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¿and ask! : Your Partner in Empowering Teams Through Thoughtful Inquiry

How can the right questions transform your organization?

It can be hard to find good solutions! Are you asking the right questions? Are you asking questions that foster value creation and positive collaboration?

At ¿and ask!, you'll find tools to harness the power of questions to create valuable answers. Founded by Hannah Nitschinger Barlow, a versatile professional with extensive cross-industry and coaching experience, ¿and ask! is your AI-assisted gateway, to enhance team dynamics and productivity.

    Your Vision, Amplified

    Imagine anyone in your company, from new hires to seasoned executives, is equipped with the ability to ask powerful questions that drive meaningful change!

    Your Mission, Supported

    Simply gain access to AI-enhanced and experience based questioning techniques,via our apps, that foster understanding, innovation, and growth in your work environment.

    ¡AI for Your Success!

    Access the power of AI, thoughtfully applied to make your professional life easier and drive change in your organization. We truly believe AI needs to applied positively and trust you to do so.

    Unlock Your Team's Full Potential:

    Focus on what's important, find solutions faster, and unleash capabilities you didn't know your team had.

    Why Choose ¿and ask!
    ¡Tap into Diverse Expertise!

    Benefit from tools shaped by experience spanning machinery, software creation, large data, ERP, app & medical device development, wellbeing at work, industrial production, remote work coaching, adult education and more. We've worked with leading companies and want to inspire you. Your unique industry challenges will be understood and addressed.

    The ¿and ask! Approach to Your Success

    The ¿and ask! Approach to Your Success
  • Embrace Diversity: Leverage tools designed to work across cultures and international boundaries, just like your global team.
  • Enhance Collaboration: Foster open, friendly environments that bring out the best in your team.
  • Drive Innovation: Combine your human expertise with our experience and AI capabilities to pioneer new ways of problem-solving and team development.
  • Experience Empowerment: Gain the tools to ask better questions, that enable you to receive better answers.
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    How will better questions transform your team's performance?

    Whether you're an agile coach aiming to improve sprint outcomes, a product owner seeking to align your team's vision, or a leader determined to foster a more innovative culture, with ¿and ask!, you'll have the power to ask the questions that matter.

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    Remember, the right question is your key to unlocking your team's full potential. Are you ready to find it?

  • 2010

    They often mean leaving the perception of security in order to discover your personal freedom. These are the changes that will bring happiness and satisfaction into your life. Just go there now.

    10 years out… having made a decade of changes. Imagine living the life you want to live.

    The best way is to develop and follow a plan. Start with your goals in mind and then work backwards to develop the plan. What steps are required to get you to the goals? Make the plan as detailed as possible. Try to visualize and then plan for, every possible setback. Commit the plan to paper and then keep it with you at all times. Review it regularly and ensure that every step takes you closer to your Vision and Goals.

  • 2012

    What is the exact sequence of events that will take you to where you want to be? Have a think consciously of what you need to do. Every outcome begins with the first step.

    When you decide you want to have a romantic meal for two, there are many steps that you need to perform in order for that to happen.

    This is the beginning of creating the life that you want to live. Know what the future holds for you as a result of the choice you can make today.

  • 2014

    Have some fun and hypnotize yourself to be your very own “Ghost of Christmas future” and see what the future holds for you. Success is something of which we all want more. Most people believe that success is difficult.

    Get the oars in the water and start rowing. Execution is the single biggest factor in achievement.

    The price is something not necessarily defined as financial. It could be time, effort, sacrifice, money or perhaps, something else. The point is that we must be fully aware of the price and be willing to pay it

  • 2016

    He sells his farm and hikes off over the horizon, never to be heard from again. Rumors say that years later he died destitute, never having found the diamonds he spent his life seeking.

    I don’t think the deciding factor was the desire. Lots of people come here to Japan, but never quite find out how to stay.

    Instead, it seems to be more a matter of what they can allow themselves to have. Some people call this a sense of deserving. Others call it a sense of entitlement. No matter what term you use, it’s basically the same thing.

  • 2018

    Introspection is the trick. Understand what you want, why you want it and what it will do for you. This is a critical factor, and as such, is probably the most difficult step. For this reason, most people never complete this aspect – then wonder why life is so difficult!

    “Nothing changes until something moves” – this is the battle cry of author and journalist Robert Ringer. And he is absolutely correct

    Without clarity, you send a very garbled message out to the Universe. We know that the Law of Attraction says that we will attract what we focus on, so if we don’t have clarity, we will attract confusion.

  • 2020

    Make no mistake, the new owner already had money, or he could not have bought the land. There’s nothing in this story to make us think he was dreaming about riches, vast or otherwise. No burning desire. But he got the goodies.

    Once you have a clear understanding of what you want, it is critical that you engage in goal setting – specifically setting SMART goals.

    Focus is having the unwavering attention to complete what you set out to do. There are a million distractions in every facet of our lives.

Thanks to questions suggested by ¿and ask! our team is aligning much better with enterprise and product goals. They are producing at least 20-25% more value, due to better understanding

Alice Williams
Portfolio Manager

Our product teams and I used to have very different expectations. In midsized companies leaders sometimes don't talk to their teams enough. One day an agile coach came to me to clarify that.

Michael Bean
CEO and founder

Productivity and wellbeing are much better! Our scrum masters use ¿and ask! for inspiration on how to ask the right things.

Jim Drilling
Head of HR and People Development
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