ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE & CONFLICT
Practice the values you've already named.
Conflict care, culture transformation, and consulting for teams ready to do the real work honestly, and together.
WHO THIS IS FOR
For teams ready to move values off the wall.
This work is for teams, nonprofits, justice organizations, foundations, and leadership teams navigating burnout, high conflict, and the everyday workarounds that quietly cost you.
You've named commitments. You have agreements for staff meetings, pledges on your website, maybe a whole equity report and a Google Drive full of past trainings. You're ready to move all of it from the page into practice, to diagnose what's really happening in your culture, and to build something more honest and durable.
A DIFFERENT RELATIONSHIP WITH CONFLICT
Conflict means you're close enough to bump up against each other.
The usual assumption is that conflict signals something has gone wrong. The truth runs the other way: conflict is a sign of proximity. You're close enough to matter to each other. Handled with care, it becomes one of the most powerful sites of transformation a team has. We can even plan for it together, and meet it on purpose.
THREE WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
One pathway, scoped to your moment.
CONSULTING
Organizational Consulting
Making the messy middle less overwhelming is one of Stephanie's superpowers. She helps you, your team, and your whole organization embrace the change you're creating: moving from a reactive stance into a proactive one, grounded in a clear sense of who you are, with culture as an active part of the future you're building.
Scoped to your engagement. Explore consulting →
CONFLICT CARE
Conflict Care, Transformation + Support
For teams and communities where an old tension, a stuck point, or a recurring issue is getting in the way of the work. Most organizations build workarounds that eventually fail. someone leaves, or gets let go, and the real issue stays in the room.
This work goes underneath the behavior to the needs it's communicating. Together we clarify the real issue at the heart of the conflict, help everyone see their own part in the dynamic, and coalesce around the needs beneath it. Because that's where common ground lives. Every person participates by choice, and can withdraw consent at any time.
Custom based on the number of people and the complexity of the challenge. Start a conflict conversation →
CULTUR TRANSFORMATION · 1 YEAR+
Practicing What You Preach
For organizations ready to practice what they preach. You have the commitments, the agreements, the pledges. This is the work of making them live in how you treat each other every day. Together we diagnose the roots of your cultural challenges and use what you already have. In practice, that looks like:
Tailored discovery and assessment—reviewing what you've gathered, rather than re-taxing your staff
Full-staff learning and experimentation: psychological safety, conflict transformation, feedback culture, pace and urgency, resilient leadership
Leadership deep dives, so the people with the most responsibility model the shifts
One-on-one coaching to reinforce the practice
Affinity group work and support to scaffold the foundation
From $60,000
For a year or more. Community rates available, based on your organization's budget. Inquire about culture transformation →
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Stephanie brings strong facilitation skills that, combined with an anti-oppression and racial equity lens, created the right conditions for our staff team to advance our strategic planning.
Our team developed the confidence to co-create new organizational values and agreements, and used them to transform our monthly staff meetings. I am a better leader because of the insights Stephanie offered.
— EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
WHAT BECOMES POSSIBLE
A culture where your values are practiced, felt, and modeled.
Deeper collaboration. Deeper relationship. Real progress on the goals you say you hold: liberation, justice, peace. Conflict becomes a place you grow instead of a place you dread. This is a chance to practice, inside your own walls, the world you're working to build outside them.
A NOTE ON READINESS
The cost you're worried about is already being paid.
If part of you worries your team can't take on this kind of work right now, here's the honest truth: burnout, turnover, lost passion, and drained time are expensive, and you're paying for them today. This work puts that same energy toward something with a payoff at the end.
It's a strong fit for organizations that are nimble and willing to adapt as we learn together, and for people ready to participate by choice.