About the firm
Senior strategists for leaders who refuse to wing it.
We are a deliberately small consultancy. The partners who scope your engagement are the ones who deliver it — from first diagnostic to the last handoff.
Our story
Built around the room where decisions actually get made.
20162116 INC was built on a simple frustration: too much strategy lives in binders that no one opens after the kickoff. We set out to build a firm that measures success by momentum, not deliverables.
We have guided more than 250 engagements across 40 industries — from family-owned manufacturers to venture-backed platforms navigating their first real inflection. Through every cycle, our model has not changed: senior people, deep diagnostics, and an obsession with execution.
What guides us
Principles we will not trade away.
Conviction over consensus
We form a point of view and defend it with evidence — even when it is inconvenient.
Evidence over instinct
Every recommendation is anchored to data we can show, recompute, and stand behind.
Outcomes over optics
We measure ourselves by the change that lands in your business, not the deck we leave behind.
Operating commitments
How we show up, every engagement.
Senior-only teams
Every engagement is led by a partner. No juniors learning on your dime, no handoffs to a bench you never met.
Diagnostic-first
We earn the right to recommend by understanding your business before we advise on it.
Embedded delivery
We sit with your team through execution — not just the kickoff — and course-correct in real time.
Compounding measurement
We build feedback loops so the gains land and keep compounding long after we step back.
Want to know if we are the right fit?
Tell us where you are stuck. We will tell you whether we can help — honestly, and quickly.
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