Not keynote-lite.
Working sessions.
Half-day, full-day, and multi-session formats from a facilitator with 15+ years in community rooms — each built on frameworks she authored and tools your team keeps.
Unintended: A Data Practice
The data training organizations didn’t know they needed until the room goes quiet.
Six critical points — Data Responsibility, Data Burden, Weaponization, Implied Comparison & Ethnocentrism, Context Matters, Saviorism — eighteen working questions, and a one-page practice sheet you can hand a funder, a board, or the community you’ve been counting. Teams audit their own real data in the room. Nobody leaves neutral.
- 6 critical points
- 18 working questions
- One-page practice sheet
The Spatial Empathy Studio
The only training of its kind, taught by the researcher defining the field.
Participants learn to cold-read a real place — often the venue itself and its surrounding blocks — through Reach, Friction, Avoidance, Memory, and Belonging, then turn the lens on their own sites and decisions. Fieldwork, framework, revelation.
- Live fieldwork
- Five forces framework
- Applied to your sites
Lost in Translation™
Why good research dies on the way to practice.
The four dimensions of the Translation Gap™ — Language, Context, Power, Application — plus the Practitioner’s Research Filter™ and the Insight-to-Impact Map™ to close it. For institutions tired of reports that change nothing.
- Translation Gap™
- Practitioner’s Research Filter™
- Insight-to-Impact Map™
Story-Driven Data Collection
How to gather information your community will actually give you.
Hands-on qualitative methods braided with data ethics; co-delivered with equity teams and praised for making data understandable to every kind of room.
- Qualitative methods
- Data ethics
- Co-delivered with equity teams
Custom Civic Simulations
Participants don’t hear how the system works. They feel it.
Original participatory simulations — zoning negotiations, budget games, workforce scenarios — built for your context. They argue inside the system, then debrief what it did to them.
- Zoning negotiations
- Budget games
- Workforce scenarios
/ Formats
Bring a session to your team
Teams audit their own data in the room.
Choose a flagship, a studio, or a simulation built for your context. Co-delivery with your equity teams is welcome.