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PArtnering with leaders & Teams during moments that redefine direction

There are moments when the usual approaches stop working.

When the path forward is not unclear because of effort, but because something fundamental is shifting.

I partner with leaders and leadership teams during periods of transition, redefinition, and critical decisions, when clarity, alignment, and sound judgment matter more than speed.

This is not about adding more activity.

It’s about orienting to what has changed, naming what matters now, and deciding what comes next with intention.

Primary Starting Point: Decision Clarity & Strategic Pause

When leaders reach out, it’s often because they are carrying a decision about direction, role, structure, or priorities that hasn’t yet been named clearly.

The Decision Clarity is a short, focused engagement designed to create space to think clearly before acting.

Decision Clarity For Individual Leaders

For leaders navigating complexity, transition, or redefinition

A focused 1:1 engagement to help you step out of engagement and into perspective.

Together, we:

  • Clarify the decision or inflection point you are actually facing

  • Surface assumptions, constraints, and blind spots shaping the situation

  • Identify what needs to change and what must remain stable

  • Define grounded next steps that align authority, role, and direction

This is especially helpful during:

  • Role or scope change

  • Organizational restructuring

  • Leadership transitions

  • Moments when “what worked before” no longer fits

Outcome:

  • You leave with clarity, orientation, and a decision you can stand behind.

Schedule a Decision Clarity Conversation.

Decision Clarity For Leadership Teams

For leadership teams at turning points, when what worked before no longer fits and the next step is not obvious

A short, structured engagement to help leadership teams slow down together, align around what has shifted, and decide how they will move forward.

This work often focuses on:

  • Shared direction and priorities

  • Role clarity and decision rights

  • Trust and communication under pressure

  • One critical shift that unlocks alignment

Optional Extensions:

  • Follow-up integration session (90–120 mins)

  • Team pulse check-in 30-60 days later

  • DISC-informed team insights (non-prescriptive)

Outcome:

  • A leadership team aligned around what matters now, and how they will move forward together.

Schedule a team conversation.

Ongoing & Complementary Work

While Decision Clarity is the primary starting point, I also partner with leaders and organizations through longer-term engagements as needed.

Leadership Partnership

  • Ongoing thinking partnership for leaders navigating the “messy middle”

  • Sounding board during periods of sustained change

  • Support where judgment, not just execution, is required

Team Facilitation & Strategic Sessions

  • Leadership alignment and redefinition sessions

  • Strategic pauses during growth, restructuring, or transition

  • Focused conversations where trust, clarity, and direction must be rebuilt

Organizational Consulting

  • Transition and redefinition strategy

  • Culture and alignment

  • Leadership succession and role clarity work

DISC Behavioral Assessments

  • Used to support awareness, communication, and team dynamics

  • Integrated into broader conversations about role, decision-making, and fit

Why Work With Me?

I partner with leaders and teams navigating complexity and transition. My role is not to prescribe quick fixes, but to help leaders and teams:

  • See their situation clearly

  • Make sound decisions at critical moments

  • Move forward with alignment.


Chair, Board of Trustees

Ms. Simone Wilson was retained as a Consultant to assist the Board of Trustees to equipped this ministry with the leadership tools, clarity of roles and responsibilities and to apply newly acquired skills sets for service to our church in meaningful and impactful ways. Her expertise in organizational/group development; experience in understanding the opportunities and challenges organizations and particularly faith-based communities encounter as they migrate through change and transition. Factors providing the rationale and impetus to retain Ms. Wilson, to direct her gifts and talents, facilitate discussion and provide space for the Board of Trustees to align the ministry’s work with the needs and priorities of our church.

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