Organizational Development With Intentionality

Bringing Intention to Group Work and Event Experiences

We believe ‘when’ and ‘how’ are foundational questions to cultivating and sustaining intentionality in the way people connect, think, and take action together. When & How Studios partners with organizations, teams, and individuals to support the design and delivery of intentional, impactful group work and event experiences. Our core services include Coaching & Consultations , Private Workshops , and Design & Facilitation Leadership. Organizational clients often work with us by integrating all of these elements, along with our expertise, to support their goals and intentions around leadership, teaming, change initiatives, and other areas.

We developed and now maintain a set of 16 Design Aspects and the Book of Prompts that guide our work and build the capacity for you and your people to bring intentionality to the groups you gather to make it impactful.

What people are saying…

  • "Your creativity helps us work more efficiently and your presentation expertise is extraordinarily engaging. Attendees’ affirmations continued long after the conclusion of your session. ”

    Organizing Committee Member, Professional Development Event

  • "I could be part of the conversation without feeling that I am being asked for the answer/solution."

    Executive Team Leader, Decision-making Session

  • "I feel this is such a great investment, in my learning, in my personal growth...I just want you to know I immensely appreciate both your advice and the way you carry yourselves as coaches. Giving me prompts to get better in touch with my intention rather than offering your opinions on process and content. And when you do offer concrete advice, it is so to the point - I feel you make me understand myself better."

    Subject Matter Expert and Independent Consultant, Coaching & Consultation Sessions

  • "I learned to be much more intentional about how I go about planning my meetings and workshops. Thinking about what it is I am looking to achieve and how best to structure the interaction that participants are going to have, so that I have the best chance of achieving those outcomes. They've also given me concrete tools, ways that the meetings can be structured that go beyond typical meetings we're used to, especially in a remote environment, that are engaging, work for different types of personalities, different types of learners. And finally, they've given me the opportunity to practice, put those learnings into action, providing feedback, and really hone that part of my leadership capabilities."

    Executive, Coaching & Consultation Sessions

  • "It feels super inclusive. It feels like every single person has a voice, even if they’re not an expert on the topic.”

    Team member, Decison-making Session

  • "It’s exciting, because we we’re actually starting to think about how to solve our problems. We are talking about tangible things we can do. It feels positive.”

    Team member, Planning Session

  • "What I remember is the buzz and the life in the room and the unexpectedness of that buzz because you can have this kind of conference and you're expecting to go into listen mode for an entire two days. And I think people were initially shocked by the buzz, the noise and then very pleased with it. And it carried over into the second day whereas we're running workshops. We're realizing that people want to recreate that. They want more of that kind of interaction. And it's giving more life to the conference more fizz, I would say. And it has been very, very positive and it leaves me thinking what are we going to do next year? To try and lift this to another level."

    Event Organizer and Subject Matter Expert, Conference Keynote Design & Facilitation Leadership

  • "The session I attended was truly amazing. Some of the most honest discussions I’ve been a part of in my time at this company.”

    Organizational & People Leader, Large Reflection-based Gathering

  • "It helped me realize what's important about the work I do and why I enjoy working with this team so much."

    Team Member, Belonging Session

  • "Completely different perspectives helped me see things very differently."

    Team Member, Possibility Exploration Session

  • "I think hearing from other people helped bring clarity to what could/should be done. A lot of what was said I think I already knew just struggled to crystallise."

    Team Member, Decision-making Session

  • "It was so much more satisfying than I thought it was going to be. I was so nourished by the answers that people gave and by the experience and by the thinking of the group. It shifted out of being this thing we were doing that was somewhat performant to be more like this really great intellectual meal that I got to have. And so, I'm tired, but the way you're happy tired after something like that, it's like, oh I'm gonna have a cocktail and a good night’s sleep."

    Subject Matter Expert and Consultant, Keynote Design & Facilitation Leadership

  • "I am intrigued by how these prompts provide more inclusive opportunities to engage members of a group as they work through their issues."

    Attendee, Private Professional Development Workshop

  • "A problem shared is a problem halved, as the saying goes, fresh perspectives can really help pull you out of a rut."

    Team Member, Shared Understanding and Action-setting Session

  • "I feel we became closer as a team, and everyone found their voices. Just wonderful."

    Team Member, Team Culture and Ways of Working Session

  • "The openness and honesty of communication between each other was refreshing."

    People Manager, Team Culture Session

  • "It has been such a joy connecting as a team, and with your facilitation and techniques - it is has been lovely to allow the agenda/topics to organically flow and the dedicated safe space to discuss."

    Organizational Leader, Team Culture Series

  • "I am intrigued by the level of intentionality in your design process."

    Attendee, Private Professional Development Workshop

  • "I needed to organize a workshop for our entire team and we wanted to uncover some of our training gaps and some of the areas we should focus on for the rest of the year. And it was great to work with an external facilitator that could kind of bring the team together, was well equipped, knew what kind of questions to ask, and how to broach the topic. It was also really good to have all the materials that we were left with which is incredibly useful to start deeper conversations with the team afterwards."

    People Manager, People Development Discovery Series

16 Design Aspects & Book of Prompts

Designing group work and event experiences with intentionality takes preparation and has many parts to it.

The 16 Design Aspects and Book of Prompts are two companions that support you in that preparation. Together, they guide the conversations and the process of designing intentional group work and event experiences.

We partner with organizations, teams, and individuals…

hybrid

online

in-person

…and everywhere in between