Dear Friend,

In today’s unpredictable and swiftly shifting conditions, the success of change efforts is not based on the detailed plans we inevitably put together, but rather on how we engage people in real time, and work with their energy, concerns and creativity and emerging possibilities as the process unfolds.


Leaders and consultants are asked to stabilize when things feel uncertain, bring clarity to vision, build alignment where perspectives diverge and work with the presence or absence of momentum—grounding and focusing it when it intensifies or cultivating it when systems feel stuck or overwhelmed. This requires both a well-designed process and the ability to meet people where they actually are.


Designing & Leading Change Workshop

In this workshop, we focus on designing and guiding organizational change processes that respond to these realities. Drawing on The Grove’s core change frameworks and visual approaches, you will learn how to create the right outer process structures while working skillfully with the human dynamics that determine whether change takes hold. Using The Grove’s new Transformational Competency Assessment, you will be able to identify your strengths and prioritize the growth edges most important to you.


We bring complementary perspectives to this workshop. Sarah DeWitt draws on her experience leading complex change from within organizations, while I bring decades of consulting experience across systems and sectors. Together, we focus on what it takes to engage stakeholders, contract for success, facilitate key turning points and move change forward in ways that are both grounded and transformational.


This is a hands-on, lab-style experience. You will bring a current change challenge and work directly with it, using The Grove’s graphic templates and methods to design, test and refine your approach alongside peers.


Deepen Your Development

Advance your growth as a change leader or consultant while moving your change efforts forward. Add a six-session coaching package to support meaningful progress on your change challenge and sustain momentum beyond the workshop.


Where: Tides Converge | Presidio of San Francisco

When: July 15–17, 2026

 
 

If this resonates, I invite you to join us and bring your change into a space where it can gain traction while you continue to evolve as a change practitioner.


Warmly,

Gisela Wendling, Ph.D.

CEO

P.S. We're excited to announce that the Team Challenge Cards are now available. They support you in engaging with what is often unspoken within a team, and help create the conditions for more thoughtful, sustained movement

 

Upcoming Workshops

 

NEW!

Making Sense of Team Dynamics


April 21, 2026

10am—12pm PT


This interactive, virtual workshop introduces leaders and practitioners to using the Team Challenge Cards to explore and make sense of team dynamics. Grounded in the Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model®, this course helps participants learn to guide focused conversations, surface patterns across stages of team development, and translate shared insight into clear, practical next steps. 

 
 

IN-PERSON

Principles of Graphic Facilitation


May 18—20, 2026 | 9am—5pm PT

San Francisco, CA


May 25—27, 2026| 9am—5pm ET
Asheville, NC



In this beginner course we take you step-by-step through graphic recording fundamentals blended with basic facilitation methods. You will practice graphic facilitation in small-group settings throughout this immersive, hands-on course.


Earn 24 SHRM Professional Development Credits (PDCs) with completion of this course.

 

Products

 

NEW!

Team Challenge Cards 

Uncover What’s Holding Your Team Back


We’re excited to share that the Team Challenge Cards are now available.


After months of development, testing and refinement, the cards have arrived and are ready to be purchased through Grove Tools.


They’re designed to help you work more effectively with what’s happening inside a team, surface patterns that are often hard to name, and guide conversations toward meaningful next steps.

 

From Our Partners

 
 

Now Available in the U.S.!

BOOK

Leading in Chaos: A Clarion Call to a New Future from Two Pioneers in Leadership Development and Transformational Change


Nicholas Janni and Amy Elizabeth Fox’s forthcoming book, Leading in Chaos, argues that in an era of polycrisis and sustained uncertainty, leadership requires next practice—a fundamentally different inner operating system grounded in deeper human intelligence. It reframes leadership as an embodied, developmental practice, calling leaders to act with coherence, presence and integrity amid ongoing disruption. Because, in their words, “chaos is the new black.”  


 
 

Interested in organizing a course for your workplace?


Contact us at courses@thegrove.com, and we'll work with you to craft a course that meets your specific needs.

 
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