Offerings for

Organizations

I partner with organizations to strengthen teams and cultures, create impactful experiences, and build powerful communities where people can thrive.

Facilitation

  • Facilitation is the art of guiding a group through a shared experience to make their visions come to life while fostering community, clarity, and creativity. Working with an external facilitator helps in ensuring all members of a group are able to show up and contribute as participants, rather than juggling multiple planning-related roles while trying to participate in a gathering.

    As a facilitator, I create accessible and inclusive spaces where participants can engage deeply, express themselves honestly, and explore the liberatory possibilities in their work and lives. I bring my keen attunement to group dynamics, intentional and adaptive approach to process design, and integration of embodied and creative practices to support partner organizations in hosting meaningful and impactful group experiences whose momentum and outcomes can be seamlessly woven into their work moving forward. I offer both one-time event facilitation and ongoing facilitation partnership to organizations who are interested in having consistent support over time.

  • I design and facilitate virtual and in-person meetings, retreats, and larger convenings across the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors with the goal of nurturing equitable, skilled, and joyful organizations, movements, and sectors. I specialize in:

    • Retreats and meetings focused on supporting organizations in building their ideological, strategic, and emotional resilience (framing based on Maurice Mitchell’s piece on Building Resilient Organizations)

    • Convenings for grantees, donors, members, and other interconnected stakeholders to build community, learn, and plan together

    • Sessions and retreats focused on deepening into values of justice, liberation, and well-being

Coaching

  • Coaching is about cultivating deep awareness and equipping folks with the tools to take aligned and transformative action in their lives and work. As an organizational coach, I partner with teams to do individual and group work that creates the foundation for powerful systemic change.

    Organizations might be ready for a coaching partnership when:

    • They are longing or planning for change and transformation.

    • Shifting conditions within or outside the organization are requiring them to stretch

    • Conflict and tension are surfacing in ways that they don’t yet have the capacity to hold fully

    • There is internal misalignment, confusion, or stuckness that they need space and support to move through

    • How they are in relationship to one another would be strengthened with additional support

  • I approach coaching partnerships first from a place of understanding where a team or organization currently is, and designing a coaching program that will support them to move in a direction that is aligned with their most audacious goals and visions. As a coach, I focus on the relationships and patterned behavior within groups and facilitate skill-building and engagement that turns people inwards toward themselves and outwards toward one another. Unlike a training with curriculum, the people are the primary content in coaching.

Partnership

  • Partnerships support organizations to effectively resource their ambitious visions and greatest longings for the work they do. I provide training and consultation packages to organizations to support them in building their internal capacity to dream, design, and deliver the values-centered work that they are bringing into the world.

    Training packages include custom-designed curriculum and virtual and/or in-person training centering the learning outcomes that are a priority for the organization. My specialties include equity and justice, well-being, leadership development, organizational culture, and effective team practices around communication and conflict.

    Consultation packages include focused partnership on key areas of work as well as flexible banks of consultation hours to ensure partners have responsive and holistic support when they need it. My specialties include program design and evaluation, strategic planning, talent development, and management and supervision - all with equity, justice, and liberation at the center.

  • I engage in organizational partnerships first by seeking to understand the history, context, and present conditions of the organization. I work in collaboration with members of staff, board, and other key stakeholders to ensure my partnership approach is clear and responsive to the current and evolving needs within the organization. I ensure that my role as a partner is complementing and lifting up the existing capacities of the organization so that there is sustainability and longevity to the work we do in partnership.

Testimonials

  • “Working with Meha was a master class in existing in space and how we relate to each other. She has a slight and deliberate way of drawing out thoughts and acting on ideas for the success of the group. The way she related to every person in the room was personal and showcased the way we should relate to ourselves and one another. Meha has facilitated different groups for me but the experience is always the same. Safe, quality, careful, cared about, and held. I look forward to embarking on a journey with her again.”

    Laila Mohib, Director, Office of the President, EMERGE

  • “As a facilitator and coach, Meha approaches collaborative relationships with deep intentionality, trust-building, and mutuality. When working on deep and complex issues Meha offers a framework for reflection that moves teams towards really meaningful action. The positive growth I personally have experienced through Meha’s coaching, as well as what our team and organization has experienced, is shifting systems towards a place of healing and repair.”

    Adrienne Udarbe, Executive Director, Pinnacle Prevention

  • "Meha is a gifted facilitator who has an incredible ability to pull out key insights and tensions that are necessary to discuss for groups to make progress. I worked with her for a convening of leaders who are at the helm of major scientific and funding institutions, and she did a remarkable job of facilitating our two-day meeting which covered some tense topics. Meha led us through exercises that established a community of trust and care that was essential for us to work together on the difficult but important issue at hand, and then led us to have the frank discussions that were necessary to find meaningful solutions. Attendees of that convening continue to work together to move our goals forward, and that is due to the momentum Meha helped us build when she facilitated our convening."

    Dr. Neil Lewis, Jr., Associate Professor at Cornell University and Co-Director of the Cornell Action Research Collaborative

  • "Meha’s facilitation and coaching expertise have been instrumental in our organization’s growth and actualization of expanding our anti racist practices and rooting everything we do in community, equity, and supporting the well being of all our staff and stakeholders. Meha’s kind and thoughtful approach challenges us while holding gentle space for our growth."

    Van Nguyen-Stone and Lorena Landeros, Executive Co-Directors, Performing Arts Workshop

  • "I greatly enjoyed working with Meha. She has deep knowledge of philanthropy, social impact and racial equity. Her thoughtful approach helps clients define and reach their impact goals, while holding space for new strategies and ideas along the way. Meha strikes the perfect balance of 'roll up your sleeves' and big picture thinking. She is a fantastic consultant and an excellent facilitator."

    Katelyn Gibert, Vice President, Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women

  • "Meha is an excellent consultant and subject matter expert in social impact. Her manner is measured and precise – enabling her to create order out of chaos. She is excellent at focusing the client on agreed upon purpose and goals. Any session I left in Meha’s hands were run with great care – she knows how to get substance out of participants and sessions to inform decisions."

    Debbie Gim, COO of the Office of Corporate Engagement, Goldman Sachs