Intentional Gatherings that Foster Increased Impact
Helping Organizations Make Better Decisions Together
The most important conversations are rarely the easiest.
Whether you're developing a strategic plan, engaging community stakeholders, strengthening your board, or investing in leadership development, meaningful progress depends on more than bringing people together. It depends on creating a process where people can think together, build trust, make informed decisions, and move forward with shared purpose.
Facilitation Corps partners with nonprofits, public agencies, foundations, healthcare organizations, educational institutions, and community collaboratives throughout California to design thoughtful planning processes, facilitate important conversations, strengthen leadership, and engage communities in meaningful ways.
For more than two decades, we've helped organizations navigate complexity by bringing together the people closest to the work and creating the conditions where better decisions can emerge.
We believe that meaningful participation leads to stronger organizations, healthier communities, and more sustainable change.
WHO WE HELP
NON-PROFITS
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
WHAT IS FACILITATION?
Facilitation is the skillful practice of assisting groups in accomplishing their tasks. A facilitator's role involves actively listening, providing thoughtful reflections, asking probing questions, offering clear explanations, and effectively summarizing discussions in a manner that advances the collective objectives of the participants and the overall initiative.
At Facilitation Corps, we go beyond this standard approach by actively striving to amplify the voices of historically marginalized communities, by respecting and embracing their unique words, languages, and perspectives.
Four Featured Practice Areas
Strategic Planning
Building Shared Direction
Strategic planning is about more than producing a report. It's an opportunity to bring people together around a shared vision, identify meaningful priorities, and create a practical roadmap for action.
Whether we're working with a nonprofit organization, public agency, foundation, or community collaborative, every planning process is tailored to the unique culture, mission, governance structure, and aspirations of the organization.
Our strategic planning services include:
Five-year strategic plans
Organizational assessments
Vision, mission, and values
Board retreats
Executive retreats
Theory of Change
Logic models
Strategic implementation plans
Performance measurement
Community Engagement
Listening Before Deciding
The best community engagement creates opportunities for people to influence decisions—not simply respond to them.
We help organizations design engagement processes that are inclusive, culturally responsive, accessible, and grounded in authentic dialogue. From community listening sessions to advisory councils, stakeholder interviews, and public workshops, our work helps organizations build trust while making better-informed decisions.
Services include:
Community listening sessions
Public engagement
Stakeholder engagement
Advisory councils
Focus groups
Coalition facilitation
Community forums
Cross-sector collaboration
Consensus building
Facilitation & Leadership Development
Better Conversations. Better Decisions.
Strong facilitation isn't about controlling the conversation.
It's about creating the conditions where people can do their best thinking together.
Facilitation Corps provides professional facilitation services throughout California for executive teams, nonprofit organizations, public agencies, community partnerships, foundations, and boards seeking thoughtful guidance through complex conversations.
We facilitate:
Executive retreats
Board retreats
Leadership retreats
Strategic planning workshops
Organizational planning meetings
Team development
Conflict transformation
Cross-functional collaboration
Change management
Partnership development
Every engagement is customized because no two organizations—and no two conversations—are exactly alike.
Executive & Leadership Coaching
Helping Leaders Grow
Leadership isn't a destination.
It's a continual process of learning, reflection, and growth.
Our executive and leadership coaching programs help supervisors, managers, directors, nonprofit executives, and public sector leaders strengthen their confidence, improve communication, build stronger teams, and navigate increasingly complex organizational environments.
Coaching includes:
Executive coaching
Leadership coaching
New supervisor coaching
Emerging leader development
Leadership assessments
Team coaching
Leadership development planning
Communication coaching
Organizational leadership
We combine reflective practice with practical application so leaders leave every session with greater clarity and concrete actions they can implement immediately.
OUR SERVICES
STRATEGIC PLANNING
Crafting adaptable strategies tailored to diverse organizational needs, involving comprehensive engagement across teams and boards.
SPECIALIZED LEADERSHIP AND TEAM DEVELOPMENT
Customized training, design, and facilitation to support you in maximizing organizational performance.
Our Approach
Participation Changes Organizations
The organizations we work with already possess extraordinary knowledge, experience, creativity, and commitment. Our role is to create thoughtful processes that help those perspectives come together in ways that strengthen decision-making and build shared ownership of the future.
Our work is guided by five principles:
Meaningful Participation
People are more likely to support decisions they helped create.
Equity & Inclusion
The strongest decisions intentionally include voices that have historically been overlooked or excluded.
Collaboration
Complex challenges require shared thinking and collective leadership.
Practical Action
A successful engagement produces more than ideas—it creates momentum, accountability, and realistic next steps.
Capacity Building
Our goal isn't simply to facilitate today's meeting. It's to strengthen your organization's ability to lead tomorrow's conversations.
Who We Work With
We proudly partner with organizations throughout California, including:
Nonprofit organizations
Public agencies
Community-based organizations
Foundations
Educational institutions
Healthcare organizations
Local governments
Behavioral health organizations
Housing organizations
Environmental organizations
Cross-sector collaboratives
Boards of Directors
Leadership teams
Our work spans behavioral health, housing, community development, philanthropy, education, environmental justice, workforce development, local government, and organizational capacity building.
Why Facilitation Corps
Organizations don't hire us because they need someone to run a meeting.
They partner with us because they're facing questions that matter.
How do we build a strategic plan people believe in?
How do we engage communities that have grown skeptical of public processes?
How do we strengthen our board and leadership team?
How do we move beyond discussion toward meaningful action?
How do we navigate difficult conversations without damaging relationships?
How do we build organizational capacity while remaining true to our mission?
These are the conversations we help organizations lead every day.
A Few Organizations We've Been Privileged to Serve
Over the past two decades, Facilitation Corps has partnered with nonprofit organizations, public agencies, foundations, healthcare organizations, educational institutions, and community collaboratives across California. Our work has included strategic planning, community engagement, leadership development, executive coaching, board governance, behavioral health transformation, environmental justice initiatives, housing, philanthropy, workforce development, and organizational capacity building.
Brooklyn West Compound LLC
California Community Foundation
California State University Long Beach
Children's Institute International
City Fabrick
City of Long Beach
City of Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services,
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Conservation Corps of Long Beach
Disability Rights California
Equity Praxis Group, LLC
First 5 LA, Help Me Grow Coalition
Harbor Community Benefit Foundation
Housing Authority of the City of Long Beach
Housing Authority, City of Los Angeles
Jaci Anderson Coaching
Japanese American Citizens League
Los Angeles County, Department of Mental Health
Liberty Hill
Long Beach Gray Panthers
Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health
National Association of Development Organizations
Orange County Environmental Justice
Pacoima Beautiful
Port of Long Beach
Port of Los Angeles
Promise Zone Arts South LA/LA Commons
The Peace Studio
Urban Action Inc.
Walk N Rollers