Facilitation & Strategic Planning for Companies & Leadership Teams

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The strategy, the offsite, the new platform — whatever you roll out only works if your people actually own it. Most leaders build these things for their people instead of with them, then wonder why buy-in never comes. We design strategies and events that your team help build, so regardless what changes come next, they have real ownership and buy-in to drive the momentum your business is actually after.

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you might be here because:​

  • You’re designing a strategy or change and you need genuine buy-in, not just compliance
  • You’re launching a product and want it shaped by real users and community
  • You’re planning a retreat or conference and refuse to run one people forget by Monday
  • A culture shift is underway and you want people excited rather than imposed upon 
  • The pace of change is moving faster than your people can absorb

There’s a different way to build the things that matter

Most companies build their strategies, gatherings, and programs for their people, then try to sell them on it after the fact. We do the opposite. We design the work with the people and the community it depends on.

  • Your people and community as co-creators. We involve the people who live with a decision help shape it. This way, what emerges fits real needs and earns real engagement.
  • Designed for outcomes, not just energy. A great offsite that changes nothing is a cost. We design so participation turns into something measurable — alignment that holds, programs teams adopt, and momentum that outlasts the room.

The result isn’t just a better day or a tidier plan. It’s work that noticeably shifts a business, owned by the people who built it.

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“Spud knows this material inside and out, and his demeanor in front of an audience is especially engaging. Great job!”
Greg Wolfe
Executive Director
"Spud is a master of turning ideas to action. Quickly. With an expertise for innovation and an ability to make it happen. He quickly became very loved by our community.”
Jill Morris
Founder
“Spud is the most creative person you’ll meet – especially for creating unique experiences for communities”
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Social Entrepreneur

Companies & Teams work in action

case studies

Connectors Summit, We and Me

Producing a Global Virtual Summit for Facilitators to Connect and Collaborate

How do you run a multi-day virtual summit for the world’s best facilitators and leave them feeling more connected, not more screen-fatigued?

Every December, connection expert Chad Littlefield gathers facilitators, educators, and community builders from around the world for the Connectors Summit. For the past few years, we’ve been the team that helps produce the virtual engagement using a unique platform which allows participants to freely connect throughout the gathering. In doing so, we support Chad as a co-facilitator throughout.

The result: a fully virtual, multi-day summit that practices what it preaches — headlined by voices like Priya Parker and Peter Block, run end-to-end on a platform that supports real connection, and consistently held up by this hard-to-impress crowd as proof that virtual events can create real human connection.

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Primrose

Designed a professional development program for early-childhood educators nationwide

How do you create professional development that early-childhood teachers actually use, instead of another binder that ends up in a drawer?

Primrose, one of the country’s top preschools, wanted professional development its teachers would genuinely embrace. So we built it with them — running listening sessions and site visits across the country and an Ambassador beta program. From this process, we designing a hands-on PD kit and e-learning program based on Dr. Laura Jana’s QI Skills framework.

The result: a nationwide professional development program focused on 50+ competencies, that was co-created as a tangible kit teachers helped design.

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MentorCloud + Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center

Strengthened the community engagement strategy for a global mentoring initiative

How does a world-leading mentoring platform turn its technology into a community people actually feel part of — and want to keep using?

MentorCloud, the world’s leading mentoring software platform, knew technology alone doesn’t create engagement. Over six months with its CEO and leadership team, we built a community strategy and ran five virtual Connection Cafés — including events for the NASDAQ Entrepreneurial Center’s global Mentor Makers movement — bringing together 500+ participants from 30+ countries.

The result: 80% of participants left more likely to use the product, 9.5/10 called it the best virtual event they’d ever attended, and MentorCloud reshaped its platform around what we learned.

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Stop trying to sell your people on an idea.

Build ones they already own.

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Let’s talk about your strategy, offsite, product, or community and what it would take to make it something your people and customers genuinely buy into, adopt, and carry forward.

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Yes. We partner with companies and leadership teams across industries — from startups to global brands — navigating growth, culture change, leadership transitions, and the pressure of moving fast without losing their people. Our participatory approach is valuable in any environment where alignment can’t be manufactured from the top.
A leadership retreat facilitator designs and leads structured experiences for executive teams and organizations — creating the conditions for genuine dialogue, honest assessment, and forward direction. Unlike a keynote speaker or workshop presenter, a facilitator designs the entire architecture of the experience: how people engage, how tensions get surfaced and worked through, and how the gathering produces lasting alignment and momentum. My Creative Community designs and facilitates leadership retreats, offsites, and conferences for companies navigating change.
Change management tends to manage change to people; innovation consulting often delivers a portfolio or a plan. We do something different: we design the gatherings, retreats, and strategy processes where your team helps build the direction themselves — and we build resilience, nimbleness, and a community orientation into how the organization actually operates. It’s less about handing over a deliverable and more about changing how your team moves together.
Yes. We design conferences and keynotes as participatory experiences rather than one-way presentations — turning a traditional sit-and-get format into something a room full of people actively shapes. This is one of the most common reasons companies and conference organizers reach out to us.
Often, yes. For many companies we stay embedded to design and run the programs, gatherings, and offsites that bring the strategy to life — so your team can stay present and focused on the work that matters most, rather than carrying the logistics and facilitation themselves.
Yes. We design retreats, offsites, and conferences for in-person, virtual, and hybrid formats — ensuring meaningful participation regardless of where team members are joining from.