What We Do

We help you have generative conversations that transform outcomes for your teams and your organization. We do this by helping you have more constructive and enlightening exchanges that uncover the solutions that might already exist in your organization, or by setting up a completely new perspective/ frame from which you can see where you are in a whole new way. We are the set of eyes you didn’t know you needed, the guiding hands that help bring new clarity, richer relationships, and better outcomes.

None of that is what makes us truly different. Here’s what does: we tell you the TRUTH. We ask and answer hard questions. We do not avoid conflict or messiness, but instead use skill and experience to navigate THROUGH it and to the other side. We will walk away from a contract if we know your organization isn’t ready, or if what you think you need is discovered to not be what you need at all. We cultivate an abundance mindset and know that we are able to model integrity for our team and for yours.

How does that look for you? In what ways does the need for real, successful dialogue show up? Sometimes it looks like:

ORGANIZATIONAL ASSESSMENT

• Employee Engagement – Getting authentic in your organization, bringing more than bodies to the office.
• Surveys & Analysis – What’s happening? What is affected? Where are we excelling? What’s it all mean?
• Process Improvement – Finding bottlenecks and bottom outs that bring frustration, redesigning for joy.
• Place-making & Workplace Design – Do our spaces reflect our values? Are they comfortable?
• Policy/Implementation Alignment – Building policy practice that brings our goals to life.
• Equity & Inclusion – Bringing everyone to the table, giving them the mic and letting them lead.
• Metrics Development – How can we tell if it’s working? Metrics that matter, measuring that enlightens.
• Hiring & Retention – Talent, not fit. Whole people, not roles. Finding passionate team members who stay.

PROJECT & DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

• Short-term Project Development – We’ll get you to the starting blocks and set up to win.
• Volunteer Recruitment – For capital and service engagements, get the community behind you…
• Volunteer Management – And keep them happy while they do it!
• Event & Fundraising Planning – We seriously know how to set up a party. Just saying. Even in zoom.
• Graphic Design & Materials – Make it pretty, tell the story, get your organization known.

FACILITATION & LEADERSHIP

• Focus groups – Finding out what matters to teams, clients, or communities.
• Retreats & Strategic Planning – We hold space for your teams to bring their best versions of the future.
• Appreciative Inquiry – The holy grail of participatory process to bring organizational alignment.
• Facilitation Technique Training – No more useless meetings! Learn to have meetings that work.
• Process Engagement – Bosses have processes too. Unpack and rebuild the way you work.
• Community Outreach – Communication plans, engaging practices, and connection that includes.
• Leadership Training – Stop managing, start leading. Learn to stay sane and steward your org’s health.