Retreats. Facilitation. Advisory. Training.
Your work is complex. Get the advisory support you need to hold it.
I blend facilitation, coaching, and advisory work to bring the tools, frameworks, and experience needed for success. Let’s solve the problem together.
Need someone to hold space for your work and help solve your problems?
I hold 20+ years of experience helping organizations design and deliver stellar business models, multi-year programs, social innovation fund prototypes, and much more.
People come to me for help with:
- Systems change work and social innovation processes
- Integrating developmental evaluation, tools, and practices
- Supporting team development and structuring the work accordingly
- Learning and adapting processes to reflect, integrate, and take action
- Designing and delivering programs and services
- Scaling impact and strategic clarity
- Prototyping solutions to complex issues and holding experiments
- Creating business models and social enterprise models
- Brokering partnerships and cross-sector collaborations
What You’ll Gain
Structure
Clear tools, practices, and processes
Team Development
Space to hold your work
Facilitated Spaces
Developmental Evaluation
Designed Programs
Support to solve your problems
Reimagining Community Investing for Systems Change
| The United Way of the Greater Capital Region wanted to do things differently by exploring how systems change and social innovation could help them reimagine community investing. They needed advisory support to design programming that aligned with their values to affect systems change. |
| What We Did | The Results |
|---|---|
| ➝ Designed an ideation and prototyping process ➝ Visioning process to imagine what’s possible ➝ Dug into the work to build a framework, language, application process, and more ➝ Held training for internal staff to begin building a common understanding ➝ Held reflective meetings to learn and adapt | ➝ Over a year-long engagement we created a social innovation fund – Luminosity Collaborative – that aligns United Way’s values with its funding ➝ Demystified systems change and social innovation, and defined what it means for them ➝ Built wisdom in the form of language, capacity, and possibility in their unique value proposition of effecting systems change |
“Saralyn is an exquisite facilitator and coach. She is uniquely gifted at crafting and holding space, and creating a container where it is possible to let go and Be. She helps you feel prepared without making you feel like it’s a lot of work. She meets you where you’re at. She is supportive, kind, encouraging, accepting, and challenging. I learn from being in sessions with her, and I always feel like I want more. She has helped lift me – and my team – closer to being our best.“
Cari Patterson, Director of Research & Evaluation | Inspiring Communities
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