Our clients continuously inspire us to improve our services and capabilities as a firm. Our organizational design work and succession planning in particular have led to Arthur Comb’s article on Power Sharing (here). We see this as a way of short circuiting many of the challenges that arise with...

Over the past months, we at Schaffer&Combs have been experiencing and managing through the effects of the virulent global pandemic, the rolling economic crisis, and the intensification of violence against black and brown people.   During this time, our clients have been a regular source of inspiration and insight....

Last week, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, ZDHC Foundation, Textile Exchange, and Apparel Impact Institute announced new partnerships to accelerate impact, drive alignment, and increase efficiency in the apparel sustainability movement. Schaffer&Combs is honored to support these organizations in the design of their alliance, which holds the potential to transform...

By Arthur Combs THESIS We have observed that defining power, methods of sharing power, and reinforcing these practices through meaningful performance management, can be a starting point for greater productivity, talent retention, and workplace wellbeing.    CONTEXT Consensus over command-and-control. It’s become axiomatic that many Global 500 companies are...

This May, Schaffer&Combs successfully closed two searches for Higg Co and we would like to extend our congratulations to Del Hudson and Jose Guzzardi, Higg Co’s incoming Vice President, Marketing & Communications and Senior Manager Sales, respectively.  Higg Co is a technology company that delivers, implements, and supports the...

We continue our Meaning and Work series with Stephanie Cohn Rupp. “Find your conviction and determine ways to pursue that. Keep an open mind about what that looks like.”   What she does: Provides strategic, operational, and systems-level leadership within the impact investing sector, in order to deliver social...

In 2018, the Northern California Community Loan Fund (NCCLF) Board of Directors approved an ambitious, paradigm-shifting Strategic Plan, with economic and racial equity at the center.  The Loan Fund has been in business since 1987, as a pillar of the San Francisco community development ecosystem. Upon approval of the...

Schaffer&Combs is proud to announce a new partnership with Braven. Braven empowers promising, underrepresented young people—first-generation college students, students from low-income backgrounds, and students of color—with the skills, confidence, experiences and networks necessary to transition from college to strong first jobs through their fellowship program. S&C continues our journey...

Just two years after Greenpeace challenged the apparel industry for unchecked toxic waste, the Rana Plaza collapse in 2013 was a tragic wake-up call for the industry’s treatment of workers. Since then, Schaffer&Combs has supported the sector’s efforts to dramatically change practices, and generate credible environmental and social improvements....

Co-Authored by Monica Walls and Arthur Combs On May 29, S&C hosted ~100 participants to learn from three accomplished leaders: Valerie Red-Horse Mohl, Dmitri Belser, and Cynthia Nimmo. We want to thank our panelists for facilitating an excellent discussion.    We’ve summarized 6 highlights of what we learned below.  ...