During Covid, while working from home, I had the unique opportunity to collaborate with staff and instructors from Hilltop Artists.

The “big pause” definitely caused issues (How do you teach glass arts without access to your hot shop?) AND yet, it provided teammates time – free from day-to-day student demands – to critically reflect on their work.

Interactive online exercises focused on both opportunities and challenges. Through an inclusive framework we grew individually, and closer, as a learning community. A few collective outcomes resulted in real transformation:

• Uncovering individual strengths, shared values, and thinking anew 

• Discussing leadership roles in relationship to the organizational mission

• Creating a data-driven, practical shift to equitable impact including internal Evaluation and Hiring practices