ALCEMIS is a strategic transformation, culture, and leadership consultancy built on the belief that the future of business is relational and interconnected, not transactional.

We work with leaders and teams who are ready to move beyond the outdated domination-based models of success – and into a more collectively-intelligent, curiosity-fueled, human-first approach to sustainable growth and purposeful prosperity.

ALCEMIS partners with organizations and leaders who are ready to leave performative innovation behind and do the real work of building something better – for their customers, their teams, their bottom line, and the future.

We specialize in helping you cultivate the nourishing conditions for a sustainable culture of innovation.

Because when you have a culture rooted in safety, trust, and true partnership, you produce bountiful and thriving harvests from the seeds of curiosity, imagination, and creative action.

ALCEMIS exists for the people who are done with image theater, stale leadership models, and the false binary of “results or relationships.” 

Laura Delavie, M.A., is the Founder and Chief Alchemist of ALCEMIS, LLC, and a trusted guide for leaders navigating complexity, innovation, change, and cultural transformation. With over 20 years of experience, she has led Fortune 500 companies, healthcare organizations, and entrepreneurial teams through high-stakes change – helping them go beyond change to evolution.

Laura brings a rare fusion of strategic precision, systems thinking, and creativity to her work. She draws upon research and learning in innovation practices, cultural anthropology, and the art and science of behavior change – but what truly sets her apart is her ability to translate insight into action, delivering lasting results at a sustainable pace.

She’s known for asking the kind of questions that get to the root of the problem, building trust quickly in even the most fractured teams, and helping organizations imagine and implement better solutions for better work – and a better world.

Laura holds a master’s degree in Change Leadership with a specialization in Organization Development and a double-major bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Communications with a Business minor. She is a certified Partnership Practitioner, an Integral Associate Coach™, a certified Creatrix^® consultant, and a MN Rule 114 Qualified Mediator. She has been a certified facilitator of the LEGO^® SERIOUS PLAY^® method since 2007.

Her thinking is influenced by the work of Viktor Frankl, Otto Scharmer, Dr. Riane Eisler, John Mackey & Raj Sisodia, Thich Nhat Hahn, Plato, Socrates, and Camus, Ken Wilber, Dr. Bruce Lipton, CERN, Albert-László Barabási, Janine Benyus, Rilke, Rumi, and Hafiz, John O’Donohue, Barbara Shipka, William Bridges, Cliff Havener, Lou Carbone, Brené Brown, Gordon MacKenzie, Stuart Brown, Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga, Etty Hillesum, Peter Block, Edgar Schein, Clayton Christensen, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Alex Osborn & Sidney Parnes, James Wilson Rouse, and many other cross-disciplinary thinkers.

Megan Rounds, Ed.D., SHRM-CP, founder of perculcha, helps small businesses stop duct-taping their HR. Through her practice, she brings values-driven, compliance-savvy, human-first support to Minnesota companies with big dreams and no HR department. Think foundational systems, intentional culture, and straight talk without the corporate blah-blah.

She’s a Navy veteran turned fractional HR partner with decades of experience across industries: global manufacturing, healthcare, nonprofits, transit, higher ed, and more. Credentials? She’s got them (BS, MA, Ed.D., SHRM-CP), but more importantly, she knows how to translate all that theory into practical, people-centered strategy.

Megan enjoys working with clients on the messy, unclear, or emotionally weird. She leads with curiosity and clarity, and has a talent for naming the elephant in the room (kindly, but directly).

She’s not building “best practices.” She’s helping you build your practices—ones that work for real people in your actual business. Along the way, she helps you make the essential mindshifts that turn surface change into what actually sticks.

Megan has worked with ALCEMIS as a support facilitator on projects using the LEGO^® SERIOUS PLAY^® method as well as being a co-lead on the u-lab2x 2023 prototype team.

Innovation was meant to be fun. The reality is…innovation is tough.

> Tracking and understanding change is complex.
> Identifying signals and opportunities can be challenging.
> Taking action is daunting.

Today’s businesses risk becoming obsolete. Staying relevant is a big problem– for everyone.

With over a decade of experience, grounded in research and practice, ITONICS understands the need for innovation to drive growth and resilience. They believe that innovation should be data-driven and human-centered.

Organizations need an Innovation Operating System (OS) to structure, systematize, and scale their innovation efforts to de-risk innovation and proactively drive growth and resilience.

Trusted by over 500 companies worldwide, the ITONICS OS helps you:

• Understand STEEP changes and identify opportunities early through their trend, technology, and competitor radars
• Crowdsource and collaborate to generate ideas
• Track and manage pipelines, projects, and KPIs with portfolio management and roadmapping
• Intelligently connect dots and scale quickly though AI and machine learning tools

ITONICS is the innovative organization’s partner to proactively shape the future – of your customers and your business.