Jump-start a business idea, uncover solutions to challenging problems, and accelerate your team.

Strategic Facilitation & Workshops

I help teams, leaders, and organizations move from uncertainty to clarity through strategic workshops, visioning, and facilitation.

If you’re scaling, integrating AI, pivoting strategy, or managing team change, I work as your strategic partner to help you develop clarity, build confidence, and make progress.

My approach blends collaboration, systems thinking, and practical tools to empower teams to do their best work, make decisions, and move forward together.

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Design Sprints

Kickstart an idea and launch your team into action with this five-day, battle-proof workshop born out of Google Ventures. We’ll quickly validate and fast-track concepts so you can move forward with clarity, accomplishing what typically takes months inside of a week.

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Strategic Workshops

Overcome roadblocks to a business challenge and develop a roadmap for moving forward. You’ll walk away from this one- to two-day session with a clear north star, a plan that outlines the work to be done, and measures of success to help hold the team accountable.

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Training Workshops

Great work starts with engaged teams. Choose from existing topics or let me design a customized session for your group. Your teams will walk away feeling excited and ready to implement what they’ve learned.

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Team Leadership

Whether you aim to define a path for growth with an intent to sell your product or company, or you need help getting your team into a groove so that things are less…rough, I provide ongoing leadership to select teams.

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  • "Jackie is an all-star facilitator who can lead any team with confidence. She's also a gifted teacher and coach who brings clarity, creativity, and structure to every project. At the start of the pandemic, she co-authored the Remote Sprint Guide with John Zeratsky and me, providing timely resources for teams adapting to virtual work. Since then, we've recommended her work to countless teams. If you get the chance to work with Jackie—take it!"

    — Jake Knapp, Author of Sprint and Co-Founder of Character

  • "When we engaged Jackie, we were facing a lot of complexity including evolving leadership, an ambitious product portfolio, and the need for a clearer path forward. Jackie helped us focus on what mattered most so we could make decisions with confidence, and guided us toward a shared vision that aligns our team and positions us for growth. Beyond her strategic skill, her presence with the team was invaluable: she built trust quickly, asked the right questions, and created space for bold thinking. This work has been foundational for our next chapter."

    Joe Grillo, CEO & Investor, Bibliotheca

  • "Jackie is a skilled strategist and a master facilitator. She ensured engagement and guided toward clarity as ideas were shaped, priorities were defined and plans were structured. She enabled early progress and set us up for success in the long-run."

    — Anthony Heredia, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at Target

  • "Jackie brought clarity and structure to a pivotal and complex moment for Vibrant. She synthesized the many challenging factors that contribute to a broken mental healthcare system and mobilized our team to find innovative solutions that put the help seeker at the center of the story. She guided our leadership team through a thoughtful vision and strategy process, engaging voices from across the organization and beyond. Her ability to navigate multiple layers of stakeholders while keeping us focused on what mattered most was invaluable in helping us define a clear path forward."

    Cara McNulty, CEO, Vibrant Emotional Health

  • "Jackie has the gift of engaging people and making creative collaboration happen. Her session with our portfolio was energetic, easy-going and fun. Yet at the end of the session, we had some thoughtful and valuable outputs."

    — Marin Licina, Design Partner, Gradient Ventures

  • "Jackie is an all-star facilitator who can lead any team with confidence. She's also a gifted teacher and coach who brings clarity, creativity, and structure to every project. At the start of the pandemic, she co-authored the Remote Sprint Guide with John Zeratsky and me, providing timely resources for teams adapting to virtual work. Since then, we've recommended her work to countless teams. If you get the chance to work with Jackie—take it!"

    - Jake Knapp, Author of Sprint and Co-founder of Character

  • "Jackie is truly a professional and has the ability to herd cats to greatness. She will amaze you at what can be accomplished in just a few short days."

    — Deb St. Germain, SVP and Group Product Manager of Retail Payment Solutions, U.S. Bank

  • “The skills that participants learned during the workshop will be a game changer for us as a business. She has given our group the toolkit needed to drive innovation, effectively manage internal stakeholders, and identify when is the right time to have a Sprint.”

    — Linda Massie & Neal Anderson, Medtronic

  • “Jackie’s enthusiasm, leadership, and ability to intuitively lead/react to the group created momentum and energy. She facilitated incredibly difficult strategic conversations, ultimately guiding us to a defined strategy and plan for action.”

    — Maya L. N. Bowie, Merchandising, Innovation, Strategic Partnerships at Target

  • "The Sprint was instrumental in getting an entire team energized about a concept and helped to focus on what is going to make the biggest impact to the customers."

    — Thomas Mercer, Director of Digital Products at Bibliotheca

  • "I've been in over 50 Design Sprints, yet I'm blown away by Jackie's ability to engage people (remotely) and catalyze creative collaboration."

    — Marin Licina, Design Partner, Gradient Ventures

  • "She maintained a strong but diplomatic approach when facilitating to keep people focused, engaged and inspired. Jackie took our teams from uncertainty to a directional vision for our product."

    — Jon Nakasone, Sr. Director, User Experience at Financial Engines

  • "We couldn't have been happier with Jackie's services to shepherd us through. Incredibly professional, she provided just the right mix of patience, but challenged us to make real-time decisions to get real-time results."

    — Joe Serrano, Director of Digital Partnerships, Best Buy

  • "I strongly endorse Jackie for her leadership and facilitation of workshops and conversations that challenge the status quo and encourage innovative thinking for organizations seeking change. We had a diverse group of faculty, staff, students, alumni and industry representatives who all praised Jackie’s facilitation skills, her methods of inquiry, and her ability to drive meaningful conversations." 

    — Kris Ropella, Opus Dean and Professor, Opus College of Engineering, Marquette University