being in our strengths, together.
Spaciousness works to nurture collaboration, ignite innovation and inspire meaningful action.
You are ready to build a resilient organization, foundation or partnership that can navigate constant change.
We are intercultural specialists ready to amplify your leadership strengths and re/build team cohesion with a future ready vision that inspires action today.
Advise: Thought partnering, strategic design, and collaborative facilitation processes that cultivate intercultural leadership and drive collective impact.
Convene: In-person or virtual dialogues and thoughtfully curated gatherings that nurture spaciousness, fostering whole system engagement and applied learning.
Speak: Local and international speaking, moderating and writing inspiring ideations and action guided by the Appreciative Leadership Lotus Model and the Spaciousness Theory of Change.
Courses: Learn how to apply Appreciative Inquiry principles, processes and tools while leading your personal or professional projects.
Appreciative Inquiry opened my eyes to the profound power of the simplest of acts and being a relational leader.
The course provided me opportunities to explore aspirations and build foundational skills that have already had reverberating and resonating effects on my personal and professional life.
Nicolas Karr, Peace Corps Tonga, Director of Programming and Training
In 30 years of development work, it is the first time that I have left such a complex [strategy] process energized and yet also practically focused.
Shirlane Douglas, PACT
The course was the best virtual experience I have had. The tools leveraged for plenary, breakout, and offline were just the right lift to make an impact without feeling burdensome. I am referring colleagues and integrating tools into my workshops immediately!
Kim M. Kerr, BASF Corporation & Pepperdine GSEP Center for Global Partnerships & Learning
I appreciate how you have channeled change into my life and reminding me that I matter. I am extremely grateful for this experience because I didn’t know how much I needed this to be a better person.
Machackatsa Segoete, GSO, Department of State
The Spaciousness Theory of Change states that when leaders and their teams experience a sense of spaciousness within, not outside of, the complexity and conflict of these times, they can make decisions that inspire inclusion, innovation, and action plans for results that are collectively owned.
Leaders must recognize when processes, procedures, and strategic plans are no longer meeting the mission, vision, and goals of the organization. They must be change agents in the diverse world we live and work in; crossing boundaries and borders, creating inclusionary practices in a global world. In [my] PhD in Organizational Leadership program, our students are embracing Tanya Cruz Teller’s model of Appreciative Inquiry to create a space of belonging through change. Some students have selected the model as a foundation for further research.
As a professor and consultant, Tanya’s AI Lotus Model has afforded me the opportunity to facilitate change where each person can grow and connect to others.
being in our strengths, together
Spaciousness works to nurture collaboration, ignite innovation and inspire meaningful action.
You are ready to build a resilient organization, foundation or partnership that can navigate constant change.
We are intercultural specialists ready to amplify your leadership strengths
and re/build team cohesion with a future ready vision that inspires action today.
Advise
Thought partnering, strategic design and facilitation processes.
Convene
In-person, hybrid or virtual dialogues and curated gatherings that nurture spaciousness and multiply voices and opportunities to connect and collaborate.
Speak
Local and international speaking, moderating and collaborative writing guided by the Appreciative Leadership Lotus Model and the Spaciousness Theory of change.
Courses
Learn how to apply Appreciative Inquiry principles, processes and tools to your personal and professional projects.
ACROSS THE WORLD
Appreciative Inquiry opened my eyes to the profound power of the simplest of acts and being a relational leader.
The course provided me experiences and opportunities to explore aspirations and build foundational skills that have already had reverberating and resonating effects on my personal and professional life.
Nicolas Karr, Peace Corps Tonga, Director of Programming and Training
In 30 years of development work, it is the first time that I have left such a complex [strategy] process energized and yet also practically focused.
Shirlane Douglas, PACT
I appreciate how you have channeled change into my life and reminding me that I matter. I am extremely grateful for this experience because I didn’t know how much I needed this to be a better person.
Machackatsa Segoete, GSO, Department of State
The course was the best virtual experience I have had. The tools leveraged for plenary, breakout, and offline were just the right lift to make an impact without feeling burdensome. I am referring colleagues and integrating tools into my workshops immediately!
Kim M. Kerr, BASF Corporation & Pepperdine GSEP Center for Global Partnerships & Learning
The Spaciousness Theory of Change states that when leaders and their teams experience a sense of spaciousness within, not outside of, the complexity and conflict of these times, they can make decisions that inspire inclusion, innovation, and action plans for results that are collectively owned.
Leaders must recognize when processes, procedures, and strategic plans are no longer meeting the mission, vision, and goals of the organization. They must be change agents in the diverse world we live and work in; crossing boundaries and borders, creating inclusionary practices in a global world. In [my] PhD in Organizational Leadership program, our students are embracing Tanya Cruz Teller’s model of Appreciative Inquiry to create a space of belonging through change. Some students have selected the model as a foundation for further research.
As a professor and consultant, Tanya’s AI Lotus Model has afforded me the opportunity to facilitate change where each person can grow and connect to others.