Coordinating the Messy Middle
of Systems Change
Communities, organizations, and elected officials know they need to address complex and urgent challenges like climate resilience, housing affordability, and supply chain sustainability. Yet they struggle to engage stakeholders and constituents effectively and turn collaboration into implementation. I help bridge that gap.
I bring research, coordination, and strategic thinking to initiatives working to realign our collective creativity with thriving communities and living earth systems. My sweet spot: where stakeholder collaboration, civic innovation, and practical action meet.
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What I Do
My work dances between research & writing, program design & coordination, and systems strategy—helping to bring clarity to complexity, and move from concept to implementation.
Whether you need someone to translate technical complexity, create new resources out of institutional or network knowledge, coordinate a multi-stakeholder initiative, or design collaborative community processes that generate wise actionable outcomes, I bring two decades of systems experience to the most challenging coordination work.
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Who I Work With
I add flexible capacity to life-aligned initiatives as an independent contractor, and I’m also open to in-house positions. Right now, I’m particularly excited to work with:
- Organizations addressing interconnected challenges that need integrated solutions — Climate action, housing affordability, regenerative development, material systems
- Networks tackling healthy functioning and redesign of our cultural operating systems — Shifting economics, governance, and decision-making from extraction to regeneration
- Experienced facilitation teams interested in skill-building learning partnerships or ongoing collaboration
- Civic innovation practitioners growing collective capacity for wiser decision-making — combining the democratic legitimacy of participatory processes (like citizens assemblies) with the systems-coordination capacity of multi-stakeholder networks
Why This Matters
Most of the solutions we need already exist, somewhere. The challenge is coordinating effectively and equitably to bring them to life.
The answer isn’t just better technology or policy. It’s better collaboration—Applying innovative processes to help communities and organizations bring diverse voices into genuine partnership, work with complexity, and make decisions that serve long-term thriving—along with systemic clarity to support the distributed action needed for implementation.
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If any of this sparks your interest or could meet a need—get in touch!