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I'm at my best when nobody has the answer.

I don't do routine retreats where everyone already knows what they'll decide. I work with groups facing genuine uncertainty — the moments when the old playbook is broken and the group has to find the way forward together.

I believe that any strategic effort in those situations must engage all three domains of the human mind: thought, emotion, and intuition. Only then can you access a group's full creativity and create shared ownership of the best way forward.

High-Stakes Facilitation

For the moments when the old playbook is broken.

I work with organizations facing genuine uncertainty — AI transformation, political upheaval, sector-wide disruption. Not routine retreats where everyone already knows what they'll decide. The situations where nobody in the room has the answer, and the group has to find it together.

What this looks like

  • Typically 1–2 day intensive workshops with senior leaders
  • Includes stakeholder interviews and custom design
  • Built on the Whole Mind framework: Thought → Emotion → Intuition
  • You leave with a framework for action, not a binder of notes

From the field

A two-day workshop for 30 leaders in healthcare political advocacy — a group that assumed they couldn't accomplish much together. They left with a shared set of principles, a deeper understanding of the system they comprised together, and fundamentally different relationships with one another.

AI Futures Workshops

AI is here. Let's think through what that means.

A structured workshop format where your team or network stops reacting to AI and starts thinking clearly about it. A facilitated process where participants wrestle with what AI means for their work, their people, and their mission — and leave with concrete next steps.

What this looks like

  • Short expert talks paired with hands-on group exercises
  • Participants identify real problems AI could help solve
  • Prioritization of implementation steps and advocacy actions
  • Customized for your sector: healthcare, libraries, government, nonprofits

From the field

An AI Summit bringing together statewide leaders in behavioral health to move past anxiety, identify opportunities to use AI to address their most pressing problems, and prioritize next steps for their own organizations, their collaboration, and the state as a whole.

Faciliton

A free AI workshop design assistant — built on 20 years of methodology. It does 80% of what I used to charge for.

That's not a threat to my business. That's the point. The situations that actually require me in the room are the ones nobody's AI can handle yet.

What People Say

What you've been able to do here in Memphis is to help people think not just 'outside the box' but 'outside the building.' With the way you first of all listen and second of all encourage openness, you have the capacity for people to trust you almost instantly. I'm not sure that's something you've acquired or something you were born with. I just think you have an innate ability to listen and to have people feel comfortable in your presence and to know they can say whatever they want to say and you won't use it inappropriately.

Robert R. Waller, MD

Former CEO, The Mayo Clinic

Organizations I've Worked With

Bureau of Indian Affairs
JSI Research & Training
National Association of Community Health Centers
Georgetown University
Chapel Hill Public Library
Colorado Community Health Network
Open Government Partnership
Oxfam America
Kitsap Regional Library
The Conference Board
Bleeker
The Colorado Health Foundation
Colorado Hospital Association
The Colorado Trust
Office of Rural Health
The Civic Canopy
HIAS
YALSA
SBM
American University

The old playbook is broken.

If your organization is facing something it's never faced before — and you want a guide who's already on the other side — let's talk.

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