Our Services

ULTRAte provides high-trust advisory support to leaders navigating complexity, growth, and high-stakes decision environments. Our work is anchored in clarity, disciplined execution, and a commitment to being the partner leaders can rely on when it matters most. We offer two complementary advisory practices:

Leadership & Governance Advisory

  • vision

    We believe that there is real opportunity for broad value creation beyond your first layer of return on investment and help you identify and pursue it with focus, vigor and success. With a compelling and clear vision, you can earn greater support, gain energy and momentum on your venture or initiative where it didn’t exist before, and become a catalytic force in the world around your work. Seeing the big picture just as clearly as the details makes a huge difference.

  • strategy

    From the C-Suite to your front line, we support you in the development of smart strategies that advance your goals, with an eye on innovation. We provide a trusted and confidential forum for leaders to test new ideas, prepare for high stakes meetings and interactions, and evaluate key executive decisions.

  • Governance

    We provide the insights, analysis and training that help CEOs and board directors improve board effectiveness. From CEO and executive onboarding, succession planning, board leadership and agenda structure, leadership and board retreats, to CEO and board self evaluation, we help your board excel in all areas of governance.

  • leadership development

    We help prepare leaders and teams to guide their people through needed transformation journeys, designing and facilitating personal transformations, helping leaders manage through the fog, helping top teams to become more effective, and providing executive coaching.

Leadership & Governance Advisory

Led by Managing Principal Darryl Byrd

We work directly with CEOs, boards, founders, and executive teams who need a trusted advisor to help them focus, align, and lead with confidence.

How we help leaders

Executive & CEO Advising

A confidential, high-judgment partnership for leaders navigating strategic crossroads, organizational challenges, or rapid change. We help clarify priorities, pressure-test decisions, and support disciplined execution.

Strategy & Organizational Alignment

Guidance to help organizations define direction, align teams, and build the structures required for accountability and follow-through.

Board & Governance Support

Support for governance frameworks, decision-making processes, and strengthening the relationship between boards and executives.

Leadership Team Development & Alignment

Facilitated work to improve cohesion, communication, and leadership performance at the senior team level.

Who We Serve

Senior leaders who need a high-trust advisor to help them clarify direction, align their teams, and make disciplined decisions in complex environments.

Public–Private & Urban Development Advisory

Led by Principal Lori Houston

We advise clients operating at the intersection of public policy, community priorities, and private investment—where complexity is high and alignment is critical.

How we support large-scale projects

Public–Private Partnership (P3) Structuring

Strategic guidance on deal frameworks, negotiation strategy, and stakeholder alignment, ensuring public interests and private feasibility remain in balance.

Urban Real Estate & District Development Strategy

Advising on project positioning, feasibility, entitlement pathways, and the city coordination required to move major redevelopment efforts forward.

Affordable & Multifamily Housing Strategy

Support on financing tools, policy frameworks, partnerships, and structuring multifamily and affordable housing at scale.

Civic & Infrastructure Initiatives

Expertise in river, mobility, streetscape, and public-realm projects that require multi-agency coordination and durable partnership structures.

Project Recovery & Turnaround

Intervention when projects stall, lose alignment, or encounter political, financial, or operational barriers.

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Who We Serve

Cities, developers, institutions, investors, public agencies, and community-based organizations engaged in high-visibility, high-complexity urban initiatives.