My purpose and passion: Walking with individuals and organizations as they become who they say they most want to be.  My stance on leadership: Unlike the traditional, solo, heroic leader model, leadership is a process, not a title.  Therefore, it can live anywhere in an organization, a community, or in a movement. Leadership at its best is about working with others to fully realize an organizational or community agenda and to mobilize to tackle adaptive challenges.

My primary approaches:

• Coaching and appreciative inquiry

• Relationship building and finding common ground

• Storytelling and honoring multiple narratives

• Leveraging strengths

• Frameworks and common language

• Strategic design thinking and using liberating structures

• Margin to center and power analysis

Sample Speaking and Consulting Topics

• Change, Transition, and Adaptive Leadership

• Building Leaderful Organizations (shared leadership)

• Board Organizing

• Creating a Strengths-Based Organization

• Coaching Skills for Managers and Leaders

• Executive Transitions

• Effective Teams

• Failure and Learning

• Peer Coaching

• Sabbatical Planning

• Self-Care and Resilience

• Strategic Leader Development

• Strategy and Purpose
   

 Sample List of Clients and Partners

• Aspen Forum for Community Solutions

• Bank of America Neighborhood Excellence Initiative

• Bay Area Local Initiatives Support Corporation

• BIPOC ED Coalition of Washington State

• Blue Shield of California Foundation

• Brainerd Foundation

• CALCASA

• California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

• The California Endowment

• The California Wellness Foundation

• Communities Rise

• CompassPoint

• EarthJustice

• Exhale

• Gap Foundation

• Group Health Foundation

• Homeless Prenatal Program

• Human Options

• Idaho Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence

• Immigrant Legal Resource Center

• Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition

• Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center

• Missouri Foundation for Health

• Move to End Violence Initiative

• National AIDS Fund

• Neighborhood Funders Group

• Northern California Grantmakers

• NoVo Foundation

• OneAmerica

• OneJustice

• Philanthropy Northwest

• Raikes Foundation

• Rainier Valley Corps

• Reach Out and Read Washington

• Survivors of Prostitution Abuse Calling for Enlightenment (SPACE)

• The Center for Leadership Innovation

• The Resilience Initiative

• UPS Foundation

• Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence

• Wellspring Advisors

• The W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Sample List of Leadership Initiative and Design Delivery

• Coaching and Philanthropy Initiative, Kellogg Foundation

• Community Development Leadership Institute, Bay Area Local Initiative Support Corporation

• Gap Inc. Leadership Initiative, Gap Foundation

• James A. Johnson Fellowship Program, Fannie Mae Foundation

• Leadership Program for Executives Serving Transition-Age Youth, TCWF

• Leadership Program for Women Executives in Underserved Communities, UPS Foundation

• Mid-Career Institute for Environmental Leaders, Brainerd Foundation

• Network Weaver Learning Lab, Blue Shield of California Foundation

• Philanthropy Forward: Leadership for Change Fellowship, Neighborhood Funders Group and Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions

• Strong Field Project, Blue Shield of California Foundation