Client List

The list below is a rather long list of clients and communities of practice I have worked with. However, with each, I feel gratitude. With each I have felt invitation to work authentically, with clear purpose, and to build collaborative capacity.

There’s a few general categories. Most of my work tends to be with Community and Activist Organizations. However, I also love the way that corporations are finding their way to deeper patterns of collaboration and wisdom together. Sometimes in smaller teams. Sometimes in large conferences — I really love re-designing large conferences to be deliberately interactive. I’ve done significant work in the domains of education and healthcare.

Community / Activist Organizations

  • Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE) — Race Equity Awareness Workshops
  • Authentic Leadership in Action Institute — Case Story Presenter
  • Bush Foundation / Meadowlark Institute — Art of Hosting Training
  • Business Alliance for Local Living Economies — Customized Leadership Training, Annual Conference Design
  • Bioneers Salt Lake City — Visionary Planning Meeting
  • Calling the Circle NonProfit — Board Member, Board Chair
  • Consortium of Endowed Episcopal Parishes — Presentation
  • Disciples of Christ — Art of Hosting Training for Sr. Leadership
  • Energy Trust of Oregon — 2 Day Leadership Training / Art of Hosting
  • Environmental Protection Agency — Open Space Planning Session
  • Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio — Leadership Retreat, Circle Workshops, Becoming Beloved Community Retreat
  • Family Policy Council — Network Retreat
  • First Alaskans Institute — Healthy, Thriving Communities Art of Hosting
  • Forest Service Region 4 + Forestry, Fire & State Lands — Community Engagement Consultation & Facilitation
  • Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration — General Assembly Planning and Hosting, Elections Assembly Planning and Hosting
  • Frasier Valley Presbytery — Participative Leadership Training
  • General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, United Methodist Church — Leadership and Planning Retreat
  • Glendale Community — Core Team Development, Community Summits
  • Global Ministries of United Methodist Church — CCW Annual Continuing Education Meeting Design, Church and Community Ministries Coaching, Regional CCW Meetings
  • Greater Miami Jewish Federation — Staff Annual Planning Day
  • Grinnell United Church of Christ — Core Team Development; Strategic Experiments Retreat
  • Holladay United Church of Christ — Strategic Visioning Council
  • Human Rights Education Center of Utah — Community Conversation on Bullying Prevention
  • Illinois Conference, United Church of Christ — Clergy Retreat Consultation
  • Impact Hub Amsterdam — Art of Hosting Workshop
  • Impact Hub Salt Lake — Air Quality Innovation Forum
  • International Disciples Women’s Ministries — Biannual Cabinet Meeting
  • Island Senior Resources — Community Engagement Coaching
  • KBYU Television — Future Search Conference
  • Legal Aid of Western Ohio (LAWO) — Race Equity Awareness Workshops
  • National Parks Conservation Association — Gateway Community Forum Utah, Colorado
  • National Park Service, Department of the Interior — Future Search Workshop
  • National Park Service — Organizational Development Consulting Group Workshop
  • Office of the General Ministry and President, Disciples of Christ — Participatory Leadership Training
  • Ohio Organizing Collaborative — All Staff Retreat
  • Ohio Justice and Policy Center — All Staff Meeting / Learning Retreat
  • Provo Center for Women and Children in Crisis — Envisioning Next Steps
  • The Rock Center — Circle Workshop / Connection Workshop
  • Region 10 Tribal Leaders — Open Space Future Planning Session
  • Rhode Island Food Council — Circle Workshop & Practice
  • Rural Futures Institute — Open Space Planning Session
  • Salt Lake Center for Engaging Community — Culture of Connection Initiative, Enspirited Community Workshop; Sustainability Summit; Post Election World Cafe, World Cafe Workshop, Leadership Development Program, Board Member
  • Salt Lake County: Lead Free Salt Lake and Green and Healthy Homes Initiative — Staff Retreat, Planning Meeting
  • Shriver Center for Poverty Law — All Staff Meeting, Organizational Health
  • Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance — Wildlands Dialogue Project; Faith and the Lands Conversations; Activist Summit
  • St. John’s Cathedral — Core Team Development; Dream Together Conference; Art of Hosting Training
  • Streetwork — Open Space Workshop for Workers with Homeless Youth
  • Strengthening Families Illinois — Art of Hosting Training
  • Tacheria Interfaith Spirituality — Community Workshop
  • Tampa Bay Art of Hosting Community of Practice — World Cafe Workshop
  • Unitarian Universalist Church — Strategic Imagining
  • United Church at Chapel Hill — Leadership and Community Imagination
  • United Church of Christ Pension Board, Faculty — Next Generation Leadership Initiative, Annuitant Visitor Program Design + Facilitation
  • United Church of Christ, Rocky Mountain Conference — Annual Conference Design and Hosting; Ignite Cohort Leadership Initiative
  • United Church of Christ, Central Pacific Conference — Annual Conference Design, Hosting, and Core Team Development
  • United Church of Christ, Southern New England Conference — Board Retreat; Grief & Grace Retreat; Staff Training; Area Conference Minister Retreat
  • United Church of Christ, National Board — Board Meeting Design, Hosting
  • United Church of Christ — Ignite Leadership Initiative
  • Utah Campaign to End Childhood Hunger — Future Search Conference
  • Utah Conference on Homelessness — Future Search Conference
  • Wasatch Cooperative Market — Board Strategic Visioning
  • Washington Nonprofits — Annual Conference Conversation Opening
  • Washington State Association of Local Public Health Officials — Art of Hosting Training
  • Washington State Department of Social and Health Services — Art of Hosting Training: Strengthening Communities from the Inside Out
  • Whatcom Family & Community Network — Transition Leadership Team Meeting

Large Conferences

  • BALLE — 2013 Annual Conference Design Coaching
  • Biodynamic Conference — 2014 Annual Conference Design Coaching
  • Disciples of Christ — 2009 General Assembly World Cafe and Participative Learning
  • Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration — 2014 Elections Assembly
  • Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration — 2013 Quadrennial Assembly
  • Institute of Noetic Sciences — 2009 Learning Village and Plenary Interactive Learning
  • Partnership For Education in Jewish Education — 2008 Assembly World Cafe
  • Pegasus Systems Thinking in Action — 2007 Conversation Space
  • Providence Care — 2009 Leadership Conference World Cafe
  • Region 10 EPA Tribal Leaders Summit — Design, Harvesting
  • Rural Futures Institute (Nebraska) — 2011 Open Space Conversations Design, Hosting
  • Rural Ontario Institute — 2012 Leadership Summit Design, Hosting
  • Washington Nonprofits — 2014 Annual Conference Conversation Opening
  • United Church of Christ — 2011 Rocky Mountain Conference Design, Hosting
  • United Church of Christ — 2016, 2017 Central Pacific Conference Design, Hosting
  • University of Saskatchewan — 2011 Leadership Conference Theme Weaving
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Corporate / Labor Unions

  • Canadian Media Guild / Canadian Broadcasting Corporation — Strategic Planning Presidents Council
  • Canadian Labour Congress — Education Committee Training
  • Canadian Union of Public Employees — Developers 2008 Planning Meeting; Strengthening Local Union Leadership Training
  • Great Plains Communications — 2 Day Leadership Retreat
  • Money Quotient — Strategic Visioning Day
  • Novell — Future Search Conference
  • Poultry Health Services — Leadership Training, Retreat
  • Rael & Letson — Culture Rebuild
  • Sonepar USA / Codale Electric — Sales & Operations Leadership Development Residency; Leadership Development Program, Management Essentials Program
  • Worth Living, Compass Wealth Management — Art of Hosting Training
  • Zions Bank — Leadership Workshop

Education

  • Bastyr University — Cultivating the Heart of Leadership Training
  • Brigham Young University Marriott School of Management
  • Brigham Young University MBA OBHR Class of 2006 — Leadership Training
  • Brigham Young University Theatre and Media Arts Department — Department Strategic Planning
  • Carolina Clinical Education Consortium — Board Retreat and Strategic Planning Meeting
  • Cincinnati Waldorf Schools — Strategic Planning / Community Building
  • Dyer Institute for Leading Organizational Change
  • Finishing Trades Institute Northwest — Coaching
  • Leadership for Educational Equity (LEE) — Circle Workshop, Orientation, Training
  • National Center on Student Leadership — Workshops for Students and Mentor Leaders
  • New York City Department of Education — Education Reform Partner Retreat
  • Ottawa Area Intermediate School District — Future Search Conference
  • Roseman University — Workshop on Implicit Bias
  • University of North Texas, Denton — Leadership Training and Retreats, Advanced Practice Program
  • University of Texas at Arlington — Art of Participatory Leadership for Sr. Leadership
  • Utah Valley University Woodbury School of Business — Summit and Planning Meeting
  • Utah Valley University, Center for the Advancement of Leadership — Master Mind Series
  • Viterbo University — Arts Integration Core Team  and Community Retreats
  • Viterbo University — Religious Studies / Servant Leadership Integration Team
  • Viterbo University, Institutional Advancement — Leadership Retreat
  • Western Academy of Management — Presentation on Strategic Planning in Universities
  • Western University — Customized Circle Training for Medical Students
  • Wilkes University — Staff, Leadership, and Faculty Retreat

Health Care

  • Academy of Preventive and Innovative Medicine — Creating Empowered Practice
  • Bastyr University — Cultivating the Heart of Leadership Training
  • Center for Human Development — Art of Hosting Training
  • Columbus Medical Foundation — Art of Hosting Training
  • Cradle Cincinnati — Online Circle in Practice Training
  • Del Norte Health Foundation — Participative Leadership Training
  • Healthy People Healthy Midvale City — Demonstration Project for Health and Resilience
  • Klamath Health Partnership — Strategic Dreaming for Improved Health and Access to Health Services
  • The Learning Institute, Foundation for Healthy Generations — NEAR Science Think Tank on Ethics (Neurobiology, Epigenetics, Adverse Childhood Experiences, Resilience)
  • Navajo Health Services — Art of Hosting Training
  • Providence Care — Leadership Symposium, Leadership Development Program, Conversational Leadership Workshop
  • Uniting Care Community — 2 Day Workshop and Training on The Circle Way
  • Utah Hospital Association — Community Strategizing
  • Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment — Community Organizing Explorations
  • Visiting Nurse Associations of America — Future Search Conference
  • Washington State Association of Local Public Health Officials — Participative LeadershipTraining
  • Western Colorado Individual Practice Association — Coaching Support for Annual Convening
  • Worldlink Medical Academy — Creating Empowered Practice Leadership Retreat and Community Building
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