Seek

Innovate

Thrive

Envisioning innovative teams around the world building joyful communities and a healthy planet

I partner with purpose-driven teams to identify what’s hindering success and guide them in taking the steps needed to thrive.

Want to increase impact?

Strengthening purpose-driven teams to identify root challenges, embrace uncertainty, craft solutions, and create the impact they seek.

Have you ever…

Seen a gap between your team’s talent and results?

Had a dream - a vision you know could make a big difference - but struggled to put it into words and action?

Wondered how to find footing and funding in rapid change and uncertainty?

Faced a major decision and did not know which steps to take next?

Struggled with conflict between team members?

Felt isolated, stuck, or burned out?

Time for a vantage point

Fresh perspective and a professional toolkit at your disposal will spark results.

My job is to work with you to pinpoint what’s holding your team back and find the best path forward to act with clarity and confidence.

How?

We’ll work together to identify your envisioned outcomes and what is blocking your team from realizing them right now. Then we’ll identify resources and solutions so your team has clarity and confidence to take the next steps and create the impact you desire.

After we conclude our work together, your team will feel clearer, calmer, focused, and hopeful, and you will experience measurable results in your work.

Gerald Wagner, Director, Blackfeet Environmental Office

“Libby supported our climate adaptation planning. She took our ideas from abstract form to a more defined and focused direction. We now have a highly recognized adaptation plan.”

Dr. Shaun Grassel, CEO, Buffalo Nations Grasslands Alliance

“Our organization is young and needed help getting off the ground. Libby’s organizational development and strategic planning support helped create a strong foundation for Buffalo Nations Grasslands Alliance to grow from. We are now thriving as an intermediary that is succeeding in fundraising and provides grants to Native Nations.”

A Three Branches Approach

Leading a team and reaching your goals demands technical skills, and it’s also an art that blooms in community.

I infuse the art of collaboration with technical services. I work with you along three branches to:

Seek

Seeking means first listening closely to you and your team to understand what your vision and goals are, your needs and concerns, then learning about the core challenges, exploring potential causes, gathering information, and then identifying the roots of the challenges so we can create the best solutions together for the actual problem.

Innovate

Innovation means taking a risk. To innovate, we first face and accept the discomfort and uncertainty of the call to change, then connect with ourselves - the inner knowing we all possess - and build trust by connecting to our team members’ wisdom. We invite in new ideas, partners, tools, and resources, design and prioritize solutions, and then plan next steps.

Thrive

Thriving means taking action and reflecting. We’ve identified the problem. We know the steps to the solutions. It’s time to take action. Implementing measurable steps along a clear time frame will lead you to achieve your goals. Measuring and evaluating results, then adjusting and adapting, propels your team to achieve consistently.

The Three-Branches-to-Success Process shifts teams from wishing to achieving.

  • "When I was first approached about creating an LLC, I felt overwhelmed to the point of turning down career advancement opprtunities. Libby mentored me through unfamiliar processes and gave me the confidence I needed to branch out professionally. Thanks to her, my LLC has contracted with Tribal agencies and non-governmental organizations to complete impactful natural resource research and management projects."

    Megan Ahern, Research Director/Owner, M&N Wildlife, LLC

Technical Services

  • Strategic planning

    Partnering with your team to create the plan you need. Whether visioning, creating a theory of change, or building a complete strategic plan, the process will build team cohesion and a clear path.

    Ready for a conservation & financial plan to get your team on the same page and invite funder investment? Let’s do it! We’ll base it on your team’s focal species, habitats, and socioeconomic priorities, using the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation, then build out costs and revenue projections for your plan’s timeframe. Option to add on scenario planning.

    Once you have a clear vision, purpose, and detailed goals and activities, a fundraising strategy will transform your innovations to action and impact.

  • Policy development

    Strengthening or developing a new organizational policy to meet high standards and improve team outcomes, in close collaboration with your team. Whether you are developing a new employee handbook, updating a financial policy, creating a land leasing policy, grant issuance procedures, or building another type of operational document, a partner who can bridge big picture and detailed-level thinking with operational best practices will prevent potential pitfalls boost your team’s performance.

  • Community engagement & program codesign

    Identifying the community or communities you want to engage, why, and how, then designing an engagement strategy and action plan. An option to engage your focal community in a full codesign process to enhance engagement and overall program outcomes.

Coffee hour troubleshoot & shine

A confidential, one-hour meeting with you to hear about your team challenges, provide reflections, troubleshoot, and leave you with a clear sense of next steps. Leadership thrives in community of thought. Sometimes we just need an ear from someone who has been there.

Skills

  • Background research & synthesis

    Review and synthesis of research peer-reviewed literature, white papers, policies, and previously collected data.

  • Meeting facilitation

    Agenda development and meeting facilitation that meets goals and objectives, resulting in clear outcomes. Participants leave the meeting energized, knowing they were heard and understood.

  • Fundraising

    Concept note composition, grant writing, grant reporting, and funder pitch creation.

  • Data collection & analysis

    Research question formulation, survey design, data collection through interviews and focus groups, qualitative analysis. Program monitoring and evaluation.

Jessie DeMontiney, Grants Manager of Buffalo Nations Grasslands Alliance

“It’s easy to get narrowly focused, and Libby pulled me back to the big picture, ensuring our policy development aligned with our procedures.”

Jason Belcourt, Director, Sustainability Program, Chippewa Cree Nation

“Libby facilitated our buffalo business plan development. Working with Libby has been amazing. We had all the pieces of the puzzle, and she has been our architect and the glue. She is one of the buffalo’s greatest allies.”

Work with me

Shift from ‘me’ to ‘we’ and experience your team thriving and creating a better world.

 

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You care about people, our planet, and making a difference. Your courage can flourish with an ally.