Engagement
Justin Clapp MBA, PCC
Every transformation has a story. This is Justin’s.
It emerged through lived experience, moments of clarity and confusion, and through achievements and deep questioning.
A Journey of Integration
After studying business in college, I earned my MBA from Clark University at 24, then studied graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design.
There, I learned to see challenges and solve problems in an entirely new way.
From Success to Searching
Over the next 15 years, I built what looked like incredible success from the outside—working with prestigious clients worldwide, enjoying the lifestyle, recognition, and financial rewards.
Yet deep within, I felt a growing disconnect. A quiet voice kept asking: Is this all there is? I knew I was meant to be doing something of greater meaning and more holistic impact.
Awakening the Power of Purpose
Yet, the coaching world, while transformative for individuals, felt disconnected from high-level business strategy. I recognized that creating truly transformative impact required connecting personal growth to business evolution in a holistic integrated way.
A Moment of Clarity
I saw strategy consultants design brilliant plans with no attention to leadership evolution. Executive coaches created breakthroughs that never translated to organizational transformation. Design thinkers envisioned possibilities with no pathway to execution.
When integrated, these disciplines evolved into our methodology of strategy design, leadership development, and energy management—creating something far more powerful than each operating alone.
Founding Clapp & Co.
I created Clapp & Co. to be the partnership I wish existed during my own entrepreneurial path. Rather than a solo practice, I assembled a collaborative team of strategists, executive coaches, and creative thinkers—each bringing specialized expertise while sharing our core belief that extraordinary emerges where strategy, leadership, and energy align.
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Business Foundation: My MBA background gave me the language and frameworks to understand business dynamics, while 15 years of building and leading my own firm taught me the lived reality of entrepreneurial leadership.
Strategy Innovation: As a certified Blue Ocean Strategy practitioner, I help organizations transcend competitive boundaries to create uncontested market spaces where the greatest opportunities lie beyond conventional industry constraints.
Design Thinking: My studies at RISD developed my capacity to approach challenges as creative opportunities, seeing patterns and possibilities where others only see constraints.
Transformative Coaching: As a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation, I’ve developed the art of catalyzing powerful personal and leadership breakthroughs.
Brand Expansion: Developing brand strategies taught me how to align internal purpose with external expression, creating authentic resonance that naturally attracts opportunity.
Energy & Performance Dynamics: As a certified Wealth Dynamics and Talent Dynamics consultant, I help leaders and teams identify their natural flow states—creating alignment where energy multiplies rather than depletes.
Guiding Philosophy
The most powerful transformation flows from the inside-out—a leader’s evolution catalyzes organizational breakthrough when internal clarity aligns with strategy.
At pivotal inflection points, success itself creates limitations that can only be transcended through fundamental shifts in how we see, think, feel, and lead.
Extraordinary emerges at the intersection of strategy, leadership, and energy—where each dimension amplifies the others to create impact far greater than the sum of their parts.
Beyond the Professional
Partnering Together
Focused Engagements
I’ve always been drawn to two worlds—the creative and analytical.
After studying business in college, I wanted to understand it on a much deeper level, which led me to earn my MBA from Clark University at the age of 24.
I was ambitious, determined, and believed in the power of business to create meaningful change in the world, and as a way to create the life you dream of living.
Yet, something was still missing.
I felt called to further explore my creative side, which led me to study graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design.
It proved to not only be about creative expression and aesthetics—I was learning to see challenges and solve problems in an entirely new way.
Co-Creation Experiences
Collaborations to unlock breakthrough thinking and create immediate momentum.
The Vision Within
Transform complex challenges into clear strategic direction through innovative design sprints that uncover hidden opportunities and bold paths forward.
The Brand Within
Develop brand strategy that authentically captures your organization’s essence, creating positioning and identity that resonates with your ideal audiences.
The Culture Within
Design the cultural operating system that will empower your next phase of growth, transforming values and vision from words into lived experience.
The Leader Within
Evolve leadership from operational direction to embodied vision, developing authentic presence that transforms inspiration into aligned action.
The Energy Within
Optimize your organization’s vital systems, transforming friction into flow where individual genius flourishes and innovation accelerates.
The Legacy Within
Design succession pathways and exit strategies that preserve and amplify your vision’s lasting impact while maximizing long-term value.
Advisory Capital
For select organizations, we offer the opportunity to enhance our partnership through equity participation.
This model creates true alignment between our capabilities and your growth, enabling a deeply committed partnership focused on long-term value creation.