| Our Process |
| Our Approach |
At Organizational Wisdom Lab, harnessing wisdom is at the heart of everything we do. Throughout history, cultures shared wisdom through story telling, and those with the wisdom took care to pass it on to future generations. But businesses and nonprofits often lack containers for the wisdom that founders and other leaders possess, making it difficult for the organization to maintain its culture long-term. Simply put, when people leave an organization, so too does their wisdom.
Sure, your organization may have the data and information that will help it continue to be successful, but harnessing the wisdom is key to a bright future with a cohesive team. Data is neutral — just the facts. Information allows us to see trends within that data. But wisdom means being able to look at how and where the information is applied to discern what we can do next.
At Wisdom Lab, we work with businesses, nonprofits and foundations to curate and capture that vital wisdom for the long-term health, sustainability and vitality of the organization.
Our team of skilled experts in strategic planning, graphic design, applied research, strategy assessment and development, and more use the wisdom curated from your organization and work with you to co-create testable ideas in a lab-like experience that helps your organization overcome the hurdles it faces.
We curate wisdom to ignite action.
| Our Capabilities |
Our areas of expertise include:
| Our Work |
Our Local Clients
| Core Team |
Founder/Executive Director
Eric Epstein
Eric is a human development and deep collaboration entrepreneur. In addition to running OWL, he has worked for and developed many organizations dedicated to helping people become more healthy, cooperative, insightful, and awake. After 20 years of working with youth and families in schools, religious and mental health organizations, he saw there was a need for new ways “to catch the people who were falling through the cracks.” The Trusted Health Network, The e Agency (Entrepreneurship in Health and Education) and the School Community Team were all efforts to meet this challenge. These experiences culminated into seeing the need for organizations to value their wisdom assets so that the best data, stories, practices, and people did not become lost in transitions.
Specialties: Organizational Culture Development, Team Development, Interviewing, Retreat Facilitation
Applied Research Consultant
Mackai Tapleshay
Mackai is also Managing Director at NEON Global. She previously served as a Principal Research Analyst, quickly becoming a Project Manager before her current role. She holds a B.S. in Environmental Sciences from Santa Clara University as well as an MBA from the Global, Social and Sustainable Enterprise program at Colorado State University. Her professional experience ranges from published field research conducted on the effects of climate change to implementing impact assessment studies and programs for small businesses. Mackai oversees NEON’s operations, works directly with clients to help build customizable research strategies, trains and manages research analysts, and helps manage all research projects.
Specialties: Research Strategy Development, Sector Comparison Research, Internal Wisdom Data Compilation and Analysis, Graphical Data Sharing Development
LINKS:
neonglobal.org
Internal Evaluation/Meta Analysis Consultant
Stephanie Elise Hewitt
As a change architect, Stephanie partners with leaders who are creating intentional shifts in the expression of their vocation. This unique work was forged from 20 years of partnering with leaders in non-profits, Universities, ministries and conference settings united in the goal of aligning individuals with their unique gifting and design. Her M.A. in Counseling provides her the framework to wade into the deep end of people’s stories to follow the threads of vocation woven throughout. Her entrepreneurial coaching work, The Reset Consortium, sprang out of these ventures allowing her to serve leaders in their strategic resets. Her collaboration with OWL is an outflow of this work. Joining forces with this dynamic, interdisciplinary team who honor the wisdom embedded in organizations, connects Stephanie to a deeper calling she feels: Creating a wisdom storehouse for the next generation of leaders.
Specialties: Internal Process Analysis, Strategic Interviewing, New Client Development
LINKS:
resetconsortium.com
Graphical Facilitation/Arts Integration Consultant
Janine Underhill
For over 16 years Janine has helped make the invisible visible. She’s helped Fortune-100 clients and nonprofit firms alike, create repeatable blueprints to reach important meeting outcomes, get diverse minds on-board to accomplish complex team efforts, and arrive at solidified leadership decisions based on quality discoveries.
Janine is the Founder of idea390 and practices experiential big-picture learning modalities so meeting participants can fully engage in conversation, and tether their ideas and beliefs to the big picture of the organization.
Specialties: Retreat Facilitation, New Client Development, Strategic Conceptualization, Image and Narrative Analysis, Media Creation
Links:
idea-360.com
Day of Clarity, Strategic Retreats, Strategy Assessment and Development
Michael Murphy
Michael is a strategic-facilitator, maximizer and solutionist. Helping others LAUNCH, GROW, and MAXIMIZE has always been his passion. Michael cut his teeth in business working at the corporate office for the largest furniture retailer in the country. For nearly a decade, he learned merchandising, marketing, finance, product distribution, manufacturing, legal and real estate. He says, “I felt like I earned my MBA working for this great company and being mentored by leadership that modeled strong core values and solid business principles.” His next business assignment gave him the opportunity to learn the art of running a family business (not his own) and produce record growth while building a high capacity team of employees in another competitive market.
These two experiences served as the background for launching his own enterprise in August of 2000 coming alongside CEOs and owners to help them get into strategic alignment, build their leadership teams, and produce significant results. From marketing companies to product companies and service companies, even including an Olympic Athlete, Michael has been using his expertise to live out his motto “Celebrating the Success of Others.”
In 2001, he was trained by Pete Richardson as a LifePlan facilitator. In 2007, he was trained by Tom Paterson as a StratOp facilitator and feels like those experiences allowed him to live out his calling. Pivot now offers a full suite of tools to help clients drive long-term change through deepened awareness, insights and sustainable action.
A Colorado native, Michael has been married to Kristin for 20 years and they live with their three children, Grace, Anna and Colin, in Castle Rock.
Specialties: Strategic Implementation
LINKS:
nowpivot.com
Culture analysis, deep interviews, story collection experiences
Angie Johnston
Angie Johnston is a Culture Analyst for Wisdom Lab and is skilled at drawing out unspoken treasures from people. She facilitates story collection experiences, engages in deep interviews, and assists in analyzing the human data to cultivate meaningful findings for client to put to use. She has been a counselor in private practice for 23 years.
Specialties: Culture Analyst
Phone: 541-226-6703
Email: info@orgwisdom.com
Address: Posner Center,1031 33rd St, Denver, CO 80205