Ash and Erin
Erin and Ash love working together to help caring people tell meaningful stories
about big ideas. Here’s some of our work!
Telling the “big stories” of the City of Saint Paul
Under the leadership of Mayor Melvin Carter, Minnesota’s capital city has become a national hub of inclusive, liberating civic innovation — but without a central communications office, Saint Paul had nobody to tell the “big stories” of their work. That’s when they called me.
Using Internal Family Systems in nonprofit work — or, DEI from the inside out
The Internal Family Systems model can bring deeper understanding, more compassionate communication, and greater harmony to bigger human systems — like nonprofits and the communities they serve. This workshop uses IFS to explore diversity, equity, and inclusion “from the inside out.”
How one school district meets harm with repair
As our national life becomes more polarized, educators need new ways to respond to acts of hatred in their school communities. Leaders at Osseo Area Schools created a clear, just, and replicable process for responding to such incidents with healing and repair. Here’s how.
Making meaning visible
Making lucid sense of a big mess of information is one of my favorite things to do. Here are some of the ways I help my consulting clients make the meaning of their work visible.
Book review: The 3 things only leaders can do
Although its stated ambitions are more modest, Real Flow amounts to a quiet manifesto for a new model of work — one that begins by putting human wellbeing first, not only as an ethical principle but as a simple fact about how organizations operate.
“Bound together by the love of the game”
As our media landscape fractures into countless paywalled gardens of proprietary “content,” is there a future for live sports at all? An upstart tech CEO says yes — but only if sports and media leaders return to the values of real-world belonging that turn fans into communities.