Effective culture change requires interconnectedness.

Sagely offers inclusive leadership coaching, workshops, and system-level support to foster innovative collaboration in your organization.

Blending compassion, care, and connection to create lasting culture change.

Using a combination of tools from social work, transformative justice studies, liberation psychology, and systems science, we teach leaders to spot patterns, identify emotions, and notice themes that influence culture. These patterns, when brought to light, become malleable sites for redirection. Leaders see where their interventions have the most impact and work on creating conditions that allow the entire group to collaborate more effectively and tap into their highest potential.

Sagely’s Customized Offerings

We work with a variety of institutions, including universities, museums, nonprofits, and startups, where we offer customized services that foster inclusivity and create lasting culture change within an organization.

From leadership coaching to one-time workshops to system-level programming, our services teach leaders to tap into their own capacity to foster change without burnout. Our clients become the source of inclusion and belonging that others in their community seek.

Lesley Curtis and Cord Whitaker, co-owners of Sagely Creative,  talking to each other while walking on a sidewalk

β€œSagely offers an opportunity for you to learn how to ground yourself and to create space.”

β€œWhat Sagely offers is an opportunity for you to learn how to ground yourself and to create space, physically and mentally, where you can learn how to support others without having to carry their trauma and grief. This has been a tremendous starting point for me, one for which I am very thankful.”

β€” Faculty member and DEI Leader

Sagely’s Unique Trauma-Informed, Systemic Approach

Sagely has a team of coaches, educators, and social workers who understand how pain and discrimination overwhelm and disrupt the wellbeing of organizations. Our team applies resources used in coaching, therapy, and trauma-informed pedagogy for a uniquely effective approach that transforms people’s experiences through relationships.

Our clients are often working to resolve the stuckness and frustration that come from prior experiences of pain and overwhelm. We offer grounded, healing practices and tools that help you, your colleagues, your students, and your larger organization process and envision a new way of engaging together.

β€œI could see from beginning to end the impact of the work that we did together.”

β€œAfter working with Sagely, our teaching team meetings felt transformed. Ownership and responsibility felt shared. Transparency and vulnerability were at levels after one session that we rarely hit even by the end of the year. I could see from beginning to end the impact of the work that we did together.”

β€” Lecturer, Yale University

When we heal ourselves, we heal our organizations.

Learn how trauma-informed inclusive leadership improves the experience of your colleagues, students, clients, and employees.