We’ve redesigned our suite of workshops to help your organization gain clarity on its finances, help leaders gain control of their calendar, help teams develop measurable KPIs, and hone your organization’s Vision, Mission, and Values. — As an organization of any size scales to the next level, the biggest challenges they face boil down to clarity and capacity. Clarity around finances, strategic direction, and measurable goals; capacity for every team member, but especially for founders, executives, team leaders and managers.

An Executive Project is vague, strategic, and unique, and always led by an executive at an organization. We help teams of all sizes get them done faster. — Talk to any executive leader at an organization that’s growing fast — from founder or CEO to Chief Operating or Chief Financial Officer — and they’ll tell you there’s never enough time in the day. …

Over the course of 18 months, Blue Sky Partners coordinated with coalitions and local Texas leaders to help put bipartisan pressure on Texas congressional officials. After a sustained campaign of weekly outreach, in December of 2020, Congress passed legislation addressing surprise medical bills as part of their yearly budget appropriations process. — The Challenge According to a 2018 Kaiser Family Foundation study, 2 in 5 insured, non-elderly adults received an unexpected, unplanned medical bill. Among that group, 31% owed $500 or more.

Blue Sky Partners kicks off 2021 with two new team members and a brand refresh — Blue Sky Partners got off the ground in late 2017. Since then we’ve helped more than 40 executives, companies, and teams launch more than 80 departments, initiatives, projects and products. We’ve been privileged to do work in the education, healthcare, professional services, software and technology, energy and infrastructure, nonprofit and…

2020 was a year like no other. Being a presidential election year, we expected it to be stressful, confusing, and full of noise that might make it hard to focus on growing a business. But we didn’t expect it to be heartbreaking and mind-numbing in the ways it ended up being. We learned a lot through the process, though, and even saw a little bit of growth. — In Q3 2019, we started “recession planning” — which really just means we started saving to build our cashflow runway more intentionally. We thought there was a chance that the bull run the market had been on for almost a decade might lose steam, and we wanted to be ready…

How we built the extremely simple, deceptively thorough Financial Clarity dashboard we always wanted to clarify our finances, manage cash flow, and reduce anxiety in the process — In 2017, when Blue Sky Partners was getting off the ground, our three founding partners would get together for breakfast on Wednesdays and walk through our metrics. …

Thoughts on giving back during the COVID-19 pandemic by BSP’s managing director, Matt Glazer — Being part of a community is vital to many peoples’ identities — and if you’re in Austin, you know it’s just part of our DNA to want to give the gift of time, talent, and treasure. …

Thoughts on managing mental health as we transition to a new normal, by BSP COO, Timothy Seaton — For a large majority of the working class the recent COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a sudden and seismic shift in the way they work, as well as the way they are ultimately living their day-to-day lives. …

Blue Sky Partners’ co-founders share their individual learnings about what it takes to build a sustainable company and sustainable partnerships in what was a whirlwind of a year. — In 2019, Blue Sky Partners worked with 24 clients and almost doubled our revenue. We signed our first out of state clients in New York and Maryland, had the opportunity to work with some of Austin’s best and brightest subject matter experts to help facilitate and consult on projects, and…