Services

Strategic Facilitation & Consulting

Every engagement begins with strategic design — understanding what a group needs to accomplish and building the right agenda to get there. Dr. Lary works as lead facilitator, designing and driving the full engagement — maintaining the shape and flow of the conversation, ensuring it moves through its intended stages, and creating space for the group to surface what matters most. When the work calls for it, Dr. Lary stays engaged as a project consulting partner, keeping the plan on track through implementation. She is also available as a supporting presence when the client's own leader is at the helm. Every engagement is scoped and customized to the group's specific need.

Final Deliverable: Every engagement ends with a written summary delivered within 48–72 hours, along with clear next steps. Longer or higher-stakes engagements often include a roadmap or framework the group can act on immediately.

Engagement Types

Direction: For groups ready to set a course — a vision, a strategy, a long-term direction. The output is a shared direction the group can build on.

Alignment: For groups where forward movement requires everyone to be on the same page — departments, agencies, or partners with a common stake. The output is alignment and the direction that becomes possible from there.

Transition: For groups navigating a meaningful change — in leadership, structure, mission, or family. The output is clarity and direction from a new starting point.

Engagements are designed as half-day, full-day, or multi-day — scoped to the need. Shorter sessions often focus on surfacing alignment or vision; longer or multi-day engagements create room to also work through the details and next steps.

Approach

Dr. Lary brings 30 years of professional experience spanning the classroom, cross-agency initiatives, and organizational leadership, including work designing and facilitating professional development, large-scale convenings, and multi-stakeholder gatherings. That depth of experience shapes every engagement: the question architecture, the pacing, the ability to read a room and adapt in real time.

Dr. Lary's work is informed by years of operational leadership: managing budgets, leading teams, and navigating the complexity that leaders are living every day. She brings the capacity to work at two altitudes at once — holding the big picture, while also tracking the granular detail required to get there. Facilitated sessions take place in an offsite setting, creating the space and focus a group needs to think clearly together, and draw out exactly what the group needs to surface — whether that's the vision itself or the next clear step. Ongoing engagements mean keeping the plan and the day-to-day execution connected, so the work keeps moving forward from plan to results.