Services & Specialties
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Every situation, program, organization, group and project deserves a deep understanding of goals and desired outcomes. What are you trying to accomplish? For whom? And why?
Together, we can diagnose the sticking points and challenges that stand between the present and where you want to be. We’ll choose the right tools for the task and figure out concrete next steps. I’ll work alongside you, providing capacity and support until the job is done.
I custom-design 100% of my facilitation work. Together, we can identify and choose the right tools to fit your context and situation.
Facilitation & Convening
It’s exciting to walk into a room for a conversation that has a purpose. I’ve been fortunate to learn different styles, methods and approaches of designing creative conversations that lead to progress. I have a strong personal desire to help create meetings that I want to attend!
My most memorable conversations are those where the outcome isn’t clear, but the participants are committed, curious, and dedicated to working through a challenging issue through whatever options may be available. My favorite facilitation examples involve shared experiences - cooking together, learning together, exploring together. The venue and the available activities can help influence background work that makes the harder parts of consensus-building and decisionmaking a little easier.
In 2026, I am prioritizing short-term engagements – staff meetings, retreats, and working through single-topic issues to discern a path forward. I love working with organizations both small and big, especially non-profits and community groups. I’m not currently offering strategic plan writing as a service, but I’d love to work with your group to determine if such an approach is the right direction for you. (And I’d definitely love to talk about working with you to identify a strategic direction or approach to future work.) Depending on scheduling, I may be available for emergency/”SOS” projects.
Coaching & Question Asking
The structure and process of coaching uses thoughtful questions and requires deep, present listening with empathy, not judgement, to help a person make progress on a challenge that’s important to them. When coaching individuals, I follow a widely accepted ethical framework that ensures safety and confidentiality.
I have a limited number of slots for individual coaching, but unlimited desire to bring the approach to any project, meeting or facilitation opportunity! I am also looking for short-term opportunities to experiment with group coaching. If your group or organization is feeling experimental, let’s see if we’re a good mutual fit.
Whether it’s a one-on-one conversation or a facilitated convening, I often use coaching techniques to help a person or a group move forward. This may mean taking an extra few minutes to make sure there’s agreement about a specific purpose and an idea of where we’ll end up at the conclusion of our time together. It could mean holding space for a new concept to emerge for discussion and contemplation, or asking next-level questions to help those ideas gel together.
Project Management & Implementation
I view projects like stories: they have a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning is exciting - full of opportunity! The middle is usually messy. And the end means a new story can begin.
“Project management” is perhaps my most difficult area of work to describe because it has taken so many different forms. I’ve managed multi-year grant projects for both grantmakers and the recipients of grants. I’ve developed and delivered shorter-term projects that resulted in reports and sharing new findings with state agencies, community groups, and others.
I work on projects of different durations, generally from six months to two or three years – but I work on one project at a time. I am currently fielding offers for a project that would start in 2026.
I might be a great fit for a grant-funded project; I also would consider a short-term/interim role to keep an organization’s momentum going while a permanent replacement can be found. I’m open to sub-contracting and different kinds of partnerships, too.
Like a story, each example has required an understanding of the main characters, the pitfalls along the way, and the deliverables that fall into place in the final chapter. That means keeping track of budgets and timelines and details big and small. It also means working collaboratively within organizations and systems, then handing off the product to the team at the end. I can add capacity to an organization by bringing an extra pair of hands and a dedicated focus to the project.
Communications & Storytelling
I love telling stories that lead to a response - a greater understanding of an issue; deep systemic changes; legislation; a grant award; an emotional reaction.
Part of the fun of writing these pieces is to think about the audience and then choose a format that makes the right connection. I draw from a wide spectrum of publication styles and methods and care most about finding the right fit for the job. It’s incredibly powerful when a true, honest message connects with people who appreciate it in a medium that makes sense. It’s an honor to be trusted with the time and energy of those with stories to share.
I write and pitch news stories with a purpose. I’ve been published in print and online newspapers, magazines, zines and more; I’ve worked behind-the-scenes on corporate publications like annual reports. In all cases I’ve worked to listen carefully to deliver a compelling narrative that informs, entertains, and illuminates a person, a place, an issue, or a story.
I’m looking to connect with projects like case studies, grant applications (and reports), stakeholder communications, and news reporting. I also enjoy more targeted communications like annual reports and even personal projects like reviewing résumés. I’m increasingly excited about analog projects that end in a creative, useful and inspiring printed format.
Every project, convening, meeting, report and coaching session deserves a thoughtful, unique design. I often use methods and approaches from different sectors as inspiration and offerings, putting together new pieces and groups of people to find new outcomes and ways of thinking. We can try new things! We can try old approaches with new people and new tweaks to meet a new challenge or opportunity!