Our services
A change in direction, a board question, a partnership, a stretched team. I bring executive experience and careful attention to the choices that affect your organization and community.
When every priority seems urgent, a planning process needs to help you choose. I work with your board, staff, and community partners to examine the options, weigh the consequences, and agree on a direction your budget and people can support.
A board’s intent and an executive’s responsibilities meet in real decisions about money, people, and risk. I help you examine where authority sits, how information moves, and what each person needs to fulfill their role. We put those agreements into practices you can use.
Change reaches people through meeting agendas, workloads, information, and everyday interactions. I help your team examine those details, address difficult conversations, and design agreements for working together. With partners, we also consider whose knowledge counts and who controls the terms.
Additional support
A strategic question may require a closer look at a program, your finances, your communications, or the way work gets done. We can focus on one of these areas or include it in a broader engagement.
Decide what a program should accomplish, how you’ll assess it, and what you need to learn before expanding it.
Examine funding options, the costs of your commitments, and the assumptions behind your financial plans.
Find the words that explain your work accurately and help members, partners, and supporters understand their part in it.
Look closely at how work moves through your organization. Address unclear handoffs, unnecessary steps, and tools that add work.
Rest & Resolve
Coaching and meditation for community leaders.
I offer a different kind of support here: personal attention to the decisions, demands, and emotions that come with caring about your work.
Explore Rest & ResolveWork through a decision, a transition, a difficult relationship, or the boundaries you need. I bring my executive experience and coaching practice to the conversation.
Guided meditation and reflection for community leaders, organizers, and people working to dismantle racism and other forms of oppression.
These services can stand on their own or accompany our organizational work. My approach draws on research into coaching and mindfulness, with the evidence and its limits explained on the Rest & Resolve page.
Our approach
We decide what will help you do the work: a facilitated conversation, a decision framework, an operating agreement, or a plan with clear responsibilities. I choose methods with your context and resources in mind.
Focused sessions for boards and leadership teams to examine a question, work through differences, and agree on decisions and responsibilities.
Decision guides, dashboards, templates, and process maps built around the information and tasks your team actually uses.
Attention to whose knowledge shapes the work, who holds authority, and how a decision affects people with different experiences and resources.
I listen to the people closest to the work and examine the decisions, resources, and history behind the question you bring.
We work through the options and their consequences. We name the tradeoffs, responsibilities, and resources each choice requires.
We agree on who does what, how you’ll know it’s working, and when to reconsider. The plan has to make sense on an ordinary Tuesday.
Bring the decision, the tension, or the idea you keep returning to. I’d like to hear about it.
