Facilitation

Regenerative facilitation and organisational design

Facilitation, mentoring, coaching, training
Intentional endings

Organisational design and culture change
Complexity-informed strategy development

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Emily is a beautiful collaborator, well-versed in centring and modelling all that is care-based, thoughtful, equitable, inclusive, regenerative and relational in organisational design. It's been so amazing to work with Emily. I really appreciated her breadth of in-depth knowledge of organisational design. She’s an amazing problem solver and brings a lot of pragmatism and care to complex situations. I appreciated how open she was about the learning journey she’s going on with anti-racist and anti-oppressive work (which I think she models naturally). I also think she’s a wonderful facilitator and brings a lot of useful models and concepts with her. I always feel supported collaborating with her. She leans in, talks things through and supports us to make good decisions.

Tayo Medupin, Founder of Hello Brave

Issues I can help with

Like many organisations, you might be experiencing:

The way you currently work is squashing the joy and potential of your people, teams and organisation
Your team isn’t working effectively or inclusively; tensions are bubbling away
Power, autonomy and decision-making are misaligned
You’re struggling to balance care with accountability (more here)
An addiction to the energy of initiation, finding it hard to end projects (or your organisation), leading to overwhelm and burnout
Your People team is not modelling relational behaviour, inhibiting their ability to support your organisation
Knowledge is stuck in siloes and people can’t learn effectively
You want to bridge the gap between polished, documented strategy and values, and people’s day-to-day decisions, actions and experiences
Read about how I’ve helped organisations with these problems here, and some kind words from previous clients here.

Why work with me?

Pragmatic radicalism

I translate regenerative organisational design practice into doable actions that will help you to change your organisation for the better. Read more about my approach to organisational design here, and my previous projects here
I’m a trauma-informed facilitator, well-versed in holding groups through uncertainty and complexity
I hold you accountable to your intentions and the people you serve, challenging with respect and care (as my previous clients can attest to).
As a certified coach, I support peoples’ capacity to adapt and change, and inspire them to believe things can be different
I bring the following lenses to my work, all of which I believe are important components of modern organisational design: regenerative practice, trauma-informed collaboration and grief tending (all organsiational change work is loss work). Read more about my training under my coaching training and influences
I’ve designed services in children’s social care and researched with vulnerable people. I understand how risky change can feel in social impact organisations and how alienating “fail fast” innovation approaches can feel
I have a rare skill set, combining organisational design, facilitation and coaching with agile working, user-centred design, strategy and comms. If I don’t have the right skills for your project, I’ll connect you with someone brilliant who does (see which networks I’m part of on my Now page).
I bring moral clarity to my work, informed by lived experience of disability, my commitment to justice and liberation for all, and many years of personal healing work.