salicetti, CEO & Founder

Based in Boston, Massachusetts since 1986, Humberto is a global transformation executive who blends an architect’s vision and attention to detail with extensive global consulting experience. He has successfully led Fortune 500 and mid-sized firms through complex workplace transformations. Humberto is a forward-thinking, creative, and collaborative problem solver for companies undergoing major business or operational changes. He leverages emotional intelligence to engage individuals at all levels of the organization, fostering co-creation and mobilizing teams through listening, mutual respect, and engagement to deliver solutions while ensuring accountability to the broader mission.

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Our Team

Together, we turn strategic vision into sustainble and measuable results

Background

University of Houston, Texas, Bachelor of Architecture (5 yr)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Special Graduate Studies, Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP)
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University: Corporate Governance Effectiveness & Accountability in the Boardroom
Saïd Business School, Oxford University, London, UK: Blockchain Strategy Program
MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
- Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy
- Applied Generative AI for Digital Transformation
Fundação Dom Cabral: Advanced Senior Management Program, São Paulo, Brazil