WHAT WE HELP YOU DO
We start from the belief that everyone on a team, not just the person leading it, brings something worth recognizing. From there, we build respect, and encourage curiosity and agency to grow.
We help leaders and teams name what's actually happening, ask better questions together, and build ways forward they can act on inside their real constraints: financial, political, human.
We work with mission-driven organizations moving from stalled discussions and overloaded leadership toward shared clarity and action people can actually carry out.
THE RANGE OF OUR WORK
Pathway Principles
Before any team takes on a new way of working, we help you see how ready you are for it, mapping where six core conditions show up strongly, and where there's room to grow.
Pathway Conversations™
Our core framework: four focused conversations that move a group from naming constraints to building and taking viable next steps, together.
Everyday Jack
Ongoing, one-to-one coaching for the leader navigating change day to day. Powered by both Pathway Conversations™ and Principles, and available whenever you need a thought partner.
WHAT YOU GET WHEN WORKING WITH US
Working with Third Floor Design produces tangible results your people can use immediately and keep using long after our engagement ends.
A shared picture of what's really happening.
Built through Pathway Principles, mapping where your team stands now and where there's the most room to grow, before any deeper work begins.
Practical next steps people design and own.
Pathways and experiments are designed to respond to your actual constraints and resources by the people closest to them, who believe in what they're trying.
A stronger way of working together.
Habits of conversation that make it easier to work on the right questions and to move beyond stalled discussions without waiting on one person to solve everything.
A suite you keep using.
Pathway Principles to know where you stand and Pathway Conversations™ to do the work. Both practices your team keeps running long after our formal work ends. Plus Everyday Jack for ongoing coaching whenever you need it.
We work with mission‑driven organizations, co‑creating adaptable pathways that turn resources and constraints into new questions that open up viable ways forward.
ARE YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE READY FOR CHANGE?
You already sense when it's time to work differently. Tell us what you're facing. We can start with Pathway Principles to see where you stand, then use Pathway Conversations™ to change your approach, and with it, your outcomes. And Everyday Jack Coaching can guide your leaders through change.
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
“Their expertise in both the process and the neuroscience behind effective engagement was especially valuable and we now have a clear, flexible roadmap and the confidence to adapt and succeed well into the future.”
- Private Foundation, Executive Vice President
“It was thrilling to see entrepreneurs engage so deeply in testing their assumptions. We cannot thank you enough for your time, talent, and expertise with this group of entrepreneurs.”
- Program Manager, Social Impact Capacity Building
“This is engagement for the new century—for organizations wishing to break barriers and truly innovate in their field.”
- Family Practice Physician, Medical Community Leader
“The process showed me the value of group learning over holding on tightly to personal ideas. At the end of the session we had clear, actionable steps and a shared direction.”
- University Faculty Member and Community Organizer
“WOW! “Pathway Conversations” guides groups through a cycle of Learning, Assumptions, Questions and Actions—all without voting or discussing ideas. It is mind-blowing in its simplicity.”
- Global Workshop Designer and Team Coach