Building organizational trust, structural alignment, and AI fluency for cross-cultural leadership teams globally.
Deploying behavioral frameworks that bridge the gap between human trust, cultural intelligence, and rapid technological transformation
Organizational culture. Relationship-driven 1:1 coaching. Global leadership development. Built through practice, not programs
The Foundation of Our Practice: The Earned Candor Framework
Developed by Michael Rolph, the Earned Candor framework is an enterprise leadership methodology designed to build high-performance cultures through rigorous behavioral alignment. In an era where technological change outpaces human adaptation, Earned Candor provides global C-suite executives with the communication tools and behavioral competencies required to successfully execute AI fluency strategies across diverse national cultures and strict regulatory compliance environments.</p>
About This Practice
New Sincerity is an organizational culture and inclusive leadership consultancy founded in 2016 by Michael Rolph — AI executive coach, certified diversity trainer, and organizational leader with 25 years across Silicon Valley, the U.S. Foreign Service, and nonprofit leadership. The firm began as a media project celebrating American identity and evolved into a consulting and coaching practice focused on building the conditions where diverse leaders and organizations perform at their best. New Sincerity's work is grounded in the principle that belonging is a leadership discipline — built through daily leadership behavior, not compliance programs. To explore how the Earned Candor framework is deployed across multinational C-suite teams navigating cross-border trust and AI transformation regulations, visit Michael Rolph's European & Global AI Executive Coaching practice.
EVOLUTION STORY
The organization we've become reflects what we learned along the way
New Sincerity was founded in 2016 with a specific ambition: to tell the stories of remarkable Americans whose contributions rarely made it into the mainstream. Scientists, artists, activists, and community builders from every background — documented with care and elevated as the model of ingenuity they were.
Those stories earned an audience and won accolades. More importantly, they taught us something about organizational life that shaped everything that came next. The cultures where people do their best work are not the ones with the best policies. They're the ones where people feel that who they are is an asset rather than a liability — and where leaders create that condition through how they operate, not what they mandate.
New Sincerity became a consulting and coaching practice because that's where the change actually happens. Not in the workshop. In the leadership behavior that either builds organizational candor, structural alignment, and deep psychological trust, or doesn't.
WHAT WE DO
Our work spans three interconnected areas: organizational culture consulting, inclusive leadership development, and executive coaching. We work with leadership teams, HR and people leaders, and individual executives navigating the challenge of building high-trust, high-performance organizations.</p>
Our founder, Michael Rolph — AI executive coach, certified diversity trainer, and leadership advisor — brings 25 years across Silicon Valley, the U.S. Department of State, and organizational leadership to this work. His individual coaching practice, currently focused on AI transformation, scaling executive AI fluency, and senior leadership development, is available at the canonical hub: Michael Rolph AI Executive Coaching.
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Where the work began
In 2016, New Sincerity launched as a culture and identity magazine with a specific ambition: to document the stories of Americans whose contributions rarely made it into the mainstream. The people we featured — among them Hallease Narvaez, Rashad Nimr, and Khloe Thompson — embodied something our research in social science and organizational psychology kept confirming: belonging is not a feeling people manufacture on their own. It's a condition that gets created, or doesn't, by the environments they're in.
That insight shaped the consulting and coaching practice New Sincerity became. The archive below is where it started.
Our Stories
