I am an emergent strategist – working to connect small changes together to create big movement forward. It’s a framework for how we create change in more alignment with living systems. Here are methods I will use to help move your work forward.
Getting started with qualitative inquiry (deep listening methods) helps gain insight from people within or impacted by your organization. Interviews, surveys, and focus groups using strength-based approaches will uncover the possibilities and pathways ready to emerge.
Human centered-design is a planning method that helps center your programs, strategies, or organizational structures in the eyes of the people you exist to support. Using empathy as a guiding practice, we will uncover solutions that come from insights from the people most impacted by your work.
Getting authentic feedback takes intention, commitment and action. Leaders with more power need to work even harder. Understanding how people REALLY feel is the only way to build trusting teams and create processes that bring out the best in people. Feedback loops implemented over time will help root your efforts in the people closest to the work.
Identify the talents and interests of the people connected to your work. Network analysis can help us understand who is in your circle and how to engage them for greater impact. Uncover and strengthen the movement of people that already surrounds your purpose!
Leaders for the future don’t seek more followers….they create more leaders. I support formal and “everyday” leaders to seek and act on feedback, support internal capacity and wellbeing, and work in an active partnership to support strategic decision-making. Turn individual leadership development into team-building activity!
I coach and develop teams to get into their flow — that dynamic where even conflict feels easy. I support strategic, collaborative decision-making, sort out relational dynamics by engaging intentionally in our strengths, and uncover a collective vision. The way of the future is teams leaning into each other in their strengths so the sum truly is greater than the parts could dream possible.
The best resource development lever is a human capital investment plan. From targeting the right sources to capturing the powerful story of your organization, resource development will flow right from your strategy planning.
Organizational change can feel hard especially for people not leading the charge. As a new way starts to form, we are asking people to let go of old practices or approaches. This messy middle can create tension and be hard to navigate. Visualizing where we are going, providing clear communication, and engaging people across the work in meaningful ways at every step help us all move forward together.
