The Process

(Re) Engage works with clients across professional sectors as they navigate crisis and move strategically into the future.  The following describes some past projects that demonstrate the type of services that can be customized for your needs. 

Translating Values Into Business

Need: Develop a training day for a group of small business owners seeking to significantly grow their businesses in ways that are humane, values-driven and financially viable. 

Custom Solutions
  • Designed exercises and teaching for day-long training session during their invitation-only annual retreat 
  • Led workshop on mindfulness and compassion in the context of leadership 
  • Created customized exercises - meditation, physical activities, and reflective writing - to explore how compassionate leadership relates to their specific contexts
  • Held coaching sessions about content and application in personal and professional contexts

Starting Smart

Need:  Develop, market and  implement new programming for a research and service center while creating accompanying business and financial models.

Custom Solutions 
  • Led design sessions with co-founders to establish mission, vision and goals
  • Managed new product development projects, timeline and components
  • Designed and helped launch new educational/certification program
  • Developed evaluation and metrics for measuring consumer experience and quality of offerings

Compassionate Closure

Need:  Co-facilitate group session with governing board facing difficult decision about the future  - and potential closure - of their organization.

Custom Solutions
  • Designed session flow and components
  • Crafted expectations for group processing based upon Compassion Practice methodology
  • Successfully co-facilitated open-ended discussion to a successful group decision which was executed in the following months 

Lay-Offs and Low Morale

Need:  Reconfigure jobs within a property management team after substantial lay-offs and commensurate reduction in services while simultaneously addressing low morale .

Custom Solutions
  • Coached newly promoted director through organizational change and stepping into new leadership role
  • Utilized Compassion Practice methodology to conduct individual sessions with each person to assess the impact of lay-offs and reorganization
  • Designed off-site retreat with team to set the stage for impending reorganization (including team-building exercises, workflow systems analysis, job reconfigurations, identifying trouble spots and solutions, etc.) 
  • Subsequent recommendations regarding structure, position/title changes, salary adjustments and training needs were implemented without edit

Decision Time

Need:  Design and facilitate process for non-profit leadership team to determine the future of a cherished property that, if sold, could provide significant resources for their mission.

Custom Solutions
  • Guided leadership team in identifying and framing key issues for consideration
  • Assisted leadership team in determining appropriate scope of decision related to finances, sequence and credibility 
  • Consistently made tangible connections between mission/vision and the decision at hand, allowing them to better see the link between this decision and larger organizational values
  • Facilitated public meeting, effectively communicated key facts on behalf of leadership team, and helped secure a  positive response to proposal