multi-stakeholder impact
Systemic Change
Facilitating Change at Scale
Complex challenges don’t belong to just one team or organization. Our systems change work brings together leaders, stakeholders, and industry partners to create alignment, navigate roadblocks and conflict, and build momentum around meaningful, lasting change. Through facilitated convenings, cross-sector collaboration, strategic dialogue, and large-scale engagement design, we help organizations and industries move from fragmented efforts to coordinated action.
Whether you are leading an industry initiative, navigating complex multi-stakeholder dynamics, or gathering change agents around a shared future, we design the process and conversations that shape progress and lasting impact.
Large-Scale Conflict Resolution & Negotiation
Big change starts when visionary people have the space to think beyond today’s challenges and imagine what is possible together. We design and facilitate future-focused symposiums that bring together leaders, innovators, and change agents to explore emerging ideas, strengthen connections, and generate momentum around long-term transformation.
More than just event facilitation, we intentionally design the experience, conversations, and collaborative process so participants leave with new perspectives, stronger alignment, and concrete next steps for shaping the future they want to create.
Future-Focused Symposiums
Industry-Wide Workshops
Real system level change requires the right people in the room and a process designed to move ideas into action. We design and facilitate industry-wide workshops that bring together stakeholders, decision-makers, and practitioners to explore complex challenges, surface shared priorities, and collaboratively develop practical solutions.
Whether you are building momentum around a new initiative, gathering constituent input, or navigating change across an industry, we create structured experiences that help diverse groups engage meaningfully and leave with clarity, ownership, and forward movement.
When complex challenges involve multiple organizations, communities, or sectors, progress depends on the ability to navigate competing priorities, power dynamics, and deeply held perspectives.
We design and facilitate collaborative negotiation and conflict resolution processes that help diverse stakeholders work through tension, build shared understanding, and move toward unified action. Whether supporting cross-sector partnerships, community and government dialogue, or industry-wide collaboration, we create structured spaces where difficult conversations can lead to trust, alignment, and meaningful systems-level change.
client story:Initiating Systemic Change in the Architecture Industry to the Benefit of Caregivers
Integrative Leadership Strategies Develops Resource Framework for Industry Initiative
Three women, each a dedicated mother and full-time architect at Jones Architecture, set out to create lasting change for caregivers in their industry. They are now leading the “It Takes a Village” initiative, which is developing a resource framework to guide architecture firms in building more supportive and sustainable workplaces for parents and caregivers.
The idea for “It Takes a Village” started when one of the trio, recently returned from maternity leave, was overwhelmed by the effort to balance her full-time architecture workload with the demands of new motherhood. Colleagues who had experienced or were experiencing similar dilemmas provided incredible emotional support and they all acknowledged that it was not possible to do things the same way post-leave as it had been pre-leave. However, there was no precedent for what could be done at firms of their size. They courageously approached their boss and were met with full support to “take it as far as you can.”
This led to spearheading the committee that ultimately secured a Future Forward Grant from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to fund the “It Takes a Village” initiative. While they would initially design and pilot the resource framework in the Boston area, the long-term vision is to introduce systemic changes nationwide. They want to make the architecture industry a field where parenting and caregiving are seen as strengths, not a deficit.