Our Products & Services
Every TBG product is founded on research-based behavioral science — four decades of leadership research, packaged so your district can put it to work in-house. We’re the only firm that bases talent and operational decisions on how people actually think and behave.
Every product comes two ways. Do It Yourself gives you the complete process: step-by-step guidance, proprietary tools you won’t find anywhere else, templates, and instructional videos. Done With You adds scheduled consulting calls, review of your work, and customization to your setting — the same materials, with us alongside you the first time through.
At the heart of most of our products is the Guided Storytelling Interview, our signature method for revealing the roles, competencies, and motivations that actually predict performance. And if you’re looking for a firm to run a process end to end, that’s not what we do anymore — but we’re glad to refer you to someone we trust.
Hiring for Performance and Retention
A great interview tells you who interviews well. It doesn't tell you who will do the job. This package puts the Guided Storytelling Interview in your team's hands, along with the competency models, screening rubrics, and interviewer calibration exercises that go with it. Your committees stop comparing impressions and start comparing evidence — and they keep the capability for every hire after this one.
Leader Pipeline
Most districts don't have a leadership shortage. They have a leadership identification problem. The people who will run your schools in five years are already on your payroll — but the ones who look like leaders in a meeting are often your strongest managers, and those are different mindsets with different ceilings. This package gives you the assessments, the 360° process, and the cohort structure to find your real bench and develop it on purpose. Typically eligible for Title II-A funds.
Program & Initiative Mapping
Every district runs more initiatives than it can resource. Very few can say, with evidence, which ones are moving student outcomes. This process maps what you're actually running, what it costs in dollars and staff energy, and what it's returning — so budget decisions get made on evidence instead of politics and seniority. Districts use it to decide what to protect, what to consolidate, and what to let go.
Self-Directed Superintendent Search
Finding a great leader is a must-succeed situation, and most districts only get one shot at it every several years. Run a rigorous, competency-based search in-house, with the protocols, candidate evaluation tools, and committee guidance we've used for superintendent searches across the country. Your committee learns a method it keeps using long after this hire — for principals, for teachers, for everyone.
Superintendent Evaluation
Your board has to evaluate the superintendent every year. This is how you make it worth the time. A structured, behavioral-science-based process that satisfies your state's annual evaluation requirement and actually drives performance — by anchoring the conversation in goals and evidence rather than impressions. Includes guidance for quarterly check-ins between the board and the superintendent, not just the annual review.
Strategic Planning
A plan people follow through on, rather than a document that gets referenced once a year. Our process gathers community and organization input and applies design thinking and behavioral science to identify the goals and next steps that will actually create value for your district — with genuine buy-in from the people who have to carry them out.