Colmenar Organizational Design
We build the governance, systems, and culture that turn intentions into everyday practice.
Fluent in the language impact businesses speak
You want your organization to live its values, day to day. Real accountability. Decisions that move at the speed of trust. Conflict that strengthens the team instead of quietly wearing it down. It takes intention and systems to sustain it.
Start here
Is this you?
Start with what's going on for you. Each one opens to how we can support.
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We keep having the same conversation.Nothing gets decided. Things keep falling through the cracks.
We're losing business and steam because roles are unclear and decisions keep getting reopened.
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We decided to share ownership.Now we have to build it.
You're converting to shared ownership or handing off leadership, and it's a big change you want to handle with the care it deserves.
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We're changing shape faster than our structure can handle.
Growth is finally working, and the structure has to grow with it or the whole thing starts to come apart.
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The culture we started with isn't the one we have.
You built a culture on purpose, then running the business took all the focus, and the patterns that filled the gap were never the ones you chose.
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Meetings, meetings, meetings.
Meetings take a large share of the week, we go in circles, and no one is holding the room with the authority the facilitator role actually carries.
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There's tension we're not dealing with.We only say things once they've gotten big.
Small things go unsaid until they are not small anymore, and by then it costs us people.
The practice
What's inside the practice
Governance and Decision-Making
- Governance and capacity assessment
- Operational democracy redesign
- Decision-making architecture and protocols
- Role and authority lines
Systems and Accountability
- Accountability protocols
- Communication and meeting systems
- Work planning and distribution
- Evaluation system design
Conflict Navigation
- Mediation, three-hour or full-day
- Restorative circle process
- Conflict navigation system design
- Train-the-trainer certification
- Facilitation as conflict prevention
- Working with conflict in the room
- Feedback in real time
- Having difficult conversations as conflict prevention
- Naming chronic conflict
Team and Culture
- Culture by design
- Relational skills for transitions
- Co-visioning and strategy retreats
- Coaching, owner-to-member transition
- Everyday habits for healthy organizations
Cooperative and Ownership Design
- Cooperative formation and conversion design
- Board and accountability systems training
- Leadership transition planning
- Tenure and trust
Engagements take the shape the work needs. A single workshop, a series, a retreat, a coaching arc, a full program, or ongoing technical assistance month to month or quarter to quarter.
In their words
What partners say
The expertise and reflective learning circles that Colmenar facilitated with our diverse, multi-generational and multi-lingual Coalition leaders helped us to center our values and kinships as an integral part of a generative and mutual accountability process that any collective in movement building with working class families can appreciate!