Our Process

How We Partner with you to Build Organizational Health

DISCOVERY

Getting to know each other and building our relationship

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Organizational Strategy & Advisement

Creating a strategy and vision for organizational change, including priorities, timeline, and recommended approach, through one-on-one and group conversations.

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FOUNDATION

Making the invisible visible

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Human-Centered Practices

A professional and personal development process that increases interpersonal skills and is essential to any organization’s cultural change.

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Values Exploration and Excavation

Identifying the values and behaviors currently functioning within your organization, and how they impact your culture.

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TRANSFORMATION

Socializing and Operationalizing Your Values

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Comprehensive Human Resources Services

Committing to values and building values-aligned policies, practices, programs, and HR systems and structures for lasting impact on individuals, teams, and your organization’s entire ecosystem.

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ANCHOR Certification & Licensing

We train and certify your employees to facilitate  sessions on human-centered practices and accelerate transformation across your organization.

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Values-Aligned Leadership

Identifying and committing to the values-aligned behaviors that will support leaders’ vision for their role in the organization’s transformation.

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Values Evolution

Collaboratively revisiting and revising your organization’s values to reflect and support continued growth and transformation.

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Talent Advisement

We help develop values-aligned hiring processes to source candidates who are ready to innovate, lead, and meet challenges.

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Additional Offerings

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Workshop Development & Facilitation

Company retreats, professional development experiences, interactive presentations, and thought partnership.

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Speaking Engagements

Our team is experienced in presenting on panels, presenting keynotes, and participating in interviews and podcasts.

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Leadership Coaching

One-on-one values-aligned, strengths-based support for your personal and professional development.

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Articles on Identity, Power, and Emotions

Articles on Values

Articles on Workplace Culture

Reconciling Our Realities

“If you can’t hear me, you can’t see me.” -Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement Our nation is struggling with, and sometimes feels stalled by, disparate beliefs—conflicting worldviews and beliefs about what facts or truths are valid. We all carry different...

Making The Invisible Visible

Our company motto isn’t just something we help clients with. Our own team at Leverage to Lead has experienced (and continues to experience) moments when something previously hidden, often in service of upholding white supremacy culture, is made visible to us for the...

We Interrupt Our Regular Newsletter

What started out as a typical newsletter call turned into something else this week. We were all set up on a group video call to create the next newsletter when the conversation took an abrupt turn. Our topic was values, something we talk about a lot. MJ wondered aloud...

Reframing Success

In our Reframing Series, we examine commonplaces that, upon closer look, reveal a toxic belief or harmful behavior. Read more from our Reframing Series: Reframing Boundaries; Reframing Burnout, Reframing Nice, Reframing Uncertainty.   We Can’t Do It All   At...

Relationship Goals

Whatever the goals of your organization, or yourself as an individual, one goal seems to have overshadowed the rest: productivity. When we reward and idolize productivity, the norm for work becomes busyness, stress, overwhelm, suffering, burnout, performing our value...

In Relationship: Beyond Getting Along

Welcome to our In Relationship blog series. We’ve recently written about how we prioritize relationship-building over productivity. In this series, we’re doing a deep dive into what it actually means to be in relationship with others. How do you know when it’s...

In Relationship: Signs that it’s Real

This post is part of our In Relationship series, where we’re diving into what it means to truly be in relationship with others and why we make it our priority. The goal of creating diverse workplaces that are equitable and inclusive is not to make everyone happy all...

In Relationship: Holding Up the Mirror

This post is part of our In Relationship series, where we’re diving into what it means to truly be in relationship with others and why we make it our priority.   When we first start working with an organization, we often get asked to provide a set of outcomes....

In Relationship: Containment & Regard

This post is part of our In Relationship series, where we’re diving into what it means to truly be in relationship with others and why we make it our priority. So what does it actually look and feel like when people are in relationship together? There are no set...

Belonging: What is DEIB?

Welcome to the first post in our blog series about belonging. In these three articles, we’ll explore what it means to add “Belonging” to DEI work, how we define belonging, how we know when we belong, and what happens when belonging is absent.   According to a...

How Team Onboarding Reframed Our Values

This is the third article in our series on team onboarding, a practice at Leverage to Lead where we go beyond traditional onboarding and decide to evolve as a team, together, when a new colleague joins us. Read about the origins of team onboarding here, and read about...

Stability vs. Certainty – Leading with Values Over Fear

In leadership, the pursuit of certainty can feel tempting. Certainty implies control, predictability, and the comfort of knowing what’s next. But certainty is often an illusion—especially in dynamic environments where challenges evolve daily. True stability, by...

The Role of Systems in Building Stability

Leadership isn’t just about offering advice—it’s about creating the conditions for people to act on the advice they already have. The consulting world often suggests that better advice is the solution to every problem, but the truth is, advice unheeded is meaningless....

Reconciling Our Realities

“If you can’t hear me, you can’t see me.” -Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement Our nation is struggling with, and sometimes feels stalled by, disparate beliefs—conflicting worldviews and beliefs about what facts or truths are valid. We all carry different...

Making The Invisible Visible

Our company motto isn’t just something we help clients with. Our own team at Leverage to Lead has experienced (and continues to experience) moments when something previously hidden, often in service of upholding white supremacy culture, is made visible to us for the...

We Interrupt Our Regular Newsletter

What started out as a typical newsletter call turned into something else this week. We were all set up on a group video call to create the next newsletter when the conversation took an abrupt turn. Our topic was values, something we talk about a lot. MJ wondered aloud...

Reframing Success

In our Reframing Series, we examine commonplaces that, upon closer look, reveal a toxic belief or harmful behavior. Read more from our Reframing Series: Reframing Boundaries; Reframing Burnout, Reframing Nice, Reframing Uncertainty.   We Can’t Do It All   At...

Relationship Goals

Whatever the goals of your organization, or yourself as an individual, one goal seems to have overshadowed the rest: productivity. When we reward and idolize productivity, the norm for work becomes busyness, stress, overwhelm, suffering, burnout, performing our value...

In Relationship: Beyond Getting Along

Welcome to our In Relationship blog series. We’ve recently written about how we prioritize relationship-building over productivity. In this series, we’re doing a deep dive into what it actually means to be in relationship with others. How do you know when it’s...

In Relationship: Signs that it’s Real

This post is part of our In Relationship series, where we’re diving into what it means to truly be in relationship with others and why we make it our priority. The goal of creating diverse workplaces that are equitable and inclusive is not to make everyone happy all...

In Relationship: Holding Up the Mirror

This post is part of our In Relationship series, where we’re diving into what it means to truly be in relationship with others and why we make it our priority.   When we first start working with an organization, we often get asked to provide a set of outcomes....

In Relationship: Containment & Regard

This post is part of our In Relationship series, where we’re diving into what it means to truly be in relationship with others and why we make it our priority. So what does it actually look and feel like when people are in relationship together? There are no set...

Belonging: What is DEIB?

Welcome to the first post in our blog series about belonging. In these three articles, we’ll explore what it means to add “Belonging” to DEI work, how we define belonging, how we know when we belong, and what happens when belonging is absent.   According to a...