Testimonials
Here are some things people are saying about working with me:
“Kaytee brought our team together and facilitated conversations and learnings that immediately in the aftermath made us more connected and more productive. She approached the objectives I shared with her with purpose and clarity and guided our group’s sessions with her with compassion and accountability. And she took a tremendous burden off my hands as a thought partner and a lead strategist to pinpoint how best to be responsive to the specific needs of our group. I would recommend Kaytee to anyone seeking a trusted partnership that nets results.”
— Joel Payne, MoveOn Chief Communications Officer
“Kaytee has been excellent to work with. She's responsive, clear in her communication, asks thoughtful questions, approaches our organization and org culture with curiosity, brings a ton of resources, and helps us stay on track. The container she's built for us to execute on this project has been absolutely essential, and provided the stepping stones needed to complete tasks we've never done before. Her consultation has both allowed us to produce important systems for clarifying salary, as well as made possible important conversations among staff around supervision systems, individual sense of value, role clarity, and organizational culture.”
— Hana Kawai, Co-Executive Director, AGE UP
“I was looking for a coach who is a White woman to hold me accountable in my leadership as a White woman on a multi-racial team. Kaytee provided just that – and much more – in our work together. She is a skilled, compassionate leader and coach who brought a variety of tools to our work that unlocked mine and my colleagues’ potential in practice. She helped me get “unstuck” at critical decision points, and her curiosity led to breakthroughs for me and my work. I am deeply grateful for the work that Kaytee and I did that has allowed me to show up and live my anti-racist values.”
— Katie Barnett, former Director of Development & Communications, Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project
“Kaytee was instrumental in helping our team at CREDO Action articulate and then live toward a set of cultural principles to ground and guide our work together, with a focus on having the way we were a team actually be in line with the kind of world we were fighting for together. She was an invaluable support for me in my work to build a diverse and inclusive team and my commitment to be accountable for our team's shared values. She is equally skilled as a coach, a trainer and a facilitator. I feel deeply grateful for the way she helped me be the best leader I could be.”
— Heidi Hess, Chief Strategy Officer, Bend the Arc: Jewish Action
“Kaytee helped us simultaneously hire three senior leaders for newly created positions while piloting equitable hiring practices such as streamlined job descriptions that became part of our organization-wide hiring guidelines. She then went on to train and coach more than a hundred of our managers on the new guidelines and worked with several of them to recruit high impact leaders for their teams. Kaytee's strength is her understanding that hiring process and recruitment decisions are a key driver of cultural change that advances inclusion and organizational effectiveness.”
— Michael Bosse, former National Program Director, Sierra Club
"With clarity and compassion, Kaytee assists organizational leaders, especially white leaders, when their organization needs different containers for the work and people to thrive. Through our collaborations, I've witnessed Kaytee guide organizations as they examine the soil where staff issues arise & dig up the roots of recurring issues. She helps teams learn how to fertilize relationships and an equitable culture to support growth. When she wraps up, leaders are more committed to ongoing weeding and watering so their organization can nourish people, withstand storms, and do good work."
— Matthew Armstead, Director, Culture Work Studios
“Kaytee facilitated my team's virtual retreat and she did an amazing job. She designed our virtual retreat with an understanding of the challenges of virtual meetings (i.e. different time zones of participants, different learning styles, zoom, etc.) and the design she created met our needs and expectations. There was ample time for breaks and a great combination of fun and intentionality. I left the retreat feeling deeply connected with my team and our mission.”