Why START?
Mission
Our mission is to create more effective business leaders, teams, and entire organizations and to help them achieve more and get better results.
We practice and promote continuous improvement, learning from others, and fundamental integrity. The world can be a better place when we don’t all have to learn the most important lessons the hard way – through trial and error or major failure. And we’re here to make the world a better place.
We adhere to these values and principles and help our clients do the same:
Share Vision
Know your “Why” and share it with others.
Communicate goals so you and your collaborators can stay focused on what’s important.
Change strategies, processes, tactics, structures, and responsibilities as necessary to better pursue immediate goals and the larger vision.
Build Trust
Create credibility through personal integrity, open and honest communication, and meaningful relationships inside and outside the organization.
Prove competence by setting reasonable expectations, achieving goals, and learning from both experience and outside experts.
Promote Agility
Transparency – be open and honest about your priorities, work, and results.
Inspection – frequently review and reflect on results, comparing work products and metrics against desired outcomes.
- Adaptation – change group behavior to improve alignment with your immediate goals and the larger vision.
History
START Group LLC was founded in 2016 as an Agile Transformation and Training consultancy. Over time, Agile Transformation dealt more with executive leadership needs, organizational cultural transformation, and the clear communication of vision and priorities.
Today, The START Group has distilled and developed many essential recipes for success from working through challenges with executives, leaders, teams, and entire organizations to help them be more effective in many ways. Our pinnacle offerings are Executive Coaching, Private Executive Peer Groups, and Organizational Transformation Consulting.
Todd Girvin
Founder of The START Group
Todd Girvin is an experienced executive coach and mentor with a long history in technology, training, consulting, and executive leadership. He brings a natural curiosity about people and the challenges they face to every relationship. He partners with Vistage Worldwide to chair Executive Peer Advisory Boards and provides executive coaching across a variety of industries.
Before founding The START Group, Todd was co-founder of Improving, a software development services firm delivering consulting, project services, and training to IT professionals and executives in a wide variety of industries around the world. At Improving, Todd was a corporate board member, SVP of the Microsoft Practice and Partnership, and President of the Improving Houston branch. He was a co-author and instructor of Improving’s training curricula and creator of the AgileDotNet conference.
Todd started his career as a software development consultant and cut his teeth in leadership at a young age, tending towards employment with smaller businesses but serving clients of all sizes, working with startups to Fortune 100 companies and even the Federal Reserve. He’s a life-long learner who reads voraciously and loves to discuss everything from technology to philosophy, SCUBA to growing businesses. His passion is Intentional Leadership.