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 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 lead with intention 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 and accountability: 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
Your org chart makes sense on paper. In practice, it feels like a ball of tangled yarn. And everyone is exhausted from working around it.
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 impact that changes systemic issues 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.
Our Clients
We collaborate with leaders, organizations, and groups across sectors and identities. We collaborate with leaders and teams in the following types of organizations:
- Social impact organizations, nonprofits, or agencies
- For-profit businesses and social enterprises
- Place-based collaboratives, networks, and groups
If this sounds like your situation, or if you are curious about our ability to collaborate with you on a project that doesn't neatly fit into one of these categories, contact us for a no-obligation conversation. We are direct about our capabilities and fit for any project, and won't pressure you to work with us.