Company culture redefined.

10/6 Professional Services

Motive Power has excelled in the world of project management, providing both execution and consulting—two services that work harmoniously with each other. The drawback of housing these two styles of work under one single organization is the ability to articulate our services and value proposition to new and existing stakeholders. Some stakeholders have viewed Motive Power as a company that provides best in class project management resources while others have viewed Motive Power as a company that provides process improvement and change consulting.

As a result we created 10/6 Professional Services, Motive Power’s new sister company. The driving purpose behind 10/6 is to continue to provide our clients with project management experts to fill Project Manager, Project Controls Analyst, and Project Scheduler roles. Meanwhile, Motive Power focuses on project and organizational consulting. This distinction resolves the lack of clarity around the specific services Motive Power provides. 10/6 operates under the Motive Power umbrella and shares the same company values—integrity, fearlessness, and fun. 10/6 employees continue to operate with our client’s best interest as a guiding force. The big question is— what changes with the creation of 10/6? The only change our clients will see, aside from a different logo and color scheme, is the increased ability to answer staffing needs and requests from clients.

10/6 has grown into a high-performance professional services firm and Woman-Owned Small Business (certification pending) that provides project management resources, as a perfect compliment to Motive Power’s core consulting capabilities. 10/6 manages and executes all types of projects, specializing in the delivery of large capital infrastructure projects. 10/6’s approach to project management perfectly marries deep technical and methodological understanding with people skills, empathy, and expert intuition.

National Public Utilities Council

Founded by Motive Power CEO Angel Lance, the NPUC formed in mid to late 2020 from a series of conversations where public utilities were looking to speak with their industry brethren to:

1. Benchmark decarbonization practices
2. Share lessons learned across different geographic and socio-economic environments
3. Come to a place where a compendium of knowledge is stored on the subject

Due to the likelihood there would not be a utility with the capacity to organize this type of forum, Motive Power took on the initiative and the NPUC was born… and has taken it one step further by:

1. Hosting Bi-Monthly Roundtable Discussions to facilitate conversation and collaborative discussion of decarbonization efforts and lessons learned
2. Managing a website that houses a repository of resources on technology, strategy, news, reports, legislation, and more
3. Surveying utilities across the nation and publishing regular research reports on decarbonization
4. Working alongside their media partner, Visual Capitalist, to create graphics full of rich content encapsulating what utilities are looking for in taking their next steps to net zero.

As this organization has come to fruition, it has already made a remarkable impact. The representation and commitment from those who not only brought NPUC to life, but the utilities that participate brings a promise to a better future. NPUC is allowing for utilities to tackle the road to decarbonization together.

“This forum is fantastic and thank you so much for putting it together. So much to learn from and I look forward to participating” -Utility Director

The Gulch Environmental Foundation

The Gulch Environmental Foundation started with the vision of helping the environment’s long-time facing issues that need to be handled now for a habitable earth for our future generations. How? Through carbon sequestration.

Rainmaker Farm

At present, the Gulch’s highlighted project is Rainmaker Farm—a 160-acre parcel that is a working landscape located in Noble County, just under 1 hour north of Stillwater, Oklahoma. This property is currently being transformed into a perennial regenerative farm with diverse crops, pollinator garden, and natural areas. At this phase Gulch is designing planting plans and establishing baseline conditions for a variety of soil health and biodiversity metrics to establish what is on the property currently, what differences exist between habitats, and to document trends over time and with changes to land management.

Donating Done Differently

After donating to charitable causes, there is often a sense of frustration of not knowing where your money went and what good it actually did. Motive Power CEO Angel Lance decided to do things a little differently; the Gulch Environmental Foundation communicates openly how money is distributed as well as its impact thought project reporting available to the general public and specific reporting available to its donners.

Oh wait, there’s more!

The Gulch Environmental Foundation continuously encourages employees to volunteer to learn about green options for everyday living and discusses various green options in practice, products, trends, investments, etc.—all things related sustainable living and business development. Additionally, the Foundation dedicates effort toward modern and innovative scientific theories to develop, validate, and employ solutions for scalable sustainability.

BuildOUT California

BuildOUT California is the world’s first LGBTQ Industry Association dedicated to the sustainable growth of LGBTQ owned & certified businesses, and their allies, in the fields of Architecture, Engineering, Construction Services, Real Estate Development, and Related Industries. Motive Power supports their efforts as we believe their goals align with our corporate values regarding diversity and inclusion.

Motive Power Founder and CEO, Angel, also acts as an influential founding member of BuildOUT California. She is passionate about ensuring BuildOUT is established for sustainable, scalable growth as they work towards their goals to identify, engage, and empower LGBTQ/Allied businesses. As a BuildOUT Keystone Corporate Sponsor, we have committed services and financing in excess of $500,000 for providing program management, strategy consulting, organizational development, and technical assistance with the goal of growing the organization and further enabling LGBTQ equality.

We have been honored to help drive BuildOUT California’s development, standing up the organization for expansion within and beyond California (HELLO BuildOUT USA coming June 2022!).