Testimonials
Jessica, Associate Director of Alumni Engagement
Service Provided: Tailored to Fit Transformation
Jessica is the Associate Director of Alumni Engagement within the University of Washington Bothell’s Office of Advancement. Jessica needed help navigating a post-COVID board restructure project that involved balancing and integrating the perspectives and needs of multiple stakeholders, and co-creating a path forward.
TESTIMONIAL
“Rory was instrumental in our board restructure project. He approached it with a collaborative mindset, leading feedback sessions that engaged staff and board members’ varied perspectives. His guidance enabled us to gather valuable insights, address concerns, and implement a fresh board structure with collective input. Thanks to his thoughtful facilitation, our board has moved forward successfully with a fresh structure, clarity, and energy.”
Claudia, Director of Creative Learning Solutions
Service Provided: Content Creation
Claudia is the Director of Creative Learning Solutions at training and services company, C2 Technologies. She needed help building curriculum for an executive development program within a US federal agency that prepared executives to better navigate a fast-paced and complex environment—in ways that fostered innovation, inclusion, connection, trust, experimentation, and prioritization.
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“Rory is a thought leader. So, I enjoy working with him because I always learn something new. He brings me new ideas and tools to help leaders navigate and be successful in the current and future workplace.
His guidance has redefined how we open our leadership classes through interactive activities that instantly build connection and trust in the cohort. In addition, his integrative decision making process has redefined how my team considers new ideas and proposals, focusing on what's "safe to try." And we have introduced that transformational tool to our clients to help them expand possibilities for innovation.
Most recently, Rory contributed to a program to drive culture change within a federal agency by changing how its executives think.”
Phil, Operations Business Leader
Service Provided: Tailored to Fit Transformation
Phil is on the executive leadership team of his startup. When they came together for their weekly staff meetings, it always seemed like nobody was prepared, priorities were unclear, they struggled to make decisions, and work wasn’t moving forward. They needed help figuring out where and how to start changing the ways they were working.
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“Rory helped our small business immensely with 'Ways of Working' and now we're having great meetings. Rory guided us through the habit-forming process related to learning a new way of working, worked through our actual action items with us, and collaborated with compassionate candor and humility at all times.
So that's the 'business' way of saying he's great. To say it another way, Rory is brave enough to speak his truth with care and the goal of helping you grow and get better. Somehow, he manages to give you honest feedback that makes you want to get better. It's a hard thing to do and we tip our collective hats to him for doing it with ease.
In our journey with Rory, we learned how to have better meetings, make better decisions, and even have a little fun along the way. Rory made us feel like peers and suddenly we were learning again and excited to show up and do 'work.' It wasn't a checklist or formal activity for him, he just loves doing this sort of work. We loved having him along and count ourselves the better for his presence.
We'd do it all over again.”
Nancy, Supply Chain Director
Service Provided: Workshop by Design
Nancy is a supply chain director inside a global aerospace manufacturing company. She was planning to get ~20 first line managers together for a 2-day offsite focused on building leadership skills. She wanted to give her managers practice using actionable tools to build positive culture within their teams by reinforcing trust, collaboration, connection inclusion, reflection, and shared learning.
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“I really loved the retrospective exercise and will definitely be using that with my team!”
-Supply Chain Manager