Directing, Teaching, and Listening for Purpose-Driven Organizations
Training & Capacity Building
Listening isn't a passive experience. I teach the active kind.
For video and marketing/comms teams: One-day or week-long intensives on question development, interviewing and listening techniques, story structure, dignity and ethics, and how to function efficiently (and joyfully) as a storytelling team.
For any team whose work depends on hearing people: Leaders, researchers, people functions — the listening practice itself, in workshop or intensive form. No cameras required.
For teams already in the thick of it: I also embed with existing teams on scoped work — an ethical practitioner alongside you while the stakes are live, building the practice into how you already operate.
Whoever's in the room, the work is the same: learning to create the conditions for generative interviews and real storytelling. People leave more grounded in their role as storytellers and listeners — clearer on their own lens and context, and better at connecting with the person across from them.
Narrative Listening
The story your organization is actually living.
There are moments when leadership needs to know what's really going on — after a merger, before a big change, when something keeps stalling and nobody can say why. Surveys won't reach it. Town halls won't either.
I come in as an outsider and hold confidential conversations across your organization, conducted the way I'd conduct documentary interviews: a collaborative excavation, where we discover things together that no survey could surface. Then I render what I find the way a director renders a story — not themes you already suspected, but the narrative your organization is actually living. Your people are genuinely heard. You get the clearest picture of your organization you've ever had.
Documentary & Non-Fiction Directing
The craft everything else comes from
I direct character-driven documentaries and non-fiction films. For organizations, that means work for your donors, your own people, or the public record — films that capture what you actually are, not what a deck says you are.
When people feel safe and seen in front of a camera, you can tell the difference. I create and protect those conditions — in both process and craft — so people can show up more fully as themselves. What gets reflected back has the power to inspire, redefine, and remind you why you do this work to begin with.