Strive Solutions
A strategic advisory firm focused on organizational performance and leadership alignment.
Sustainable performance requires more than strategy.
Strive Solutions was founded on the belief that most organizational performance problems are alignment problems. Leaders are capable. Teams are willing. Resources are available. And yet results remain inconsistent.
The gap is rarely in the plan. It is in the coherence between leadership behavior, organizational systems, and how work actually happens. When those are aligned, strategy executes. When they are not, no amount of effort closes the gap.
Our work is informed by experience in complex, large-scale environments where execution, speed, and alignment are critical—and where the cost of misalignment is measured in performance.
Built from deep practitioner experience inside complex organizations.
Organization Development
Deep grounding in how organizations function, change, and sustain performance through people, structure, and culture.
Execution & Change Management
Applied expertise in translating strategy into sustained organizational action—managing the complexity of change at scale.
Leadership & Systems
Understanding of how leadership behavior shapes organizational dynamics—and how to intervene at the level of the system, not just the individual.
Our principles.
Business drives human progress
High-performing organizations are among the most effective vehicles for human-centered progress. That belief shapes every engagement—creating meaningful work, generating sustained prosperity, and producing the conditions for people and communities to thrive.
Diagnosis before design
Every engagement begins with rigorous analysis. We do not bring pre-built solutions. We map the actual constraints and design responses specific to your system.
Root cause over temporary improvement
We are not interested in interventions that produce temporary improvement. Our work addresses the structural and behavioral conditions that determine sustained performance.
Integration over isolation
Leadership, systems, and execution are not separate domains. We address them as an integrated system because misalignment at any level constrains performance at every level.
Outcomes over outputs
Our measure of success is not deliverables produced—it is measurable change in organizational performance, alignment, and execution capability.
The team behind the work.
Strive Solutions brings together experienced practitioners in organization development, strategy execution, and leadership advisory.
Samantha Baltadonis
Founder & CEO
Executive Advisor & Transformation Coach
Samantha spent 11 years in progressive leadership roles at Amazon, most recently as Senior Manager of Transformation for WW Community Excellence, and Chief of Staff to a 6,000-person global technology organization, leading initiatives that contributed $50MM+ in annualized savings. She holds an MA in Organizational Leadership and Change Leadership from Gonzaga University, a BA in Business, Management and Operations from Eastern Washington University. She is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, holds a Leadership & Performance Coaching certification from Brown University, and a certificate in Agentic AI for Organizational Transformation from MIT. She is the creator of Quantum Strategy™ and author of The Quantum Blueprint, an Amazon best seller in Leadership and Motivation in 2026.
Marissa Mosunich
Founding Practitioner
Consultant and Coach at Operate Well, LLC
Marissa is an Operations and Organizational Development professional with experience spanning manufacturing, consulting, and the nonprofit sector. She brings a unique blend of systems thinking and human-centered design, backed by a master's degree in Organizational Development and Leadership from Fielding Graduate University and a master's in Industrial Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Marissa consults and coaches at the intersection of neuroinclusion and organizational effectiveness, helping people design and implement systems that promote cohesion, collaboration, and growth.
Jason Hoskins
Founding Practitioner
Ethical AI / Organizational Governance Consultant
Jason is an Organization Development professional passionate about helping organizations and their people thrive. With 20+ years implementing Human Capital Management solutions, Jason has taken a keen interest in the emerging and evolving AI landscape as clients are beginning to ask about implementing AI solutions. Jason also studies the Ethics of AI to help form his perspective. "As OD practitioners, we specialize in creating collaborative environments where values-driven change can take root." Jason believes it is up to OD practitioners to uphold their values as we help clients navigate this new frontier.
Thomas Schmitz
Founding Practitioner
OD Consultant & Leadership Coach
Thomas is a dynamic Organization Development professional with 20 years of experience in OD consulting, leadership development, coaching, and change management. He spent much of his career as an internal organization development consultant for a large hydropower marketing agency in the Pacific Northwest, where his work spanned leadership development program management, employee engagement, and team development. He holds a master of science in Organization Development. His top skills include coaching, consulting, group facilitation, problem solving, and systems thinking — with exceptional team collaboration and client service skills.
Sara Shawcroft
Founding Practitioner
Program Manager, Amazon
Sara brings more than a decade of enterprise Learning and Organizational Development experience. She currently leads a leadership development program at Amazon serving over 1,100 people managers across four global organizations. She coaches leaders at every level and trains managers to coach their own teams. Her coaching practice is grounded in the RESPECT Styles™, where she is a Certified Trainer through an ICF-Recognized program. Whatever the starting point, her approach is the same: meet people where they are, and help them see what they're capable of.
Ready to work together?
Start with a conversation about your organization's constraints.