Pooling Excellence


“The future looks different for pools that have evolved to really and truly operate as risk management pools… These pools hold continuing promise, especially those that represent the smaller end of the public entity scale.” – Dr. Peter C. Young


Professional Services in All Four Operational Domains

Purpose Driven Concentrations

We offer support and content within each of the 12 areas shown below. We describe benefits and key specifications of assistance available to pool stakeholders. Arrows open summary and images have links.

Built to Last: High Fidelity Performance

Blueprint, roadmap and assessment instrument support to achieve mission, vision, and value. Practical knowledge and solutions across all pool operations.

Preserve and perpetuate institutional knowledge.  Understand and communicate your DNA and unique formula of excellence.
Pool Chemistry: History and Logic

Creative services to convey, the public benefit position. Pool history as a leadership tool. Stakeholder engagement services.

Organizational Capacity: People and Workplace

Talent planning and development support to achieve total team well-being and effectiveness.

Renewal & Growth: Launch Platforms

Systems design, build, and testing services to keep members and “grow at quality.” Integrate new programs with confidence.

Association Sponsors: Owner Architecture

Guidance and integration support to align interests and fulfill mutual aims for members. Independent review of association fees.

Service Quality: Ecstatic Members

Advancement of UX and CX augmented with AI to raise good stewardship metrics. Insights from frontier experience.

Communication Board: Media Works

Total positioning and voice support to reach top-of-mind and “stickiness” goals. Guidance across the spectrum of media.

Program Exceptionalism: Distinctive Deliverables

Reporting examples of pools producing outstanding results. Documenting what works well and can be scaled or adapted.

NeWT’s Cradle: Innovation Workshop

Administration for projects and experiments to make operating progress possible.

Medicine Lodge: Study Circles

Facilitation and content for close knit groups seeking elegant solutions for discrete challenges.

Immersion Lab: Ecosystem Research

Collaboration for long-term initiatives to uncover opportunities of strategic level impact.

Lifeguard Roost: Mentoring Friends

Structure and framework support for mentoring conversations to accelerate learning.

Thought Leaders Group Work

Independent research and facilitation for ad-hoc situations and sustained connections.

Subject Matter Forums

Fusion Groups

Boundary Spanning Initiatives

Our work can be found in a variety of successful public entity pools.

Local Government Mid-AtlanticSchool District North EastSchool Districts SoutheastLocal Government Mid-WestSchool District Pacific Coast
School District Pool Central USMulti-Pool CaptiveMulti-Pool Captive FeasibilityMulti-Pool Work Alike GroupMulti-Pool Umbrella Group

Every engagement is an opportunity to create cooperative advantage and build practical risk ownership that sustains readiness, reliability and resilience.