The depth of our impact depends on connection —
between people and the living systems of our planet.
The Challenge of Leading Together
Despite all we know about the importance of relationships in collective change work, we continue to meet diverse teams and vibrant communities of brilliant professionals, analysts, advocates, strategists, and policymakers who run up against deep challenges with the human side of collaboration.
Even the most capable leaders and teams can find themselves stuck.
These aren’t the challenges that show up in policy proposals, grant reports, or project plans.
They show up in meetings, one-to-one relationships, and interactions with colleagues and stakeholders, in circular discussions that never quite reach the deeper heart of the issue.
Despite sincere intentions and best efforts, relationships fray and groups splinter into camps and cliques, eroding trust, empathy, and cooperation, draining energy, and weakening collective power.
“Team-building” efforts project harmony at the surface, but fail to create real connection.
It’s not a lack of intelligence or commitment.
It’s the absence of the deeper relational connection that helps teams bind vision, knowledge, and effort together for collective impact.
Guiding Co-Creative
Leadership & Impact
We help social impact leaders connect and align to create collective transformation.
Through deep dialogue, co-created group processes, and skillfully facilitated learning experiences, we help teams and communities connect across identities, perspectives, and roles, and reconnect with their capacity to think, feel, and act together.
Our approach is rigorously methodical and deeply human, blending proven intergroup process facilitation methods with a holistic understanding of human dynamics that integrates the emotional, relational, and imaginative dimensions of co-creative leadership.
We help teams and coalitions do the deep, necessary work that sustains collaboration, not just as a one-time intervention, but as a central practice and way of being.
Championing Change
through Connection
We envision leaderful teams and communities that work together for the greater good with more joy, impact, and fulfillment.
Our goal is to help create a reality where the work of social and environmental change restores rather than depletes, unites rather than divides, and builds futures that are not just sustainable, but flourishing for all.
Our People & Process
Meet the Principal behind The Sambai Circle and explore how we help leaders and teams connect, align, and move forward together.