Consulting
Graymake partners with individuals, executives, managers, and teams to create inclusive, engaging experiences that help employees succeed and organizations thrive. As we explore the unexamined pains preventing your organization from achieving its best work, we uncover where things have gotten stuck, what needs might be unmet, and what’s already working.
We believe self-care and use of self are foundational to good work. Good health and keen awareness are paramount to working with others and to delivering best results; we therefore thread these practices throughout our offerings.
Graymake’s clients often find it helpful to invest in consulting support. To serve you best, we leverage trends in behavioral science and the latest HR strategies to get to the core of your challenges, generate a strategic plan of action, and promote evolutionary change.
“Anne does an excellent job making people comfortable quickly so that even in shorter sessions, groups can leave their hesitation behind and get to deeper connections. And because she creates a detailed and attentive amount of prep-work prior to each session, your personalized experience is directly connected to the needs of your group.”
—Margaret Falzon, Director of Portfolio Operations, Squadra Ventures
Do you, your team, or your organization need more comprehensive support? Graymake works with a select number of clients on consultation projects, based on mutual fit.
Our practitioners will meet with you to discuss needs, assess what’s happening, feed back the data, and develop a plan of action. Working with employees directly, our consultants will create recommendations for change along with tools to be utilized during implementation and support the change efforts—until those efforts can be assumed by the employees themselves. That’s our ultimate goal.
Are you ready to do the work with practitioners who care about the success of your business and your people as much as you do?
Are you forward-thinking and committed to do the work?
Need help? Let’s talk!
“Anne is a thoughtful. gifted facilitator who has a strong command of her craft. She is an intuitive professional whose focus on inclusivity and high standard of ethics forces us all to reflect on how we walk in this world, ultimately translating into building cultures of trust, respect and accountability to one another.”
—Teri Leavens, Strategic Planning Consultant, Goodwill Industries International
Graymake’s offerings are informed by the values and philosophy of both restorative justice and organization development.
The fundamental hypothesis of restorative practices is, in fact, that people are happier, more cooperative and productive, and more likely to make positive changes in behavior when those in authority do things with them rather than to them or for them.
In our experience—backed by research in numerous fields—this shift to group decision-making and accountability creates results that are more restorative, transformative, and holistic; creating positive cultures and reducing the likelihood of future negative incidences
of harm.
Restorative work says that achieving these objectives requires:
Those who have been harmed are involved in the process and complete it feeling satisfied
Those who have offended understand how their actions have affected others and take responsibility for them
Any outcomes help to repair the harm (or harms) done and address the reasons for the offense
Both those who caused harm and those who were harmed gain a sense of closure and are reintegrated into the community
At a time when most of us are experiencing little to no separation between work and home life, in the era of #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, #COVID19, massive uncertainty, loss and conflicts in politics, religion, and more in the workplace, we must equip employees at every level with more tools and help them hone them. By increasing communication, conflict, and awareness of one’s impact on self and on others, we can create workplaces where everyone can thrive.
Graymake offerings are available in-person, online, or as a hybrid. We work to meet your needs.