We love diving into organizational life and building collaborations.
Walking Beside You on Your Organizational Path
We are deeply committed to immersing ourselves in the world of organizational life and fostering collaborations rooted in service to communities and mission-driven impact. Our approach values effective communication, clear purpose, and the balance of individual, interpersonal, and organizational needs. We embrace complexity, positivity, and integrity, always honoring confidentiality. Our core values prioritize teamwork, respect, positivity, and the importance of pauses, presence, and learning. We work tirelessly to promote resilience, inclusion, and well-being while championing the power of multiple perspectives for innovative workplace solutions. With a wealth of expertise, including nonprofit leadership, executive oversight, coaching, mediation, and more, we are dedicated to making a lasting impact on your organization through our professional guidance and warm, inviting approach.
Our Story
Susan Leggett, MA, PhD, Communication
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Susan Leggett
Susan’s professional roles in non-profit and higher education contexts have demanded results-oriented engagement and procedural expertise to support teams to manifest their commitments and dreams. Most recently, Susan was part of the Westfield State University community in Massachusetts where she held numerous positions on faculty and in administration, developing and teaching courses, supporting faculty, as well as managing and planning budgets and operations - all in support of teaching and learning relationships vital to community health and student self-actualization. Alongside her work in higher education she provided services as a re-entry and community mediator with The Mediation and Training Collaborative and additional operational services to its successor organization Collaborative Resolutions Group. Ongoing training and practice for more than a decade in non-violent and empathic communication, facilitation, organizational change, collaborative and team-building practices, and mediation has enriched her professional practice, deepening her capacities to support clients as they explore and transform their organizations and relationships.
Susan came to the work of facilitation and creative conflict when she experienced, and witnessed, the peace-building power of deep listening and compassionate communication in complex organizations and in her personal life. She supports organizations and individuals in designing meetings, multi-day retreats and issue-focused forums; the creative exploration of labor-management tensions; and co-facilitates conversations attending to organizationally specific tasks such as budget-strategic priority alignment. Whether collaborating storytelling projects or pondering spreadsheets, her working and personal mantra is ”I can’t, we can.”
MA; Service, Leadership and Management
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Debbie Lynangale
Building cultures and structures that integrate and support learning, respect, inclusivity and collaboration have been a focus for Debbie throughout her professional and personal life. An ongoing student in cultural fluency and anti-oppression work, she embraces the challenges of co-creating inclusive, welcoming and brave spaces for connection and exploration. She notes, “when we inspire all team members to show up fully, when we balance support and accountability for individuals and teams, and when we actively and authentically welcome a diversity of perspectives and approaches, the organizations and groups we work with are the stronger for it.”
Most recently, Debbie was Co-Executive Director of Collaborative Resolutions Group (CRG), a community mediation center serving western Massachusetts. She co-led CRG’s two-year transition to independence from a larger parent agency. Her CRG work focused on supporting CRG with grants and financial management, planning, program coordination, and team- and culture-building activities. She also mentored and supported the learning of new and experienced mediators and facilitators, collaborated with other centers as part of the Massachusetts Community Mediation Center coalition on advocacy and knowledge-share activities, and provided direct services with training, facilitation and mediation.
Prior to moving to the Northeast, Debbie spent 15 years with the U.S. Department of State/Foreign Service, where she worked in a variety of overseas cultures and settings, navigated interagency and governmental contexts, and worked to support collaborations with nonprofit/nongovernmental organizations, community groups, schools and businesses.
