Capacity Building & Coaching
We partner with you to plant and grow the seeds of a future you envision.
In collaboration with leaders, organizations, networks, and funders, we explore what is needed to bring about the world we want. Together, we work to overcome habits and practices that hold us back, while designing creative, nimble, and authentic strategies for change.
Grounded in the essential elements of liberating change, our capacity-building and coaching offerings meet our client partners with the envisioned clarity needed to navigate complexity and chaos. Our approach bridges the inherent tensions between leading with and advancing our vision and values while working to heal and thrive within and from the oppressive systems we are dismantling.
Our Consulting Offerings
Transformative Strategy in Chaos & Complexity
We work with our partners to develop strategic frameworks that support clarity in complexity and visionary response in chaos, and to cultivate cultures of strategic thinking, learning, and adaptation within their organizations, foundations, and networks.
Values-Aligned Culture
We support leaders, organizations, foundations, and networks in cultivating cultures grounded in interdependence and sovereignty, where liberating practices and values guide structures, operations, leadership, and ways of working. These in-depth processes are rooted in liberatory practice, centering race and other forms of cultural difference.
Leadership, Governance & Coaching
We partner with organizations, foundations, and networks to develop and support individual and team leadership at multiple levels, to clarify roles and responsibilities, define or re-invent decision-making processes, and increase capacity to build and share power across differences in ways that advance mission.
Liberated Finance
We support nonprofits in aligning financial strategy with organizational values by strengthening systems, embedding liberatory practices, and offering interim financial leadership to foster collective, sustainable stewardship.
Learning & Evaluation
We design, facilitate, and participate in learning and evaluation projects, communities of practice, and research engagements within organizations and across movements that center dialogue, experimentation, storytelling, and active learning. To learn more about participating in, partnering with, or funding our capacity building work, please reach out!
“[Change Elemental] knows when to push and when to listen, knows when to hold us as a team and as individuals, and how to support us to move towards making the decisions we need to make.” – Jamie Beran, Bend the Arc