What We Do
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We use all the traditional tools of consulting
with a deep organic intelligence
All of our work is custom and sensitive to the conditions we work in. We work at the intersection of business strategy and business culture. We help organizations tackle difficult, human problems through thoughtful engagement, evidence, and practical implementation. As a woman, minority, and disabled owned business, our lived experiences deepen our practice and move abstract ideas of change and inclusion into concrete steps.
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Strategy Development
Developing a strategy isn’t simply about setting goals - it’s about making thoughtful choices, building shared understanding, and creating the conditions for meaningful action.
Organizations today face increasing complexity, uncertainty, and competing demands. Dendros helps organizations develop practical, evidence-informed strategies that reflect their values. Through research, facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and implementation, we help leaders move from uncertainty to clarity. We help organizations move from chaos to order.
Whether you're creating a strategic plan, launching a major initiative, responding to change, or rethinking your organization's future, we help build realistic and aligned strategies. Our work doesn't end with a plan. We help organizations build alignment, establish priorities, measure progress and adapt as circumstances evolve—because the best strategies are living frameworks for decision-making, not documents that sit on a shelf.
Culture Change
Healthy cultures don't happen by accident, and unhealthy cultures rarely change on their own.
Culture shapes every decision an organization makes. It influences how people work together, how leaders lead, how employees experience the workplace, and your clients’ and customers’ experience of your work. We regularly hear stories about companies whose dysfunctional culture costs them significantly in earnings, legal costs, staff retention, and brand. From cross-cultural insensitivity to unintentionally exclusive planning processes, the pitfalls leaders must navigate are significant.
Healthy cultures don't happen by accident, and unhealthy cultures rarely change on their own. We help organizations understand the patterns that shape behavior, identify cultural barriers to achieving end goals and help you build capacity that strengthens your ability to deliver results. Whether you're responding to change, navigating growth or intentionally building a healthier, more inclusive workplace, we help create lasting change that people can see and feel.
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Stakeholder Engagement
The people affected by a decision should have meaningful opportunities to shape it.
Successful stakeholder engagement is more than holding public meetings or collecting survey responses. It requires listening well, building trust, creating accessible opportunities to participate, and demonstrating how stakeholders’ voices influence decisions.
Money, energy and time are wasted when change processes do not engage the right stakeholders in the right ways. Furthermore, a deep cynicism or sense of helplessness can be the legacy of years of status quo thinking and behavior, thwarting countless attempts to do things differently or to implement a new plan.
Dendros designs and facilitates engagement processes that bring together diverse perspectives, surface new ideas, and build lasting support for change. From strategic planning and organizational change to public policy and community initiatives, we help organizations engage people in ways that are authentic, inclusive, and productive.
Training & Professional Development
Your team’s learning—especially nowadays—is critical to your success.
Learning should change how people think, work, and lead. Dendros designs highly interactive workshops that combine research, practical tools, and real-world application. Participants don't simply receive information—they practice new skills, examine their assumptions, and leave prepared to apply what they've learned. Our training topics include leadership, facilitation, organizational development, strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, racial equity, disability inclusion, and other customized programs tailored to each client's goals. Trainings are available in person or virtually and can be adapted for organizations of every size.
We are experts in building experiential learning and critical consciousness for improving workplace culture. Recent workshops include Building Critical Consciousness, Building Disability Consciousness, Data Visualization, Systems Modeling, and Building Healthy Workplace Culture.
Leadership Transition Support
Our systems are challenged; institutions, once thought to be around forever,
have disappeared or changed beyond recognition.
We face interlocking challenges that threaten our best laid plans and our visions for the future. How we work together with our clients is highly adaptive and builds their capacity not only to withstand tumultuous change, but also to learn and thrive in it. We use all the traditional tools of consulting, with deep intelligence and a systems perspective.
Our team of polymaths and innovators bring vast experience, sharp skills and a sincere commitment to businesses, nonprofits, government, and communities. We support organizations through any kind of transition. Our team has regularly provided interim leadership, talent search, and facilitation.
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Access & Belonging
Creating accessible and inclusive organizations means more than meeting legal requirements. It means designing environments, communications, meetings, services, and workplaces where people can contribute, connect, and succeed. Dendros helps organizations identify and remove barriers to participation through communication access, disability inclusion, neuroinclusive workplace practices, and accessible engagement. We work with leaders to build systems that recognize different ways of thinking, communicating, moving, and participating—creating workplaces and communities where people experience genuine belonging, not simply accommodation.
Whether you're improving accessibility, strengthening disability inclusion, designing more effective public engagement, or building a neuroinclusive culture, we help transform good intentions into practical, lasting change.