“Circles supports teams to dig deeper, uncover roadblocks, find truths, and generate solutions that shape the path to transformative results.”

— Meaghan Loftus, Director of Partner Success & Associate, CT3 and former School Principal

Our Process

grounded in 12 years of experience working with hundreds of leadership teams and executives across the country

rooted in highly impactful group facilitation and coaching (over 14,000 hrs in practice) that creates a new foundation your team culture

Phases of Team Growth

With the change you are after…we want to make sure nothing is in the way of your best work and that you are running towards your vision together.

Our Approach

Our team off-sites take people through this approach starting with building authentic connections, trust, and relationships.

The conversation is carefully designed with a variety of facilitated exercises, reflection, quotes, tools and media that brings out honest, inspiring conversation and the greatest potential of your team.

“Jon is extremely effective in coaching and supporting leadership teams to work together to build trust, positive relationships, and a collaborative culture. I have been able to build teams that have produced positive outcomes for students. .”

— Tisha Greene, Former Principal and Associate Dean at the Cato School of Education

  • Deepen trust and connection to foster a more cohesive, resilient culture

  • Strengthen a sense of purpose that inspires higher levels of engagement

  • Increase ownership and alignment around core values and behaviors

  • Expand leadership versatility through self-awareness & adaptive mindset

  • Renew energy, courage, and character to carry vision forward

Outcomes

We focus on creating results based on your most pressing needs but below are a few examples we tend to see in most engagements…

    • We discuss and align on your key goals and strategy as a team.

    • We help you understand where you are as a group through 1:1 team conversations and/or surveys.

    • We craft all communications for you to make sure your team knows why this will be highly valuable and catered to what matters most to them.

    • A variety of facilitated conversation, media, and exercises are created to ensure the highest impact.

    • Additional tools available like the the WorkPlace Big Five leadership assessment to give you more data on the best ways to work with each other.

    • We design partnerships that can be as short as a few months to help with an off-site day to 9-12 month engagements with touch points throughout the year.

    • It is helpful to have a last 30 days notice of your suggested initial date so we can prepare both you and your time for a transformational experience.

Design

Our engagements are custom designed to accelerate and advance your ability to create results.

"The idea of interdependence is that we can meet each other’s needs in a variety of ways, that we can truly lean on others and they can lean on us."

— adrienee maree brown from “emergent strategy”