Category Archives: Tools to Use Now

What will our values look like in action?

It’s been an intense and energizing few days, exploring with a pair of brilliant visionary strategists with whom every exploration seems to lead to even more exploration. The question that arose early in our time together was this: “How can we support each other’s work in as integrated a fashion as possible?” The wording of… Continue Reading

Conversations that Matter

Several weeks ago, we spent a delightful few days in retreat with some associates. One of the participants had offered his mom’s vacation home for this time away. In offering the house, Joe told us it was tucked into a hillside in California’s Sonoma Valley, that it had plenty of room for all of us,… Continue Reading

Community Engagement Planning in 3 Steps

These days the phrase “Community Engagement” is commonly heard but not commonly understood for all its power. This weekend, we finished entirely revising our Community Engagement Action Kit. And so this whole subject is on my brain a lot. When we use Community Engagement as just one more tool in the toolbox, yes, it is… Continue Reading