Consulting

We're committed to transforming organizations into thriving networks that consciously benefit people, ecosystems, and society.

We offer:

– Distributed Leadership Design: Transition from traditional hierarchies to effective, team-embraced structures that distribute power and decision-making.

– Growth & Merger Navigation: Scale your mission-driven organization without compromising culture, belonging, performance or purpose.

– Fractional Chief Culture & People Officer Support: Build on and amplify the best parts of your culture with intentional experiences, structures, and practices that can keep up with your team’s pace of growth. Our blend of executive coaching, strategic advice, and innovative organizational design helps ground a team when navigating uncharted territory.

– Collective Dreaming: Harness the collective vision of your team, to bridge your present to the emerging future. Apply positive and collaborative techniques to improve leadership and implement organizational and societal change.

– Culture Assessment & Evolution: Continuously evaluate and refine your organization's cultural landscape, ensuring alignment with your values, mission, and the systems of change you contribute to.

We help our clients work to shift and refine practices, structures, and strategies to be more regenerative, restorative, and resilient.

– Align on Values Upfront: At the start of every engagement we get aligned on values for two reasons (1) when we do this upfront it establishes an intention to design & decide from the roots of our shared belief system and (2) it dramatically increases the speed of collaboration by using less time to calibrate and align on values and more time to operationalize them into systems & structures.

– Informed by Cutting-Edge Organizational Science: Our methodologies are deeply rooted in traditional and non-traditional ways of organizing. We harness systems thinking, chaos theory, complexity theory, emotional intelligence, organizational agility, and change management principles to help you navigate your transformation journey.

– Small and Local First: We prioritize deep change within specific parts of an organization (over broad and shallow change). This roots solutions in culture and relationships, which is ultimately a more enduring type of change with a higher likelihood of rippling positive change outward.

– Deliberate Pacing: We think critically about the pros and cons of the “move fast and break things” mentality popular with today's celebrated tech and innovation organizations. We know there is power too in slow. The faster decisions get made, the less likely they are to be inclusive, systems-informed, and ethically grounded. We challenge the belief that hustle and grind culture are the sole pathways to organizational success.

– Learning-Science Informed: Our approach to client learning is experiential and ‘flips’ the traditional classroom model. Independent work is undertaken before and after immersive sessions, ensuring in-person time is high-impact and devoted to real-time adaptation and collaboration.

– Emphasis on Regenerative Practices: We coach organizations to balance output and renewal, focusing on decisions more likely to be net positive contributors to the organizational system, renewing it instead of draining it.

– Organizational Resilience: We help organizations build the capacity to absorb, adapt, and learn from unforeseen impacts, integrating redundancy and other resilience-enhancing elements.

– Restorative Focus: We facilitate spaces for truth-telling dialogues and emphasize restorative approaches to conflict and transparency, acknowledging past and present wounds within the organization that may be blockers to the will to change.

– Authentic Mission-focus: Our approach challenges “greenwashing” or “social-washing,” ensuring these efforts go deeper than the surface.

– Empowerment as Organizational Citizens: We believe in the inherent capabilities of organizations to influence larger systems positively, becoming hubs of learning and adaptability.

– Human-Machine Partnerships: We understand the value of both real-time collaborative experiences and asynchronous, tech-driven individual reflection and learning. We take advantage of both in our approach to experience design.

– The Right Players Are Involved: The likelihood of our work’s success dramatically increases when the people involved have the authority or influence over the direction of strategy, workflow processes, and cultural shifts within the organization.

– Our Values Are Aligned: Your team's values are philosophically aligned with the core values of Kapwa Leadership.

– You’re Committed to Making Tradeoffs to Prioritize this Journey: By emphasizing values, we choose to move to set our pacing intentionally. This means if slower decision-making also means more inclusive decision-making we’re committed to those experiments which are “safe-to-try”.

– You’re Open to Restorative Practice: Your team is committed to addressing existing tensions, fostering a culture of generative conflict, and applying restorative practices in times of great friction, rupture, or disconnect.

– You’re Equally As Invested in Energy-in as You Are Energy-out: You are a team that aims to balance productivity with energetic renewal. You’re open to workflows that account for renewal & recovery time as part of the peak performance equation.

– You’re Committed to Resilient Design: Designing for the unexpected is part of the day-to-day flow of your work. You’re excited to invest in capacities to help your team absorb and learn from unexpected impacts, emphasizing redundancy and adaptability.

– Authentic Intent Matters to You: You prioritize genuine change over superficial “greenwashing” or “social-washing” practices.

– You Want to Balance Short-term Wins with Long-term Value: You’re committed to making the tradeoffs necessary to succeed across multiple time horizons.

– Improved Organizational Culture: By addressing deep-rooted issues and fostering an environment of open dialogue, your team can create anchoring experiences that seed mindsets and behaviors that support a healthier, more inclusive, and adaptive culture.

– Increased Engagement: With a focus on trust, belonging, and understanding, your team members will feel more valued, involved, and empowered to do their best work every day.

– Improved Ability to Attract & Retain the Best-of-the-Best: When your organization operates with clear values, a sense of purpose, and a focus on restorative, regenerative, and resilient practices, you’re more likely to resonate with the talent you’re looking for.

– Unblocking Profit & Growth Potential: By addressing unconscious patterns and behaviors that might be getting the way of your growth or efficient functioning, you can potentially unblock the paths to improved profitability.

– Greater Individual & Organizational Resilience: Our emphasis on resilience ensures that the organization is more likely to put structures and practices in place that will equip you to handle unexpected challenges, turning potential setbacks into opportunities for growth.