WHAT WE DO
Through leadership, team and personal development, PTC uses a broad lens to view your company’s unique situation and offer human-centered approaches for achieving your mission.
We are hard-wired for human connection, our health and wellbeing depend on the quality of our relationships. They are our most valuable assets and can often also be our biggest challenges. At PTC, we center building & sustaining high quality connections and relationships.
They are simply that important.
Learning is one of life’s sweetest and most gratifying nectars and it’s accessible to us everyday. Whether done solo or co-created with others, our sense of vitality and wellbeing depend on it. At PTC, we value learning through being, doing, reflecting, thinking, feeling and communicating.
You will not get a "Do this. Don't do that" approach to learning from us.
Communication is the vehicle through which we build those needed connections & relationships. Deceivingly simple, communication in fact includes many parts: speaking, listening, signing, gesturing, facial expressions, writing, reading and other non-verbals, along with the less visible but hugely significant cultural nature of communication.
At PTC, we value communication as both a practice and force for healing communities and relationships.
Our brains make sense of the world through story. At PTC, we value continually questioning, disrupting, integrating, noticing and changing those stories. At work, narrative helps us cultivate compassion for ourselves and others, understanding that we all do what we can, until we know otherwise. What’s the story you tell yourself?
How is it serving you?
In a busy, busy world, we at PTC rise to reclaim TIME… time to center ourselves, reflect, practice, let things breathe, be.
Change, despite what we may want, takes TIME.
Intention is how we converge our thoughts, feelings and efforts in the best possible way. Intention allows us to decide how we want our lives to be, while not guaranteeing outcomes. Without intention, however, we bob through life reacting to whatever’s happening around us.
“Setting intentions is a power move.”
Brene Brown
FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
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Elizabeth is an insightful educator and Organization Development Consultant who has spent the last two decades building equitable, just, inclusive, sustainable communities. She combines the art of teaching & facilitation with the science of human behavior & psychology to uplift and create positive and sustainable change. Her use of instructional design, leadership & learning development complement her change management and organization development skills.
Her extensive portfolio includes experience with such things as having difficult conversations, inclusion, racial consciousness, team accountability, personal development, building cultural competence, theory of change, adaptive leadership, and conflict resolution amongst many others. In addition, on a systems level, she helps leaders improve other human systems with such things as talent acquisition, engagement, learning & development processes. Combined with global experience in systems design, and change management, Elizabeth is sure to help you and your organization transform.
Her second master’s thesis research focuses on how educational employees make and maintain meaning in their work. Applicable to many industries, Elizabeth integrates her research in helping organizations offer employees purpose & meaning; which are highly needed and sought after areas of expertise in this rapidly volatile and evolving times.
Elizabeth holds a B.A. in English & Education from Michigan State University, an M.A. in Deaf Education from Columbia University’s Teachers College and an M.S. in Organization Development (MSOD) from the Graziadio Business School at Pepperdine University.
A native of Massachusetts, lifelong New Yorker at heart, and current resident of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Elizabeth is a global practitioner, having worked with multi-national entities in France, Costa Rica, South Africa and across the United States.
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She is a champion napper who drives her people crazy by moving furniture around on a regular basis. She and her two college-aged kiddos spend an inordinate amount of time gawking at their two Covid kitties, Ash and Selah.