We work with you as facilitators ✨
& connectors ✊🏾 capacity builders ✍🏾 & advisors 🧠

Our workshops empower you to tackle big, gnarly problems. Because every problem is unique, we craft bespoke approaches that work for your people and context!

We help you
Become Better Leaders

We work with you to empower your people leaders with the right mindsets & methods to galvanize change & deliver upon your vision.

We offer workshops on:

  • Designing Your Leadership Journey: Using design mindsets & rituals to intentionally become the leader you aspire to be

  • Leading and Scaling Transformation: Building complex yet compelling human personas for effective change management

  • Leading with Values: Building your north star to move through uncertainty & the unknown with confidence

  • Leading by Influence: Using narrative to motivate teams & organizations, & align on & deliver upon a shared purpose

  • Building Trust: Developing shared mindsets, language, & rituals to build or renew trust within your teams

Professional development workshops and facilitation to become better leaders

We help you
Know Your Customers

We work with you to uncover and align on actionable ahas for your organization, rooted in a deep understanding of those you serve.

We offer:

  • Collective Uncovering: A collaborative multi-day workshop where we facilitate your team, taking you from strategy to synthesis, & from insights to ideas. Together, we understand your customer’s world

  • Design Research Sprint: Don’t have team time to dedicated to Collective Uncovering? Our sprints inject team capacity to get to your results. It’s an 8-week process where we dive into your customer’s world and share back the results with you.

Design research to know your customers better

What our partners say about us

  • Since 2017, fahad and his team have been a staple in MIT’s orientation and pre-orientation. fahad and his team have built custom workshops for our orientation that add to the repertoire of world-class experiences we offer to our students.

    Maura Herson
    Assistant Dean of the MBA Program
    MIT Sloan School of Management

  • fahad facilitated our board retreat at an important juncture for our organization: new executive director, new board members, reconnecting in person after several years of working remotely, and a variety of new opportunities ahead of us. His process and insights helped us to reconnect to our purpose - as individuals who care about the work and as an organization. fahad possesses a keen ability to see more deeply into interpersonal dynamics and help teams craft strategies for lasting impact.

    Amanda Timm
    Board Chair, LINKHouston

  • Working with fahad helps me and Connective better understand how design thinking works in solving community issues, given the complex systems we play in. The frameworks, feedback, and thought partnership that fahad brings have been extremely instrumental in achieving our organizational goals. I’ve used design thinking before and working with fahad pushes the way my organization and I think of and use design thinking to serve our clients.

    Elena White
    Executive Director, Connective

  • fahad has been a thought partner and advisor whom I can count on! fahad has a unique way of seeing and articulating my organizational needs, leaving me with clarity and confidence in doing the hard work of leadership!

    Barbie Brashear
    Executive Director, HCDVCC

  • I was on the cusp of changing my involvement with LINK. Through fahad’s facilitation, I was able to reground in why I had joined the Board. I left the session with increased motivation for my organization’s mission, renewing my commitment.

    Adrienne Mangual, Treasurer, LINK Houston

  • fahad is an incredibly engaging facilitator. He is a clear communicator, a passionate and compassionate speaker. Our scholars gave clear feedback that they gained important insights that will serve them for a very long time.

    James Kessler, Institute of International Education

Partners Who Trust Us

We have partnered with more than 20 corporations, government agencies, academic institutions, foundations, and non-profits around the United States. We work closely with our clients to deliver value for the communities we serve nationally, with a focus on Houston, Texas.

SELECT CLIENTS

  • BakerRipley

  • Connective

  • EMERGE

  • Harris County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council

  • Harris County Budget Management Office

  • Harris County Judge’s Office

  • Harris County Long-Term Recovery Committee

  • Houston Land Bank

  • Institute of International Education

  • MIT Sloan School of Management

  • Rice University Jones School of Business

  • Steelcase