What Folks are Saying
“Alissa has an incredible ability to cut through superficialities and address important, root conversations that are needed to bring unity, health, and efficiency to a team. Her creativity and ability to understand human connection is exceptional, and her approach is effective with diverse groups of people.”
– Sandy Ordonez, Director, Team CommUNITY
“Alissa is as effective and reflective a consultant as I have ever worked with to process difficult issues. She is the primary consultant that we have worked with over the last year as we have wrestled with growing into our new equity mission.”
– David Addams, Executive Director, William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund
“Alissa creates conversations that bring people together in creative ways. She inspires people towards thinking in new ways to problem-solve, and to develop new ideas for themselves, their organizations, and their communities. Alissa uses interpersonal skills, creative techniques, and a bit of magic/symbolic work to connect people and organizations to their visions and goals. Her work can move a person, organization, or community through a stuck period to a place of renewal and growth.”
– Wendy Cole, Director, Maple Street School
“Alissa brings a toolkit and perspective to organizational development that I have not experienced elsewhere, and I’ve worked with many consultants. She goes beyond the surface issues affecting the organization. The result is more organizational transparency, clarity, trust, and overall health. When she’s done, you have an organization that is more focused, more strategic, and with tools to break free of old patterns.”
– Olivia Hatch Farr, Co-Founder, Bedford 2020 Coalition
“On your website it should say, ‘Let me help you unscramble your ramble.’ You come into an organization, you get a tremendous amount of information, you sequence it, you unscramble it, and you break it down and sequentially figure out, with input, how to address the problem.”
– Eleanor Elbers, Co-Director and Founder, The Center at Orchard Hill
“I feel extraordinarily lucky to have been a part of Alissa’s strategic planning sessions. Having the opportunity to ask and explore the ‘big questions’ about my department’s mission, vision, values, and beyond proved to be an invaluable professional education. I not only have a clearer vision of my department’s big picture and my role within it, but of organizational principles that will remain relevant regardless of where I work.”
– Naomi Dubin, Program Manager, 92nd Street YM-YWHA
“Alissa facilitated our first ever strategic planning process. Beyond producing a high quality product, it was her skill and ability to listen carefully and synthesize volumes of information and ideas that really stood out. Alissa’s intuitive listening skills, ability to provide new perspectives, and commitment to meeting us where we were gifted us a strategic plan that we can all believe in and that will help us achieve our goals far into the future.”
– Linda Saleh, Board Member, New York Abortion Access Fund
“We feel so incredibly lucky that we found you and that you were willing to work with us. The way you balanced meeting productivity and decision making with interpersonal dynamics was beautifully done. Thank you for your time and energy and thoughtful work. We look forward to more collaborative work together!”
– Sophia Kolehmainen, Executive Director, Cedar Tree Foundation
“My experience working with Alissa as a coach has been invaluable. She gives incredibly constructive and practical feedback that is always underlined with support and guidance. I have experienced tremendous professional growth as a result of my work with Alissa.”
– Sara Darvish, Manager of Evaluation and Quality Assurance, New Pathways, Inc.
