Whether you’re choosing change or accepting it, pick a program or we’ll design one for co-founders, co-workers or co-parents.
Every way of working together is offered with both in person and remote options.
One-on-one
Coaching
You might be…
running on empty
losing your confidence
leading from fear
navigating a personal crossroads
Or ready for… leading with energy and purpose
How this way works
I coach leaders to overcome obstacles through the body, making flow and energy the norm. We get clear on the decisions ahead, prepare for the work they require, and keep you resourceful as you act. Everyone you lead feels the difference in your leadership.
“He has been a key advisor for me throughout my career.”
CPCathryn “Cat” PoseyML/AI and engineering executive
I facilitate change management processes for small teams. We diagnose what isn’t working about the “team work” and develop a dignified way forward, with me as coach and guide throughout. Everyone gains greater awareness, some new moves and a path forward.
“He has exceptional communication skills, is extremely organized and reliable… I recommend him without reservation.”
I design and host retreats for groups needing time away to realign and replenish. We step out of the day-to-day to rebuild trust and set direction. Everyone leaves with shared agreements, a plan for what’s next and new ways to listen.
“If you want deliverables, kindness, true collaboration and fresh vision, this is your man.”
I step in as an interim leader for mission-driven organizations where the runway is shrinking. We work toward cashflow confidence in 90 days or less, strengthening the numbers and the team. Everyone affected moves forward with dignity.
“He zooms in on problems, devises creative solutions, and then has the focus and instinct to execute.”
SWSamuel C WilsonInternational businessman and legal advisor
“He asks questions and listens… He also cares about improving those around him.”
TSTom SamphProgram Director, Boston University
Be Resourceful With Each Other
The pressure
Sooner or later, every team faces a change.
Change puts a team under pressure. Under pressure, teams lose touch with a very deep well everyone can draw from: shared purpose. People react instead of responding, compete instead of collaborating, and conflict turns destructive when it could have been productive.
Co-founders, co-workers and co-parents all know this pressure. Even though they are on the same team, some keep having the same struggles, and every big change shows us how we rise or fall to the level of our teamwork.
These can seem like different worlds, and in some ways they are. The nature of the intimacy between team members, shared, once shared or never shared, and the trust between them shape how they talk, what drives their decisions and how they realign. Yet each is a team under pressure. And under pressure, if we aren’t intentional and well prepared, we fall back on going it alone or not going it at all.
Some ties bind. Other ties bond.
Often, a shared purpose is what turns a bind into a bond. Each of these teams exists to serve someone or some group beyond themselves: a company, its stakeholders, a mission and the people it reaches, a child or many.
When the team struggles, the people they serve don’t get served well.
A vital question to keep asking and answering
How is our teamwork affecting the people our team exists to serve?
The choice
Turning away or turning toward? We’re taught that resourcefulness is a solo skill. It isn’t.
Turning away
Under pressure, many of us turn toward being resourceful, yet we’re often taught, or have learned, that the best way to make it is to make it alone. We guard what we have, scramble for what we lack, and treat the people on our team as competition for what’s scarce. We essentially turn away from each other.
Turning toward
Healthy teams learn resourceful ways to turn toward each other instead. They become something more vital than resourceful: they become resourceful with each other, deeply appreciating what they already have while creating what they need together.
The difference
We can see the difference between turning away and turning toward in small moments. Each time, one person leaves the other more resourced, not less resourced.
Yes, teamwork makes the dream work. And the team works when we bond more than we bind.
Co-founder
Midway through the third fight about the workload, one partner pauses and asks.
“Is there something you’d like me to be doing different here?”
Curious, not defensive.
Leaving an investor meeting where every question went to one of them, that partner turns and asks.
“I recognize I was driving in there. How did that feel for you in there?”
Generous, not territorial.
Way of being
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Co-worker
Late in a deadline week, one teammate notices another stuck on the report and offers.
“Here’s the shortcut I use. Want me to walk you through it?”
Open, not guarded.
When a project slips and the supervisor asks what happened, one teammate answers first.
“That part’s on me. Here’s what I learned, corrected and will do differently…”
Accountable, not blaming.
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Co-parent
When the other parent calls with triggering news from school, the receiving parent takes a breath and asks.
“What does our child need from us right now?”
Resourceful, not reactive.
At pickup, as tension rises within earshot of the kids, one parent lowers their voice and says.
“Let’s talk tonight, after bedtime.”
Protective, not combative.
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The work
A well of shared purpose can be deepened.
Most crises that look financial or strategic on the surface are relational when you look deeply. For more than 20 years, I’ve lived and worked inside teams going through significant change, often in leadership roles, helping people change the nature of their teamwork without losing the purpose of their teamwork. Today I help co-founders, co-workers and co-parents become more resourceful with each other, in two movements.
01 · First
Realign
We slow down the struggle that keeps repeating, find what event, emotion, belief or experience is feeding it — often a struggle over power, closeness or recognition — and build shared language for asking, listening and responding. We consider tools within reach that we aren’t using well.
02 · Then
Replenish
A team can realign and still run dry. So we look at what drains each person: self-worth, workload, money, family demands, too little rest, too little joy. Each member of the team names what they need to stay resourced. And each member of the team makes a choice to be resourceful with each other.
“We are stronger and more effective individuals and team because of our work with Rolando.”
Ingrid Benedict, Director of Daphne Foundation & Social Change Consultant
The first step is a good conversation, with that vital question: how is your teamwork affecting the people your team exists to serve?
The work I offer others is work I’ve done directly.
My name is Rolando. Many people call me “Grow.” I’m an artist, coach, facilitator, and strategic operator. I’m also a co-parent and co-founder of Oye.
I’ve spent my career building organizational systems and developing people across grassroots movements, philanthropy, and benefit corporations. I’ve learned as much from my failures as from my successes, and the work I offer others is work I’ve done directly: some of it healing, some of it creating.
I integrate technology of every age, from the most ancient, like the intelligence of the body and tending to sacred bonds, to the newest, like automation, the internet, and AI. I have trained and am certified in several methods of personal and professional development. All of these technologies and methods serve one belief: teams remain vital through change when people, especially leaders, are resourceful.
