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Clients as Partners

We consider the organizations, collaborative networks and individuals who engage us to be our partners, not just our clients. There is a difference. Clients hire providers to deliver professional services or advice. Partners share an investment in the successful impact of the work, and work together to co-create the greatest likelihood of desired impact.

We work with you, not just for you.

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Our partners range from global companies to activist arts groups. The commonality across all these different organizations is that someone was looking for a new way forward.

 

People who reach out to work with us tend to be…

  • Innovators, change agents and teams inside large institutions who are looking for new strategies to influence change in systems they can’t predict or control

  • Individual changemakers and organizational leaders looking to maximize their full potential personally and professionally, and to further their ability to be effective in complex conditions, especially working across cultural boundaries

  • small consulting firms, independent consultants, and coaches who want to bring leading-edge thinking back to their own clients

 
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Partnerships Testimonials

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Helping leaders see and influence patterns in complex systems

Wendy skillfully helps leaders illuminate habits in ourselves and patterns in our organizations. When we see our habits and patterns in a different light we unleash innovative ways of having influence. We don't just survive in times of chaos—yes, we even join forces with chaos.

Juli Okal, 3M
Global Leadership Coaching Lead & Global Enterprise Project Operations Leader



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A listening presence invites coherence

You came with incredible sensitivity and grace into a group of people who've been working together for 30 years or more. You were such a great listener: listening into who are these people and what are they up to and how you could contribute. You brought maturity, humbleness, and a willingness to really see how these people work and what makes this group tick. Everybody trusted you, which is a real credit to who you are and how you work. Your ability to synthesize what was said and how we were working was very helpful. The process you used–bringing your observations and sense-making–really deepened our process.

-Arawana Hayashi, The Presencing Institute, Co–founder
Social Presencing Theater, Director

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Training that sparks creativity and shifts perspective in practical ways

I wanted to give my leadership design group a new view, spark their creativity and build some bonding in our team. I wanted them to experience something that was not so far out that we couldn't bring it back and use it, but that would stretch us enough to have an experience different from what we do day-to-day here. What you did accomplished all of that.

-Jeanne Schulz, Korn-Ferry-Hay Group

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Integrative approach that generates new insight and transformation

Wendy has taken leadership science, the arts, chaos and complexity theory, and group dynamics through a power sifting process, which is transformative to experience. As the world more and more, calls for leaders who can improvise realistic, creative responses to the 'impossible' problems facing us, Wendy is helping all of us to answer their call. Every time I leave a session with Wendy, I come away with insights and process ideas which deeply impact my work.

-Alejandra C. Tobar Alatriz, People’s Movement Center, Founder 
Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center

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Creating collaborative solutions that work in the real world

You have such an incredible reputation that I had very high expectations— and those expectations were met. You have a reputation of combining creativity with thinking about leadership in ways that other people don't. You helped the City come up with a staffing model that we could implement right away. We're in our third year now and this model is building capacity of different leaders in the City. It took us awhile to get everyone on board but it's really getting there, I think everyone agrees. They think it's really valuable. It's going good... Also you have a reputation for being really easy to work with, highly dependable and all those things you want in a “consultant.” Although “consultant” is not descriptive of what you do, you're more of a colleague and a whole collaborator. You don't fit into the consultant boxes.

-Mary Altman, City of Minneapolis,
Community Planning and Economic Development