We help you lead complex change – even when it isn’t optional – with less resistance, more engagement, and your wellbeing intact.
Our Services
We serve as your strategic thought-partner: designing and facilitating dialogues, framing systems change, and helping you shape vision, culture and execution in a strengths based way.
We bring people together – in person, hybrid or virtual – to co-create shared meaning and ownership, renew connection and generate possibilities. We design experiences that unlock insights and spur sustained action.
We provide keynotes, master-classes and training programs grounded in our Model and our Theory of Change to empower your leaders and teams to apply generative, positive-focus practices for real-world impact.
Why Choose Us
- We bring a global, intercultural lens and decades of experience across sectors, from corporates and government agencies to nonprofits and philanthropic initiatives.
- We specialize in working with organizations navigating complexity, change and volatility.
- We shift focus from “what’s wrong” to “what’s strong and possible”, enabling co-created innovation, resilience and collective ownership.
- Our signature frameworks (such as the Lotus Model: Renew → Relate → Co-Create → Resolve) anchor our work in proven theory and global experience.
Our Latest Work
Appreciative Inquiry for Change Management – Leadership
Transform Change Into a Strength Your Leadership Can Rely On
A practical, research-backed online course grounded in Appreciative Inquiry for leaders navigating complexity. Working with a State Health Department to foster collaboration.
Appreciative Inquiry for Change Management – Organizations
Transform Change Into a Strength Your Organization Can Rely On
A practical, research-backed online course grounded in Appreciative Inquiry for organizations strengthening alignment, ownership and execution in times of change. Working with public service leadership team to move from stress to change champions.
Leadership Coaching with Appreciative Inquiry and PQ*
Coaching that strengthens clarity, resilience and relational leadership in high-change environments.
Female Founders Coaching Cohort who feel they have reached an internal leadership ceiling, when their strengths start working against them, to evolve how they lead, decide, and scale without burning out or losing trust.
Our Why
At Spaciousness Works, we believe every organization already holds the seeds of its greatest breakthroughs.
Through strengths based methodologies and Appreciative Inquiry, we help teams uncover what is working, amplify their existing capabilities and translate shared aspirations into bold, achievable strategies.
We also know that sustainable results emerge when diverse perspectives collaborate with intention. Inclusive cooperation generates deeper insight, more innovative solutions and stronger long-term performance.
Our purpose is to help organizations unlock the combined power of strengths-based leadership and diverse collaboration, building cultures that are resilient, energized and capable of delivering exceptional results in a rapidly changing world.
Discover Our Solutions
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Client Testimonials
The sessions were intentional and yet, magic!
Change is personal so change management must also be personal. I felt a positive and personal connection with Tanya and Stephen in our first meeting to plan for this opportunity. My team felt this as well in the sessions as Tanya and Stephen led us to connect as a team to learn about ourselves, each other, and co-create our positive core together. As a result of this training, our team is significantly more prepared to champion strengths based change. I know the planning and sessions were intentional and yet, it feels like magic.
Create a space of belonging through change
Leaders 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 the PhD in Organizational Leadership program at Indiana Wesleyan University, our students are embracing Tanya Cruz Teller’s model of Appreciative Inquiry to create a space of belonging through change. 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.
We went deep and he really got us thinking…
On behalf of iqbusiness and the Men’s Collective, I would like to thank Stephen and team for the impact they had on me personally and for those IQers that attended the launch of the Men’s collective. The way they prepared and took care to understand our context and our journey and then play it back to us in the launch was nothing short of fantastic. Stephen went deep into some of these issues and really got us thinking…Thank you again Stephen and team, appreciate it.
Appreciative Inquiry opened my eyes…
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.
I didn’t know how much I needed this!
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.
I feel energized and focused
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.
About Us
We partner with leadership teams and organizations navigating complexity, growth and transition, helping transform change from a struggle into a source of clarity, engagement and collective momentum.
Spaciousness Works is a global consultancy specializing in strengths-based leadership, Appreciative Inquiry and inclusive organizational change.
Led by Tanya Cruz Teller, MA, published author of the Appreciative Leadership Lotus Model, our diverse, cross-cultural team brings decades of experience in strategic planning, leadership development and whole-system convening. We guide groups across differences in identity, power and culture toward trust, alignment, agency and inspired action.
Grounded in Appreciative Inquiry and our Spaciousness Theory of Change, we shift focus from what is wrong to what is strong and possible. Through our Lotus Model, Renew, Relate, Co-Create, Resolve, we help leaders build resilience, strengthen relationships and translate shared aspirations into sustainable results.
We co-create with our clients rather than for them. Our assessment partners humanize data through meaningful feedback and analytics, enabling organizations and cross-sector partnerships to generate insight, deepen ownership and improve performance and impact.
Spaciousness Works is recognised for its strong focus on relationships, belonging and shared accountability, guiding change that matters for people, performance and planet.
Tanya Cruz Teller
Founder & Lead Alchemist
Stephen Read
Senior Associate & Coach
Natasja vd Merwe
Operations Manager
Lizl Stegmann
Finance & Marketing
Anele Mkumla
Admin & Projects
Our Associates
Expertise Across Regions, Sectors and Cultures
Marlene Ogawa
Senior Associate
Dr. Nicolle Bossard
Associate
Lalita Raman
Associate
Our Clients & Impact
You are a leader or team ready to step into your next chapter:
We’ve seen participants in our courses from over 50 countries. From these engagements, we’ve helped unlock belonging, heighten engagement and accelerate meaningful actions.
Our Reach
Let’s explore how we can work together, whether through strategic design, tailored training or facilitation for your next big initiative.
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Client Testimonials
Thank you, keep on sharing your magic!
The session you facilitated on “Our Wellness: Building Resilience through Appreciative Leadership” was amazing. The 1 hour session experience left us feeling greatly connected in our hearts to work together and as promised, we will remember this feeling when the going get tough.
I guarantee you will not regret it.
The methodology they applied of appreciative theory was both well received by the staff and I and set a new tone for how we relate and engage with each other. It allowed for us to engage as human beings rather than personalities or positions and provided amazing insight.
Tanya provides great direction and guidance to enable growth.
Tanya was able to thoughtfully engage both my needs as an internal OD Practitioner, and those of the core team during planning in a way that strengthened our abilities to engage with this work. The manner in which she then designed the process and ultimately the Summit was skillful, professional and inspiring.
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Every change journey begins with a single question.
We’d love to hear about what you’re envisioning and explore how we can support you.