Red Leaf Consulting
Project Management, Process Improvement & AI Governance Consulting in Seattle.
From Complexity To Confident Execution.
Red Leaf Consulting is a Seattle-based management consultancy that’s been helping growing organizations run their most important work better since 2012. We provide fractional PMO leadership, Lean Six Sigma business process improvement, AI governance, Agile coaching, change management, team training, web design, and WordPress development.
What’s Challenging You?
As your organization grows, the way you manage work has to keep up.
Most organizations we work with aren’t short on effort… they’re short on clarity. Does any of this sound familiar?
- Leaders spend meetings piecing together project status, and everything is “priority one.”
- Work depends on spreadsheets, workarounds, duplicate data entry and long approval queues.
- Employees are using ChatGPT and Copilot, and there’s no AI policy.
- Teams adopted Agile ceremonies, but delivery isn’t any faster.
- Your website or WordPress site works, but it isn’t working for the business.
These are usually signs that the systems you use to manage work haven’t evolved as fast as the work itself. Red Leaf Consulting finds where execution breaks down and strengthens the capabilities that matter most to your business.
Consulting services for growing businesses
Start with the service that fits your challenge, or combine them. Every engagement follows the same objective: make important work easier to see, manage, improve and sustain.
Fractional PMO
Experienced Project Management Office (PMO) leadership, part-time. See your whole project portfolio, prioritize what matters and catch problems early, without hiring a full-time PMO. Includes PMO Health Checks, portfolio prioritization, executive dashboards, and troubled project recovery.
Lean Process Improvement
Remove the delays, rework, and wasted effort hiding in everyday processes… then measure the results and improve. Includes process assessments, Value Stream Mapping, SOPs, and growing continuous improvement from concepts to daily habits.
Agile Coaching & Transformation
Agile coaching for teams and leaders, in software and beyond. Scrum, Kanban or a hybrid: the method you choose should serve the work you're performing, not the other way around.
AI Governance & Enablement
AI governance and acceptable use policies, AI readiness assessments, risk review, and ISO/IEC 42001:2023 + NIST AI RMF readiness for small and mid-size organizations. Our goal is to teach your staff to use Artificial Intelligence safely, responsibly, and effectively.
Software & Web Development
Web design, mobile apps, WordPress development, web apps, and process automation from a Seattle team that starts with how your business works. Ongoing WordPress maintenance and site hosting through our SupportForWP service.
Why Red Leaf?
Disciplined methods. Practical execution.
Evidence before assumption
We start with what’s actually happening, not what’s supposed to be happening. Facts first, strategy second… Always.
Proportionate governance
We use only the structure that earns its place. We use agnostic frameworks and let the work — and your goals — guide us.
Practical implementation
We design systems and frameworks around real constraints, real goals, and the real people who rely on them.
Capability over dependency
We believe in the campground rule of “Leave It Better Than You Found It.” Our goal is to leave your organization stronger and better than when we started.
Experience You Can Trust
Red Leaf Consulting is led by Jon Delmendo, a Seattle-based PMP, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Prosci Certified Change Practitioner, and Professional Scrum Master II. For more than 20 years, as both a consultant and an in-house leader, Jon has helped dozens of organizations — from Puget Sound public agencies and utilities to banks, consumer brands, nonprofits, and software companies — turn complex initiatives into reliable results.
His work includes leading enterprise ERP migrations, setting up project management practices, growing AI Centers of Excellence, strengthening business process improvement, and building and optimizing eCommerce websites.
Clients
Companies we've worked with, past and present.
City of Seattle
DECKED
Modernist Cuisine
Lily Chemicals
Line-X
Torrent Corp
Liberty Bank NW
Real Property Associates
Martha & Mary