We partner with executive leaders and their teams to drive growth when the stakes are high and new-level performance is imperative.

Develop Leadership: We help leaders learn how to lead from a place of understanding themselves and their calling in the role, so they can help their organization and team flourish.

Articulate Strategy: We excel at distilling complex decisions into an accessible path forward. This allows all levels of an organization to understand the strategy and use the resulting clarity to guide how they individually and collectively make decisions. A clear strategy lays the groundwork for a thriving culture.
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‍Cultivate Culture: We have qualitative and quantitative experience in culture transformation methodologies. This ensures that the culture productively lifts and supports the strategy, while paving the way for enterprise-wide growth.

Inspire Growth: Sustainable growth happens when leaders can set a clear strategy that is supported by a thriving culture. We help leaders carry out that complex and sometimes overwhelming charge.

Our Services

Courageous leadership begins with the self, and we can help you become the best leader for your team, organization, industry—and beyond.

Executive Experiences

We specialize in creating unforgettable experiences to strengthen connectivity, come to agreement, foster engagement, and drive accountability. It does not matter if it is a thorny issue to be resolved or deep contemplation is needed; our approach is data-driven, and we design meetings that expand dialogue in order to bring clarity and alignment towards meaningful action.

Our skilled facilitators use proven human-design methodologies that help leaders disrupt their normative thinking and solutioning to tap into their imaginations to harvest new ideas and pathways.

Executive Performance

We focus on personalized engagements to enhance leadership strengths while identifying saboteurs and addressing gaps that are a drag on progress and performance.

Our coaching and leadership development designs can scale from a traditional 1:1 coaching engagement, to team coaching, or to a growth-focused corporate program.

Our Why

We believe that good leadership comes from seeing the human potential in everyone—that each individual is made with intrinsic value and deserves dignity.

We are firmly rooted in the belief that sustainable growth is accomplished when leaders guide a compelling strategy and foster a culture that supports uplifting performance. Courageous leaders set the foundation for inspiring enterprise-wide growth.

Our journey has been guided by an unwavering passion for working with individuals and their teams as they move toward their true aspirations. We possess a natural intuition and a heartfelt desire to witness people and organizations flourish. Our work is centered around selfless service, aimed at upleveling the greater good and embracing the deeply human aspect of growth and fulfillment.

Our Guiding Values

Partnership

We believe in the power of our partnerships to bring out the best in our clients, colleagues, and communities.

‍Imagination

We believe in changing the questions to find the best answers.

‍Growth

We believe human flourishing comes from a growth mindset, inside and out.

‍Imperfection

We believe that embracing imperfection leads to freedom and creativity.

Joy

We bring the energy to spark joy in all we do.

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About Us

The October Group is a small consulting firm in Washington DC. We partner with C-suite executives and their teams to drive growth. Our clients embark on a transformational journey that not only enhances personal and professional growth but has a profound ripple effect within their organizations. We are always in awe and honored to be part of any growth journey, and we hope to partner with you to witness your remarkable results.

Dr. Philipia Hillman is the founder of The October Group and serves as the client lead on all projects, building the team as needed.

Throughout her career Philipia has supported leaders as they navigate the complexity of cultural transformation, strategy and leadership development. Philipia has more than 25 years of professional experience in government, academe and private consulting. This offers a wide lens to observe, analyze, and appreciate the interplay of professional and personal concerns with business performance and growth.

Philipia holds a BA in journalism from Howard University, and a PhD in sociology from American University. She served as an adjunct sociology professor at both alma maters. She has certifications in coaching from George Mason University, organizational development from Georgetown University, and is certified in Appreciative Inquiry, Emotional Intelligence and facilitation.

She is known for injecting fun, creativity, compassion and straight talk into her work. Philipia lives in DC with her family and uses her talents volunteering on boards. She enjoys amazing meals accompanied with thought provoking conversation and traveling with family and friends.

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Our Partners

We are an open network of experienced facilitators, coaches and consultants, spanning public, private and non-profit sectors.

Our Coaching Process

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Goal setting and planning

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Actionable strategies and tactics

Ongoing support and accountability

Results tracking and analysis

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