What We Do Best

We are teachers and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers at our root--that means we're oriented to building the capacity of individuals and groups in an educational and developmental way that sticks into the future. We love coaching leaders 1:1 and in small teams.

We have a track record for developing resources to make education project go and grow. We have secured multi-million dollar competitive federal awards, philanthropic grants, and unique corporate responsibility support for public-sector initiatives. Our strategic approach is to lead and simultaneously build partner capacity to sustain future resource development.

We have the uncanny ability to get to know your context fast. We help you clarify your goals, envision multiple viable pathways toward those goals, and prioritize actions that move you toward success. 

We help you build trusting and productive cross-sector relationships--curating the right resources of talent, funding, influence, expertise, information, and capital to do more in strategic partnership than you can do on your own. 

We help you asses what's working and what needs to improve in your programming. We can help you identify concrete and compelling proof points to advocate for the good work you do. 

We have experience creating learning programs from scratch. We're dynamic facilitators. We're talented at building your capacity to design, lead, and improve educational curriculum and content for adult learning. 

We help you take actions that build trust with the communities you serve. We help you refine your message and advise your strategy on how and where to best tell your story through traditional and new media outlets. We help you build sustainable organizational capacity to do the same on your own, into the future.

We are trained researchers with special expertise in designing and executing rigorous projects to inform program and policy decision makers. ‎

We help consulting clients conceptualize and execute a collaborative strategy process that includes stakeholders in deep and authentic problem-solving. This includes: Community Asset Mapping, Visioning Process, and Team-Based Rapid Prototyping. 

We design, facilitate and improve talent systems and strategy for education, philanthropy, and nonprofit organizations large and small. This includes: Recruitment and Selection, Performance Evaluation, and Talent Retention.