The empact collective
Culture change to connect, serve, & thrive
The Empact Collective is a group of experts with empact in their DNA. Together, these people and organizations have decades of experience listening, analyzing, and designing creative responses to serve real human needs. If your expertise helps develop empact in the world, please get in touch to talk about joining our cohort.
CONSULTING INDIVIDUALS
Matthew Saunders, transformative user research and organizational culture change
An expert in user research, especially in the technology, healthcare, and human resources fields, Matt helps take organizations from “hunch-based” decision-making to a robust process centered on hypothesis validation, customer feedback, and stakeholder engagement.
Becca Allen, personal and organizational transformation
Becca brings a surprising, intuitive methodology to traditional spaces, helping businesses and individuals use the tools of inner alchemy to change and move in the direction they need to go.
Ryan Quinn, finding value at each step of the process
A process thinker, Ryan looks to bring intentionality and follow-through to each step of product management, tracking and increasing a sense of aliveness as the key metric of development.
Roland Peer-Groves, training and implementation of development solutions
An international expert in irrigation and rice-growing techniques, Roland’s approach to training and implementation — based on decades of work with development in the Philippines, Mali, and Cambodia — is relevant for many fields and industries.
Jenni French, strategic communications & marketing implementation
An innovative, dynamic thinker and storyteller, Jenni creates networks of action and helps “stuck” organizations effectively get in touch with the communities they need to reach.
Rolf Pechukas, two-brain communication
A researcher into the vagus nerve and brain hemispheres, Rolf writes about the hemispheric differences in language processing, task orientation, and empathy itself, helping others reach across the “brain aisle,” if you will, to those who literally think differently.
ORGANIZATIONS WHOSE WORK INSPIRES US
Appleseed, organizational behavioral change
Appleseed's team of researchers and communicators partner with social impact organizations to craft behavior-change strategies and campaigns to serve the world's poorest communities. They use empact to help solutions stick.
Human Systems, values-based redesigns of organizations, communities, networks, and mechanisms
A global community for those redesigning institutions and social spaces so as to better support meaningful lives and human values. Online classes, a member network, and the Future Togetherness Handbook, a manual of rituals and practices for meaningful community.
Between Us, developing the art, craft, and science of human encounter
“Everything that matters happens between us,” says founder Theodore Taptiklis. Looking to transcend the ideology of “problems and solutions,” Between Us sees transformative change as shared, steady action driven by committed groups, by communities and networks that have built common understanding and purpose. They offer a suite of “interventions” to help you transform your meetings, curate innovation, and master collaborative flows.
Human Methods Lab, building better methods of working together
The Human Methods Lab weaves together three workstreams: the promise of the internet, the art of human encounter, and the power of stories of experience. An initiative of the Enspiral Foundation, the Lab seeks new collaborative methods to help communities harness the power of the network to develop resilience and effective coordination.
Aspen Labs, uniting research & design
Aspen Labs is named after the trees, which grow in groves through a networked system of roots. Aspen Labs seeks to empower people to lead change through a fresh understanding of their user’s true needs and experiences, as well as a recommitment to personal and organizational purpose. Their trademarked “Microclimates for Innovation” help people actively learn through design and experimentation to “do something meaningful together.”