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Facilitation That Produces Real Results

Every engagement starts with a conversation. I listen and work with you to design a program that meets your individual and organizational goals.

Your team has important work to do together. A strategic retreat, a planning process, working through a leadership transition. The difference between a session that generates random output and one that generates change is skilled session design and facilitation.

I work with you to design and lead meetings, retreats, and organizational processes that produce real decisions, stronger relationships, and actionable next steps. 

I draw from a range of proven methodologies including the xchange Approach, Emergent Strategy, Appreciative Inquiry, DesignShop, Training for Change, and Narrative 4 Story Exchange. I pull from my years of experience facilitating in social change movements, faith-rooted environments and business settings. I first learned to facilitate as a La Leche League Leader…and if I can lead a discussion with toddlers asking for snacks, overwhelmed, new breastfeeding mothers asking questions, and at least three different opinions on any given topic in the room, I can facilitate just about anything! As a Certified xchange Guide, I bring a research-backed framework for conscious convening to every engagement.

I facilitate:

  • Strategic planning retreats and pre-planning values alignment processes

  • Team building and team alignment sessions

  • Difficult conversations and conflict processes

  • Leadership and staff retreats

  • Conferences, gatherings, and multi-day convenings

  • Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging workshops

Facilitators are brought in to help groups, communities and organizations work through challenging conversations, break through to the next level of innovation, strategize, plan or perhaps the joyful yet serious work of becoming a more bonded and committed team.

Unlock Transformation with a Certified xchange Facilitator

When you hire a Certified xchange Guide, you're choosing a facilitator with deep expertise in conscious convening and transformative facilitation. I create spaces where your team or event can thrive and reach its fullest potential.

Consulting

Sometimes an organization is ready for a more serious investment into it’s people than a single session or a coaching engagement. You need a thinking partner who can look at the whole picture, ask the right questions, and help the team find its way forward.

I offer consulting support to foundations, nonprofits and mission-driven organizations navigating growth, leadership transitions, culture challenges, and values misalignment. I bring a fresh perspective, deep sector knowledge, and a commitment to equity at every layer of the work.

As a certified Nonprofit Lifecycle consultant, I am also equipped to lead your team-wide self-assessment of where your organization is in its development and co-creation of next steps with intention.

Organizations often ask for support with:

  • Nonprofit lifecycle assessment and organizational health

  • Leadership development at all levels

  • Team culture, values development, and alignment

  • Building psychological safety and trust

  • Intercultural competencies and belonging

  • Communication, conflict, and feedback skills

  • Strategic planning and values clarification

  • Becoming a learning organization

Public Speaking  

I am available for keynote presentations, conference breakout sessions, panel discussions, workshops, and events of any size, in person and online.

Topics include:

  • People Skills as Organizational Capacity

  • Sustainable Leadership in Mission-Driven Organizations

  • The Enneagram at Work: Understanding How You and Your Team Show Up

  • Instinctual Leadership

  • Healing and Resilience for Change Makers

  • Personalities @ Work: Self-Awareness, Authenticity and Action

  • Intercultural Competencies and the Leadership of Belonging

  • Somatic Skills for Conflict and Communication

  • and personalized session topics based on your needs…

A Shared Language for Your Team with the Enneagram

The Enneagram is one of the most useful tools available for building team communication, self-awareness, and emotional intelligence. When a team learns this model together, with a skilled guide and a justice-informed framework, the results are lasting.

I use the Awareness to Action Enneagram model because it is the most practical and action-oriented Enneagram model available for teams. It moves people from self-awareness to behavioral change, which is where real personal and professional development happens.

Every in-person or online organizational Enneagram engagement is customized to your team’s needs. I work with teams to design the right experience, whether that is a single workshop, a multi-session training series, or an ongoing organizational coaching program.

Elements of an organizational engagement include:

  • Customized program intake and design

  • Individual Enneagram typing sessions for each team member

  • The Enneagram Guidebook for each participant

  • Customized facilitation designed around your team’s goals

  • Topics ranging from Personalities at Work to Communication Styles to Leadership Competencies

  • Integration of equity, culture, and identity throughout

  • Customized Recap, Feedback and Next Steps

For more information, see the dedicated Enneagram page.

Transformative Coaching for Leaders Doing Hard Work

Leadership in a mission-driven organization is not the same as leadership anywhere else. The stakes are personal. The resources are limited. The work is emotionally demanding. And the systems you are working in are complex.

I offer individual and group coaching for leaders at every level, from executive directors and foundation officers to emerging leaders and team managers. We work on the patterns, skills, and self-awareness that sustainable leadership requires. Let’s build the bench of your organization for strong self-leadership and management. 

Common areas of focus include navigating transitions, addressing burnout, improving communication, leading through conflict, building resilience, and developing authentic leadership presence.

You do not need to know or use the Enneagram to work with me. My extensive Enneagram training is available as a tool if you want it, and I am equally effective working with other frameworks and models.

Coaching is available as:

  • Individual coaching packages (3, 6, or 12 month packages)

  • Group coaching cohorts for leadership teams

  • Organizational coaching paired with facilitation or training

Use my Contact Form to inquire about an introductory call to learn more about coaching with me.

Writing, Resource & Curriculum Development

I have over 20 years of experience writing, curating and developing resources and curriculum for a variety of audiences including birthing families, activists, community leaders and everyday folks who want to learn various personal, spiritual and professional development topics. Projects range from curating multi-author projects, to writing short essays, devotionals and blog posts to developing resource guides and full curriculum. I am available to consult on or contribute to any size writing project as well.