Services
Facilitation
Skillful facilitation to navigate sticky issues, ensure action, and gain collective commitment.
Equity
Relevant and timely training, consultation, and solutions to your equity and inclusion issues.
Strategy
Collaborative and comprehensive strategy, backed by expert insights into higher education.
Project
Management
Certified support for all phases of a project’s lifecycle and training for your organization.
Change
Management
Effective guidance and methods to ensure the implementation of operational and cultural changes.
Guided Pathways Implementation
Expert and equity-minded consulting, planning, and implementation of Guided Pathways.
I had the pleasure of working with Kate when I asked her to facilitate a team building and strategy session with deans and directors across our three distinct colleges and our district office. She was instrumental in the planning and preparation stages to help to distill down the intended outcomes of the retreat, with a great balance of community building, connection, and forward visioning. She was a skilled facilitator for the session in setting a safe and engaging space, making in the moment adjustments to lean into the energy and flow, and leading us to reach clear next steps to build upon. Thank you!
– Veronica Wade
Executive Dean of Workforce Education, Seattle Colleges District
Facilitation
In the dynamic landscape of higher education, government, and private business, everyone struggles to move through ambiguous situations and come to consensus. Our expertise lies in bridging the gap between your current reality and where you want to be through skilled facilitation. Discover our engaging services and training programs designed to deliver productive agendas, guided discussions, and collective commitment to actionable next steps.
- Do you need a neutral third-party to navigate challenging dynamics? We can advance your efforts with skilled facilitation and advice at critical moments.
- Do you want to learn proven facilitation techniques? We can grow your tool kit.
- Do you find yourself with sticky issues, failed decisions, or disengaged teams? We have the methods to get your work back on track.
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Equity
Achieving equity demands more than good intentions. Whether you’re striving to improve student outcomes, close equity gaps, reshape your culture, engage your Board, or implement equity-focused strategies, we’re here to assist you.
- Do you want to move beyond diversity statements and see your outcomes improve? We assess for gaps, recommend do-able actions, and support you during implementation.
- Do you value equity but don’t know how to incorporate it into projects or operations, including budgets and resource allocation? We provide coaching, project management, customizable workshops, and more to operationalize your equity goals.
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Strategy
Are you launching a business, program, or initiative that requires expertise in higher-education, especially community colleges? We can improve your strategy with insights into student success initiatives, Guided Pathways, transfer and professional-technical policies, student services, education technology platforms, higher education administration, and more. Or maybe you need help developing or revising your strategy. Through collaborative strategy sessions, we develop a plan and deliver concrete results to achieve your mission.
- Do you want experience-backed insights into higher education that propel your work forward? We provide insider knowledge, recommendations, and connections to ensure your success.
- Do you want an engaging strategic planning process that brings together your Board, employees, and leaders? Our thoughtful, step-by-step process results in a strategic plan you’re excited about.
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Project Management
Strong project management is so much more than checklists. When done well, project management can transform the way you plan, lead, and implement initiatives. We provide structured methods for proposing and authorizing work, building interdepartmental teams, creating action plans, facilitating groups, and achieving results. We can also build your organization’s internal capacity to design, execute, and monitor projects.
- Are you curious about growing your project management know-how? We deliver customizable training and resources, as well as hands-on project management.
- Are you worried about employee turnover and how it will impact your projects? We can help you build resilient systems to withstand employee departure.
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Change Management
Our change management techniques compliment our project management services. Change management is the people side of project management, and it’s the lynchpin to sustain positive results from initiatives. Statistics show that only 30% of change efforts are realized within organizations. The other 70% fail because critical components of change management are missing. We help you manage change from the very beginning, or pinpoint why you’re off track and give you tools to manage and sustain change.
- Are you responsible for ensuring that short-term projects have long-term sustainability?
- Do you want to ensure the lasting effects of student success initiatives or other projects? We can help make this substantial undertaking into a powerful capacity-building exercise for your organization.
- Do you face resistance to your vision, loss of momentum on projects, or failure to embed changes in your organization’s daily operations? We provide the support and methods you need to perform change management right away.
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Guided Pathways Implementation
Whether you’re just getting started or advanced in your journey, we deliver proven results to implement Guided Pathways at your community college. Our expertise ensures that Guided Pathways engages employees, boosts retention, and improves students’ experiences. We offer capacity building, coaching, project management, change management, and program assessment.
- Do you need practical and clear guidance to set up and manage Guided Pathways? Choose from various structures tailored to your college’s unique needs and culture.
- Do you need change management, facilitation, or leadership skills to support your Guided Pathways efforts? We build your team’s capacity and navigate challenges together so that your work is sustained and embedded in everyday operations.
- Do you need help managing Guided Pathways projects? We provide project management to ensure your projects stay on course and achieve results.
- Do you want coaching and support so that your work has a lasting impact? Get coaching from a certified life coach with expertise in Guided Pathways.
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