BECO LICHTMAN
Consultant, Speaker and Facilitator
HELPING GREAT TEAMS GET UNSTUCK
Even great teams can find themselves revisiting the same issues, struggling to make decisions, or working hard without making meaningful progress. I help teams understand the patterns getting in the way and find a practical way forward.
Organizations I've Worked With
WHAT’S REALLY GETTING IN THE WAY
What looks like a decision problem, a priority problem, or an alignment problem is often part of a recurring pattern. The same issue returns, conversations continue without producing a clear decision, new priorities are added without anything being removed, and people leave meetings with different understandings of what was agreed. Everyone is working, but important work is not moving. I help teams step back, see what may be difficult to recognize from inside the situation, and ask three straightforward questions: What pattern has taken hold? What is it producing? What might interrupt it?Once the pattern becomes visible, different choices become possible.
Ways to Work Together
Three ways to help teams recognize what is happening.
Speaking
Why Great Team Get Stuck
An engaging talk about the recurring patterns that cause capable, committed teams to lose momentum. Participants leave with a fresh way of understanding what may be happening in their own organizations and practical questions they can begin using immediately.
Facilitation
Recognizing and Interrupting the Patterns
A practical workshop in which participants apply the framework to their own work. Together, we identify the patterns affecting the team, examine what they are producing, and develop realistic ways to interrupt them.
Consulting
Getting to the Heart of the Issue
When an important issue keeps resurfacing, I help leaders and teams understand what is getting in the way, clarify the decisions or priorities that need attention, and find a practical way forward. The work may include interviews, analysis, facilitated conversations, and decision support.
What Clients Say
Clients bring me in to provide clarity, structure, and thoughtful facilitation when an important conversation or decision needs to move forward.
Florida International University
BECO IS ENGAGING AND KNOWLEDGEABLE – JUST WHAT YOU WANT IN A FACILITATOR.
BECO IS ONE OF THE MOST SKILLED FACILITATORS I’VE HAD THE PLEASURE OF WORKING WITH.
Senior VP, J.P. Morgan
BECO HELPED US CUT THROUGH THE NOISE AND KEPT IT EASY… A SESSION THAT FELT RELAXED, COLLABORATIVE, AND LEFT US WITH IDEAS WE COULD USE RIGHT AWAY.
~Vicente Ariztía
Partner at PICTON
About Beco
I’m a consultant, speaker, and facilitator with more than twenty years of experience across leadership, operations, learning, and organizational change.
That range has taught me how to enter complex situations, listen for what matters, recognize patterns that may be difficult to see from inside the organization, and help teams get to the heart of what is getting in the way.
My role is to bring an experienced outside perspective, ask the questions that need to be asked, and help teams turn difficult issues into clearer decisions, priorities, and next steps.
I’m an American with U.S. and French nationality, based in Paris and working with organizations across Europe and North America.
What Is Getting in the Way?
If your team keeps returning to the same issue, is struggling to make an important decision, or needs a clearer way through a complex challenge, let’s talk.
