For The Conversations That Matter
We design and facilitate sessions where all voices are heard, and where people leave with a clear path forward. We build learning experiences the same way: Grounded in how adults actually learn, so the skills still show up in the work weeks later.
- Workshops, team retreats, and leadership offsites
- Custom leadership development and learning experiences
- Team building and conflict navigation
- Virtual, hybrid, and in-person facilitation for groups of any size
- Interactive activities and reflection exercises
Why Bring In A Facilitator?
You cannot run the room and be in it. Facilitating means carrying two roles at once, and it means the person with the most authority in the room is also the one steering it, which quietly narrows what gets said. Bringing in a facilitator gives you your seat back. You get to be in the conversation instead of managing it.
Aligning A Rapidly Growing Operating Unit Of Nearly 50 Staff Members
Unit-Wide Alignment And Retreat Design
The Challenge
The unit was growing rapidly and needed greater alignment across its expanding team. Without a shared understanding of roles, goals, cultural values, and strategic priorities, individual teams were operating in silos, limiting cohesion and collective impact.
Our Approach
Discovery sessions with senior leadership to understand needs and priorities, then individually designed and facilitated retreats for each team, aligning each around roles, goals, personal missions, and unit-level strategies for the year. Themes were then synthesized across all teams to surface unit-wide patterns.
What We Built
A large-scale unit-wide retreat bringing together nearly 50 staff members across all of the unit's teams, focused on shared goals, roles, mission, and the cultural values leadership wanted embedded everywhere. Leaders were also matched with executive coaches to sustain the work past the retreat.
The Outcome
Alignment at both the team and unit level, with nearly 50 staff members unified around a shared mission, values, and strategic priorities. Leaders reported stronger cohesion, clearer accountability, and improved capacity to lead their teams toward annual goals. The coaching component kept alignment an ongoing process rather than a one-time event.
Want to know if this approach would work for your situation?
Book A Free 30-Minute CallLed by Christina L. Scott prior to founding Catalyzing Change, in her role as Senior Organization Development Director.