60-Minute Leadership Consultation
Private Individual Consulting
When a complex situation is unfolding quickly you may need to call on a uniquely-qualified consultant to help your leadership challenges and options, as soon as they come up.
In a one hour personalized session I work with you to address the specific challenge you’re facing, answer any leadership questions you have, and get you moving on your best, most impactful path.
Often we find few people with whom we can seriously discuss things. Colleagues that understand our work might have competing loyalties, we might be working on ideas that aren’t fully developed, or struggling with confidence in our own interpretations and methods.
I help you organize your thoughts and sequence your actions in order to accomplish your goals. When you need perspective on how to navigate a tricky situation, feedback that is honest, kind, and calm can shift how you are serving, working with, or guiding others.
Registration Is Open
Appointments are available. Booking in November 2024 and on.
What’s Included
Complete a needs assessment before we meet
Schedule a 60-minute video or phone call to address your unique challenges and opportunities
Receive a follow-up email with relevant notes and a clear plan for your next steps
Private Individual Consulting
When a complex situation is unfolding quickly you may need to call on a uniquely-qualified consultant to help your leadership challenges and options, as soon as they come up.
In a one hour personalized session I work with you to address the specific challenge you’re facing, answer any leadership questions you have, and get you moving on your best, most impactful path.
Often we find few people with whom we can seriously discuss things. Colleagues that understand our work might have competing loyalties, we might be working on ideas that aren’t fully developed, or struggling with confidence in our own interpretations and methods.
I help you organize your thoughts and sequence your actions in order to accomplish your goals. When you need perspective on how to navigate a tricky situation, feedback that is honest, kind, and calm can shift how you are serving, working with, or guiding others.
Registration Is Open
Appointments are available. Booking in November 2024 and on.
What’s Included
Complete a needs assessment before we meet
Schedule a 60-minute video or phone call to address your unique challenges and opportunities
Receive a follow-up email with relevant notes and a clear plan for your next steps
Private Individual Consulting
When a complex situation is unfolding quickly you may need to call on a uniquely-qualified consultant to help your leadership challenges and options, as soon as they come up.
In a one hour personalized session I work with you to address the specific challenge you’re facing, answer any leadership questions you have, and get you moving on your best, most impactful path.
Often we find few people with whom we can seriously discuss things. Colleagues that understand our work might have competing loyalties, we might be working on ideas that aren’t fully developed, or struggling with confidence in our own interpretations and methods.
I help you organize your thoughts and sequence your actions in order to accomplish your goals. When you need perspective on how to navigate a tricky situation, feedback that is honest, kind, and calm can shift how you are serving, working with, or guiding others.
Registration Is Open
Appointments are available. Booking in November 2024 and on.
What’s Included
Complete a needs assessment before we meet
Schedule a 60-minute video or phone call to address your unique challenges and opportunities
Receive a follow-up email with relevant notes and a clear plan for your next steps
Description
Our 60-Minute Leadership Consultation is a one-on-one individual leadership consulting session. In a strictly boundaried space, where end-to-end confidentiality is offered, we focus on your specific challenge and opportunity at hand. If something is blocking your decision making, progress, motivation, or confusing your vision then it is worth taking action.
In the time we have together, we explore some of the most generative ways of approaching how you personally lead and follow, staying relevant to the situation at hand, targeting your needs. We might consider how you can forgive an unforgiving situation or boss, for example, or unfair perceptions and failures, so you can move forward. We focus on your specific circumstances.
Leadership challenges can be helped by exploring the numerous frameworks and books in the marketplace. Yet frameworks and relentlessly consuming information is never enough. A highly focused one-on-one sessions is a chance to build trust, and discuss your concerns about your place in what is changing around you.
How we make choices and what actions we take is shaped by our innermost doubts, stories we are telling ourselves, conditioning, and dreams —as well as external factors. How we think and talk about all of this influences our energy, ethics, options, attitudes, behaviors, and willingness to take risk or endure sacrifice. This session is an invitation to get guidance and answer your questions, beyond surface-level coaching or cheerleading.
I work with you to examine and apply focused energy to your unique immediate circumstance. I hope our 60-Minute Leadership Consultation bolsters your confidence in authentic ways, clarifies your approach in a way that is noticeable to others, and helps you progress with wholeness, empowerment, and a clear plan of action.
Decision makers in any field and working at all levels can gain insight. Even the brightest and most aware people have been helped along the way.
Objectives
Replace fear with courage to confront the sometimes complicated mix of frustration, conditioning, aspiration, and sense-making that leading self and others involves, by discussing with a trusted confidant who can validate and encourage your growth.
Get perspective on yourself and your situation. The value of unbiased feedback, or a sanity-check, helps you see options, people, and yourself in new ways.
Enhance your motivation, clarity, and prevent too much time spent ruminating and overthinking.
Freely and openly discuss decision making, obstacles, and ambition with a trusted, uniquely qualified consultant who has no conflicting agenda. I work behind the scenes on your behalf, both analytical and empathetic, thoughtful and candid.
Impact
Clients come to this for many reasons. They might have used others as a sounding board and been hurt by broken trust. Coaches may not have necessary comprehension of complex systems. Counsellors, though skilled at supporting wellbeing, may not be examining social and industry trends and new signals of change. Even experts can have conflicting loyalties.
Many find consulting sessions useful for identifying and changing unhealthy ways of working, while others seek to improve how they serve or lead others. Still others may be juggling competing priorities, nurturing side-projects, being perceived unfairly, or trying to make their way when things feel unforgiving.
In my experience, structured conversations when your own sense of security and clarity is challenged, are one of the most necessary and powerful spaces for people leading self and others. You can continue to build on what we discuss, going forward, long after we meet.
Scheduling
I contact you within one business day to schedule your first appointment after you book online and find a time that works. We will meet over Zoom or use similar software with details provided by email before we meet. You will receive a pre-meeting form to fill out that helps me understand your goals and challenges. Give yourself about 15 to 30 minutes on this, so our time together can be well spent.
Accessibility and Materials
Please have suitable internet connection for video meeting online. Accommodations for accessibility will be confirmed over email.
Details
Our 60-Minute Leadership Consultation is a short and high impact one-on-one individual leadership consulting session, starting with a needs assessment over email, then a 60 minute video or phone meeting. Detailed notes and a clear plan for implementing what we discuss are provided by email, along with resources that we’ve discussed.
Our work is conducted in English.
There are no pre-requisites to meet. Decision makers at all levels and in any field will benefit. Consultation is tailored to your situation.
A discount for further collaboration and access to other programs will be shared with you.
Financial Assistance
To get financial help, fill out the online form at least one week before you want to start. Please do not book online until I’ve had a chance to process your request and get back to you.
Further Collaboration
Depending on your specific needs I may suggest supplemental articles, media, and resources. Moving forward will be helped by exploring leadership technique, critical and curious discussions, journaling, reflective practice, and working with others.
Further collaboration is an option. I can work with you through delivery of a complicated project, for example, or in periods of rapid, extensive, and stressful change. Extended time together is available.
About Kendra
I’m glad you’re here. I built my consultancy because I saw a need for people who are navigating complex systems and pursuing projects that matter to them to widen their foresight, deepen understanding, and better connect perception with action.
My work allows me to get involved in almost every kind of field, working in different cultures, and opening up long-term connections. I have hands-on experience in foresight, scenario building, collaborative negotiation, program design, conflict analysis, communication in fragile states, facilitation, design thinking, creative inquiry, alternative futures, art, invention, and complex systems. I also speak, write, and teach.
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I have helped lead or serve on projects for The United States Man and the Biosphere Program, Apple, NASA Artemis Mission Moon Tree Program, The United Nations, US.-Mexico Borderlands Coalitions, The International Leadership Association, Ballroom Marfa, MFAH, The Menil Collection, and various arts organizations.
Currently I consult for an American refugee resettlement agency that finds durable ways forward for people who have fled their home due to persecution, conflict, or genocide.
A graduate of Royal Roads University’s Master of Leadership program, I previously worked for a decade in Strategic Operations and Logistics for Apple, Inc., reporting to VPs, where I engaged in the launches of society-shifting technology, including the first iPhone and expansion in Latin America. I’ve co-founded startups that failed and some that were successful. My work has been recognized in Chronicle Books, Wired, Palladium, Soundscreen Design, and by SXSW.
I have deep interest in emerging futures and what might be called the bigger questions. I’m pursuing a master’s in Philosophy and Theology, drawing from the belief that how we make meaning drives behavior, and creates conditions for transforming many of our personal and collective challenges, while understanding the practical tension of systems oriented to hoarding power.
I trained in Strategic Foresight through University of Houston and earned my grad diploma in Innovation and Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I try to stay curious, critical, and creative and draw on my education in art and design through Alberta University of the Arts, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and Accademia Italiana in Florence. My first training in leadership was at age 15 during extended outdoor expeditions in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
I split time between the quiet high Chihuahuan Desert and a full schedule traveling to work with people. When I’m not working, I love desert running, art and film, time with friends, listening to music, and following independent journalism from around the world.
I look forward to meeting you.