Through purposeful and participatory design, we guide and support you in becoming the learning community you envision.
Our Approach
Our approach centers on the process, which is sometimes messy and nonlinear, yet is always inclusive and purposeful. We start where you are and custom-design our method based on in-depth interviews, generative conversations, and a deep dive into your internal and external environments up front.
We help you connect the dots and data points, make meaning of the data, synthesize the moving parts to discern patterns and themes, and create roadmaps for goals, metrics, strategies, and plans to build on your organization’s strengths and its unfolding opportunities of promise and potential.
Our Values
We collaborate with leaders of colleges and universities to become the learning community they envision by providing a facilitative process and framework to plan for and adapt to an evolving future. We value:
The Participatory
Process
We prioritize cultivating an inclusive community that ensures and values all perspectives and voices; all stakeholders feel welcome, engaged, valued, understood, connected and worthy.
Collaboration
Our approach is collaborative, open and welcoming in nature. We serve as thought-partners, teammates, and guides, supporting you every step of the journey towards collective action.
Empathy
We listen deeply. We are curious. We are attentive and responsive. We are high-touch. That you feel understood and connected, supported and encouraged, hopeful and optimistic, and enlightened, energized, and inspired is important to us.
Customization
Because your learning community is unique, we custom-design our methods to meet your distinctive needs. We are intentional. Our innovative, layered, contextual approach may employ appreciative inquiry, systems theory, complexity theory, interpretist theory/social constructionism, dialogic and diagnostic practices.