Integrating theory and practice
for fresh perspectives and forward momentum through uncertainty.
Initiatives + Projects
Generative change is messy work that can challenge all we think we know collectively and individually. I work with groups and initiatives to make space for nuance, distinctions, and to speak plainly about frictions. This is how we navigate to fresh perspectives on what’s possible—and begin sketching maps of how to get there.
From local invigoration to international organizations and networks, I work with experienced practitioners in process design and coaching to support leaders in creating compelling, creative and equitable futures. In the past few years, I’ve worked on projects and initiatives with the following partners:
My Approach
Diversifying theories and methods.
Scholars can be detached from practice, and practitioners can be resistant to challenging the theories that make them feel most proficient. We can become closed off, hooking our leadership, our facilitation, or our change, to assumptions so thoroughly embedded, we can’t see clearly. Instead of attaching to a particular method or theory, let’s be wayfinders together.
Engaging
tensions.
I was a practitioner before going further into graduate research and realized I’d been throwing around terms – systems change, participatory leadership, paradigm shift – without understanding more fully what they meant. Without deep understanding, we can’t open up to the kind of nuance, distinctions, and frictions that may surface entirely new possibilities.
Moving beyond groupthink.
Once we realize how much we don’t know, we can navigate uncertainty. The moment of knowing how much we don’t know can launch us beyond instinctual groupthink, baggage, assumptions, and biases. Only a handful of people need to make that shift for it to ripple throughout a collective.
