Guiding organizations to address today’s challenges while building for the future.
What Makes a Healthy Organization?
Healthy organizations & the people within them do these things well, which requires empathy & action:
UNDERSTANDS CHALLENGES
Understands challenges and commits to meeting the needs of employees and customers
CREATES WITH COMPASSION
Develops, co-creates and delivers excellent products, programs, & services that meet customer needs
LEADS WITHOUT EGO
Leaders recognize our interdependence and take care of ourselves each other
WHAT WE DO
We inspire mission-driven organizations to evolve with empathy, meet today’s needs, and shape a better future.
We build community and co-design meaningful experiments with your employees, not for them, ensuring their needs are met the right fit is found for your organization.
We help translate ideas across your organization to foster a culture so valuable that employees want to stay—enhancing well-being and reducing turnover.
We operate at the intersection of emotional intelligence and innovation, where meaningful change happens.
These domains demand:
Change: Personal and organizational transformation to address today’s challenges.
Context: Leading with meaning and understanding culture—unique to every organization—so we can guide its evolution.
HOW WE WORK: OUR THREE PHASES
1: UNDERSTAND & DISCOVER
We’ll define and discover the focus of our work. We add clarity and context of the people we’re engaging with, opportunities for growth, and our shared language.
2: CO-DESIGN & INCUBATE
We co-design the future, centering on worker needs and equity. We advance ideas & impact through incubation &
experimentation, and build your capacity to care for a community.
3: SUSTAIN & ADAPT
We continue to build capacity, adjust what is working or not working, and improvise with emergent needs of the community. We’ll measure the impact and lead continuous learning.
THE WHAT: OUR FRAMEWORK
We co-create a custom, healthy organization with employees, together, using our Empathy in Action Framework.
Our process draws from extensive experience with of Participatory/Co-Design, Lean Startup, Agile Development, Innovation, and Appreciative Inquiry.
STAGES OF GROWTH
Developing an awareness of the dynamics and collective needs within the organization.
Aligning the organization’s goals, values, and practices with employee needs and expectations.
Fostering an environment where liberatory perspectives & experiences are acknowledged and respected.
Implementing strategies that integrate liberatory practices into the fabric of daily operations.
Building accountability into the structure and culture so the organization and people within it continues to thrive.
Contact Us
Amy@AmyJWilson.com
(202) 430-6572
Based in Washington, DC and we work worldwide.