There are two main ways I work with groups:

DESIGN THE EXPERIENCE

Using design thinking, we surface insights about your participants’ goals, mindsets, and needs. Using systems thinking, we map relationships and resource flows that underlie observable data. Based on thoughtful analysis, we make strategic choices about how to create the most impactful event for your group. 

OUR PROCESS

  • Discover what drives your participants through qualitative conversations 

  • Clarify and reaffirm your goals, vision for success, and desired outcomes  

  • Propose a structure and framing for your gathering 

  • Choose creative activities based on insights from discovery 

  • Establish success metrics to gauge participants’ experience and make improvements

OUTCOMES

  • Uncover what is uniquely important to participants 

    Identify the essential elements of your gathering 

  • Customize your event based on what is most important to participants 

  • An environment where participants have the power to contribute their ideas and make collaborative decisions 

  • A repeatable measurement system to gauge progress and make improvements 

EXAMPLES

  • Trainings

  • Cross-team collaboration 

  • All-hands meetings 

  • Professional development programs 

  • Reoccuring teams meetings 

  • Professional associations 

  • Collaboratives and networks 

FACILITATE THE EXPERIENCE

Facilitated meetings are designed to increase participation, deepen and broaden thinking, invite collaboration, and share responsibility for our outcomes. Through facilitation, stakeholders make data-driven and strategic decisions that drive transformative change. 

Facilitators ask: Who feels comfortable contributing? Whose ideas are listened to? Who takes up the most space? Is there curiosity about how things could be different? Time to reflect? Opportunities to make meaning? Space to vision? Freedom to be wrong or vulnerable? 

OUR PROCESS

  • Clarify and reaffirm your goals, vision for success, and desired outcomes for the event 

  • Review your agenda and propose modifications as needed 

  • Facilitate the event using curious inquiry and participatory activities 

  • Be adaptive and responsive to the group to move from insights to action

  • Access the groups’ impact and progress after the event

OUTCOMES

  • Participants feel more courageous and willing to bring their full selves to the process

  • Participants have opportunities to see a wider or more complex picture and try on new mindsets 

  • Create tangible prototypes and materials based on group decisions

  • Insights about progress made and potential improvements 

EXAMPLES

  • Trainings

  • Retreats

  • Board Meetings 

  • Strategic planning 

  • All-hands meetings 

  • Collaboratives or networks convenings 

  • Networking events 

  • Team building events