About Us
Who we are
Most executive teams operate with incomplete information, unexamined assumptions, and hidden biases that compromise even their best strategic thinking. More analysis doesn't fix this—the problem is in the decision process itself.
Breakout Growth Partners takes a different approach. We bring a structured Decision Quality method that improves how your team makes its most important choices: framing the real problem, generating genuine alternatives, weighing trade-offs honestly, reasoning soundly, and committing to action. We've built that method into DQ CoPilot, an AI-enabled decision tool that scaffolds a team's reasoning rather than replacing it.
Led by Dr. Kerr Manson—who combines doctoral research in AI and executive decision-making with 25+ years steering companies through critical inflection points—we give leadership teams the method, tools, and challenge they need to decide well, and the capability to keep deciding well after we're gone.
How we work - Core Principles
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Surface What's Hidden Every team has blind spots. We make bias visible, challenge sacred cows, and stress-test assumptions that others take as fact. The most dangerous risks are the ones you're not discussing.
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Frame the Real Choice Most strategic failures stem from solving the wrong problem brilliantly. We ensure you're addressing the actual decision—with clear options, explicit trade-offs, and quantified uncertainties—before committing resources.
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Build With, Not For Your experts know your business; we know decision science. Working alongside your team, we combine the two to find options neither would reach alone. The capability we build together stays with you.
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Truth Over Comfort We're hired to improve decisions, not validate predetermined outcomes. Expect respectful challenges to conventional thinking and uncomfortable questions that need asking.
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Commit to Action Strategy without execution is a hallucination. We don't just deliver recommendations—we facilitate genuine commitment, establish clear accountability, and ensure implementation momentum.