BECO LICHTMAN
Consultant, Speaker and Facilitator
WHY DO GREAT TEAMS GET STUCK AND WHAT HELPS THEM MOVE FORWARD?
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. People leave meetings with different understandings of what was agreed. Everyone is working, but important work is not moving.
These patterns often develop for understandable reasons. But over time, they can make progress harder than it needs to be.
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.
Signature Talk
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.
Signature Workshop
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.
Strategic Facilitation
Getting to the Heart of the Issue
A tailored engagement for teams working through an important decision, recurring problem, competing priorities, or major transition. I design and facilitate the process needed to surface what is really happening and determine a practical way forward.
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 work.
My career has not followed one narrow path. That range has taught me how to enter unfamiliar situations, listen for what matters, recognize recurring patterns, and help people work through complexity without adding more of it.
I do not arrive promising a magic solution. My role is to help teams get closer to the heart of the issue, create the conditions for an honest and productive conversation, and turn that conversation into practical choices and next steps.
Based in Paris, I work 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.
