Our Work
Vision
Strategizing - Stubborn problems: Relentless commitment
We get into the human serving sector to make the world a better place. Many of the stubborn problems we need to address today persist because they are systems-level challenges: issues that require collective action for long-term resolution. Our experience will help you see around corners to anticipate challenges and use the best tools and resources realize succeed. We can help you to evaluate a systemʻs readiness for change, the resources at your disposal to create momentum, identify and engage with the stakeholders needed to drive change, design initiatives to implement change, and evaluate the process of systems change along the way.
Preparation
Stakeholder-driven, community-engaged planning
Every successful journey requires thoughtful provisioning. Whether youʻre a large organization planning for a new journey, or a small team adding a new initiative to your existing portfolio, our decades of planning experience can help you get started on the right foot. We believe that all successful planning processes start with trusting relationships that include those who will be receiving your product, service, or program. We can help you to engage with your stakeholders, youth, families, employees, clients, and communities in ways that are productive and supportive of all parties. When we plan together, we go farther. Let us help you plan for success.
Execution
Project Management - Implementing big ideas to solve big problems
Have you ever had an initiative that never got off the ground, and you could not figure out why? Big ideas need structured, disciplined, and facilitated support to get going. We support you to move projects forward, tend to the interpersonal dynamics within and across teams, manage day-to-day communication, administration, and logistics of the project, and create impactful results. Mostly importantly, we make even mundane work super fun.
Supporting People.
Build amazing teams
The success of your initiative depends on the ability of project team members, their peers, partners, collaborators, community members, employees, and employers to work together so that they produce impactful systemic change. We can get them through tough conversations, build structures for productive conflict, and nurture their relationships. With years of coaching experience and an approach to conflict management rooted in hoʻoponopono, we can help you keep the teamʻs success at the center and keep drama where it belongs: in performing arts.
Supporting Place.
Community Engagement
The rest of the world is finally catching on place matters. With our decades of experience supporting successful initiatives between place and people, you can be confident your community and ʻāina work will be successful. Let us help you engage with community in thoughtful and productive ways. We are community-based change agents, and we can help you navigate even the toughest community conversations with our rich toolsets.
Supporting Process.
Technical assistance
We have backgrounds in social work, business, education, public health, community engagement, non-profit administration, project management, grant writing, and so much more. Unlike other consulting firms who occupy a niche, we focus on the problems that you’re trying to solve and bring the right resources to the table.