CONSULTING FOR ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
Improve Dynamics, Culture, Function, And Impact
I help organizations peel back the layers of patterns that no longer serve. Acknowledging the past clears a path forward to include the whole team, co-discover strategy, and meet the mission together.
My consulting is grounded in substantial experience. Serving as a nonprofit executive for twenty-five years, I guided teams of staff and volunteers, facilitated multi-sector stakeholder groups, built movements from the grassroots to the federal level, spearheaded media campaigns, and passed legislation. I bring presence and rigor to help you shine.
CONSULTING THAT MEETS YOUR ORGANIZATION WHERE IT IS
Organizational Change
Organizational change is an opportunity to develop a shared vision and robust communication plan to hold all the people and elements in care during the upheaval of system transformation.
Leadership & Team Development
The world needs conscious leaders and innovative teams. Learning to utilize mental, emotional, and somatic intelligence equips teams to thrive in the uncertainty of emergence.
Board Facilitation & Mission Alignment
I know how to help Boards and executive teams understand their roles and mutual inter-dependence. This optimizes Board effectiveness while contributing to the mission.
Facilitation for Collaboration
Most groups have times they need outside support to disrupt harmful dynamics, listen beyond initial reactivity, identify strategic priorities, to work collaboratively to realize shared aspirations.
Inclusion, Belonging, & Liberation
When building cultures that foster belonging, many organizations need help. I know this arena well. When identity caucusing is needed, I will build a diverse consultant bench to serve as guides.
Collective Impact Initiatives
Collective Impact is a framework that describes the partnerships necessary for large scale social change. I'm a national thought leader, trainer, and seasoned steward in Collective Impact methods.
Capacity Building & System Mending
Through deep listening, shared learning, reflection, and system mapping, teams can expand their capacity to approach and respond to the complexity and discomfort that may accompany innovation.
Public Speaking & Engagement
Engaging audiences of various compositions, sizes, and purposes, I am an experienced speaker and trainer. My presentations are interactive and dynamic, to share an experience and a message.
FAQs – Groups & Team Dynamics
What is group dynamics coaching, and how is it different from team building?
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Groups develop their own rhythms, unspoken agreements, power dynamics, tension points, and thrills. Rarely are the informal structures people co-create like the formal organizational chart. Traditional team building often stays at the level of activities and rapport. This is valuable; yet my approach goes deeper, teaching and using the systemic principles that drive human systems beyond our conscious awareness. This can help a group see and shift long-entrenched patterns, so the team functions better afterwards.
Can Many Ways help my team build stronger connection and belonging?
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Yes. Belonging is one of the Orders of Love at the heart of everything I do. Belonging recognizes the urgency every person feels to meaningfully participate in the systems of which they are a part. When a team lacks a strong sense of belonging, some people will disengage, others will sit in quiet (or not so quiet) conflict, and many will hold back their strongest potential contributions. My work helps groups to surface what’s getting in the way. We can rebuild a felt sense of belonging, connection, and inclusion, using equity-informed facilitation alongside systemic and somatic tools.
What are the unique skills Many Ways brings to an organizational consulting engagement?
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In addition to seasoned, equity-informed facilitation, and extensive experience applying systemic principles to surface hidden dynamics, Many Ways specializes in helping teams move from grist, to function, to impact. I worked at the national level for twelve years as the lead facilitator of policy, system, and environmental change initiatives using a Collective Impact framework. I know how to guide teams, volunteers, and boards, through their specific difficult territory, on to effective work. One of my areas of expertise is leadership transition, particularly working with nonprofit Boards during departure or transition of organizational Founders.
How do Systemic and Family Constellations apply to organizational and group dynamics work?
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Systemic and Family Constellations is an embodied process that grows empathy and provides insight. The process can be applied in organizations in two ways. Sometimes I will work first with group leaders individually, using systemic principles and somatic practices to help them build their capacity to guide the team. I'll next work with the team as a whole - ideally in collaboration with the team leader - to help the group develop shared language, experiences, and tools they can lean on going forward. Teams with this training have a real advantage, especially in times of turbulence, chaos, and change.
What does group facilitation with Many Ways actually look like?
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I bring skills in meeting design, thoughtful group agreements, and powerful questions, with real sensitivity to balancing individual needs with a group's larger goals. Many groups need support to disrupt harmful dynamics, listen past initial reactivity, identify real priorities, and work collaboratively toward what they're trying to build. I hold brave space for the difficult conversations a group needs to have. The aim is not to avoid discomfort, rather, to move through it toward something more resourced.
Where are these services offered?
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I'm based in Portland, Oregon, and offer in-person workshops, retreats, and group facilitation in the Portland Metro area and the Oregon Coast. Consulting, coaching, and much of my group and organizational work is also available remotely. I’ve also extensively traveled throughout the U.S. during my career to deliver keynote speaking engagements or educational content, to facilitate meetings, or guide leadership teams, especially during key transition moments such as a Founder or executive departure.
How do I know if this approach is right for my team or organization?
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If your group is navigating change, conflict, disengagement, or a stuck pattern that keeps resurfacing despite good intentions (and loads of work!), systemic group work is likely to help. The best way get a sense directly, is to schedule a no-cost discovery call. We will explore your specific situation and determine together whether this is the right fit.
Transforming Organizations from the Inside Out
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In life, one of the only constants is change; and yet as human beings, change often evokes fear and resistance.
Where we focus and what we amplify frames a lot of the experience.
Organizational change can be an opportunity to develop a shared vision that holds all the people and elements in care while undertaking system change.
With decades of experience in organizational change management, I bring a systemic, heart-centered approach to lasting transformation.​​
Building Stronger Leaders & Teams
The world needs courageous and conscious leaders and partners ready to contribute to societal change efforts. That’s so much easier said than done, however, when prior investments have been disappointing, and we’re in a time of collective exhaustion.
Many Ways offers:
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Diversity and Belonging Coaching
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Support for hiring and onboarding
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Equity-informed team development
All while acknowledging the times and dynamics we’re in, but building towards the times and dynamics we want.
There are many ways forward.
Strengthening Organizations Through Capacity Building & Systems Mending
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Through deep listening, shared learning, reflection, and system mapping, teams can expand their capacity to approach and respond to the complexity and discomfort that may accompany innovation.
Learn together how to recognize organizational patterns, surface hidden dynamics, and use the body as a feedback and decision making tool. New information yields new options to evolve the way work is organized.
Together, bring more resources to beleaguered systems.
Intentional Facilitation for Groups & Teams
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I am a seasoned facilitator and equity-informed mediator bringing skills in...
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Meeting design
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Thoughtful group agreements
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Powerful questions
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and sensitivity to balancing individual needs within group aims.
When identity caucusing is needed, I will build a diverse consultant bench to work together for you and with you, effectively holding brave space for the difficult conversations your group needs to have.
Many groups need and deserve support to disrupt harmful dynamics, listen beyond initial reactivity, identify strategic priorities, and/or work collaboratively to articulate ambitious policy agendas.
Please allow me to help you become deeply resourced in finding many ways forward.
Board Development & Mission Alignment
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Nonprofit organizations are guided by a Board of Directors made up of individuals each bringing their own conscience, experiences, skills, expectations, hopes, and blind spots.
Coming together as individuals via an election process, they must find enough alignment with each other, to align with the organizational mission.
Holding space for disparate views yet shared goals, my facilitation and support are highly effective in helping Board members to understand their role, foster inclusionary dynamics, optimize their effectiveness, and cultivate a positive relationship with the executive.
Systems Change & Collective Impact
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Collective Impact is a framework that describes the conditions necessary for large scale social change initiatives.
Whether formally designated as Collective Impact or not, all collaboratives must include and balance the contributions of content and context experts, while centering the needs of those most impacted by inequitable structures.
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Many Ways can help you...
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Develop inclusive strategic plans that move your organization from intention to meaningful action
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Navigate policy and systems change with a framework that centers the dignity and safety of all people
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Build cross-sector partnerships that amplify community voice and drive sustainable impact
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Co-create initiatives that go beyond diversity check boxes — shifting the systems that shape your culture from the ground up
I have been privileged to work with diverse communities for decades, supporting collaboration, and stewarding heart-centered, system change.
Building Cultures of Inclusion, Belonging & Liberation
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Institutions and organizations in the U.S. and around the world must become centers of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to foster true innovation and healthy workplace dynamics.
To truly transform the structure and culture of an organization, however, requires commitment to interventions at every level of the system.
Institutional equity work must simultaneously include and address intra-personal, interpersonal, organizational and system level conditions.
Many Ways brings decades of experience in supporting organizational structure and culture change that is comprehensive, transformative, and lasting.
Speaking, Workshops & Keynote Engagements
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Engaging audiences of various compositions, sizes, and purposes, I am a seasoned speaker and trainer. Recognizing the needs of adult learners, presentations are interactive and paced according to the emerging dynamics of the space.
Topics can include...
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Collective Impact
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Policy, system and environmental change
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System view and awareness
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Developing many ways of knowing, being, and doing as leaders and teams
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Dismantling the limiting beliefs and behaviors of white dominant culture within organizations