From thriving individuals to flourishing systems, let’s reimagine how leadership and culture come alive.

Working with leaders, teams, and organizations to build cultures that turn complexity into creative possibility, where people thrive not despite uncertainty, but because of how they navigate it.

Collaborating Across Sectors to Help People and Systems Thrive

Collaborating with forward-thinking organizations, learning communities, and leadership networks around the world, from Fortune 500 companies to purpose-driven scaleups and social enterprises, creating cultures where people and systems flourish together.

Whether facilitating transformation within organizations

or across networks, this work creates the conditions

for people and systems to flourish.

Thriving Individuals, Flourishing Ecosystems

I’ve spent the last few years researching what it means to thrive and flourish. I’m grossly oversimplifying the literature here, but one way to look at it is this: thriving is about how we learn, perform, and sustain our own energy and purpose, while flourishing is more systemic, about what happens in an ecosystem. They are interdependent. When individuals are thriving, they strengthen the systems they’re part of. When systems are designed for flourishing, they enable individuals to reach their potential more fully. These are not fixed states but living practices that evolve as we meet complexity, chaos, and uncertainty together.

How thriving and flourishing show up in practice

Thriving Individuals

Learning: Staying curious, adaptive, and open to stretching beyond what is known.
Well-being: Prioritizing mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellness.
Vitality: Managing energy and focus to engage deeply and meaningfully.
Purpose and performance: Aligning action with intention and impact.
Relationships: Building and sustaining trust-filled, supportive connections that expand possibility.

Flourishing Ecosystems

Learning culture: Systems that embrace feedback loops and reflection to evolve through change.
Psychological safety: Environments where people can experiment, iterate and speak up.
Healthy agreements: The explicit and implicit norms that enable people to sustainably contribute their best.
Generative purpose: A living sense of direction that connects people to something larger than themselves and creates value beyond the system.
Co-Creation: Working interconnectedly to generate new possibilities and shared value through authentic connection.

I'm grateful to work with some incredible people at these leading organizations:

Here’s how this work comes to life through the people and organizations I’ve partnered with

Em has an incredible ability to see the whole person. She invites you, without judgment, to explore who you are and grow in both expected and unexpected ways. I’ve trusted her to work with my top executive team and our high-potential female talent, and I’ve also joined her sessions myself — each one bringing meaningful personal and professional impact. Her ability to bridge cultures between the West and Asia is truly unique.

Elaine Lin

Vice President, Baxter

Here's how we can work together

This work partners with leaders, teams, and organizations who are ready to evolve how they lead, learn, and grow. Engagements often begin as a spark that turns into a pilot or an experiment that grows into something lasting and self-sustaining. From monthly orientations at startup societies to culture sprints for scaling ventures to leadership development in emerging ecosystems, each engagement is designed to spark transformation that sustains itself.

Design & Facilitation

Design and lead transformative experiences that bring people together to build capabilities, connect, reflect, and create. Develop others to sustain and expand the work.

Coaching & Development

Support individuals to develop greater self-awareness and agency, and to lead in ways that enable their teams and ecosystems to reach their potential

Partnerships & Co-Creation

Help organizations audit, upgrade, and co-create new ways of learning and leading. Develop internal champions and teams to carry the work forward once it’s thriving.

Advisory & Stewardship

Work alongside purpose-driven ventures and funds to shape strategy, culture, and leadership, building resilient, future-ready organizations.

Let's explore how these principles can take root in your organization. Ready to discover what transformation could look like in your context?

Let’s explore what thriving and flourishing could look like in your context.

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The Impact of Our Work Together

The work begins in one conversation or collaboration, and can grow into lasting change across people, teams, and organizations.

It's been delightful and insightful to work with Em in and out of organizations over the last few years. She helps people connect personally to things that frequently remain at arms-length or purely intellectual and emboldens them to keenly take meaningful action. And she works across dimensions of difference with a grace and ease that is exceptional.

Denise Gammal

Amazon

The ripple effect of this work continues long after any engagement as people live the practices and bring what they’ve learned into the systems they touch every day.

Participating in an Em experience was really unique – I’m still processing how it happened that it could be so fun and yet so intense! Whatever the combo, our time together kickstarted what’s been an incredible journey for me. I’m in a much different place than I thought I’d be when I set out, but that’s somehow a dream, as I’ve been willing to go “off course” and craft my own path. I’ll be back for more!

Stephenie Lee

Founder, Beacon Learning