Facilitation

As a facilitator I design and host gatherings and processes where people connect with each other and ideas, think bigger and more strategically, create meaning and change, and embrace responsibility and accountability.

Whether you need someone to take it off your desk or walk next to you as you home in on your organization’s strengths, possibilities, and impact, I bring experience, expertise, and a fresh energy to:

• Strategic planning
• Leadership and development planning
• Engagement and relationship building inside and outside your organization
• Analysis and action
• Smart questions and generative thinking
• Research and recommendations

I work with leadership teams that want to make a difference with why and how they do their work. If your team is ready to go big and beautiful (and really, isn’t this why we get up in the morning?), then let’s talk.

My leadership team facilitation expertise includes:

• Creating and working with purposeful and actionable team charters
• Developing and sustaining psychological safety
• Communicating with curiosity and awareness for results
• Leading a desired work-place culture

Leadership Team Retreats are hosted as in-person events. Optional online post-session check-ins may be arranged.

How a board works together and works with the CEO or executive director (ED) sets the culture for and shapes the success of not-for-profits, community-based organizations, and public libraries.

This is too important to leave to chance.

My governance expertise includes:

• Sharing a governance team vision and expectations (the team being the board and CEO / ED)
• Building trust as a governance team with role clarity, transparency and accountability
• Embracing and updating strategic decisions and plans in times of change or uncertainty
• Chairing and participating in fiduciary, strategic, and generative discussions
• Leading and governing organizational culture and success
• Supporting skillful communication with curiosity, awareness, and empathy
• Facilitating board assessments and development plans
• Developing advocacy, influence, and relationship building plans

Governance Team Retreats are hosted as in-person events.

If you are a board chair interested in working with a coach with governance and leadership development expertise, I’m here for you with my online Just for You coaching services.

360 Leadership reviews are often perceived as contentious, stressful, and best to avoid. Work with me to experience a supportive and collaborative process from start to finish.

I offer a fresh take on the 360 leadership review process where trust is strengthened,
friendliness and good intentions drive the process, and the goal for everyone involved is to build understanding, ongoing open communication, professional growth, and strong leadership.

The most effective 360 reviews and feedback processes and approaches for CEOs, executive directors (EDs), and library directors are developed and implemented with their and their board or employers’ needs and input.

360 Leadership Reviews are facilitated remotely or in person.