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Facilitate Co · Great Plains & Virtual

Turn friction into
unified progress.

Helping leaders and teams navigate the complexity of collaboration.

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What I Do

Three services.
One purpose.

Different tools for different needs — but the goal is always the same: a group that can act on action, create buy-in, address what needs addressing, and adapt when the situation changes.

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Service One
Facilitation

Facilitation is meetings that reach their aims — strategic and action plans, shared awareness, shared understanding, consensus, conflict resolution, and co-created answers to big questions.

I design the process, manage the dynamics, and hold the space so your group can focus entirely on the work. The outputs belong to the people who built them.

The aims are the point. The meetings are how we get there.
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Service Two
ToP® Training

ToP® training builds your team's capacity, ability, and skills — giving them proven methods to facilitate the full range of conversations an organization needs.

From routine meetings to complex strategic processes, your people learn to lead their own rooms. The skills stay after I leave.

Capacity that stays. Methods that work. A team that can do this themselves.
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Service Three
Team Dynamics

Team Dynamics work, built on Lumina Spark, helps people understand themselves and each other — so they can collaborate better and adapt when situations change.

The foundation that makes everything else work. Self-awareness under pressure isn't a soft skill. It's the difference between a team that stalls and a team that moves.

Self-awareness. Collaboration. Adaptability. Built on the Lumina Spark foundation.
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The Approach

Every group is different.
So is every solution.

Before I propose anything, I find out what your group actually needs — then design the right response. Sometimes that's a single facilitated session. Sometimes it's Lumina before facilitation, or training after a strategic plan. The tools follow the diagnosis — never the other way around. The aim is always the same: clarity, alignment, and commitment to action.

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Understand Before I Design
Before anything is designed, I have a working conversation about what your group is experiencing — what's working, what's not, what's been tried, and what hasn't been said. The diagnosis shapes everything that follows.
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Design the Right Response
Based on what the group needs, I design the right response — drawing from facilitation, ToP® training, and Team Dynamics work in whatever combination fits. Sometimes one service. Sometimes all three. The engagement is shaped around the diagnosis, not pulled off a shelf.
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Deliver with Aim
Whether it's a single session or a layered engagement across months, the aim holds: clarity, alignment, and commitment to action. Every voice gets heard. The group does the thinking. The outputs belong to the people who built them.
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Build What Lasts
The goal was never dependency. When a group builds something together — a plan, a decision, a shared direction — they own it. They implement it. The capacity to do this kind of work stays with them, long after the engagement ends.
A strategic partner — not a vendor. That's what stays.
Facilitation in action
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Profound Respect
Every voice in the room matters. Every perspective is part of the answer. This is the foundation I build every engagement on — not a feature I add.
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Genuine Collaboration
Co-creation over prescription. The group owns the outcome because the group built it. That's how buy-in becomes accountability.
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Capacity-Building
I make myself unnecessary on purpose. Every engagement leaves your team more capable of doing the work themselves.
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Engaged Presence
Substantive work, done fully present. Rigorous and alive. The room should feel engaged — because that's when people do their best thinking.
Client Voices

From the teams
I've worked with.

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She created a space where everyone felt heard — and we left with a plan we actually owned. That's rare.

Leadership Team Member
Nonprofit Organization
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I've been to a lot of strategic planning sessions. This was the first one where the whole team stayed energized for two full days.

Executive Director
Public Health Agency
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The ToP training changed how I run every meeting. I use these tools every single week. Worth every hour.

Training Participant
K–12 Education
Public Health K–12 Education Higher Education Nonprofit Faith Communities Utility Cooperatives Corporate Leadership Government Agencies Coalitions Community Development Economic Development
Charity Adams — Facilitate Co
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Who's In Your Corner

A strategic partner —
not a vendor.

I don't give you the answers. I design the process that helps your team find their own. You stay in the driver's seat. I make sure you have the map.

Charity Adams is a Certified ToP® Facilitator, ToP® Mentor Trainer, and Lumina Spark Practitioner. For more than five years she's helped leaders and teams navigate their most important work — strategic plans that hold, decisions that stick, teams that function, and the hard conversations that can't be avoided any longer.

"Because work done well is what actually changes things."

Certified ToP® Facilitator (CTF) ToP® Mentor Trainer Lumina Spark Practitioner Great Plains & Virtual
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Because work done well
is what actually changes things.

Every engagement starts with a conversation about what your group needs. Tell me what you're navigating — we'll figure out what kind of work will actually change things.

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