collaborators

Nancy Davis (she/her) | Nancy Davis Consulting

As a life-long seeker filled with curiosity and a desire to understand the complexity of relationships and systems, Nancy embraced a natural calling and has been a trusted advisor and strategic consultant in both the nonprofit and for profit sectors for more than two decades. She has collaborated with hundreds of leaders as a strategist and thought partner, and as an expert at designing and facilitating creative conversations that strengthen relationships, generate commitment and lead to action that matters.

Nancy’s approach is relational, advances justice and liberation, focuses on what is emerging, and is collaborative and adaptive. She been fortunate to learn from a diverse group of wise teachers, and she integrates these methodologies and tools into customized approaches working alongside each client as individual needs arise. No client relationship is exactly the same.

Nancy identifies as a white-bodied, cisgender, queer woman. Her work is informed by her journey to examine her privilege, unlearn and interrupt oppression, and create environments that foster justice.

Jacqueline Leigh Fitzgerald M.Ed. (she/her) | Resonance Institute | Embodied Equity & Internal Family Systems

Jacque (jack-ee) is a practitioner, educator, facilitator, and artist from Portland, Oregon. With nearly 15 years of experience in education and equity leadership, Jacque weaves her training and expertise in Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and somatics into an embodied equity and trauma-integrated framework for change. Jacque's work with Resonance began in 2020. She is the founder of Resonance Institute, a conduit for activating imagination, creativity, and transformation for ourselves and the world around us.

Jacque has worked with Literary Arts, Street Roots, Oregon Potters Association, and the National Policy Consensus Center and Oregon's Kitchen Table, an affiliate of Portland State University.  

Kathleen Holt (she/her/hers) | Holt Strategies

Kathleen Holt is an independent organizational development consultant. She has more than 25 years of experience in strategic organizational development and vision-driven communications in the nonprofit and higher education sectors. As a consultant, she supports her clients by leading reflective organizational development and strategic planning processes, and building skills and capacity in leaders and teams to nurture and sustain equitable and inclusive organizational cultures. Kathleen lives in Southeast Portland with her husband and two children. She was born and raised in Hawai’i, and identifies racially as Korean, Japanese, and Native Hawaiian.

Paula Manley (she/her/hers)

Paula’s passion is to support leaders, organizations, networks and communities in collaborating to achieve their public good missions. Her facilitation and consulting services are informed by extensive practical knowledge gleaned from experience over the past three decades as an executive director, interim executive director, network builder, program director and board leader.

Paula’s work is fueled by the power of story and draws on a background in journalism and documentary video production. My preferred methods for working with groups are participatory and co-creative, including: the Institute of Cultural Affairs’ Technology of Participation methods, the Connective Leadership Institute’s Achieving Styles, Liberating Structures, and Future Search Conferencing.

Based in Portland, Oregon, Paula works throughout the U.S. with organizations, networks, national associations, and multi-agency initiatives. For many projects, Paula collaborates with other skilled consultants from her well-developed community of colleagues. In the warm weather months she can often be found in her kayak, enjoying the spectacular waterways of the Pacific Northwest.

https://www.paulamanley.com/