Services
Peer Circles
Leadership is hard. Doing it without anyone who actually gets it is harder.
That friend you've been venting to? They mean well, but they don't get it. Your partner is tired of hearing about it. Your board can't give you the advice you need. Your staff needs you to have answers.
Peer Circles bring together leaders who understand mission-driven work, because they're living it too. It is a confidential space where you can bring your real problems and get shared wisdom from people who have been where you are.
You leave with clarity, a clear next step, and the quiet relief of knowing you're not the only one.
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Leadership Coaching
Leading is lonely. Even when you're surrounded by people.
Do you replay conversations in your head? Second-guess decisions after they’re made? Notice patterns in how you react (poorly) under stress?
Leadership Coaching is a one-on-one partnership built entirely around your growth and success. No generic advice. No shame. No motivational poster BS dressed up as insight.
You get an honest, experienced partner who helps you see your situation and your leadership as it actually is. So you can move with clarity and confidence instead of just moving fast.
Strategic Planning
Everyone tells you that you need a strategy. What they hand you is a calendar full of retreats and a 40-page document that never leaves its binder.
You fill the flip charts. You agree on the priorities. Six months later, you're busier than ever and no clearer on what actually matters.
Real strategic planning doesn't produce a document. It produces alignment: a shared understanding of what you're doing, why it matters, and how you'll know it's working. So your effort turns into traction instead of just more activity.
Organizational Design
If your org chart makes sense on paper but feels like a ball of tangled yarn in practice, the problem probably isn't your people.
Most organizational structures weren't built for how organizations actually operate today. When roles blur, decisions bottleneck, and good people burn out trying to hold it all together, that's not a personnel issue. It's a structural one.
Organizational Design aligns how information, energy, and resources flow. And ensures they flow with the strategy you're actually trying to execute, so that your structure stops working against you and starts working for you.
Place-Based Strategy
Every community has a plan. Most of them sit on a shelf collecting the very specific dust of good intentions.
Usually, because the strategy was imported from somewhere else. Or because multi-sector alignment turns out to require more than a well-designed report and a kickoff meeting.
Place-Based Strategy is built from the ground up—rooted in the histories, relationships, constraints, and collective wealth of your specific community. That way, collaborative efforts reinforce and improve one another.
Who We Partner With
I work across sectors and organizational types: social impact organizations and agencies, for-profit businesses, social enterprises, and collaboratives.