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Gather + Design

I design and facilitate spaces where people can think together, feel what is present, and do the work that requires shared attention.

This practice is for moments when alignment cannot be emailed and decisions cannot be made in isolation. Gather + Design creates intentional spaces for groups to slow down, surface what matters, and move forward with a clearer sense of purpose and responsibility to one another.

The work takes shape through retreats, planning sessions, learning journeys, and convenings. Each gathering is designed in close relationship to context, people, and desired outcomes, with attention to pacing, participation, and care.

This work is often useful when:

  • Groups need space to reflect before making decisions

  • Teams are seeking alignment after change or growth

  • Learning and exchange matter as much as outcomes

  • There is a desire to strengthen relationships alongside strategy

Ways we might work together include:

  • Facilitated retreats and offsites

  • Team development and strategic planning sessions

  • Learning journeys, convenings, and labs

  • Participatory processes that integrate creative methods

I work with philanthropic collaboratives, cultural institutions, and movement organizations to design gatherings that support clarity, shared ownership, and meaningful progress.

If you're designing something that needs to actually land — let's talk.

Advise + Accompany

I work alongside leaders and organizations at moments that require care, clarity, and thoughtful choice.

This work is designed for situations where the next step is not obvious, where there is pressure to move quickly, and where it matters how decisions are made, not just what gets decided. My role is to help slow the moment down, surface what is shaping the situation, and support choices that people can live with over time.

Advise + Accompany includes coaching, strategic advising, and focused intensives. The form shifts depending on what is needed, but the orientation remains the same. Thoughtful pacing. Honest reflection. Attention to both people and structure.

This work is often useful when:

  • Leaders are holding competing priorities or expectations

  • Teams are navigating change without a shared frame

  • Decisions carry cultural or relational weight

  • There is a need to pause, reassess, or realign before moving forward

Ways we might work together include:

  • One-on-one or small group coaching

  • Strategic advising during active initiatives or transitions

  • Deep dive days or short intensives focused on a specific question or decision

I partner with leaders across philanthropy, arts and culture, and movement organizations, supporting both the human and structural dimensions of their work.

If you're in a moment that needs a thinking partner — someone who will stay close to the work and tell you the truth — I'd like to hear what you're navigating.

Speak + Share

I speak and share ideas about culture through keynotes, panels, podcasts, hosting and moderating. My work blends storytelling, systems thinking, and lived experience to help groups think more clearly, name what is happening, and move with greater intention.

This work is a strong fit for:

  • Leadership retreats and convenings

  • Philanthropic gatherings and learning exchanges

  • Arts and culture conferences

  • Internal staff conversations during moments of transition

  • Public-facing panels, talks, and interviews

Common conversation threads include:

  • Culture Is the Operating System
    If you want different results, you have to redesign the culture producing them.

  • Threshold Leadership: Designing for Transition, Not Control
    In moments of instability, the work isn’t tighter control — it’s wiser transition.

  • Memory Is Strategy
    Alignment begins when we tell the truth about how we got here.

  • Humor, Truth, and Power
    Laughter opens the door to conversations power would rather avoid.

  • Liberatory Containers: Designing Rooms That Change What’s Possible
    The structure of the room determines what becomes possible inside it.

Expect stories, weaving ideas, theories and song lyrics, systems thinking, conjure, humor, and a room that leaves with something it didn't walk in with.

Interested in booking a keynote, conversation, or moderated session?
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Selected Talks & ConveningS

I speak at conferences, convenings, and gatherings rooted in the belief that how we move together matters.

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