Let’s Collaborate.
I help transform companies into purpose-driven teams with stronger alignment, better results, and a clearer sense of why—building a stronger brand from the inside out.
How I Help.
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Goals & Results Sprints
A 90-day engagement to build purpose, alignment, and results, fast. Clients think of this as the sample size of my Strategic Planning offering.
Through one-on-one interviews, we uncover your organization’s core motivations and use it to define a shared framework for results-driven work. We’ll go through 1 cycle of my living roadmap: a clear vision for the road ahead and a simple structure for turning vision into action and action into learning. -
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True North Accountability System
This is a structured, goal-driven accountability process that I run (monthly or quarterly) to create a consistent rhythm for your leadership team.
Together, we sharpen priorities, align outcomes with your vision, and build a culture centered on accountability, results, and learning. Through facilitated virtual sessions, your team sets clear goals, tracks and assesses progress, and treats accountability as a complete system that strengthens learning, alignment, and how your organization operates.
I run this process with neutrality, support, and a focus on growth to benefit the 3Ps: your people, purpose, and profits
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Workshops & Speaking
I design and facilitate custom workshops and keynote experiences that help people reconnect with the deeper meaning behind their work.
As a speaker, I step into all-team meetings, fundraising events, and conferences to bring purpose, meaning, and human connection back into the center of how we work together.
As a facilitator, I guide purpose-driven sessions where teams articulate what truly matters to them and discover how those motivations shape their work, their culture, and their impact.
For more than a decade at Unsettled, this has been my craft: helping individuals and teams navigate uncertainty with clarity, meaning, and a shared sense of direction. -
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True North Activation
My True North Activation is my most comprehensive deep dive into your organization’s purpose and direction.
We begin by uncovering and articulating your organization’s True North, then translate it into shared language so your entire team understands the “why” behind the work.You’ll receive a brand brief with examples and assets to help your external story evolve with a focus on your True North.
The Activation also includes my True North Accountability System, my structured, goal-driven accountability process I facilitate (monthly or quarterly) for your leadership team to sharpen priorities, track results, and build a culture of learning, growth, and aligned action.
Finding Your True North
My True North Activation is my most comprehensive deep dive into your organization’s purpose and direction.
We begin by uncovering and articulating your organization’s True North, then translate it into shared language so your entire team understands the “why” behind the work.
You’ll receive a brand brief with examples and assets to help your external story evolve with clearer focus and alignment around your True North.
The Activation also includes my True North Accountability System — a structured, goal-driven accountability process I facilitate monthly or quarterly for your leadership team. These sessions sharpen priorities, track results, and build a culture of learning, growth, and aligned action.
This is a transformative engagement for companies ready to elevate their purpose — and operate with clarity, alignment, and direction.
True North Accountability System
This is a structured, goal-driven accountability process that I facilitate monthly or quarterly to create a consistent rhythm for your leadership team.
Together, we sharpen priorities, align outcomes with your vision, and build a culture where accountability fuels growth. Through facilitated sessions, your team sets clear goals, tracks and assesses progress, and treats accountability as a complete system—one that strengthens learning, alignment, and how your organization operates.
The process is neutral, supportive, and growth-oriented, helping your people develop as much as your mission and bottom line..
What It Looks Like
Vision → Clarify direction and articulate what truly drives your company forward.
Results → Define the outcomes that link purpose to profit — and measure both.
Accountability → Build systems of reflection, learning, and alignment that keep your team moving in one direction, even when the terrain shifts.
Get started, today.
How I Collaborate
My role is not to sell you a mission — it’s to help you uncover your own. I work alongside leadership teams through dialogue, facilitation, and co-creation to bring clarity and alignment where it’s most needed. With neutrality, curiosity, and structure, I help your company bridge the space between what you do and why it matters.
Listen → Align → Prioritize → Activate → Learn
Listen
You and your team are the real experts. You already hold the wisdom needed — my role is to help surface it and put it down into strategic plans. I begin by listening deeply to your team, board, partners, and community. Through interviews, surveys, and conversations, we uncover the lived experiences, motivations, and challenges that define your work.
Alaign
Clarity comes from connection. Together, we synthesize insights into a shared understanding — of purpose, priorities, and direction. We align around what matters most, ensuring your leadership, staff, and community are oriented toward a common True North. This alignment is the compass that guides every decision and creates collective momentum.
Prioritize
Strategy becomes tangible here. We translate purpose and alignment into a clear, actionable roadmap — with defined goals, ownership, timelines, and metrics. The plan is practical, adaptive, and built for the real world. It becomes a living guide for how your organization grows and learns over time.
Activate
Plans only matter when they move people. Activation is about turning shared vision into coordinated action — implementing systems of accountability, reflection, and adaptation. I help teams build rhythms that sustain progress: monthly or quarterly check-ins, visual dashboards, and collaborative learning loops that keep your mission alive in the day-to-day.
Learn
Every cycle ends — and begins — with learning. We reflect on what’s working, what’s shifting, and what’s next. Learning transforms accountability into ownership and growth. It keeps your organization resilient, responsive, and aligned with your evolving mission and community.