Consulting Services
Helping organizations move through complexity—together.
Consulting
Organizations are constantly navigating change: new leadership, evolving strategies, conflict, growth, shifting roles, and changing internal and external conditions.
These moments often require more than a good plan. They require the ability to have honest conversations, navigate difference and power, repair trust, make difficult choices, and stay connected to what matters most.
I partner with leaders and teams—sometimes at a particular moment of need, and sometimes over months or years—to create the conditions for meaningful and lasting change.
How I Can Support Your Organization:
Organizational Change & Transformation
Meaningful change takes time. I partner with organizations through longer-term periods of transition and transformation—helping leaders understand what is happening within the system, build alignment around where they are going, attend to the relational and cultural dimensions of change, and develop the capacity to move the work forward over time.
Facilitation & Retreat Design
I design and facilitate retreats, meetings, and other gatherings that help groups move beyond conversation for conversation's sake—toward greater connection, clarity, learning, and action. These gatherings can stand alone or serve as important moments within a larger change process.
Team Development
I work with teams to strengthen relationships, navigate conflict, build trust, clarify how they want to work together, and develop the skills to move through challenges more effectively.
Leadership Development & Cohort Experiences
I design experiential leadership development programs and cohort experiences that create space for sustained learning, reflection, practice, and connection. Through workshops, coaching, peer learning, and real-world application, participants deepen their capacity to navigate power and difference, engage conflict, communicate authentically, and lead through complexity and change.
How I Work:
I believe meaningful organizational change happens through both what we do and how we are together.
That means paying attention to strategy and structure alongside relationship and culture. It means creating space to name what is difficult, understand the dynamics shaping a group, practice new ways of working together, and translate insight into meaningful action.
Rather than bringing a predetermined answer, I work collaboratively with you to understand your particular context and design a process that meets your organization where it is—and evolves as the work unfolds.
Interested in working together? Let's talk.
I worked with Ja Young for 18 months near the end of my tenure as Executive Director of Voice of Witness. Her embodied wisdom, deep presence, and perceptive guidance set her apart from the very beginning. In our first conversation alone, she helped me access insights about myself and my leadership that I had never fully seen before. Those discoveries became the foundation for a rich and transformative coaching journey.
– Mimi Lok, Former Executive Director of Voice of Witness
Ja Young is magic earth-side. She has the capacity to create a space of liberation for those who sit on the margins and whisper to them their potential for play and joy; that they have internal capacity to imagine and reach for possibility. And she does this is an accessible, humorous, and still very cerebral way.
– Non-profit leader & Reclaiming Us participant
Ja Young has helped me focus on what others need from me and guided me through deep work that has helped me trust myself, learn to do my best, and form habits that make my job possible and sustainable. I am so honored and fortunate to have Ja Young as a thought partner and friend, and I can’t overstate how much her invaluable coaching means to me.
– Abigail Dillen, CEO, Earthjustice