Vanessa Tennyson Certified Certified

I spent 14 years in organizational development, the last six as a Principal Consultant at a boutique firm specializing in executive team effectiveness. I've facilitated strategy sessions for companies from 20-person startups to 80,000-person enterprises, and I started noticing the same patterns: brilliant individuals producing mediocre collective results, because nobody had taught them HOW to be a team. I'm a Certified Team Coach through the International Coaching Federation, hold a master's in organizational psychology from NYU, and am certified in the Drexler-Sibbet Team Performance Model and theå‘表 Interpersonal Dynamics assessment. I'm also a certified facilitation trainer through the International Association of Facilitators. Before consulting, I was an HR director for a healthcare system, which gave me ground-level exposure to the employee experience reality that consultants often miss. I've published research on psychological safety in tech teams and keynoted at the ATD International Conference. Show less

You will learn to facilitate meetings that generate actual decisions instead of hours of circular discussion. We'll work on building the feedback fluency your team lacks—whether that's giving upward feedback to leadership or having hard conversations between departments. I help design and implement team charters, meeting rhythms, decision-making protocols, and accountability structures that match how your specific team actually works. My clients see measurable improvements in meeting efficiency (often cutting meeting load by 30-40%), faster project delivery, and—critically—reduced attrition because people stop dreading work. I typically work with intact leadership teams, newly formed executive groups post-merger or reorganization, and team leads who are managing for the first time without formal training. Everything is customized to your organizational context—there's no off-the-shelf playbook that survives contact with real human dynamics. Show less