Conflict Resolution & Culture Consulting for Mission-Driven Teams
Every engagement moves through three stages. Where you start depends on where you are.
All services available in English and Spanish | Todos los servicios disponibles en inglés y español
The Method
How Every Engagement Is Shaped
I work through three stages: Rooted in Restoration, Cultivating Joy, and Growing Community. They are the same three every time, and they run in that order, because repair comes before improvement and improvement comes before anything you want to last.
Where you enter is a different question. Some organizations start at the beginning because something has broken. Some skip straight to the middle because nothing is broken and something is still off. Some come in at the end because the change already happened and they want it to hold.
Every service on this page lives inside one of those three stages. Here is what each one is for.
The Three Stages
🌿 Rooted in Restoration
The question it answers: What is broken, and can it be repaired?
Start here if trust has come apart, if people are routing around each other to get work done, or if you already tried to fix it once and it did not hold.
Inside this stage: Conflict Resolution & Team Mediation, Strategic Facilitation
🌻 Cultivating Joy
The question it answers: What conditions would make people want to stay?
Start here if something is off and you cannot name it, if you have just come through a leadership change or a growth spurt, or if your team is tired in a way that a retreat will not touch.
Inside this stage: Organizational Assessment & Strategic Planning, Leadership Coaching
🌳 Growing Community
The question it answers: How does this hold after I leave?
Start here if the change has already happened and you want it to outlast the person who led it, or if you need evidence for a funder or a board that it worked.
Inside this stage: Workshops & Training, Cohort Learning, Program Evaluation & Impact Assessment
Consistent Method. Custom Engagement.
Every organization I work with moves through the same three stages. That consistency is what lets me tell you in a first conversation roughly what the shape of your engagement will be, and what you should expect at each point in it.
Everything inside the stages gets designed with you. Where you enter. How long each stage takes. Who is in the room and who is not. What we build. Whether we work in English, Spanish, or both. Two organizations can sit in the same stage and run engagements that look nothing alike.
The method is what I bring. The engagement is what we build together.
A method you can count on. An engagement built for your context.
🌿 Stage One | Rooted in Restoration
This is where organizations in crisis come in. The work here is repair: naming what happened, hearing everyone involved, and building agreements that hold up under pressure. Nothing else in this framework works until this part is done.
Inside this stage: The Compost Method™
Conflict is the richest material an organization has, and most organizations throw it away. The Compost Method™ is my five-move process for turning it into something the team can actually use: Notice, Gather, Turn, Feed, Rest.
Rooted, Cultivating, Growing is the shape of an engagement. The Compost Method™ is what happens in the hardest room.
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Stage: Rooted in Restoration. Delivered through The Compost Method™.
WHAT IT IS
Repair broken team dynamics and rebuild collaborative culture. Neutral mediation using restorative justice principles to create a safe space for honest dialogue, healing, and sustainable agreements. The work runs from an initial assessment through mediation sessions to a follow-up, because agreements that get rushed do not hold.THIS MIGHT BE RIGHT IF
Team members are avoiding each other, or communication has broken down
Previous attempts to resolve it haven't worked
Everyone involved is willing to participate in good faith, even if they doubt it will work
FORMAT & TIMELINE
4 to 6 weeks from initial assessment to follow-up | Up to 6 participants | Virtual or in-person | Contact for pricing -
Stage: Rooted in Restoration
WHAT IT IS
The hardest meetings are the ones where the stakes are high and the trust is low. I facilitate board retreats, strategic planning sessions, all-staff conversations, and community engagement processes where something real needs to get said and someone needs to hold the structure while it happens.THIS MIGHT BE RIGHT IF
You usually run the room and you need to be a participant this time
The topic is charged enough that whoever facilitates will be read as taking a side
A previous version of this meeting ended without a decision, or without the real thing getting said
FORMAT & TIMELINE
Half-day to full-day | Virtual or in-person | Contact for pricing
🌻 Stage Two | Cultivating Joy
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Stage: Cultivating Joy
WHAT IT IS
Get clear on what's working, what's not, and where to go next. A comprehensive assessment that centers staff voice, diagnoses challenges, and provides an actionable roadmap for transformation. You end with a written report and a presentation, not a list of observations.THIS MIGHT BE RIGHT IF
You've been through a leadership transition or a period of rapid growth
You know something isn't working but aren't sure what or how to fix it
Staff have raised concerns and you want their voices to actually count
FORMAT & TIMELINE
8 to 10 weeks from kickoff to final report | On-site interviews, virtual surveys, and a final presentation | Adjustable to your organizational calendar | Contact for pricing -
Stage: Cultivating Joy
WHAT IT IS
Break free from reactive patterns and lead with clarity, courage, and joy. Six transformative sessions to help you navigate conflict, renew your purpose, and increase your impact.THIS MIGHT BE RIGHT IF
You're stepping into a senior role, or leading through a major transition
You're feeling stuck, burned out, or disconnected from why you do this work
You want to lead with more intention, equity, and joy, and aren't sure how
FORMAT & TIMELINE
Six 90-minute sessions over 3 months | Virtual or in-person | Schedule adjustable to your availability | Contact for pricing
This is where we look at the conditions people are actually working inside: how decisions get made, where information moves and where it stalls, who has power and who feels it, and what it would take for good people to want to stay. Some organizations arrive here after repair. Some start here because nothing is broken and something is still not right.
🌳 Stage Three | Growing Community
This is the part that decides whether any of it lasts. We build internal capacity, so the skills live in your team instead of in my calendar. We put the norms in writing. And we measure, so you know what held and can prove it to the people who need proof.
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Stage: Growing Community
WHAT IT IS
Sometimes a team needs a structured space to build shared language and practice new skills together before the harder conversations start. Sessions are built around your organization's real situations rather than generic scenarios.THIS MIGHT BE RIGHT IF
Your team needs common ground before the difficult conversations begin
You want skills to live in your staff rather than in a consultant's calendar
You're building on work that has already happened and want it to hold
FORMAT & TIMELINE
Half-day or full-day · Virtual or in-person · English or Spanish -
Stage: Growing Community
WHAT IT IS
A small group of leaders meeting over several months. Facilitated peer learning built around cases people bring from their own work, so skills get practiced on real situations instead of hypotheticals.THIS MIGHT BE RIGHT IF
Leading in mission-driven work has started to feel isolating
You want to practice on real situations rather than case studies
You'd rather learn alongside people who understand your constraints, including the budget ones
FORMAT & TIMELINE
Contact for pricing -
Stage: Growing Community
WHAT IT IS
Understand if your programs are working, for whom, and how to improve them. Equity-centered evaluation that centers community voice and provides compelling data for funders, stakeholders, and continuous improvement.THIS MIGHT BE RIGHT IF
You need evidence of impact for funders, board reports, or strategic planning
You want to know what's working, what's not, and why
You want stories and numbers that together make a compelling case for your work
FORMAT & TIMELINE
3 to 6 months depending on scope and complexity | On-site data collection with virtual analysis | Built around your program cycle and reporting deadlines | Contact for pricing
Across All Three Stages
Some organizations need the three stages to unfold over months rather than weeks, with someone close enough to the work to adjust as it changes. That is what a retainer is for.
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Moves through all three stages, embedded, over four or more months.
WHAT IT IS
When your organization is in active change, whether that's implementing new systems, shifting culture, or building capacity, you need more than monthly check-ins. You need someone in the work with you. The Consulting Retainer is a sustained, embedded partnership. We meet regularly, I stay close to your team's reality, and I adjust the support as your needs change.WHAT’S INCLUDED
12 to 18 hours per month of hands-on consulting support
Regular leadership check-ins and real-time strategy sessions
Document review, facilitation, and implementation support
Access to me between sessions for emerging questions and decisions
Monthly progress summaries and adaptive planning
FORMAT & TIMELINE
4+ month engagement | Virtual or in-person | Contact for pricing -
Strategic support across all three stages, with a lighter touch.
WHAT IT IS
For leaders navigating a transition, building something new, or making decisions they don't want to make alone. The Advisory Retainer gives you regular access to strategic thinking, honest feedback, and organizational expertise, at a lighter touch than an embedded engagement.WHAT’S INCLUDED
6 to 10 hours per month of strategic advisory support
Bi-weekly or monthly strategy calls
Document review and written feedback on proposals, reports, and strategic plans
Email access for emerging questions between sessions
Sense-making support for complex organizational decisions
FORMAT & TIMELINE
3 to 5 month engagement | Virtual | Contact for pricing -
Spans all three stages
WHAT IT IS
Some engagements combine stages, run them in an unusual order, or need a shape that does not have a name yet. The three stages still apply. The container gets built for you.THIS MIGHT BE RIGHT IF
You recognize pieces of what you need across more than one stage
Your situation doesn't match anything above and you'd rather talk it through than guess
You need a phased approach that follows your funding or fiscal year
FORMAT & TIMELINE
Scope and timeline determined by engagement | Contact for pricing
Not Sure Where You Are?
Most people are not, and that is a normal place to start from. There are two ways to find out.
Take the Conflict Readiness Check. Twelve questions, about four minutes. You get a readout on each of the five moves of The Compost Method™ and a plain answer about where to begin. No pitch at the end.
Or just talk to me. Thirty minutes, free, no obligation. Tell me what is happening, and I will tell you which stage you are in, including if the answer is that you do not need me right now.
Frequently Asked Questions
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The best starting point is a free 30-minute consultation. Short of that, here is the quick version.
Start in Rooted in Restoration if: team dynamics have broken down, conflict is affecting your ability to serve your mission, or you need a neutral third party in the room.
Start in Cultivating Joy if: something feels off and you cannot name it, you have been through a transition or rapid growth, or you want staff input to inform what comes next.
Start in Growing Community if: you need the change to survive a staff turnover, you want to build internal facilitator capacity, or you need evidence of impact for funders or your board.
Still unsure? That is completely normal. Take the Conflict Readiness Check or schedule a consultation and we will figure it out together.
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Both, and usually a mix.
Everything I offer is available virtually. That works well for coaching, remote teams, and organizations outside Colorado, and it keeps costs down since there's no travel.
In-person is worth it for team-based work: mediation, facilitation, and assessment interviews. Travel expenses apply outside the Denver metro area.
Most engagements combine the two. We'll sort out the right mix in your consultation.
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The method is consistent. What varies is scope, team size, format, and how long each stage takes, which is why pricing is a conversation rather than a number on a page.
I offer payment plans, sliding scale pricing based on organizational budget, and phased payments tied to milestones. If budget is your concern, say so in the consultation and we'll have an honest conversation about what's possible.
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Most engagements move through more than one stage. The order is usually the same.
Rooted → Cultivating. Repair the immediate break, then look at the conditions that produced it. Cultivating → Growing. Assess and redesign, then build the internal capacity to hold it.
Rooted → Cultivating → Growing. The full arc, most often as a retainer.
You will not be sold three stages when you need one. If repair is all you need, we do repair, and I will tell you that in the consultation.
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Equity is foundational to how I work, not a module inside it.
In practice that means confidential interviews and surveys so all staff can speak honestly, deliberate effort to hear from the people most affected by decisions, and facilitation that names power dynamics in the room instead of working around them. It means services in English and Spanish, and approaches adapted to different cultural norms rather than one set of best practices applied everywhere.
It means asking who benefits and who gets left out at every stage, and recommending changes that reach root causes. And it means staying in learning mode, welcoming feedback, and saying so when a situation calls for expertise I don't have.
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