UPCOMING FEB-OCT 2026
Collaborative learning journey for people leading organizations and communities through complex challenges, focusing on the subtle, yet powerful, shifts in awareness, relationships, and practice that build more adaptive, distributed, and resilient leadership.
Applications due January 15.
UPCOMING - NOV 18 2025
Workshop facilitator at the annual IEI Faith and Community Initiative Conference, "Rooted and Rising: Faith and Community in a Changing World" in Greensboro, NC.
Learn what neuroscience tells us of human behavior (including our own), and walk away with easy-to-use techniques that support classroom calm, strengthen relationships, and reduce escalation.
Guest speaker for the University Forum Lecture Series, which provides opportunities for university students, faculty, and staff and for people in the surrounding region to hear some of the most stimulating speakers in the country.
The Better Food Policy Fund piloted a new model of participatory grantmaking. I facilitated a process that reduced burden, built trust, and shifted the tone of philanthropy toward fairness, joy, and shared ownership.
The Better Food Policy Fund was co-developed with food policy councils nationwide. I designed trauma-aware, participatory processes that built trust, celebration, and shared ownership across the field.
The Better Food Policy Fund launched as a participatory grantmaking fund, with inclusive governance at its core. This case study shows how I designed board development and facilitated the Independent Advisory Committee, building trust, shared leadership, and decision-making practices that reflected the fund’s values.
The Wave Effect was a seven-month collaborative leadership development program. With reflective practice, trauma-aware facilitation, and emergent design, participants shifted from cautious leadership to collaborative, adaptive approaches, building resilience, confronting power, and embracing systems thinking to shape healthier community patterns.
In complex work, passion isn’t enough. In this piece, I share how the 4Ps - People, Purpose, Process, and Presence - became a compass for navigating systems change.
Attending to people means more than who’s invited. Here I share stories of inclusion, leadership, and how creating space for others makes collaboration possible.