Go beyond planning for change
to being the change --
together
Download or view a 4-page overview of Jen and her work here:
WHY EFFECTIVE LEADERS ARE
REINVENTING HOW THEY WORK,
NOT JUST WHAT THEY DO
When best-laid plans stall — or strategy never moves off the shelf — it's rarely a technical problem.
It's a human one.
Most organizations invest heavily in plans and tools, and very little in the relationships (inside and out), culture, and capacity required to make them work and adapt as the world changes rapidly.
The complex challenges facing our communities, watersheds, and organizations can't be solved by any single leader, agency, or sector — and they're beyond what familiar 20th century leadership and strategic tools were built to handle.
Leaders who get bold results build common ground before strategy and grow cultures
that learn and adapt in real time, amidst "standard operating turbulence" —
while work gets done.
For testimonials and examples, read on, download the PDF linked above,
or reach out to Jen.
Client Testimonials
As a leader, do you feel like standard management practices and meeting norms frustrate (and/or bore) people while getting poor results?
Jen supports leaders and groups looking for effective ways to take themselves, their work, and their organizations or networks beyond what is often deemed possible.
Instead of creating static plans that don't evolve with the times, Jen supports groups to listen, quickly find common ground, strengthen relationships for the tough conversations, co-create strategy that lives within them (not just a binder), and to learn, adapt, and improve together.
Jen works with governments, tribes, nonprofits, and multi-sector collaboratives facing challenges where traditional approaches have stalled.
Recent projects include supporting:
Reinvention of a small City by community members and staff;
on-the-ground holistic restoration practitioners' voices to shape a state wildfire and forest resilience plan;
County departments to build a collaborative culture and climate resilience strategy; regional tribal economic development collaboration;
co-creative state corridor master planning with remote rural communities;
place-based watershed-forest-fire restoration organizations across NW CA to develop a strategic partnership; and
a variety of organizational culture and strategy transformation projects.
By creating the conditions for groups to bridge diverse interests and complex power dynamics, seemingly impossible goals become achievable results.
Experience
Jen brings 35+ years of rare cross-sector expertise and vision-to-implementation savvy to support innovating leaders
going after bold results.
Jen helps us become better humans, leaders, teams, organizations, networks, and communities while we work -- rather than through trainings or static strategic planning retreats that are disconnected from the day-to-day.
To every project, Jen brings experience in collaborative innovation, complex project development and funding, team-, leadership- and capacity-building, rural and Native communities engagement, community planning, strategic organizational evolution, relational community organizing, community philanthropy, human-centered design, ecosystem management... and more.
For resume highlights, download the PDF at the top of the page.
