Strategy development, Landscape analysis, Stakeholder consultations, Workplace culture assessment

I help mission-driven organizations navigate often crowded advocacy space, set clear, resource-sensitive goals and priorities and maximize effective cross-team collaboration. I do this by supporting organizations to develop focused strategies and plans and build healthy workplace culture that enables dynamic teams to thrive. By designing and facilitating inclusive processes, consultations, and planning meetings, I ensure efficient operations, wide engagement, and firm understanding of the vision and way forward. I am successful because of my ability to see the big picture yet break it down into a step-by-step plan and to communicate complex ideas clearly and simply. I also create a welcoming and open environment for dialogue and can pay equal and high attention to details and to the energy and engagement among a team. I bring value to an organization because of my diversity of skills, high emotional intelligence, and my unwavering commitment to excellence.

• Strategy development: process design and management, consultations, feedback management

• Landscape analysis: desk review, external and internal interviews or focus groups, recommendations for strategic engagement

• Stakeholder consultations: process design and management, facilitation of consultations, compilation of feedback

• Workplace culture assessment: process design and management, consultations, solutions identification

Meeting management, Strategy development, Action tracking, Member outreach, Consensus building

My expertise is helping coalitions of similar organizations collaborate effectively to identify and achieve shared goals. I do this by actively facilitating dynamic conversations among organizations, creating clear and inclusive processes to build a shared agenda and strategy, and keeping a close eye on details and progress to ensure the group stays on track. I am successful because of my superior organizational and planning skills coupled with high emotional intelligence, my skill in seeing commonalities among different actors with competing priorities, and my ability to build trust with a diversity of players. I bring value by leveraging my own experience as a member of coalitions and my deep understanding of the importance of collaboration to achieving results. Together we can go further.

• Meeting management: agenda, scheduling, cadence, facilitation

• Tracking of/follow up on action items

• Consensus building: process design and management, meeting/dialogue facilitation, document production management, feedback management

• Planning meeting/workshop facilitation: details planning, agenda creation, meeting facilitation, meeting summary

• Stakeholder consultations: process design and management, facilitation of consultations, compilation of feedback

Agenda creation, Consultations, Inclusive Facilitation, Meeting Summaries

I support teams, organizations, and coalitions to design inclusive, dynamic, and productive annual meetings, dialogues, and planning workshops. I recognize the equal importance of the process, for building relationships and fostering buy-in, and the outcome for ensuring the value of meetings amidst packed schedules. I promote open dialogue, self-awareness, mindful and respectful listening, and a willingness to ask and answer potentially tough questions. I’m successful because I rely on structured but flexible facilitation and a deliberate range of activities and approaches that keep to the agenda, create a welcoming, open environment, and enable equitable participation that accounts for styles of communication, comfort levels speaking in groups, and roles and expertise among participants. I bring value because of my high emotional intelligence, my own mindfulness practice, and my experience in countless meetings and workshops!

• Meeting/Workshop Design: identification of objectives and deliverables, agenda creation, meeting materials production management, speaker preparation, logistics planning

• Meeting/Workshop facilitation: management of agenda, time keeping, facilitation of dialogue, maintenance of speaker queues, monitoring of chat (virtual meetings)

• Meeting/Workshop summaries: production of brief meeting or workshop reports capturing key takeaways and decisions, unaddressed issues, and next steps