Primary Service Offerings
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 mastery with hundreds of leaders and teams who have entrusted him with facilitating delicate and intricate conversations and agreements. His approach and technique enable leaders and their teams to focus exclusively on their work as he manages the complex interplay between collaborative thinking, relationship-building, process planning, and decision-making.
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, or achieve highly tangible goals. They want to explore how they can better lead, create healthier culture, develop sharper strategies, and optimize key relationships.
Those who get the most our of working intensively together seek and welcome feedback, are eager to try and learn new things, and embrace the confluence of their own feeling and thinking. They are motivated to work hard and develop themselves through discomfort, stay engaged even if they don't yet know exactly what they want to do. They remain open to what they may discover, change or become.
Strategic Planning
Creating a plan that is visionary, strategic, and practical requires thoughtfulness, discipline, ingenuity, and persistence. David prioritizes attention to process design, ensuring each stage of planning is thoughtfully conceived and then effectively navigated. Strategic plans are created collaboratively with clients to optimize each institutional culture, resources, and expertise.
David has led foundations, non-profits, schools, and multi-stakeholder collaborations through over 30 strategic planning processes. These plans have proven to be both actionable and led to results that have been
Pre-strategy organizational culture work is often a pre-requisite. Initial consultations provide a chance to discuss this possibility and determine best investment.
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.