The approach

My goal in our partnership will be to help you feel like your work and actions are aligned with your values around equity, inclusion, and justice. Whether that happens though individual or group coaching for you or staff, training and facilitation around particular topics, or leadership and support on specific projects (or all of the above!), these are some of the values or strategies I’ll follow:

Goal-Oriented

I always start with a goal: What are you working towards? What do you want more of or less of? What will be different? If you don’t know yet, that’s great, too. Let’s figure it out together.

Developmentally Focused

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to this work, and striving for perfection can get in the way of progress. I’ll work with you to understand where you and organization are in their work, what’s important to you, and where your edges and boundaries are — together, we’ll find strategies that will be helpful in your context.

Grounded in Identity

We know that identities are currently predictors of people’s ability to access health and wealth and to achieve their goals. I am queer, white, and non-binary — among many other identities — and those identities shape my experience of the world and of this work. Knowing that identity always matters, my work with you will focus on supporting the idea that people need different things and are experiencing you or your organization differently.

Centered on Imagination

Doing equity and justice work can feel really daunting, and it can bring up feelings of defensiveness, fear, or shame. Those emotions are not powerful motivators. Instead, we’ll center on imagination. What can we unlock by putting justice at the core of our decisions? What new future might be available to us?

Interdependent

The work of dismantling systems of oppression isn’t just one person’s work — it’s going to take all of us choosing new ways of doing and being. Because of this, I don’t do this work on my own — I’m part of a network of practitioners who can join me.