One way in which I know my work makes a positive difference is when clients I previously served ask to me help them out again. After last year’s very successful retreat with the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust, I’m thrilled to have facilitated another staff retreat for them this year focused on a theme of story telling. Continue reading
LA (Neighborhood Land Trust Retreat) Story
LA County Active Transportation Coalition Retreat
These days, I’m working in partnership with my Affiliates to serve collaborations change initiatives. The latest example: Jill Sourial and I recently facilitated a two-retreat for a the LA County Active Transportation Coalition, a project between the Safe Routes to School National Partnership and LA County Bicycle Coalition funded by the LA County Dept. of Public Health. Continue reading
Trevor Project Advance
I recently facilitated an incredible two-day Advance (another name for a retreat) for the Trevor Project, the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and
suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth. As an organization, Trevor Project has grown dramatically in the last few years of its 15 year history and now has 40+ staff working from Los Angeles, New York and Washington D.C. Continue reading
Celebrating/Mapping my 100+ Clients!
After launching my consulting practice in 2005, I’m thrilled to announce I reached a major milestone: I served my 100th client! To celebrate and document my work, I drew a map to highlight both the geography/type of organizations I served: Continue reading
Collaborative Panorama: Little Green Fingers Retreat
I recently facilitated a retreat for my 100th client, the Little Green Fingers program. What’s especially exciting for me is that this client, like many of my recent clients, is a collaboration of multiple organizations working together to affect change in Southern California. They are partnering to design, build and engage the community around the development of eight new community gardens designed for children under five years old. Continue reading
56 Collaborative Change Initiatives in Southern California
In addition to serving existing collaborative change efforts in Southern California as a consultant, I’m also researching other initiatives working to bring together a broad cross-section of stakeholders together to create positive change in the region. Below is what I have identified so far. If you know of other collaborative change initiatives in Southern California, please let me know. Continue reading
