From Leaders To Legends

Finding the right leader is half the battle—the rest is ensuring they gel and thrive. Our versatile consulting services help organizations integrate leaders and teams, and unite them against business goals. Our offerings:

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Leadership Assessment

Leadership assessments provide insight into team capabilities, motivations, and traits, which empowers strategic hiring and promotion decisions. Our certified consultants use the Hogan Assessment, the gold standard in workplace success.

Executive Coaching

Our executive coaching offers leaders clarity, focus, and growth tools. Through confidential support, we identify improvement areas, enhance strengths like relationship-building and mental fitness, and equip leaders for self-sustaining success.

Team Effectiveness

We help leadership teams become more self-aware, collaborative, and relationship-oriented to better achieve strategic goals. Using practical frameworks, we address conflict and fuel innovation within real-work contexts.

Designing High-Performing Teams

Clients rely on us to assess new hires, fine-tune existing teams, identify leadership styles, expedite new leader impact, and reduce talent loss.

Our services boost leadership efficacy, team performance, and alignment with a shared vision, using cultural practices and data-driven tactics to strengthen organizational excellence.

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A Balanced Approach

Harmonize

People are the lifeblood of any organization; and each individual brings talents, strengths, imperfections, and vulnerabilities. Organizations are also businesses that need to manage products, operations, and market shifts. We harmonize these two halves to maximize leadership potential while navigating business realities.

Accelerate Change

Transforming an organization demands insightful observation. Using this intel, we can help make a good organization great. We focus on building self-awareness, trust and the special ability to empower individuals for the good of the team.

Personalize

We use a pressure-tested blueprint with clients, because it works. But we tailor our approach to each company's identity and specific needs, ensuring we set up teams to collectively tackle challenges and achieve ambitous goals.

“This approach gave us clarity to support our leaders.”

“We really appreciated and enjoyed working with Ted and Noto Group to support our hiring & onboarding of our executive talent. Ted’s thorough but concise and topical approach enabled a strategic discussion towards the potential and areas to explore with each candidate. This approach gave us the clarity to understand how best to support our leaders during our onboarding.

Natalie Dupont

Director of Talent Acquisition

Lululemon

"Noto Group pushes me to think about what needs to happen next."

Ted’s experience is broad and deep, and I lean on him for advice and perspective. He’s honest with me about what he sees, and pushes me to think about what needs to happen next.”

Jonathan Cedar

Founder & CEO

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Case Studies

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Noto Group Helps Manduka Build a High-Performing Leadership Team to Fuel Strategic Growth

Manduka is a globally recognized leader in high-performance yoga mats, apparel, and accessories—rooted in quality craftsmanship and mindful innovation.

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Noto Group Helps Lotus Foods Fortify Its Financial & Sustainability Manager

Lotus Foods, a mission-driven B Corp, was at a critical juncture. As a small but rapidly growing rice products company in the Bay Area, the organization needed strategic hires to help it scale while staying true to its sustainability and business goals.

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Macs Adventure Embarks on a Journey to Expand Its U.S. Market with a New Marketing Leader

As Macs Adventure approached its 20th anniversary, the self-guided travel company aimed to accelerate growth in North America. In 2016, to build upon its strong presence in the U.K. and Europe, Macs Adventure opened a small commercial office in a hub of outdoor adventure, Denver, CO.

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New VP of Sales Prepares Bob’s Red Mill for Transformational growth

For its Vice President of Sales, Bob’s Red Mill wanted a disrupter who could push the boundaries of the business. The company was on a path toward ambitious growth and was looking for a leader who could successfully transform the sales team as it sought to double its consumer base by 2030.

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Bob’s Red Mill Feeds Its Growth with SVP of Marketing Hire

Bob’s Red Mill set out to hire a growth-oriented Senior Vice President of Marketing to help take the business to the next level after merging its marketing and sales operations into a single department.

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Bob’s Red Mill Hires CFO to Lay the Foundation for Ambitious Growth

As it prepared for ambitious growth, the company needed a new Chief Financial Officer to replace Trey Winthrop, who would take the helm as Chief Executive Officer after serving as the company’s CFO for more than six years.

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Global Nonprofit 1% for the Planet Finds a 100% Fit to Meet High-Impact, High-Growth Goals

1% for the Planet is a highly regarded global nonprofit, whose members pledge 1% of annual sales to preserve and restore our planet’s natural environments.

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The Synergy Company Secures CFO Who Values Purpose as Much as Profit

This certified B Corp company was founded in 1992 on the belief that whole foods and botanicals can powerfully supplement the healing force within us all. Ever since, The Synergy Company has innovated new ways to uplift and sustain the health of individuals and communities through natural and effective dietary supplements.

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PetWise Harnesses Noto Group’s Proven Process to Fill Key Leadership Role

PetWise employees start every day with one goal in mind: Create the world’s best products for pets and their people. With a large family of award-winning products, the company is committed to making the most innovative and affordable pet care solutions available around the world.

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VP E-Commerce Leads Outdoor Research’s Consumer-Focused Tech Transformation

Outdoor Research was born of the founder’s research-led approach to solving problems that humans face in unforgiving environments.

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Noto Group Helps DECKED Form a Leadership Team Geared Toward Expansion

Since its founding in 2014, DECKED has become a go-to brand for after-market, organization-promoting vehicle accessories, counted on by everyone from first responders and tradespeople to outdoor enthusiasts.

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Triple Eight Lands a Winning CEO to Speed Global Growth

With a rich heritage borne of the New York City skate scene of the 1990s, Triple Eight is a global leader in protective gear for action sports including skateboarding, biking, roller skating, and roller derby.

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How Arena Supercharged Its U.S. Market Through a GM Hire Recruited with Noto Group

In 2016, Noto Group was engaged by the board of competitive swimwear company arena to recruit a General Manager for its U.S. market. The brand was well established in Europe, where it is headquartered, but growth in the U.S. had been missing expectations.

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For Bob’s Red Mill, Noto Group Is an “Extension of Our Team”

Bob’s Red Mill’s relationship with Noto Group took root when a new CEO embarked on an ambitious growth agenda for the company.

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