As his network of clients grew to include national and international organizations and corporations, the company was incorporated as Zemo Trevathan and Associates, Inc. Zemo still works with many of those same early clients, and still ends the day with gratefulness for having found such a joyful, challenging path of service.
Combining his incisive thinking and strategic skills with a lifelong motivation to foster compassion and connection, Zemo's personal mission is to help organizations, teams and individuals increase their effectiveness at accomplishing what matters to them - together. Every engagement is unique, and Zemo delights in the process of getting to know each client and their current reality to help map out the simplest process for getting to where they want to go. One key element of Zemo's approach is helping people see into and beyond their own blind spots: "Our most maddening challenges are often so difficult precisely because we are not seeing what the actual problem is - and it is often our own thinking and perceptions that masks it."
Highlights among Zemo's successful projects over the years include: leading a $1.1M culture change process for a TransAtlantic IT group that was centralizing and improving its architecture and services; facilitating the integration of formerly siloed and competing quality and manufacturing managers of a pharmaceutical plant into a unified team; helping leadership and scientists at sites in Western Europe, Midwestern US and Northeastern US overcome their differences and resistance to forming a single global R and D organization.
"I thrive on making the impossible happen," Zemo says. "Especially when someone's told me 'Oh, you'll never get them to work together' - seeing people actually talking through what seemed unspeakable or hopeless… That inspires me!"
Standing beside you, I took an oath to make your life simpler by complicating mine and what I always thought would happen did: I was lifted up in joy.
