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Creating Sustainable Change
I mean, not just checking things off a to-do list or focusing on an employee survey score and raising it. This is about really feeling a sense of awe because together you did something different this time. You found the high leverage points to achieve success. You had real conversations with your co-workers that inspired creative thinking. There was no fear of conflict and you eliminated surface talk. It can happen. It does happen. Are you up for it?
About Tina
Tina’s gift in design and facilitation helps teams, groups and organizations around the world leverage their collective intelligence more effectively. Problems cannot be solved from the same place, or with the same thinking, from which they are created. When something goes wrong, we tend to get into “reaction mode,” changing a structure, process or action, to create different results. Often times this works, we feel better, but the results are temporary. Then, when we see a slip in results again, we try another change, and before you know it, we’re in a continual loop of reaction. This cycle creates stress, additional work, burnout, and in the end, works directly against the results and vision we’re trying to achieve.
Tina helps teams and organizations understand how stop, avoid and change this pattern for sustainable results. To do this, you have to have a different type of conversation. A different type of meeting. A different type of focus group. To understand the patterns that are getting in the way of success, you have to ask different questions, leverage collective intelligence in a non-traditional method, and create space for innovation and learning. When you do this, you can create sustainable results.
If there is one thing that clients consistently say about Tina, it’s this: “I don’t know how she did it, but she got us to see things we’ve never been able to see and talk about things that we’ve never been able to bring up before. She makes it safe for us to do the REAL work we need to do and have been avoiding.” With this skill, she works with clients to make visible the invisible patterns that inhibit progress or change.
She has an expertise in collective intelligence, systems thinking, communications and group dynamics and works with teams to help them identify the obstacles that get in the way of success. By using processes that include The 5th Discipline, Dialogue, and specific design skills, Tina works with clients to customize a process that will leverage the intelligence of a group in a creative, and efficient way.
Her work also includes the design, implementation and facilitation of award winning leadership programs and executive meetings and retreats. She facilitates World Café Discussion for groups from 15-2,000 and is a speaker for Ronald McDonald House Charities and others on the topic of fostering courageous conversations and generative dialogue. Tina has extensive training in Jungian Typology, Shadow Work and Archetypes, and uses this to work with clients to coach and to design and facilitate programs that enhance self awareness and foster collective intelligence.
Tina is a member of The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation, The Society for Organizational Learning and a graduate of the Leadership for Collective Intelligence Program. She is an associate of Dialogos, a Cambridge, MASS. based agency whose founder, William Isaacs, is the leading thought leader for dialogic practices.
In 1992, Tina started the first series of Chicago based Socrates Café Dialogues that still continue today. She is an active member of Chicago Cares and a Team Leader for America’s largest volunteer event; the Servathon, where over 12,000 volunteers come together for one day to repaint, refurbish and clean Chicago Public Schools. She was a lead team member of the Chicago Senior Citizen Documentation project; a yearlong oral histories program that documented the lives of Chicago Senior Citizens living in nursing homes without nearby family members. After 52 straight weeks of visitation and documentation, a theatrical stage program was created from the woven stories of the seniors and it went on to win awards and travel around the city. It dramatically changed the health and lives of the seniors involved.
In college, she initiated and designed the first Pan-Hellenic integration effort that worked to break down the divides between Black and White sororities and fraternities. The programs that were implemented in 1987 are still running today.