I lead trainings to help people better understand and practice informed consent, partner with communities, cultivate community-led storytelling groups, and tell empathetic, person-centered stories. Every training and training series is customized to meet the type of work an organization does, the organization’s goals, where they are starting from, and the people who will be participating. Click here to read training FAQs and training descriptions.

I facilitate interactive processes with staff, clients, and community members to help them:

• Determine their collective storytelling values and goals;

• Identify their unique challenges and barriers to partnered storytelling; and

• Select and implement specific community-driven policies and practices that reflect their values and challenges.

For foundations: I help them modify the guidelines they use to ask grantees to report stories. Together, we’ll ensure a foundation is encouraging community-driven practices and empowering, empathetic narratives.

Sharing a personal experience publicly is a brave and vulnerable process. For individuals who want to share their stories, I lead workshops with two goals in mind. First, to help people think through the potential consequences of sharing, what they feel comfortable sharing, and what they need to feel supported during the process. Secondly, to help them tell their story in a way and format that feels authentic and compelling to them. Click here to read training FAQs and training descriptions.

Together, with staff and community members, I help organizations design compelling story campaigns where communities are in the driver’s seat.

I help teams:

• Break down complicated information in accessible ways;

• Align their delivery with different groups’ learning styles and knowledge bases;

• Inspire different audiences to take action by connecting what an organization does to an audience's values; and

• Frame action steps in clear, transformative, and achievable ways.

I work with people and teams to develop skills to talk more effectively and strategically about their work. For example, I regularly lead, “Ditch the (Elevator) Pitch” trainings with boards to cultivate persuasive messages for different scenarios they find themselves in. Teams also learn strategies to increase both a person’s interest and their understanding of what is being shared.

I work with teams to build powerful, engaging trainings and resources that communicate complex topics simply and passionately. I focus on who an organization is training or trying to reach, how that group learns best and accesses information, and “meeting people where they are." Read more about my approach to developing trainings. I’ve worked with organizations to develop health and legal self-help and community resources, program implementation toolkits, statewide and national training series, and case studies.