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We choose to work with people ready to build what hasn't been done before, who see that old playbooks won't solve new challenges. If you're excited about creating a real impact while staying sustainable, and you're tired of complexity being used as an excuse for inaction, let's talk.
Bjørn Nissen
Bjørn has spent more than 20 years leading organizations through the exact transitions that break most teams, building from scratch, restructuring under pressure, and navigating the cultural complexity that comes with rapid growth. He's led multicultural, distributed teams of up to 300 people across Asia, Africa and Europe, held direct budget responsibility of up to €4 million, and sat on the governance board of an organization with 40,000 employees.
His work has consistently been about the hard middle ground: the moment when an organization needs to redistribute decision-making, integrate different cultures, or rebuild how a team functions without losing momentum. He's initiated regional operating model redesigns, cross-border governance alignments, and built funding models for early-stage organizations with unclear value propositions.
He brings that same ground-level pragmatism to One Notch Up - pattern recognition earned across full cycles of organizational change, not borrowed from a textbook.
Davor Čengija
Davor started as an engineer and it shows, in the best possible way. He approaches organizational problems the way an engineer approaches a system: find where it's breaking, understand why, redesign it.
Over 20 years he has worked across sectors and functions that most organizational consultants never touch simultaneously: IT transformations, agile adoption in HR, marketing and finance, management board coaching after major investments and mergers, and leadership modernization for international sports federations. He supported a $60 million scale-up through the transition from a technology-selling company to a market-driven product organization. He has been inside a company as it grew from 30 to 300 people, building culture and process from the inside while doing the same for clients on the outside. Along the way he built and led a professional coaching team of 12 from scratch.
He holds an ICF PCC credential, ORSC and Co-Active coaching training, and Scrum Alliance certifications.
What he actually does, in his own words: "I optimize leaders' conversations, among themselves and with everybody else."
Stephane Baillie-Gee
The Adventurer. Globally-minded and creatively driven, with a talent for connecting diverse perspectives and challenging conventions. At ease in any culture, thrives on teamwork and approaches the unknown with a relaxed, purposeful style. Quick to learn, well-traveled, and always curious. Guided by trust and a strong sense of purpose, inspires others with a playful energy and grounded command—ready to take on the next adventure. Works in English and French.
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