Katie Fong
Founder & Principal
Katie (she/her) is an organization development practitioner and leadership coach specializing in aligning leadership and organizational practices with humanistic values to create healthy, equitable cultures. Her approach to coaching consulting draws on her expertise in personal and structural analysis, organizational change theories, and organizational psychology integrated with anti-racist and inclusionary practice, decolonization theory, and interdisciplinary feminist theory. Katie believes that understanding how power works in the spaces between and around individuals is the first step in effecting systemic change. She is dedicated to helping illuminate power dynamics for leaders and organizations.
Recognized for her insightful assessment skills and ability to create clarity and focus amid complexity, Katie is known by her clients for her ability to tease out nuance and uncover and unpack limiting beliefs to expand potential for growth, learning, and goal achievement. Katie began her career as an executive search consultant and has 15+ years of experience working with clients including Fortune 500 consumer brands and retailers, founder-led startups, non-profits, and institutions of higher learning.
In addition to her consulting work, Katie is an actively involved Trustee on the Board of her undergraduate alma mater, Wells College. She is based in Aurora, NY, and completed her Master of Science degree in Organizational Change Management at The New School.
Katie’s recent written work includes her book chapter “The Interrogatory Imperative: Hope & Persistence from 20 Years of Interrogating Whiteness in OD” and the co-authored chapter “Integrative OAD: De-neutralizing the Organizational Assessment Canon to Advance Humanistic Change.” Both chapters appear in Managing for Social Justice: Harnessing Management Theory & Practice for Collective Good (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).
Miranda Cohen
Consultant
Miranda (she/her) is an organizational development consultant focused on international organizational and intercultural competencies. She brings experience in organizational assessment, strategic planning, intercultural understanding, program development, coalition building, and diversity and inclusion. She has over 10 years of experience in the NGO sector and has lived and worked in the United States, China, Zambia, and North Macedonia. Miranda works with community members, key stakeholders, staff, and Board members to incorporate long-term, equitable, sustainable, and trauma-informed practices in the strategic planning process. She is particularly passionate about the role of leadership development and resource generation for organizational populations that are often disenfranchised and under-engaged.
Miranda has a range of career experiences that have led to informed organization and program development practices. She served as a data analyst for a higher education institution and has a keen eye for data analytics and monitoring and evaluation. She brings a background grounded in data to her strategic planning approach, developing plans and structures at the intersection of data and human dynamics.
In addition to consulting, Miranda serves as a Board Chair for a NGO in Uganda that teaches female-bodied individuals how to sew reusable menstrual pads. She has a Bachelors from Temple University in Organizational Leadership, a Masters from the New School in Nonprofit Management, and a Certificate in Organizational Development from the New School. She currently resides in Philadelphia.
Carrie E Neal
Consultant
Carrie E Neal (she/they) is an educator, administrator and artist who has spent the last 20+ years working in, and with, education institutions, small companies, and NGOs. As a process facilitator and coach, Carrie has led curricular and structural change, created and facilitated learning, equity, diversity and inclusion workshops, and created opportunities for leadership development for students, faculty, community members and administrators at several local, national and international organizations. Leadership development and resourcing is an important part of the work that Carrie does in institutions.
Carrie comes to the table as an integral thinker, making connections between diverse fields of study, and finds ways to connect the ethereal with the practical. Bringing interest and training in design thinking, strategic analysis, facilitation, social justice, and education, Carrie partners with folks individually and in teams to assess current situations and make plans for the future.
Carrie has a Master of Arts in Teaching from Manhattanville College, a Master of Arts in Media Studies, and a Master of Science in Organizational Change Management with a certificate in Leadership and Change from The New School. Carrie completed coursework for a Master of Arts program in Consciousness Studies and Transpersonal Psychology at The Graduate Institute with a research focus on intersubjectivity in groups and is currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Practice with TransArt Institute and Liverpool John Moores University. In addition, Carrie is a credentialed professional coach through the International Coaching Federation and is certified with Change Catalysts in Change Intelligence (CQ).
