Guiding Principles

The following principles ground our work and serve as a helpful starting point when addressing any situation for yourself and others. Pulled from my years of work as a Development Coach, Organizational Development & Change Management Consultant and Digital Producer, a variety of tactics are nested within each which will be tailored to your needs.

Embrace Humanity

Humans are complex by nature. You can make the best plans, processes or strategies, but in the end it comes down to a team of humans who need to bring them to life. How can we embrace that inherent complexity, lean into our humanity and leverage our differences to create successful teams and companies that we can be proud of?

Purpose

For individuals, teams and organizations alike, having a defined purpose, mission or guiding light helps to organize and align ourselves and serves as a key driver for meaning in our work and beyond. How can we make this explicit in a way that best serves our needs?

Rhythm over Reactive

In work and life alike, it’s easy to get caught up in the day to day minutia, leaving us at the whim of our most reactive selves. How can we set up rhythms for how we do, reflect and adapt so we’re not only addressing things when they are at their most acute?

Psychological Safety

Feeling psychologically safe to be ourselves and take risks is critical to being a productive member of a team and fostering a high performing culture. How can we create psychologically safe environments for ourselves and our teams to enable our best work?

Feedback

Whether you’re building a product, a team or an organization, it’s rare that you get things right the first time. How can we accept this as a given and build in more regular and effective moments for feedback?

Make the implicit, Explicit

Everyone brings their own experiences, definitions and biases to the table, making alignment an ongoing topic to tackle. How can we push to continually surface and document as much as we can to ensure that things don’t get lost in translation?

Modeling

From C-Suite to intern, it is on all of us to model the behavior and values we want to see in the workplace and the world. How can we ensure that we represent those behaviors and values to the best of our ability?