Our clients tell us we are not the typical consultants and facilitators. When they engage us, we leave them feeling inspired, empowered, and highly motivated. They tell us we eliminate the dread they often experience in participating in these planning processes and we bring them clarity and alignment so they can go forth and get the work done.

Here’s the value we will bring to this work with you:

• We quickly establish positivity, safety, and trust. For any facilitation process to succeed, participants need to bring their best selves into the engagement arena. This is particularly important at a time when people are experiencing high degrees of frustration and burnout. We bring practices to the engagement that switch participants brains into a positive and inspired mode, connecting them to what’s possible. This is essential to ensure we get their best thinking. Safety and trust are also features vital to ensure participants bring and explore all perspectives and are welcoming all voices into the work at hand. We rapidly build this safety and trust, resulting in the kind of dialogue that ensures inclusion and so that innovative ideas can emerge and the collective wisdom of the group is fully leveraged in service of your outcomes.
• We build leadership capacity as a bi-product of our process. We design processes to facilitate meaningful conversation and create shared ownership and empowerment among participants to ensure clarity, alignment, and strategic action. And, as we work with an organizations leaders, we bring our insights in human dynamics and change leadership to enhance their capacity to navigate key relationships and set all up for greater success.
• We are flexible and collaborative. We understand a process and plan built collaboratively will result in a more sustainable and co-owned outcome. We are committed to collaborating with you to co-create and customize processes to meets your needs. We pride ourselves on our know-how and ability to co-generate flexible, inclusive, and relevant engagement to capitalize on the collective wisdom of your participants.
• How we engage is different. Our design processes are purposeful and intentional. As facilitators, we bring our additional experience as professional leadership, team, and organizational systems coaches. This allows us to artfully create authentic relationships and powerful processes that invite diverse participants to fully engage with both their hearts and minds. We draw on a wide range of methodology for small and large group formats to ensure our engagement and planning processes are practical, participatory, and experiential.
• We leverage the power of co-facilitation to ensure high quality. When we engage with groups, we work in pairs. With two facilitators, we are better positioned to observe and interact with more of what is unfolding in the engagement and among the participants. This approach is rooted in an understanding there are always many factors at play and many roles for the facilitator, in any given moment. The content, input, and new insights are arising constantly through what is being said and in the unsaid that shows up in energy of the group. With two facilitators, we’re situated to catch all the unique perspectives and spotlight the hidden group dynamics and behaviours that need to be surfaced and artfully managed to achieve your desired outcomes.