Transformation that takes hold.

Chrysalis Labs helps enterprise leaders modernize how decisions get made, how work flows, and how technology is adopted, so change lands with people, not on them.

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$2B+

in M&A activity supported through advisory work

$240M+

in partner revenue unlocked for clients

14+

years leading enterprise and technology change

HBR

Advisory Council on the Future of Work

The approach

See how work actually happens. Then change it.

Step 1
Discover
See how work and decisions actually happen, not how the org chart says they do. Interviews, workshops, sitting in on the real forums.
What you keep: Process and decision inventories; a clear view of where effort, rework and workarounds pile up.
Step 2
Design
Shape the operating model around what the organization stands for: decision frameworks, forums, handoffs and priorities.
What you keep: A prioritized roadmap and decision framework the leadership team agrees to.
Step 3
Enable
Put the right systems, data and change support behind it, sized to the organization rather than imported from a bigger one.
What you keep: Technology direction, change and communication plans, adoption support.
Step 4
Sustain
Build the cadences and habits that keep it working after the engagement ends.
What you keep: Operating rhythms, scorecards, and owners who run them independently.

The practice

Modernize what works. Don't start over.

Most organizations don't need reinvention. They need the structures they already have to work at the scale they've grown into.

Operating model and decision frameworks

Who shapes, decides and approves; which forums own what; how decisions stop getting re-made.

Process and systems modernization

Process inventories, workaround discovery, ERP and platform transitions.

Technology strategy and enablement

Technology direction where IT has been a service function, including interim or fractional leadership.

Change management and adoption

Change that lands with people, not on them; communication for salaried and hourly teams alike.

Integration

Post-merger and post-acquisition operating-model integration.

Also: growth advisory for growth-stage companies — product strategy, partnerships, investment readiness.

Fatima Alam, Founder

“Technology only matters when it becomes something people use, buy, and grow with.”

Fatima Alam has spent 14+ years inside the kind of change she now helps others lead: running the operating cadence for a 1,400-person engineering organization through a merger led by Hellman & Friedman, JMI and Blackstone, rationalizing a sprawling enterprise product portfolio, and taking a global point-of-sale transformation across the finish line.

When a flagship digital program stalled, she fixed the people dynamics — not the process. That turnaround went on to unlock $240M+ in partner sales with Google and Microsoft. She moves easily between engineers, executives and the teams doing the work, and she leaves behind frameworks people still use long after the engagement ends.

She serves on the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council on the Future of Work.

Fatima on LinkedIn

Selected clients