Services
5-month Leadership Alliance Lab for Non-profit Board Chairs & Executives
Practice shared leadership as you make the decisions that matter most.
Why Invest in Partnership Support Now?
The alliance at the top of your organization supports Today’s challenging environment invites you into reactivity and chaos — and the alliance invited into practicing reBring steadiness and care as arts, sciences, democracy, education, and safety nets erode, and reactivity and grief are everywhere — organization health starts with you.
Cultivate confident leadership to your priorities, whether it’s about organization strategy, adjusting board composition and roles, or budgets.
Work with a seasoned, proven guide in the sector to help you get to where you want to go.
Build next-level alliance leadership
Assess: Through individual interviews we’ll identify your challenges, you’ll receive and agree recommendations for goals and measures of success to monitor.
Practice: We’ll install meeting and work practices that fit your values — and keep at them so they stick long term.
Monitor, Adapt, & Celebrate: We’ll transparently monitor progress as we go, make adaptations, and celebrate progress.
How we’ll work
Facilitated in person or virtual meetings addressing important business decisions — while installing simple practices that increase trust and resilience. Includes up to two facilitated all-board sessions for input on key topics.
Create Steadiness via effective, steady constituent communication and annual organization rhythm that leaves room for adaptation.
Asynchronous Access unlimited access to leadership coaching, non-profit innovation for effective proposals. Available via email and voice memo.
The Results
Build mutual influence and trust — even in disagreement.
Install practices and organizational rhythms that support human needs for grounding during adaptation.
Gain credibility with your board by hosting effective, participatory meetings — even when there’s tension.
Why Sarah?
🧭 Deep organization development expertise
🎯 A systems lens to change and growth — not just top-down
🧠 Facilitation that surfaces tough truths without breaking trust
💬 A deep understanding of fund development models
“Sarah’s facilitation was inclusive, human, and outcomes-oriented. She helped us do our best work by surfacing the diversity of ideas in the room while identifying shared themes we could build on to move forward. With her help, we had clarity of purpose and unity even as we brought different perspectives.” - Rev. Stephen Shaver
“XXXXSarah is one of the very best listeners I’ve ever worked with.” - Tracy Lamb, Executive Director, NEWS
Sustainable Systems Change Initiatives
Sarah partners with clients to design right-sized participation that works with complexity for sustainable change. Top-down leader-driven mandates and “expert solutions” are not deep enough for lasting change. They seldom adequately involve those who are responsible for or affected by the change, and often reflect a false hope of finality and certainty. The desire for secure ground is understandable, but can ultimately result in failure. Whether it's strategy building, a pivot for budget cuts (or increases!), succession planning, or team structure, Sarah guides groups in effective adaptive and scenario planning, and liberatory design for inclusion and greater capacity for team self-management.
“Exciting to me is the sense of emergence - like a rumble, creation. Excited and feeling more included and wanting to be more included.”
“When I first came here everything was done by committees – by someone else. This process with everyone putting in their thoughts and feelings is great.”
“We're now better trained to learn to work together with consensus rather than ‘my way is the highway.’”