Building a workforce pipeline with the City of Long Beach
How workforce strategy connected internships, mentorship, learning, leadership support, and funding resilience in a public-health context.
Communication, Creativity & Leadership Insights
Practical ideas from Forest Guider about communication, creativity, mindfulness, leadership, and change.
Designing a manager retreat people can use on Monday
A practical way to design manager retreats around current decisions, shared practice, and clear next steps rather than a full agenda of presentations.
Training transfer: help people use the skill after the session
How to design workplace learning for use after the session with real scenarios, practice, job aids, follow-up, and internal ownership.
The CANDOR Communication Framework for difficult conversations
A six-move conversation framework for clarifying facts, acknowledging feelings, naming needs, making a direct request, listening, and responding with care.
Generative Creativity: make more useful ideas available
Use capture, broader inputs, intentional surroundings, and challenge to generate and develop more useful options for a stuck problem.
Student communication workshop: build confidence through practice
A workshop approach for helping students prepare clear messages, listen for the prompt, practice questions, and build confidence through structured rehearsal.
Real-moment presentation coaching: prepare the presentation you actually need to give
A presentation-coaching approach built around a real audience, a clear throughline, rehearsal, useful visuals, questions, and recovery when the moment changes.
Organizational change in practice: make the work understandable and usable
A practical approach to organizational change that clarifies decisions, invites useful questions, supports leaders, and connects communication to the work people must carry forward.
How can I reduce nervousness when speaking?
Practical ways to shift attention from self-monitoring to audience connection before a presentation, interview, or high-stakes conversation.
The three skills of mindfulness
A practical introduction to concentration, sensory clarity, and equanimity for attention, listening, and response at work and at home.
Why brainstorming doesn’t work
A better creative problem-solving sequence: frame the challenge, generate ideas alone, develop them with others, and test a useful option.