Dialogue, Innovation and Impact

Dialogue, Innovation & Impact

Expert Design and Facilitation of Mission Critical Meetings

Does your organization need to:

– create vision?

– set direction?

– align interests and values?

– improve team dynamics?

– resolve tensions?

– drive successful systemic change?

The Carey Institute for Global Good is a leader in facilitating dialogue, innovation, and impact. Successfully tackle big challenges with the expert guidance of our Director of Dialogue and Facilitation, Shem Cohen, and build a custom program that productively engages your key stakeholders to create high-quality solutions, take ownership and drive progress within your organization.

What we do:

– Executive Team Planning

– Retreat Planning Design and Facilitation

– Multi-Stakeholder Group Planning / Coalition Building

– Large Group Meeting Design & Facilitation

– New Business Launches

– M/A Integration

– Leadership Transitions

– Dialogue

– Team Building

– Difficult Conversaitons

– Culture Development

– Leadership Development

– Mediation/Conflict Resolution

Take a quiz to identify potential pitfalls, as well as pathways to solutions and success here:

– Organizational focus: Clarity in mission, value proposition, vision, values and goals.

– Organizational alignment: Everyone in the same boat, rowing in the same direction.

– Capacity for change: We learn and improve, continuously.

Also, read our white paper to learn more about our approach to dialogue, innovation & impact.

A sampling of issues we’re practiced in addressing include:

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Preparing Your Offsite Meeting to Get the Outcomes You Want

Solutions focused meetings for motivated leaders and change-makers

FOCUS |

– Establish shared view of reality including markets, organizational imperatives and strategic priorities.

ALIGN |

– Align people, teams, goals, interests, values, processes, systems and culture towards achieving desired levels of high performance.

ENERGIZE |

– Energize motivation, commitment and well-concerted action.

Testimonials |

“Shem’s deft touch with people, light but tangible guidance through transparent processes and great instincts with respect to organizational issues are all deeply admired and suitably appreciated. I highly recommend Shem as an organizational consultant, strategic planner, facilitator and executive coach.”

-Sr. Director, National Parks Conservation Association, U.S. Northeast Region

“…the work you accomplished had effects that were immediate and far reaching. Silos were broken down, morale and teamwork were significantly improved and we created massive improvements in customer service. Like your other customers here at the Mission, my and my team’s expectations of this initiative were completely exceeded. Thank you for your efforts and obvious commitment to our best interests.”

Section Head, The UK Mission to the United Nations

“Shem is a seasoned consultant with high-value expertise in strategic planning and leading change, and with special talents as a facilitator and mediator. I’ve appreciated the results he’s helped my own and other teams achieve across a variety of projects over the past eight years and highly recommend Shem to any leader who wants to engage their team’s best thinking, creativity and buy-in.”

Senior VP, Chief Medical Officer, CDPHP

“Shem is a talented facilitator with deep knowledge of how to elicit a lot of information from a group in a way that is incisive, vivid and memorable for all concerned. His quick grasp of our work and the issues we face was extremely helpful, and the meeting he designed for us produced highly generative material for our strategic planning process. He has added value that will last us for many years to come!”

Executive Director, Hudson Riverkeeper

PROJECT

SAMPLES |

British Government, British Consulate-General & UK Home Office |

Establish an aligned network of UK Visa issuing posts across North America; create a North America business plan and strategy for implementing significant policy, process and technology changes across the Western Hemisphere.

Federal Reserve Bank |

Design & facilitation of cross-boundary planning involving leaders and stakeholders from across the U.S. Federal Reserve system to develop a plan for creating the future research computing environment for research economists which resulted in a multimillion-dollar IT system improvement initiative that satisfied the needs of stakeholders and was supported by all.

Director of Dialogue & Facilitation |

Shem Cohen

Shem Cohen has been honored to serve Fortune 100-500 companies, Wall Street firms, the Federal Reserve Bank, the UK Mission to the United Nations, as well as many businesses and not-for-profit organizations large and small. His work is included in three globally published books including the award-winning, “Productive Workplaces, 25th Anniversary Edition,” by Dr. Marvin Weisbord.

Shem has appeared as a guest thought leader for In2In, the sponsored learning group of Aerojet Rocketdyne, the historic builder of rockets for NASA; as presenter for the Project Management Institute; and as guest faculty for New York University Stern School of Business Executive Education Program.

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