The future of work is compassionate.

Helping mission-driven companies bridge compassionate leadership, wellbeing, & belonging.

EDUCATION IS NOT TRANSFORMATION.

DEI WORKSHOPS WON’T CHANGE YOUR COMPANY CULTURE.

ORGANIZATIONS DON’T CHANGE, PEOPLE DO.

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Our programs are:

ꙮ UNFORGETTABLY PRACTICAL
ꙮ REFRESHINGLY EXPERIENTIAL
ꙮ INSPIRING & FUN
ꙮ POWERFULLY CONCISE

WE’VE TRAINED HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AT…

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Transformed employees. Empowered leaders.

“I'm going to use this tool with my kid when I get home and see how it goes.” - Team member, Fictiv

"It was very inclusive and went beyond my expectations and even beyond the social issue. This can elevate the conversation about Black Lives Matter.” - CFO, Fictiv

“This was the most engaged I’ve ever experienced the team.” - HR, Project Manager, Rippleworks

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Programming with immediate impact.

Bridging compassionate leadership, (well)being, and belonging.

Featured

Compassionate Leadership + Anti-Racism

Programming that brings empathy and compassion (empathy in action) to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) for change that lasts.

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ESSENTIAL SKILLS TRAINING

Our trainings simplify the skills that are critical for creating connection, collaboration, success, and stability - especially in times of great change. We don’t call them “soft”.

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MINDFULNESS + WELL-BEING

Wellness through self-compassion.

Heart-opening, stress-reducing programs that address self-care, self-love, and mindfulness practices that help teams gracefully navigate today’s world.

Ask about our workshops and one-on-one services for self-care and mental health management.

FEATURED PROGRAMMING:

"Change & Me" Incubator

A structured 6 month or 12 month journey exploring Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Self-Mastery, Anti-Racism, and Compassion.

Change & Me offers tools, resources and curriculum and a holistic, step-by-step framework for gaining a deeper understanding of the compassionate self combined with a comprehensive exploration of anti-racist and diversity, equity and inclusion themes to become the source of meaningful change.

Change & Me is packed with enjoyable, practical, easy-to-use, applicable tools that elevate personal productivity and individuality, the ability to value the uniqueness of others, to collaborate effectively and become a change agent.

"Compassionate Leadership In The Age of Anti-Racism " Workshop Series

Compassionate Conversations for Change
Effective Compassionate Communication for Collaborative Change
Committed Action for Sustainable Change

Additional Services

Offsite retreats, Ideation + Brainstorming, Team Building + Effectiveness, Project Planning, Purpose/Vision/Values Facilitation

A powerful, heart-led team.

The Team

Liza Smalling, Facilitator

A Leadership Development Expert and Driver of Organizational Change with over 15 years of experience in the corporate landscape, Liza maintains a track record of running successful operations that nurture personnel and cultivate the business model. She is an advocate for developing partnerships that bolster an organization’s reputation and output.

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Andrea Lipton, Facilitator

Andrea Lipton is a collaborative problem-solver who uses creativity and business acumen to drive individual, team, organizational performance. She has strong coaching, facilitation, and communication skills and a passion for helping people succeed to find innovative ways to achieve results.

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Hanna Song, Facilitator

Hanna Song, Ph.D. is passionate about achieving educational excellence through social justice and equity in STEM, higher education, and beyond. In her current role at Caltech as Senior Director for Inclusion & Diversity she oversees all programmatic and policy initiatives for the Center for Inclusion & Diversity. One of Hanna’s personal mantras in her approach to pedagogy and team building is, “People support what they themselves create.”

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Roth Herrlinger, Facilitator

Roth Herrlinger is an executive coach, management consultant and strategic advisor with two decades’ experience assisting companies and nonprofits in a wide variety of industries throughout the U.S. and worldwide. Roth holds an AB from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. His and other coaches’ work with lifers in Folsom Prison is portrayed in “The Work”, which won the 2017 SXSW Film Festival Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature.

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