Generative change is messy work that can challenge all we think we know collectively and individually. I work with groups and initiatives to make space for nuance, distinctions, and to speak plainly about frictions. This is how we navigate to fresh perspectives on what’s possible—and begin sketching maps of how to get there.
From local invigoration to international organizations and networks, I work with experienced practitioners in process design, strategic change and coaching to support leaders in creating compelling, creative and equitable futures.
My approach integrates theory and practice
for fresh perspectives and forward momentum through uncertainty.
Diversifying theories and methods.
Scholars can be detached from practice, and practitioners can be resistant to challenging the theories that make us feel most proficient. We can become closed off, hooking our leadership, our change, or our facilitation to assumptions so thoroughly embedded, we can’t see clearly. Instead of attaching to a particular method or theory, let’s be wayfinders together.
Engaging
tensions.
I was a practitioner before going further into graduate research and realizing I’d been throwing around terms – systems change, equity, participatory leadership, paradigm shift – without a full understanding of what they meant. Without deeper understanding, we can become less open to the kind of nuance, distinctions, and frictions that surface entirely new possibilities.
Moving beyond groupthink.
Once we realize how much we don’t know, we can navigate uncertainty. The clarity moment of knowing how much we don’t know launches us beyond instinctual groupthink, baggage, assumptions, and biases. Only a handful of people need to make that shift for it to ripple throughout a collective.
In the past few years I’ve worked with…
