Primary Service Offerings
Strategic Group Facilitation
Groups engaged in complex problem-solving must be 100% present and activated. Unlocking the full participation of a small intact team or a large group of diverse stakeholders requires highly focused planning and skilled adaptive facilitation. David specializes in optimizing these dynamics in all types of gatherings, including team meetings, offsite retreats, and large planning events; he supports groups to navigate and find solutions to their most vexing challenges.
David has applied his acquired mastery with hundreds of leaders, working teams, and governance boards who have entrusted him with facilitating delicate and intricate conversations and agreements. His approach and technique enable groups of all sizes to identify and focus exclusively on what matters most; David manages the complex interplay between collaborative thinking, relationship-building, process planning, and decision-making.
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Executive Coaching
Leaders who benefit the most from executive coaching with David seek a gentle but firm and steady push. They are highly competent professionals who aim to identify their highest purposes, face their toughest challenges, build on their most valuable strengths, and achieve highly tangible goals. They are eager to explore how they can better lead, create healthier culture, develop sharper strategies, and optimize key relationships.
Coaching is tough but ultimately exhilarating work, which is why it requires constant reflection, steadfast determination, and a passionate desire to grow.
Recommended starting points: Willingness to work hard, receptiveness to honest feedback, comfort with ambiguity, eagerness to try hard things, openness to learning, motivated to persevere.
Strategic Planning
Creating a plan that is visionary, strategic, and practical requires thoughtfulness, discipline, and ingenuity. David prioritizes attention to process design from the outset, ensuring each stage of planning is carefully conceived, then skillfully navigated. Strategic plans are created collaboratively with clients to optimize their unique culture, capacity, and resources.
David has led foundations, non-profits, schools, and multi-stakeholder collaborations through over 30 strategic planning processes. These plans have proven to be highly actionable and ultimately transformative.
Many organizations benefit from first examining and confronting existing organizational culture challenges that might otherwise thwart the implementation of promising new strategies. This pre-planning work can provide a shared self-awareness that informs thinking and action throughout the strategic planning process.
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Learning and CAPACITY BUILDING
A great training is hard to find. Professional development workshops are all too often canned or prescriptive. David is dedicated to co-creating hands-on professional development workshops that meet the unique needs of the organizations or collaborations being served.
He is highly regarded as a dynamic instructor who prioritizes learning by doing. Ample time is always spent tailoring sessions with clients. David offers one, two, and three-day workshops in Group Facilitation Mastery, Team Decision-Making, Empathetic Communication, Influence Without Authority, and more.
Small, medium, and large groups can be accommodated. An initial consultation can help identify learning needs and and customized fit.