Spark something worthwhile.
Need to innovate your way to a new market or better outcome?
Want your nonprofit to make a greater impact?
Need different partners to join your journey?
Need better methods to change people’s behavior beyond just telling them?
You need a creative agitator.
Services
Prices vary by workshop length. Workshop logistics, travel and venue arrangement services not included.
Innovation Jumpstart
0.5 / 1.5 / 2.5 day
Group workshop for up to 35 people
Jumpstart is a short, bracing workshop for teams, organizations or individuals, looking for better ideas or strategies for change. The session includes unlearning some of the workplace and personal habits that keep change “stuck,” practicing new ways to get into a generative frame of mind, and tools to draft and build something new in the session itself.
Change Management and Innovation for Journalists
0.5 / 1.5 / 2.5 day with or without follow up coaching
Group workshop for teams from 1+ publications/outlets
Media, and the democracy it defends, face challenges of historic proportions: declining revenues, increased competition, ‘alternative facts,’ and a need to diversify and decolonize to create more equitable coverage. But how do you make a shift when the hierarchical structure of most media organizations works against change? How can you cultivate a supportive, risk-taking culture that accepts some inevitable failures on the way to greatness? Whether you need new ideas for media products, new revenue streams or a shift in culture, we can get you started on that journey.
Nonprofit Strategy (Re)Boot Camp
3 in-person sessions with weekly coaching
3 - 7 people
This annual program helps multiple nonprofit organizations sort their next pivot and new direction, or a better way to to execute their current one. Includes three in-person sessions for your team of 3-7 people, as well as weekly coaching sessions remotely.
Emergent Strategy Consulting
Team coaching
Dahle will guide your team through an iterative, generative path to solving challenges and producing new ideas that work. Includes regular remote coaching sessions as well as ‘office hours’ access. Her speciality is group, systemic collaboration across organizations and sectors.
Problem analysis and solving
Need an outside perspective on your strategy? Dahle can scope a custom consulting engagement including research, system mapping, stakeholder engagement, and workshops.
About
Cheryl Dahle has a talent for unleashing the greatness of others. She’s spent more than 15 years working with disparate groups of disgruntled dreamers – social entrepreneurs, scientists, nonprofit leaders, journalists, fishermen, farmers, and business folk – to help them create the change they wish to see in the world.
Her methods evolved from years of working in complex systems to design and launch collaborative solutions. That work has included sending anthropologists into the global seafood supply chain to understand how sustainability was stuck, helping journalists devise new revenue strategies, enabling generative conversations between sworn enemies in fisheries, and uncovering ways to engage women on climate change policy.
The common thread in her disparate experiences is an ability to see system patterns, and the skill to help individuals and groups navigate to their greatest contribution to change.
Results of Dahle’s work include:
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Recruiting, selecting and mentoring a diverse cohort of 20 climate change journalists who produced 70+ solutions stories in a year.
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Designing and facilitating innovation workshops for media leaders that have led to multiple category-breaking new revenue ideas.
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​Ensuring that 2 billion + customers annually are served sustainable seafood in restaurants
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Picking and mentoring a social entrepreneur who went from one oyster farm to spawning 10,000 farms of oyster and kelp, via a scalable training program
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Co-developing sustainable seafood training used by 15,000+ chefs at Marriott International
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Setting the conditions for the 2016 Seafood Import Monitoring Program requirements
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Driving up the demand for “storied fish,” and therefore, traceability, data, and the chance to reward sustainable fishing
