Develop Perspective.

It’s not just you. The challenges are becoming more complex. The pace of change is increasing. The future is more uncertain. More complex problems require more comprehensive solutions, and more comprehensive solutions require greater perspective. I can help you and your team develop the perspective needed to meet the emerging challenges your organization faces.

Services

Develop Your Strategy

I can help facilitate a long-term vision and strategic plan for your organization, or help develop short-to-medium-term scenario strategies that can help your organization anticipate and plan for uncertainties ahead.
Develop Your Culture

I can help you build a deliberately developmental culture, where each member of your team is supporting each other’s personal and professional growth, leading to better teamwork, stronger leadership, and greater effectiveness.
Develop Your Programs

I can help you use human-centered design processes to develop new programs, products, and services that meet emerging needs with innovative solutions.
Develop Your Leadership

I can help you be a better leader and manager for your organization through developmental coaching practices that help you identify your growing edge and overcome your own immunity to change.

About

I am a seasoned social impact organizational leader with more than two decades of real-world experience developing strategy, culture, programs, and leaders through an integral lens. I bring 10+ years of executive leadership with the YMCA and the Institute for Cultural Evolution to bear on the emerging challenges organizations face today in grappling with the complexity of the 21st century. I have designed, led, and evaluated programs; nurtured thriving offline and online communities; led large, diverse staff teams; managed complex eight-figure budgets; created powerful leadership development programs; led large strategic planning initiatives; and developed high-performing boards. I am a developmental leader who is adept at facilitating growth in individuals, teams, and organizations to achieve their goals for impact.

I am experienced in leading and facilitating organizational development in the following areas:

Strategic Planning & Theories of Change

Foresight and Scenario Planning
Impact Assessment
Polarities and Integrative Thinking
Staff/Culture Development
Integral Metatheory

Workshop and Retreat Facilitation
Organizational Learning and Development
Innovative Program Design
Deliberately Developmental Organizations
Immunity to Change
Leadership Development & Training

While I can bring these, and many other, tools to the table, it will ultimately be your and your organization’s needs that will determine how I can best support you. You know what you’d like to achieve and what kind of organization you’d like to build, but the path to those destinations is rarely obvious. By listening carefully and with insight to your goals, I can help you develop a change path that will bring them within reach.

Testimonials

Chuck Collins - Former President and CEO of the YMCA of San Francisco

I worked closely with Josh when I tapped him to help lead the Strategic Planning process for the YMCA of San Francisco to implement its 2020 Vision. Josh is a natural strategic thinker and leader who adeptly helped us craft plans for the branches that brought our expansive vision down to the realities on the ground for each particular community we served. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend him for any organization in need of support with their strategic plan or theory of change. He is brilliant, positive, pragmatic and collaborative. He lives his values and leads the cultural evolution of organizations necessary for real impact and sustainable advancement.
Geoff Gordon-Creed - Founding Partner at Gordon-Creed, Kelley, Holl, Angel & Sugerman, LLP and Head of Operations and Development at the Well Done Foundation

I worked closely with Josh for several years at the YMCA of San Francisco. Josh was recognized at the Y as an exceptionally talented leader and strategic thinker. I’ve had the pleasure of working with many organizational leaders and leadership consultants on issues relating to organizational vision, direction, and structure in both the for-profit and the non-profit world. I’d rank Josh at the top of the list in terms of talent, effectiveness, and emotional intelligence.
Marcela Hunter - Principal Consultant at See Change Consulting

Josh is the type of leader who is intentional about understanding individual and team dynamics by incorporating their needs and areas of development. He works to ensure that people feel safe to show up as they are, giving them opportunities to be innovative and leverage their strengths. Josh helped me identify my gifts and be successful in the work I wanted to do. He is all about progress and forward-thinking, while also bringing a very human-centered approach.
Carter Phipps - Co-Founder of the Institute for Cultural Evolution and Co-Author of Conscious Leadership

Josh brings many talents to the organizational table – irreplaceable experience, rare leadership intelligence, a broad strategic toolset, incredible people skills, and a ton of hard-won wisdom. Most important, he integrates it all into a humble, hard-working personality. If you need help building, managing, scaling, or supercharging your conscious organization, Josh’s services will be an invaluable resource.
Lauren Clapperton - Vice President of Health Initiatives & Community Wellness at the YMCA of San Francisco

With Josh’s guidance and leadership as the Senior Executive Director of the Stonestown Family Y, the Branch Leadership Team built a culture committed to personal and professional development. In the “deliberately developmental” culture he helped us create, we learned to bring our whole selves to work, to see mistakes as opportunities for growth, and to hold each other accountable to grow as leaders. With Josh as my supervisor, I honed the hows (not just the whats) of impactful, developmental leadership, which expanded my impact and prepared me for future roles.
Larry Rosen - Principal at Larry M. Rosen Consulting, LLC

For 6 months in 2019, Josh was one of a select group of scholars in a symposium on thought leadership at Washington University in St. Louis for which I served as Dean. Josh distinguished himself in a distinguished group with his rigorous approach to scholarship, his insightful inquiry, and the authorship of one of that year’s most accomplished position papers. There is no doubt in my mind that he possesses the intellectual and interpersonal skills to be an effective coach and consultant.
Lara Hitchcock - Associate Vice President of People Strategy at the YMCA of San Francisco

I have had the good fortune of knowing Josh and working closely with him over the last 20+ years. He is a joy to partner with; bringing thought leadership, curiosity, and an amazing ability to be open-minded. He brings a passion for adaptive leadership and strategic planning - in addition to his genuine way of connecting and caring for people. I can recommend Josh without hesitation for any organization in need of strategic planning or leadership development support.
Robert Sindelar - Chief Advancement Officer at Justice Outside

I can't recommend Josh highly enough. When you engage with Josh, you and your team will benefit from his sharp mind, his caring heart, his quick wit, and a powerful depth of experience with organizational development, change management, people management, community engagement, and strategic planning.