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 meaning, build shared ownership, renew connection and generate possibilities. We design experiences that unlock insights and spur sustained action.
We provide keynote talks, master-classes and training programs grounded in the Appreciative Inquiry Lotus Model and our own Spaciousness Theory of Change. We empower your leaders and teams to apply generative, positive-focus practices for real-world impact.
Why Choose Us
Why We Are Different
- 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 (e.g., 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 Organization Can Rely On
A practical, research-backed online course that helps leadership teams navigate change with clarity, confidence and collective momentum — using Appreciative Inquiry.
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 that helps whole organizations navigate change with clarity, confidence and collective momentum — using Appreciative Inquiry.
Working with public service leadership team to mover for stress to change champions
Leadership Coaching
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Ghanaian 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
Spaciousness Works believes that every organization already holds the seeds of its greatest breakthroughs. By applying strengths based methodologies and practices, we help teams uncover their existing competences, amplify what is already working, and translate shared aspirations into bold, achievable strategies.
At the same time, we know that the most powerful results emerge when people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives collaborate with intention. Inclusive cooperation generates deeper insight, more innovative solutions, and stronger long-term performance.
Our purpose is to help organisations unlock this unique combination of strengths based leadership and diverse collaboration, so they can build cultures that are resilient, inspiring, 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.
Leadership cannot remain stagnant.
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 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 yet 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.
Who We Are
Spaciousness Works provides successful experiential convening and consulting services on strategic planning, leadership development, dialogues and team building that center intercultural communication and understanding through our strengths based Organization Development expertise.
Led by Tanya Cruz Teller, MA, published author of the Appreciative Leadership Lotus Model, and her diverse team, who have decades of experience creating and facilitating inclusive, learning-oriented gatherings. Their extensive know-how successfully guides groups in bridging differences in identity, power, position and culture towards trust, alignment, agency and action.
Our assessment specialists ensure feedback and analytics humanize data to help organizations and cross-sectoral partnerships produce and leverage insights that improve performance/impact.
Our work is recognized for its strong focus on relationships, belonging and ownership and our commitment to co- creating successful outcomes with clients. Our consultancy practices build on a long-standing experience with organization and leadership development, multi-stakeholder gatherings and personal development, guiding towards sustainable change that matters for people 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.
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