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A Collaboration Exploring Culture Change: Los Angeles Bike Movement History
What starts a social movement? How does it grow? How do people work with each other and inspire others to join? I’m excited to facilitate a dynamic discussion on Friday, April 12th: Building a Bike...
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Growing the LA Community Garden Council
Did you know there are over 80 community gardens in Los Angeles County? Did you also know there’s a fantastic nonprofit called the Los Angeles Community Garden Council working to connect people to...
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Collaborating for Change along the Los Angeles Riverfront
A Riverfront District in Los Angeles? Absolutely! How do we get there? Collaboration. I just facilitated a retreat for the recently launched North East Los Angeles Riverfront Collaborative, “a...
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10 Reasons Why I’m Voting for Eric Garcetti
I first met Eric Garcetti when he first ran for city council over 12 years ago. I remember him sharing his vision for transforming Los Angeles into a more sustainable city. I was impressed then and I...
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Serving Collaborative Change
In a recent blog post, I wrote about my growing interest in serving collaborative change initiatives in Southern California. While I’m actively researching the subject, I’m also proactively using my...
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15 Process Tools for Collaboration: Building Healthy Communities Long Beach
Over the course of eight months, I served Building Healthy Communities Long Beach (BHCLB). BHCLB is a collaborative of a diverse group of partners supported by the California Endowment working together...
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24 Collaborative Change Initiatives in Southern California
In addition to serving existing collaborative change efforts in Southern California as a consultant, I’m also researching other initiatives working to bring together a broad cross-section of...
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Collaborative Panorama: Little Green Fingers Retreat
I recently facilitated a retreat for the Little Green Fingers program. What’s especially exciting for me is that this client, like many of my recent clients, is a collaboration of multiple...
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Celebrating/Mapping my 100+ Clients!
After launching my consulting practice in 2005, I’m thrilled to announce I reached a major milestone: I served my 100th client! To celebrate and document my work, I drew a map to highlight both the...
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Trevor Project Advance
I recently facilitated an incredible two-day Advance (another name for a retreat) for the Trevor Project, the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services...
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LA County Active Transportation Coalition Retreat
These days, I’m working in partnership with my Affiliates to serve collaborations change initiatives. The latest example: Jill Sourial and I recently facilitated a two-retreat for a the LA County...
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LA (Neighborhood Land Trust Retreat) Story
One way in which I know my work makes a positive difference is when clients I previously served ask to me help them out again. After last year’s very successful retreat with the Los Angeles...
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My 2013 Annual Report
In 2013, my 8th year of consulting, I’m pleased to report I served 39 organizations (15 returning clients & 24 new clients…see below for details). Not only is this the most number of organizations...
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Learning and Leading Large-Scale Organizational Change
I invite you to read a blog post I wrote for the Pepperdine Graziadio Voice reflecting on my recent learning experience in Costa Rica. I share my experiences learning about Appreciative Inquiry and...
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Appreciative Team Building
To follow up on my blog post I wrote for the Graziadio Voice about learning and applying Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as a large group intervention while in Costa Rica with my graduate program in...
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Facilitation and Values in Complex Environments
“Leadership in an environment of complexity will be that person who facilitates and creates an environment which makes it possible for the elements within the system to interact and create new forms of...
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Elevating my Practice with New Methods
As I wrap up my graduate program in Organizaion Development, I continue to elevate the quality and impact of my consulting practice by incorporating what I’m learning with my clients. I’m also sharing...
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Organization Development Reading List
It’s hard for me to believe I’m just about to wrap up my graduate school program in Organization Development! I have learned so much through my participation in this program: how to most effectively...
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My Organization Development Practitioner E-Portfolio
Part of my Master Program in Organization Development’s design includes me creating and sharing a portfolio of my work documenting my “development and accomplishments as an OD practitioner”. I’m...
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Collaborative Leadership
As an Organization Development consultant, I focus my practice on serving the leadership of organizations to effectively collaborate to affect change they would otherwise not be able to accomplish on...
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