I work with place-based partnerships, national networks, funders that support them, and the leaders doing this work.
Setting a shared vision & action plan
When your partnership needs a strategic plan, or has one that is not translating into action.
What we do: Co-design your plan, theory of action, and shared measures with your partners. Then build a one-year implementation plan to put it into action and track progress.
Length of engagement: Typically 6-9 months.
Recent work: Bright Futures Educational Partnership (Monterey County, CA); Office of College and Community Connections, Sinclair Community College (Dayton, OH).
Learning design for networks & funders
When you are bringing a network together to learn from each other and shift practice that centers results for the community you serve.
What we do: Design and run communities of practice, peer learning, and emergent learning tables.
Length of engagement: Typically 6-12 months.
Recent work: Results for America’s national community of practice with ten national intermediaries working to improve economic mobility.
Coaching for leaders of collaborative work
When you lead work that depends on trust and influence more than formal authority.
What we do: One-on-one executive coaching or team coaching. I am a Casey Advanced Results Practitioner and a licensed independent social worker with a supervision designation (LISW-S).
Length of engagement: Typically 3- or 6-month packages.
Recent work: Arise Collective’s leadership team; Results for America’s team (facilitation coaching for their community of practice); Tamarack Institute (facilitation skills for staff and partners).
Convening when the stakes are high
When your coalition needs to align, collaborate, or move through a conflict that is blocking results.
What we do: Partner with you to name what’s in the way, design and facilitate the sessions, and build your team’s capacity to lead this work on their own.
Length of engagement: Typically 7-10 sessions.
Recent work: Connecticut Health Foundation’s Health Equity Collaborative; Bright Futures and Bright Beginnings (partnership agreement and team alignment).
Centering community power in practice
When you want your partnership to honestly look at how decisions get made, whose voice shapes them, and how to put residents’ choices and voice at the center.
What we do: Design community conversations with your team, partners, and residents, grounded in my research on power and autonomy. Then facilitate a review of where voice and choice are strong, where they stall, and what to shift.
Length of engagement: Typically 12–20 weeks, including a day-long design retreat, 4–6 community sessions (interviews and focus groups), and a facilitated sensemaking session.
Builds on: My doctoral research with residents in Dayton and St. Louis, guided by a community advisory board of residents and practitioners, and my research with practitioners in Australia and Canada.
