Training, facilitation design, and infrastructure for mission-driven organizations, agencies, foundations, and coalitions.
What we mean by working together
Relational infrastructure stabilizes the work as it moves through people.
Every mission-driven effort is carried forward by people — which means impact moves through them. Your outcomes depend on how well those people communicate, make decisions, coordinate, and follow through.
That infrastructure is what we help you build.
There are many ways to strengthen how people work together. Our job is to understand where you are trying to go, and design the path that gets you there.
Three ways to
work with us.
01 — Share Capacity
Training, Workshops & Consulting
For teams ready to strengthen how they work together. We share capacity so your people can work together more effectively over time. Choose from 58+ offerings, or partner with us on a longer consulting engagement.
02 — We Design It, You Deliver It
Facilitation Design
Most sessions are designed to transfer information. We design sessions built for connection. Every agenda, flow, and material is engineered around the relational levers that let busy practitioners show up, contribute, and leave with something real.
03 — Turning Coordinated Effort into Impact
Collective Impact
Collective impact requires coordinated effort, and coordinated effort requires infrastructure. We build that infrastructure for coalitions, place-based initiatives, and funder-led agendas, serving as the named collaborative partner who keeps priorities, people, and decisions connected across the work.
Examples of the work we’re brought in to do.
Based in Michigan. Working regionally, nationally, and internationally—in person and virtually.
- A foundation launching a place-based initiative that needs a home for collective action.
- A state agency running a stakeholder convening during a time of big changes.
- A program officer who wants capacity-building for a whole grantee portfolio.
- A nonprofit director whose team has the skills but not the coordination.
- A coalition working through a change in leadership.
Restorative Practices · Systems Thinking · Trauma-Informed Practice · Motivational Interviewing · Liberatory Design · Adult Learning Theory · Appreciative Inquiry · Nonviolent Communication
The best support is often custom.
Start designing yours.
Many of our partnerships begin with a conversation and grow into a tailored mix of supports.
For Funders
What If Supporting Your Network Was Easier?
Our credit packages allow organizations to access HRW trainings, workshops, and consultation without creating additional work for funders.
Our Framework
Grounded in the
Conditions for Impact.
Our proprietary framework identifies six conditions that shape how work moves across teams, organizations, and systems.
Workers
Do staff have the time, clarity, and support they need to do their jobs well?
Organization
Are roles, priorities, and decisions clear and consistent?
Team
Does the team communicate directly, coordinate effectively, and follow through?
Partners
Do partner organizations work together reliably over time?
Community
Does the community have real voice and trust in the relationship?
We are not here to perform expertise. We are here to partner.
That means we’ll be honest about what we see, curious about what we don’t yet understand, and committed to solutions that work for the people and systems involved.
