When you need more
than a presentation.

We design and facilitate workshops that help people and organizations make sense of their systems and data, communicate it clearly, and leave with action plans that won’t collect dust.

Make it relevant, make it practical, and make it fun, so it will stick.

Our sessions combine practical skill-building, facilitated conversation, awesome playlists, and hands-on activities to process and apply concepts.

The goal is to help people move from
“I have a lot of information” to “I know what to do next.”

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Every session is adapted to your context and goals, whether that means working within a tight schedule, meeting a hybrid or remote team where they are, or cutting through competing demands on everyone's attention.

Skill-building workshop examples

Interactive sessions that build practical skills people can use immediately.

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Data That Delivers

Crafting data-driven messages that drive action

Participants learn how to focus on what their data is saying, tailor messages to different audiences, and communicate insight without overwhelming charts or jargon.

Eating & Liking Your Vegetables

Building a culture where data is valued and used as a tool for learning.

Helps people understand why data matters to their work and build the kind of buy-in that makes data everyone's job, not just the data person's.

So Many Metrics, So Little Time

Clarifying what matters in relation to what you are trying to accomplish

Helps people identify what needs to be measured, connect those measures to intended outcomes, and focus on data that informs decisions.

Facilitated Group Workshops

These sessions give organizations the time, structure, and facilitation they need to work through complex challenges, and are most often used during strategy refreshes, evaluation planning, or periods of rapid change.

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Tearless Logic Models

A collaborative workshop that helps teams articulate the intended impact of their work and clarify how their activities connect to outcomes, through guided questions and shared reflection.

Brick by Brick: Building Bold Program Strategies

using LEGO® Serious Play®

A full- or multi-day experience that helps teams slow down and think together about where they’re going and how their work should function.

Participants use LEGO® models to respond to strategic questions, explain their thinking, and explore how different perspectives come together to shape shared direction.

Learn more about LEGO® Serious Play®

Putting Your Data to Work(shop)

This workshop guides teams through a clear process for making sense of data before jumping to action. Teams review data individually and together, documenting interpretations and relevant context.

Together, they surface shared insights about what matters most, resulting in a prioritized set of focus areas that helps teams act with intention rather than react to whatever's loudest.

  • “I work with folks who are already not pleased with being on Zoom. What I learned during this workshop will make things less painful for sure!”

    - Kate, Researcher in Higher Education

  • “Because of the Data to Work(shop) training, we now use data to guide our decisions.”

    - Darby L., MA Youth Organization

  • “ Even if I wanted to look at my email I couldn’t because Dana was so engaging.”

    - Micah C.

  • “The workshop advanced my thinking about measuring our impact and it was engaging and fun!”

    - Education Nonprofit Leader

  • “The presentation offered actionable items I will explore with my team. I loved creating an indicator Mad Lib activity."

    - Education Nonprofit Leader

  • “I used the ‘living logic model' exercise to warm folks up for a theory of change workshop. They generated rich discussion and helped us improve on the model ten-fold."

    - Lisa Danielson Gierach, MSW, MPA

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