A proven, repeatable method for the human skills your mission runs on, through burnout, funding shocks and polarization. Used at 50+ companies, schools, and organizations, from the Robin Hood Foundation to NASA.
This is how leaders and teams stay whole, and effective, through volatility.
Language your funders recognize: trust, bridging, leader sustainability, succession.
With community, board and funders. Empathy as the practice behind credibility and candor.
Skills for connecting across values, perspectives and lived experience, inside the team and out.
Emotional regulation and boundary tools that treat burnout as an organizational risk, not a personal failing.
Perspective-taking and facilitation skills that ready your next generation of leaders before you need them.
A national funder focused on financial resilience for justice, democracy and environment groups. A Power of Empathy conversation with the executive director became a multi-day full-staff retreat, then part of every new hire’s orientation. Today empathy runs through their feedback, roles and team rituals.
“My team is in a fundamentally different and better place.”
Executive Director, national philanthropic fund
Every format runs on the same Five Phases, and every scope is documented for funder reporting. Nonprofit and education rates apply to every format, and multi-format partnerships are quoted under the sum of their parts. We’re happy to join a funder call, or help you make the ask.
Keynote or all-staff session, always interactive. Inspiration plus a first working tool. 45 minutes to 2 hours.
Short-format resilience workshops, 30 to 60 minutes, for teams after a reorg, cuts or a leadership transition.
A two-hour working session for up to 50 leaders. Installs the model through education, play and live practice.
Train-the-trainer. Six 90-minute sessions, cohorts of up to 20, building internal facilitators.
A six-month cohort for EDs and senior leaders. Also available as a funder-sponsored cohort.
Foundations sponsor this work for grantee-leader cohorts, scoped and documented for grant reporting.
Empathy for Growth, founding cohort, 2026. Weekly one-to-one and group coaching on the Five Phases as an operating system. One member, a senior advisor at a national philanthropy firm, moved from fire-drill escalation to renegotiating early and asking for help sooner.
For networks and associations, the keynote and breakout pairing scales to your annual convening. Delivered for the City of Ontario’s civic leadership conference.
“The mind chatter has quieted. My intention is to keep asking for help, and voice it early when I need it.”
Founding cohort member, senior advisor at a national philanthropy firm
That’s the whole agenda. A complimentary 60-minute working session with Michael Tennant, for you or your leadership team.
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