Join us for this afternoon event in partnership with MNODN!
Tired of fighting fires instead of focusing on strategy? Most organizations are drowning in complexity when what they really need is clarity. This workshop introduces an essentialist framework proven to help leaders and teams increase performance, engagement, and enterprise value. All that’s needed are a few timeless principles to unlock real leverage as it relates to organizational development.
Participants will learn to:
Objectives:
Participants will walk away with actionable strategies and a repeatable system to reduce operational drag, improve execution, and make space for high-impact work so they can finally work on the business, not just in it.
About Your Facilitator:
Ian C. Williams is a best selling author, speaker, and business advisor specializing in social and environmental impact. As Founder and CEO of Still Point Insight, Ian helps mission-driven organizations scale solutions to global challenges. Specializing in process improvement, change management, and workforce development, Still Point Insight helps leaders and teams grow culture and capacity to maximize their wellbeing and impact. He holds a Masters in Public Affairs from the University of Minnesota with an emphasis in Leadership Strategy and Organizational Culture.
AGENDA:
3:45 - 4:00 PM Pacific (5:45-6pm Central) Join Zoom Meeting
4:00- 5:30 PM Pacific (6-7:30 Central) Workshop
Please be aware that our trainings could be recorded or photographed.
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Ananda Valenzuela
How do we as consultants most efficiently and effectively facilitate organizational change management processes? In a context where there are long-held assumptions about the "right" way to hold power and decision-making, how do we help build lightweight, effective governance structures? This session will offer learnings from years of structure and culture change work, often with organizations wanting to explore options beyond traditional hierarchy. Actionable tools and processes will be shared, and participants will be invited to share their wisdom.
About Your Facilitator
Ananda Valenzuela (any pronouns) provides interim executive director leadership, facilitates organizational transformation, and coaches values-aligned leaders. He is passionate about nourishing joyful organizational cultures, supporting equitable self-management, and building liberatory practices. They have served as interim executive director at multiple organizations, provided capacity-building support to nonprofits for over ten years, and currently serve as Practioner-in-Residence at the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation. Ananda grew up in Puerto Rico and slowly made her way across the United States, holding a variety of consulting, governance, and activist roles along the way.
5:45 - 6:00 pm Join Zoom Meeting
6:00- 8:00 pm Training
In a time when uncertainty and overwhelm can narrow what leaders believe is possible, the ability to reconnect with purpose, positivity, and possibility becomes essential. This uplifting 60-minute session with Dr. Nicole Bossard draws from Appreciative Inquiry, relational resilience, and the science of positivity to help leaders activate their whole system — head, heart, and hand — in service of meaningful and courageous leadership and change.
Through a guided journey, participants will explore how skillset, mindset, and heartset work together to shape their capacity for possibility. The session also illuminates the core tenets of L.I.F.E. Affirming Leadership, Dr. Nicole Bossard’s leadership framework, and how these principles nurture belonging, strengthen relational capacity, and expand the field of what teams and communities can co-create.
Designed as a grounding and energizing reset at the end of the workday, this experience invites leaders to remember the art of possibility that already lives within them — and within the communities they serve.
Learning Objectives
Apply the L.I.F.E. Affirming Leadership lens to reframe leadership challenges and unlock new pathways of possibility.
Identify how collective capacity and relational resilience expand the field of possibility in organizations.
Experience practices that awaken belonging and resilience, giving leaders and teams access to their best thinking.
Dr. Bossard helps organizations and communities unlock the collective wisdom within, identify their unique core strengths, and engage the whole system in achieving results they can be proud of! Her motto is: together we really can transform great challenges into great opportunities!
4:45 - 5:00 pm Join Zoom Meeting
6:00- 7:00 pm Training
Get ready to jingle and mingle! You're invited to the hottest holiday bash of the season as PNODN takes over Hula Hula!
Mark your calendars and save the date for a night of tropical holiday cheer:
When: Tuesday, December 16th | 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Where: Hula Hula (1501 E Olive Wy, Seattle, WA 98122)
Cost: No Charge
Escape the winter chill and join us for an evening of festive networking and celebration. We're firing up the holiday fun with great company, lively atmosphere, and maybe even a game, or two!
Food and drinks will be available for purchase to keep the festive spirits high. Come celebrate with your fellow PNODN community!
We say we want transformation—but do we design the space for it? As we face the challenge of change, this session invites a new perspective: What if the physical environments we create are just as important as the conversations we hold? Organizational development professionals and transformational leaders often focus on mindset, culture, and systems, but we frequently overlook the silent collaborators in transformation: the physical environment, sensory cues, and spatial rhythm. These elements profoundly shape how people feel, think, and engage. Drawing from interior design, neuroscience, and real-world experience in high-performance and high-stress settings, Kristin York Brennan highlights neurodivergent needs as visible expressions of universal human truths—drawing from inclusive design and behavioral science to bring these insights into the practice of transformational leadership. Participants will explore how spatial elements affect regulation, trust, creativity, and insight. They will leave with tangible practices to assess their own environments (and those they help shape), a renewed understanding of the role physical space plays in transformation, and a deeper ability to support meaningful change—whether in a moment, a meeting, or a long-term engagement.
As a participant, this session is for you if…
• You’re ready to stop saying “I’m not creative” and start owning your power to support transformation with accessible and inclusive spaces
• You want to design more intentional physical and psychological conditions for insight and action
• You’re curious about how environment and sensory experience shape trust, creativity, and learning
Learning Outcomes:
1. Understand how sensory and physical environments influence psychological safety, creativity, and insight in transformational work.
2. Reframe neurodivergent needs as design guidance that benefits all humans, supporting inclusive and effective transformation.
3. Apply neuroscience-informed design principles to assess and intentionally shift the environments where you support change.
Kristin York Brennan is a strategist, facilitator, and human-centered designer with over 20 years of experience at the intersection of spatial experience, organizational systems, and transformation. She holds a BS in Interior Design and an MBA from Virginia Tech, along with certifications in facilitation (Georgetown ITL) and advanced applied neuroscience coaching (KCI).
Her career spans creative studios, federal agencies, and complex organizations—where she’s tackled everything from workplace strategy and change management to culture transformation and leadership development. This diverse path gives her a unique ability to connect spatial, behavioral, and cultural dynamics into a cohesive whole.
As the founder of Studio B Collaborative, Kristin helps individuals, teams, and leaders reimagine their environments—physical and organizational—not as passive backdrops, but as active catalysts for insight, creativity, and growth. Her curiosity about how space shapes experience has driven her cross-disciplinary work, blending systems thinking, creative process, and practical tools into transformational outcomes.
When she’s not designing environments for transformation, she’s likely brainstorming wildly ambitious projects—or getting schooled in advanced negotiation techniques by her eight-year-old daughter.
A believer in the power of unexpected metaphors, Kristin once built an enterprise experience office and internal comms strategy using insights from The Happiest Toddler on the Block—proving that even toddler psychology can transform how grownups lead, listen, and engage.
5:00- 7:00 pm Workshop
Heart Centered Leadership: In Honor of MLK
Derick Carter Leadership Coach | Workplace Well-Being | Cultural Change Agent
We're so excited to be hosting Derick! Session description coming soon!
Coming soon!
5:00- 7:00 pm Training
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