Skill-Building Workshops Where Fun Meets Function

We design and facilitate workshops that help organizations make sense of their data, align around priorities, and turn insight into action.

Make it Relevant, Make it Practical, and Make it Fun - so it will stick.

Our sessions combine practical skill-building, facilitated conversation, and hands-on methods
(including LEGO® Serious Play®).

The goal is to help teams move from “we have a lot of information” to “we know what to do next.” Participants leave with clearer priorities, shared language, and next steps they can act on immediately.

Workshops are tailored for nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven organizations navigating complexity, change, or growth, especially when things feel overwhelming, and data feels fragmented, or underused.

Every session is adapted to your context and goals; whether you have one hour for a conversation that deserves four, a hybrid or remote team, or competing demands on everyone’s attention.

Skill-building workshop examples

Interactive sessions that build practical people can use immediately.

Data That Delivers

Crafting data-driven messages that drive action

Helps teams clarify what their data is really 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 teams build a more curious and engaged data culture by understanding what their teams need from data, seeing how it can help them quickly, and building excitement and ownership around learning from results.

So Many Metrics, So Little Time

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

Supports teams in identifying meaningful indicators tied to outcomes, aligning measurement with strategy and staff capacity, and focusing on data that can be measured and used to shape decisions.

Facilitated Group Workshops

For organizations that need time, structure, and experienced facilitation to work through complex challenges together.

Often used during strategy refreshes, evaluation planning, program redesign, or periods of rapid change.

Tearless Logic Models

A collaborative workshop that supports teams in articulating and refining the intended impact of their work and clarifying how activities contribute to outcomes through guided questions, shared reflection, and and reaching shared understanding about how the work creates change.

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 Workshop

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.

Across data sets, they surface shared insights about what is most important for the organization to focus on, resulting in a prioritized set of focus areas that helps teams avoid reactive, whack-a-mole action plans and act with intention.

  • “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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