Change That Sticks
Sustainable change starts with building strong professional relationships, ensuring different points of view are seen, respected, and heard, while creating conditions for healthy conflict and a path for long-term growth. Our comprehensive programs emphasize practical application, and provide the expertise and support you need to help create a thriving, inclusive environment. Our offerings include a mix of workshops, trainings, small group facilitation, and 1:1 coaching.
Consulting Services
Our work is transformational, aiming to change hearts and minds. We create immersive experiences that require clients to be fully engaged in the process to address root causes of conflict. We dig into the tricky, icky stuff to heal relationships and develop trust between all staff by creating psychologically safe spaces for difficult conversations around race and equity.
- Values alignment and trust-building
- Crisis management and conflict resolution
- Rapid response coaching support for deep conflict
- Community dynamics and external forces evaluation
- Strategic planning for culture shift
- Event planning for in-person team building
Executive Coaching and Leadership Development
Without equity there is no inclusion. Our executive coaching services focus on integrating fairness, justice, and belonging principles into leadership practices, enhancing the skills of executives and managers to effectively lead diverse teams.
Effective Management Through an Equity Lens
This training focuses on sustainable behavior change. Our coaching model for managers includes a focus on leadership development, helping them build the skills and mindset to effectively lead their teams. E-learning courses are coupled with reading assignments and small group coaching cohorts to allow managers to learn from and support each other, creating a safe space to try new approaches. ALC applies learnings through "living case studies" based on actual team dynamics to address vulnerabilities, biases, and blind spots.
- Cohorts
- New managers
- C-Suite Executives
- Board Members
Leadership Succession Planning
Developing a strong, diverse pipeline of future leaders will ensure smoother succession planning. This process starts by taking a holistic view in understanding how the organization is interconnected with the broader community. This informs our approach to developing leaders who can navigate these complex dynamics to create conditions for all employees to thrive, especially marginalized groups.
Board Leadership Development
Developing a high performing board of directors can be tricky. We help nonprofit boards develop the skills, knowledge, and processes they need to provide strong oversight and strategic direction for the organization.
- Best practice advisement for nonprofit board governance including appropriate board size, term limits, and ensuring the right mix of expertise and connections.
- Facilitation of board-executive alignment to improve the relationship and communication between the nonprofit’s board leadership and the executive director.
Unconscious Bias Workshop Series
Create functioning professional relationships by identifying and clearing bias. This series brings awareness to the principles of fairness, justice, and belonging and equips your team with the practical knowledge and tools needed to cultivate an inclusive workplace culture.
