Organizational Culture & Conflict Consulting
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.
Grounding in a clear understanding of shared values, short- and long-term goals, expectations regarding communication, and processes for addressing inevitable conflict, among other internal culture metrics, allow the work to thrive.
Mile High Emergent Consulting helps plant the organizational roots and nurture the soil to create ideal conditions for robust and flourishing growth, the ideal conditions for sparking real change.
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 with founders, staff and boards to create and refine strategic intentions 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.
About Us
Meet Jessica Sherwood (she/her)
Jessica is a long-time social justice and community activist based in Denver for over 25 years. 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
