You’re seeking your true north—and we’re here to guide you

Find your path forward

Ever feel like you’re standing on the shore, and you don’t know which wave to catch or how best to navigate the unpredictable waters to get to your north star? It’s no surprise, 70% of transformation efforts fail. We’re here to supercharge your transformation.

We work with leaders who can’t wait to change.

You’re an executive frustrated with the status quo, and you’re looking for ways to make a positive and lasting impact on your organisational agility or product innovation practices.

Or you’re a design or product leader who’s looking to make a change on an individual level—a new job, new career path, building a new team, or even launching a new business.

Or you’re looking to discover your authentic leadership.

If you find yourself on a journey of transformation, Northshore is here to help.

Every organisation is different, so we don’t believe in providing a one-size-fits-all solution.

Instead of simply copying what has worked for others, we’ll start with a brief deep dive on your current operating model. Based on what we learn, we’ll craft a customised plan based on lean, agile, and user-centred principles that aligns with your priorities and goals. Crucially, as experienced digital innovation leaders, we help you implement changes and develop new capabilities across executive, leadership and teams.

Expect to roll your sleeves up. We collaborate from day one, and your active participation drives your success.

While our offering is always tailored to your specific needs, themes often include delivering impactful outcomes more quickly, unifying the customer experience, fostering a learning and improvement culture, and creating collaborative, outcome-oriented environments that empower individuals to do their best work and attract top talent.

Similarly, if you’re seeking a coach, we’ll bring our core philosophy and expertise, but work closely with you to design a curriculum that’s aligned with your personal priorities.

What to expect from working together

Get to know Northshore

Martina Hodges-Schell is a transformation coach and consultant and the founder of Northshore.

She works with visionary leaders from pre-seed to trillion-dollar enterprises to develop and mature their product operating model.

After building and leading design and innovation practices from within world-class consultancies, startups, and Silicon Valley leaders for 25 years, she now loves providing a fresh, outside perspective to help her clients reach their goals.

Martina has worked with countless high-profile brands to launch new products and services and is an early pioneer in bringing together UX, lean, agile and data practices to help organisations adopt a Silicon Valley approach to innovation.

She’s the co-author of Communicating the UX Vision: 13 Anti-patterns That Block Good Design to help cross-functional teams communicate and collaborate better.

To supercharge your leadership development, Martina is a certified Equus Coach® with the industry-leading Center for Equus Coaching founded by Koelle Simpson.