Sometimes it starts as a symptom.

A board member who used to be your strongest advocate stops returning calls, two staff members who worked well together are suddenly short with each other in every meeting, a donor relationship that felt solid goes quiet, a volunteer coordinator resigns and nobody can tell you exactly why.

You know something is wrong. What you don't know is where it's actually coming from, or what to do about it without making it worse.

Sometimes you see it coming before it arrives.

A merger is on the table. A founding executive is leaving. The organization is scaling faster than the team can hold together. You know from experience (or instinct) that these moments break people layers even when the operational plan is solid and you want someone who can get ahead of that before it becomes a crisis.

Both of those moments are exactly when I do my best work.

I read organizational dynamics the way other people read spreadsheets. I walk into a room and within a short time I know who's losing trust in whom, where the real conflict is sitting, and what's about to surface, before it does. And I address it in a way that doesn't make the repair visible, doesn't embarrass anyone, and doesn't blow up the relationships you need to keep.

I've been doing this my entire career, at ESPN producing FIFA World Cups and UEFA Euros under countdown clocks with international organizations watching, and at a healthcare foundation managing teams across 32 facilities in five states where the human layer was always the variable nobody had a plan for.

I was never hired specifically to do this, it fell to me because the stakes were too high and nobody else could do it. That's why I'm building it as a standalone practice now.

I work with organizations navigating:

• Merger or acquisition integration

• Board conflict or governance breakdown

• Executive or founder transition

• Rapid growth where the culture is starting to crack

• Volunteer, donor, or staff relationship breakdown that's becoming structural

Engagements run 60 to 120 days, scoped to your specific situation, priced as a project.