Your People Are The Strategy
Burnout Is A Strategy Problem
Concerns about burnout amongst social impact leaders jumped from 29% to 46% in a single year. Most organizations already know their people are stretched. The question is, what are we going to change?
Burnout is rarely an individual issue. It is shaped by workload, leadership, systems, funding, team dynamics, inequity and the expectations placed on people committed to the mission. Addressing burnout means changing the conditions, creating a plan, and not just asking people to cope.
We've Been Exactly Where You Are
We’re not consultants observing your organization from the outside. We’re colleagues who have been where you are.
We’ve worked in organizations that grew faster than their people capacity could support
We’ve managed teams through funding uncertainty
We’ve personally experienced what happens when caring about the mission isn’t enough
Our lived experience shapes how we work. We partner with organizations to address the complexity behind workplace challenges, bringing strategic expertise and a real understanding of what it means to do good and be well.
Let’s Build a People and Culture Strategy That Actually Works for Your Organization
Do any of these scenarios sound familiar?
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We help you understand where you are, where the greatest opportunities exist, and what’s realistic for your organization. Through organizational wellbeing assessments, staff surveys, focus groups, interviews, and strategic discovery, we help you understand how employees experience work, define what wellbeing means in your context, and establish meaningful measures of progress.
See more: Learning & Listening · Organizational Assessment · Culture Strategy
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We facilitate a collaborative and co-created process for developing an organizational-wide definition of wellbeing--one that is directly informed by the lived experience of your staff and connected to your mission, values, and capacity. Together, we translate that shared understanding into actionable recommendations for policies, workplace practices, leadership behaviors, and organizational systems.
See more: Organizational Assessment · Facilitation · Culture Strategy
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Our leadership and executive coaching creates space for nonprofit leaders to slow down, process what they're carrying, and develop approaches to leadership that support their wellbeing and effectiveness. Leaders can strengthen their ability to navigate stress and uncertainty, manage difficult relationships, practice self-advocacy, and lead through organizational change.
See more: Coaching
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We support individuals and teams in navigating the tensions that come with mission-driven work—from compassion fatigue and conflict to funding uncertainty and abrupt organizational change. We use coaching and team facilitation to help people process what's happening beneath the surface, strengthen communication, navigate difficult conversations, and repair relationships. Our goal is to help teams develop healthier patterns of working together.
See more: Coaching · Facilitation
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We partner with philanthropic organizations to listen to and learn from the people closest to the work. From there we support organizations in designing and implementing capacity-building support based on what nonprofit partners actually need.
From grantee listening sessions and organizational learning to coaching, facilitation, workshops, and program implementation, we help funders develop responsive support that strengthens nonprofit workforce wellbeing, organizational infrastructure, and long-term sustainability.
See more: Learning & Listening · Philanthropic Advising · Capacity Building
Experience Our Work
You don’t have to be ready for a consulting engagement to experience what we’re about. Come hear us speak, slow down with us, or read and reflect alongside us. Here are a few ways to connect with us and experience our approach in the community.
Speaker & Podcast Guest
We love talking about workplace wellbeing, collective care, healthy leadership, and what it takes to create sustainable nonprofit cultures. Listen to our recorded conversations or invite us to your next podcast, conference, gathering, or event.
The Slow Down
The Slow Down is our signature, donation-based experience created specifically for social impact professionals. It’s an intentional invitation to pause, rest, reconnect, and remember that you too are a worthy cause.
Slow Read Book Club
The Slow Read Book Club is our remedy to a culture of urgency. Read with us as we move through powerful books with the practice of patience and reflection. Join us virtually.
Stay Close to the Work
Get insights every three weeks on how to turn wellbeing values into organizational practice--plus early access to upcoming events and book club updates!
Our Clients + Partners
