Our Services
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.”
-Sun Tzu
Dragon Fruit Consulting helps organizations align your strategy, technology and people — and then execute. Whether you're navigating AI adoption, developing a long-term strategic plan or building relationships with government and stakeholders, we provide the expertise, tools and engagement to get essential things done.
AI Training & Adoption
Your team knows AI matters, but doesn't know where to start. We bridge that gap — from building foundational AI skills across your leadership team to helping you develop the strategy, policies and implementation plan to adopt AI responsibly.
Our flagship program, AI Essentials for Everyday Leaders, is a practical, hands-on training program that empowers leadership teams to confidently use AI tools, understand the benefits and risks, and promote responsible adoption — no technical background required.
Beyond training, we provide AI strategy development, responsible AI policy development support and ongoing implementation advice and counsel.
AI Essentials for Everyday Leaders
A practical, hands-on training program that empowers leadership teams to confidently use AI tools, understand the benefits and risks, and promote responsible AI adoption. No technical background required.
Program Format: 4 sessions - 60-90 minutes each - for a total of 5.5 hours over 2-3 weeks.
What Participants Walk Away With:
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Better understanding of the AI landscape, how AI works, and the importance of approaching adoption responsibly
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Hands-on AI skills for real work to use AI effectively
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Prioritized list of their top AI use cases, scored with estimated ROI
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Dragon FRUIT AI adoption framework to IMPLEMENT SMART with a high level plan for change management, infrastructure, and rollout
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Self-defined committed next steps for AI adoption
AI Strategy & Implementation Support
Once your team is equipped with the knowledge and skills to move forward, we offer follow-on engagements to support this ongoing journey:
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Facilitated AI Strategy Development — Assess your current state of AI maturity and build a roadmap aligned with your business strategy.
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Team, Executive and Board-Level AI Policy Development and Training — Build the policies, processes and procedures to protect your organization as you adopt AI tools.
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AI Implementation Advisory, Counsel and Ongoing Change Management Support — Project planning, team coordination, communication and change management to execute your AI adoption plan.
We’re here to provide you with the strategic counsel you need as the AI landscape evolves and your organization's needs grow.
Strategy & Planning
A great strategy makes it clear where to focus, how to mobilize your resources and what you can expect to achieve. But a strategy without a plan to execute is just a document on a shelf.
We work with boards and executive teams to develop long-term strategies through an independent discovery process — uncovering root causes, prioritizing opportunities and building alignment across stakeholders.
An effective strategy provides the critical roadmap you need to guide your organization from where it is today to where it needs to be to succeed. That roadmap needs to navigate your operating environment, integrate your resources and future opportunities, and balance those against your constraints.
When done right, it makes it clear where to focus, how to mobilize your resources and what you can expect to achieve. We work with you to identify what’s strategically important and how to make room for your priority initiatives. Achieving team alignment on an ambitious, but sound, strategy is what separates good from great.
The Dragon Fruit team has worked with public, private and non-profit organizations, large and small, to develop thoughtful strategies that are both ambitious and achievable. We lead boards and executive teams through discovery and planning processes to uncover root causes, prioritize opportunities and identify the right issues to focus on.
Government & Stakeholder Engagement
In the age of social media and heightened scrutiny, stakeholder trust is the currency required for success. For organizations navigating government or complex stakeholder environments, a proactive engagement strategy is crucial.
With decades working for and with governments, the Dragon Fruit team helps you build stakeholder and government engagement programs that protect your interests, secure policy outcomes and position your organization for long-term success.
Government relations initiatives often fail to advance because they are too one sided, don’t have clear value to the public, perceived as too complicated or amount to a laundry list of complaints with no obvious solutions. In short, it’s too hard for people to help you. While it may be tempting to take an adversarial approach to push for what you want, trust is easy to take for granted, and when it's gone, the wheels of progress can grind to a halt.
We help demystify the government and political landscape and break down how decisions get made. We work with you to create a multi-layered approach to your government engagement with a focus on the benefits to stakeholders and the public good. Successful government relations is about building good relationships with the right people. This isn’t about access, it’s about storytelling, promoting the value your organization offers, and building a coalition of “the willing” to advance your cause. For organizations navigating government environments, being proactive and intentional about your engagement strategy is critical to your success.
The Dragon Fruit team has spent decades working in complex stakeholder environments, often working for, or with, government agencies. We have built and executed stakeholder and government engagement programs to build long-term trust, secure policy changes and manage issues.
Whether it's to support your strategic plan, navigate the regulatory landscape, proactively strengthen relationships or manage issues in real time, Dragon Fruit has the insight and experience to guide the development and execution of a government engagement strategy to advance your interests and support your strategic priorities.
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