Testimonials from Organizations
Our shared experience, common language, and better understanding of our team dynamics have had such a positive impact on our work.
“Two of our goals were to build collaboration and a shared language within and across the team, and to provide tools for building culture within Echoing Green. Emily jumped on multiple pre-retreat calls to really understand these goals and our work. The resulting experience was outstanding. The Pivot workshop was well organized, filled with interactive team building activities PLUS tools we continue to use to this day. The structure Emily used was clearly a direct result of hearing our concerns and addressing our goals. Through the space Emily created, it gave me personally the opportunity to know each of my team members through a new lens. As a result, my team has a shared experience, common language and a better understanding of our team dynamics that have had such a positive impact on our work within Echoing Green.”
— Keno Sadler, VP of Programs, Echoing Green
The session opened up a great dialogue with our team and gave us a new way to collaborate.
“We were looking for an engaging way to help our team work better together and brought Emily in for a part of our day-long offsite. The session opened up a great dialogue with our team as a whole and gave our team a new way to tune in to how people like to approach their work and collaborate accordingly. It was a great session and we’ve heard really positive feedback from the team!”
— Jaime Petkanics, VP People, Brooklinen
I was able to create clear strategies and tools to make me a more effective leader.
"When I came to Emily, I was running into roadblocks communicating with my team and getting work done efficiently. We took a strengths-based approach to influencing across teams and getting better outcomes. It was so helpful to look at my working style from a positive vs. a negative lens. After just a few months of 1:1 coaching, I was able to create clear strategies and tools to make me a more effective leader – and my team has noticed. As a result, I’m always thinking about how to leverage my strengths as opposed to defaulting to ‘what am I doing wrong?’ or ‘I’m not good at this.’ With Emily, instead of having to listen to someone who barely knows you telling you everything that's "wrong" with you, you get to quantitatively dissemble how you approach the world and focus on what you're good at - and figure out how to leverage that to be more effective."
— Caryn Rose, Product Development Professional
It was a real bonding experience to be able to discuss your own personal strengths with your team members, and to learn about each other’s core strengths.
“We were looking for a way to provide training to staff outside of hard skill building - something introspective and soft skill based. Emily came to us through a referral, and after sitting in on one workshop, we were instantly sold. Emily has a really welcoming vibe that really made it easy for everyone to participate. Our retreat was nicely broken up into parts that were more lecture-based and parts that were focused on breakout work amongst our teams. The response was overwhelmingly positive! It was a real bonding experience to be able to discuss your own personal strengths with your team members, and to learn about each other’s core strengths. I really gained a new perspective on my own personal strengths, and the ways in which they help craft my own management style. We’re planning more trainings with Pivot in 2020 to build on our initial session.”
— Christopher Chappel - Director of Creative Production, Quartz
Our team dynamics make so much more sense as a result, and we uncovered important takeaways related to people’s roles.
“For the first time in years, our team was ready to take a step back for a team retreat. We were excited to build community and better understand each other. Having seen Emily in action at a previous workshop, I knew that the tools she used and her facilitation style was just what we needed to achieve our goals. The Pivot workshop was an awesome addition to our retreat. Our team dynamics make so much more sense as a result, and we uncovered important takeaways related to people’s roles. Our team communication has gotten stronger and we have a common language because of the tools and resources she used.”
— Kate Hayes, Direct Impact Director, Echoing Green
The Pivot session was the top ranked session by our staff!
“We brought Pivot in for our yearly staff retreat to do a session on helping teams look at how to work together more effectively - it isn’t enough to say ‘work harder or better’, we must look at how we’re doing the work and how we’re working with one another.
Emily came recommended and the experience was excellent. The best part was seeing our staff respond enthusiastically and energetically to the training - people really connected with Emily and the tool she used.
The Pivot session was the top ranked session of our staff!”
— Rich Thomas, SVP of Strategic Initiatives & General Counsel, League of Conservation Voters
Our experience was so great we brought her back in 2017 to help us go deeper and plan for the next year.
“When I approached Pivot Journeys, my team needed a better understanding of our individual talents and in particular, how our collective talents could help us achieve our goals. We brought Emily in for a key piece of our two-day step back in 2016. Our experience was so great we brought her back in 2017 to help us go deeper and plan for the next year. Emily has very evident expertise with the content and brought great insights. In particular, her ability to make meaningful contributions specific and actionable for me as a manager and for the team has been so valuable - we draw from our understanding and takeaways from these workshops often. Even in between workshops, Emily has served as a resource and I’ve found our conversations really helpful. I feel better equipped as a manager to navigate upcoming team transitions in light of what I’ve learned. “
— Susan Saltrick, VP at Teach for America
“Our retreat provided our team the language to clearly identify the challenges we were facing, and the tools for how to help solve them.”
— Carminia Muñoz, Managing Director Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Teach For America
I could tell she understood my business, and the team found the workshop super helpful.
“I approached Emily when I was working through the next steps for scaling a small business - figuring out if/who to hire, and how to put systems in place to execute the next steps for growth. From our initial phone call we built a rapport and I could tell she understood my business. The session she hosted for my team was very informative and helpful in seeing how our strengths compliment each other. The team found the workshop super helpful.”
— Gretchen Brinson, Executive Chef and Founder, Homecook’d
“ Emily was extremely knowledgeable and provided great insight into ways that our team could function best”
— Pat Eaton, Program Coordinator at NYU Wagner