Culture + Conflict + Implementation
Organizations interested in innovative, responsive and responsible growth and curious about the critical function of organizational culture soar when they act with deliberate intention rather than acting out of a sense of urgency and assumption. Creating an explicit understanding of internal “root systems” is crucial to vision implementation.
Grounded in a clear understanding of values, short- and long-term goals, expectations regarding communication, and processes for addressing inevitable conflict, among other internal culture metrics= workplace thriving.
Clients leave with: (1) shared values + clear agreements, (2) a practical conflict pathway, and (3) an implementation-ready culture roadmap
Our Values
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We center relationships based in authenticity and vulnerability as the starting point for collaborative change.
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Transformation is not linear and requires fluidity and flexibility We work in real-time with our clients, responding to needs, questions, conflict, and concerns in the moment.
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From reliable communication to honoring timelines to intentional listening, our work with our clients starts and ends with respect.
Our Services
Mission
We work to create and refine strategic intentions in the workplace through adaptive and inclusive processes designed to establish lasting and iterative solutions to organizational challenges.
Our consulting techniques and approaches include Restorative Practice and Emergent Strategy and Intersectionality, credited to Adrienne Maree Brown and Kimberlé Crenshaw respectively.
Consulting
We prioritize working with organizations and projects with diverse and marginalized populations, offering a range of services including but not limited to intentional organizational culture development, small business and startup conflict transformation, and nonprofit, small business and learning institution Restorative Practices training.
Workshops
Workplace culture doesn’t just happen, and often the first time we tune into it is when conflict arises. Our workshops are based in restorative conflict transformation strategy to stimulate conversation in order to address and come to a mutual understanding of the issues facing the client.
Not sure where to start?
If conflict is active → Workplace Conflict Transformation Workshop
If you’re scaling / restructuring → Tier One or Tier Two
If you want a well-being + sustainability baseline → Sustainable Well-Being session
About Us
Meet Jessica Sherwood (she/her)
Jessica is a long-time social justice and community activist based. As principal of Mile High Emergent Consulting, Jessica has remained deeply committed to intersectionality, interconnectedness and social justice in community activism and in creating intentional workplace cultures. She has consulted for organizations as varied as local unions and management, school administrations and staff, communities in conflict, and nonprofits resetting and restructuring.
“Emergent Consulting found solutions we didn’t think would ever be possible. I have been in many facilitations and this was by far the most relaxed and fruitful despite the high tension we began with.”
— Mark DaBell, Local 7, Union
