"With your skilled guidance, hard work,
dedication, and flexibility, we
grew as a group and learned to work as one."
- Participant, Landmark Volunteers

"Stephanie has an incredible ability to hold a mirror
up to a situation and identify what's really happening,
clearly and succinctly."
- anonymous program participant

Your organization is in the midst of change, which is good because organizations must continually transform themselves in order to be successful. Times change. Priorities change. And yet, people often do not change as fast or as easily. Systems can get stale and processes no longer make sense anymore. Transformation is stressful, because it means jumping into the unknown.

During a minor or radical shift in your organization, it helps to bring in outsiders with the skills to support the process and the people. We are change agents who teach coping strategies to make it all easier to handle. Transformation should be a time of reflection, celebration, and renewal. We can help you through these steps in order to take your organization to where it needs to go.

The toughest thing to change is organizational culture. We know. And when the environment is unhealthy, values or priorities are not shared, and communication is poor, everything becomes an unnecessary struggle.

It’s time to stop struggling.

Creative Facilitations can help transform the way your employees communicate with one another. Share that your favorite afternoon snack is fruit (rather than the usual junk food) and, voila, people know how to make you happy during a meeting. Learn that your colleague prefers to communicate via phone and you can stop wasting time with emails that don’t get answered. By letting it be known that 4pm is your least productive time of day, people will request morning meetings. When colleagues have good trusting, supportive, and fun working relationships with each other – with clear expectations and transparent work habits – things become easier. Productivity and happiness levels skyrocket. Now that’s transformation. Yeah!

The intricacies of change
Change can be filled with venting and negativity, which only brings everyone down. We focus on the positives.

We base transformational processes on two questions:
1. "What is working well?"
2. "What could be better?"

It makes all the sense in the world to figure out what is good and worth holding on to, and to celebrate and multiply it. With individual and group action plans created in an interactive way by you and your colleagues, positive buy-in is the first step toward success.

In addition to consulting on the overall change process, we have served as Interim staff (Executive Director, Director, Manager, and Coordinator levels) for up to a year. We leave organizations in an infinitely stronger position than when we started.

Samples of past organizational transformation projects:
1. Discovered misunderstandings and supported changes across departments acting as a multicultural affairs consultant during new director search.
2. Coached employees through a crisis, saving the organization from turnover.
3. Surfaced issues from MA students concerning their multinational degree program. Delivered comprehensive analysis to President for follow-up action.
4. Deepened understanding of diversity issues throughout the organization and implemented changes toward inclusivity.
5. Supported a new boss by helping her set expectations with her team and recreate the team’s culture.