Consulting
How do you capture the authentic dedication of the people in your organization or group? How do you win wholehearted participation in your mission and activities? How do you help your leaders, workers and customers to move towards their own sense of meaning and purpose? How do you communicate in ways that attract participants because you connect with what they really care about?
An organization thrives when it is filled with and surrounded by energetic people who take personal responsibility for the organization’s mission. People dedicate themselves to a mission when it expresses their own values and gives them a sense of meaning and purpose. For these reasons, my work with organizations falls in three main areas:
- Understanding the values that give meaning and purpose to the lives of an organization’s leaders and stakeholders.
- Surfacing and articulating missions, programs and activities that engage those values.
- Communicating the mission and activities in ways that connect to what stakeholders really care about.
If you want to talk about how I can help your organization with these goals, just send me a message:
Who I Work With
Since publishing my four books including No Impact Man and How To Be Alive, both of which concentrate on values-based living, I have concentrated on consulting on issues of mission, values, meaning and purpose and engagement to many companies, universities, NGOs and think tanks.
Organizations I have assisted include:
IDEO, United Nations, Agent 16, Institute For Advanced Sustainability Studies, 350.org, Just Food, Transportation Alternatives, The Media Alliance, Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Yes! Magazine, Huffington Post, NASA Space Center (Houston), Hawthorne Organics, Kwan Um School Of Zen, Natural Dharma Fellowship, The Omega Institute, US Green Building Council, The US Embassy in Guangzhou China, The City of Fort Collins, Hunter College, The New School, etc.
Some Ways I Work
Depending on the project, sometimes my consulting amounts to my simply loaning my personal expertise and experience in conversation and through talks to leadership; sometimes I facilitate group or team conversations; and sometimes I gather a team around me to execute a longer-term project.
Group or team facilitation and coaching: A methodology to surface individual values, synthesize them into a single team mission, and facilitate a group towards completing mission-centered tasks.
Stakeholder engagement programs: Includes environmental lifestyle programs at many organizations around the world and “Be The Change Week” for the 10,000 New-York-based workers in the United Nations system.
Mission alignment trainings: Includes stakeholder trainings in areas dear to client organizations, such as on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Values-based Communications: Includes helping clients understand their stakeholders’ cherished values and synthesizing those values into communications.
Expertise: Clients call on me for my understanding of what motivates people, happiness, engagement, communication, environmental and social justice issues, consumption economics and…
Personal sustainability: Includes helping groups institute self-care, mindfulness and resilience activities for their stakeholders.