What’s your story?

“I just started with this team so this was an amazing way to get to know them. Great job, tons of fun!"

“Shana is one of the most thoughtful and inspiring people that I know! She finds creative solutions to problems, but more importantly brings a spark to other people that enables them to find more within themselves and come together to achieve great things!”

“Our team loved your workshop! You exceeded our expectations.”

“Thank you! You are such an awesome and wonderful coach--he is SO happy and focused. I think that writing is an unrecognized, vital ingredient of mental health for certain people….So grateful for you being there, waving your magic wand.”

“You have this awesome intellectual mind that goes everywhere. Your ability to invent and imagine alongside me, and your cool strategies, and your deep, deep, knowledge of story structure have made a huge impact in my life and work.”

No matter what your business, organization, or personal needs, together, we can:

• Bring forth the stories in yourself you’d like to clarify and amplify.

• Connect to a larger story, and build community.

• Create capacity for joy, resilience, productivity, and impact.

Recent Workshops:

Finding the Thru-Line: Storytelling for Team Success

• Get on the same page: understanding how story works within yourself, within teams, and within community

• Explore ways of generating, framing, and communicating story

• Embrace fun and flexibility for increased focus and growth

• Strengthen confidence, compassion, and curiosity  

• Build capacity for the authenticity and clarity that forges strong teams and powerful branding

Power, Promotion, and Publicity: What King Lear Can Teach Us

• Unleash creativity, spontaneity, critical thinking, and empathy

• Explore individual and collaborative power

• Break out of your comfort zone

• Boost personal and team creativity

• Understand performance techniques

• Train your voice to convey meaning, authority, and nuance

• Have fun with an easy, accessible approach

Team and organizational development

• What’s Our Story? - Re-define corporate team-building by breaking the mold with some improv, scene-work, and maybe even a little Shakespeare! Creative storytelling exercises open up possibilities for your work and expand your capacity to communicate with clarity and passion. Plus, experiencing your colleagues in new and fun roles helps you work together and move that project forward.

• The Profit in Partnership: Community Building for Business Development - an interactive workshop exploring best practices for strategically identifying, cultivating, and nurturing successful partnerships

• Board/Staff Development - Every team needs an outside eye occasionally to support communication, strategic planning, program development, and/or troubleshooting. Leveraging decades of experience building partnerships across arts, education, business, non-profit, and governmental sectors, I work with you to understand the issues at stake and how we can move your organization forward.

Writing Workshops

• Kickstart - a 1-hour workshop to get you writing

• Writing Workout - 3 hours of my reading and 3 hours of our working together on your writing. This can be for advanced works-in-progress, for new projects getting off the ground, or simply for the exercise of writing.

• Writing Bootcamp - 8 weekly sessions for writing, reading, editing, reviewing - put words on the calendar and they will happen!

• Coach-on-Call - put me on retainer!

• Cracking the College Essay

Short story or a play you’re trying to finish? Lots of ideas but nowhere to start? College essay application have you questioning your own identity? Let me help you move forward! With decades of experience working with teens and adults, I can come in at any stage in the process, from prompt to final edit. Together we personalize a plan of action to work towards your goals while deepening your own creative voice and clarity.

Performance Coaching

• Presentation Prep - Expert in your field - but not in front of an audience? Review and polish your presentation, and present with confidence!

• Performance Coaching for Artists, Educators, and the Self-Employed - We are all leaders of our own lives - and sometimes need the challenge and support of a performance coach to help align our goals, ethics, and actions.

Leverage my decades of experience as a theater director and non-profit leader to advance your professional goals in a safe and comfortable environment.

Acting/Directing for Theater

• Monologue finding and audition prep package - I’ll bring in a collection of monologues, and together we’ll pick a few that resonate with your needs and ambitions, and work them up so you’re ready to walk in and nail that audition! Got your own monologue? Happy to help you dust it off and get it sparkly!

• Directing - an outside, critical and compassionate eye towards helping you help your team and serve the play.

Sometimes you want help finding a monologue or preparing for an audition. Sometimes you want to ask, is this whole theater thing worth it? Maybe you’re directing a show and you need an outside eye or help troubleshooting a thorny situation or scene. Whatever your artistic journey, I’d like to help you clear a path and move towards your goals.