About Growth Mindset

Better support for difficult business decisions

Growth Mindset helps businesses address operational and management decisions their existing reports and systems do not handle well.

Clients work directly with Rob Sickorez from the initial investigation through to implementation, keeping the business question and the technical work connected.

Rob Sickorez, founder and principal consultant at Growth Mindset
Founder and principal consultant Rob Sickorez

Operations research, business analysis, statistical modelling and software implementation.

Why Growth Mindset exists

Building methods around how businesses operate

Growth Mindset was established to help businesses turn data, operating knowledge and judgement into practical methods for decisions that standard reports and software do not fully support.

What shaped Growth Mindset

Experience where analysis had to work in practice

Rob Sickorez began his career as a United States Air Force operations research officer, working on manpower planning, resource allocation and mathematical modelling. Later roles in financial services, retail and logistics extended that experience into forecasting, reporting, business analysis and software delivery.

Across those settings, technical accuracy was only part of the job. The work also had to reflect operational realities and fit the systems people relied on.

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Working with Growth Mindset

Clarity and judgement throughout the work

The work begins with the decision and the current process, then narrows to a scope proportionate to the problem.

Continuity

Rob remains involved from the initial investigation through to delivery, so the business context is not lost along the way.

Clear explanation

Complex work is explained in terms that the people responsible for the decision can understand and use.

Reasoning open to review

Assumptions, calculations and areas of uncertainty remain visible enough to question and refine.

Proportionate scope

The engagement is sized to the importance of the decision and how often it recurs, concentrating effort where it will make a material difference.