Our Impact
We’ve guided CEO’s and organizations through transformational processes that drive impact. Our approach is rooted in the common human experience of change, and has led to sales growth, successful mergers, and life-changing realizations.
Our Experience
600+
Leaders Served
40+
Workshops & Retreats Facilitated
15+
Industries Served
Our Clients
Testimonials
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I was looking for us to get closer as a team but also I was looking for me as founder and CEO not to have to lead everything and not to have to be the voice and the answer to every single individual and every individual school. And both were accomplished. I don’t know how but they both really were through the process. The individual teams started to go off and working by themselves without any direction from me. And it all happened so quickly. I didn't realize that was possible, even though it was what I had asked for. And after the retreat two months later the work still happens that way. I would say to anyone considering working with Open Circle, be open to the process and you will be surprised at the results."
Roblin Webb
CEO and Founder
Freedom Prep Charter schools
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Like nothing I have ever seen before, especially in a Business Organizational context… This is the best investment in professional development I’ve ever seen made in any organization.”
Jeff Eckman
CEO and Founder
Bluegreen
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The program facilitated by Open Circle was a grand slam home run and created the right foundation for success in a very complex project and collaboration. Open Circle were great in their ability to facilitate and keep the dialogue and thought processes on a positive, effective and productive path."
Jim Worcestor
Director of Infrastructure
Northrop Grumman Space Systems Sector
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In working with Open Circle I experienced the way my personal
transformation can inspire the evolution of our business.
The way Open Circle create transformation is a big deal.
They walk the talk – they have done it and are living it."
Jennifer Sweeney
Co-Founder
X4 Health
"The Open Circle training delivered countless techniques and practices to help me deepen my listening and leadership skill sets. Already, I have used what I learned from the training in campus facilitations and my support of members of our university community. The highly skilled team members at Open Circle have a range of listening and facilitation skills that span from formal to informal, inviting to challenging, easy to highly advanced. They are clearly on a mission to humanize the workplace."
Don Lubach
Assocaite Dean and University Ombudson
UC Santa Barbara
"Change inside of organizations is difficult, but it’s also necessary.
Our work with Open Circle helped our entire team shift the way
we work to create a healthier culture where we could harness the power
of the group. This allowed us to find new opportunities, expand, test
ideas, and become a stronger organization."
Brad Pickle
Executive Director
Illuman
"Open Circle were fantastic to work with when they facilitated workshops for us at Northrop Grumman. Their novel approach on how to Radically Team and bring diverse groups of highly seasoned professionals together and work through some very difficult problems proved to be highly successful. Their ability to team with the internal facilitating team to drive change resulted in multiple improvements in some of our most complex processes."
Jay Stevenson
Lead Industrial Engineer
Northrop Grumman
"Open Circle sessions are dynamic growth sessions. They train you to think differently and have this unique ability to get people and organizations unstuck."
Christine Brechtel
Co-founder and President
X4 Health
At its core, Open Circle’s philosophy is about helping people become the best version of themselves It’s not just another feel-good experience that fades away; people walk away with important answers, profound shifts, and a renewed sense of self.
Atz Kilcher
Founder
Heroes Healing Homestead
"I’ll confess I’ve been facilitating groups since I began working as staff on college retreats 45 years ago. I wondered what more I could learn. Open Circle taught me the answer to that question was 'quite a lot'."
Warren Herbert
Educator and Board Member
Mount Clemens Community Schools
"As a leadership consultant and master coach with over 30 years experience,, I had some trepidation about going into this unknown training as a participant. Would the workshop challenge me? Would it hone my understanding of power relations in facilitation? Would I learn something about myself? Would I develop new and useful skills? Would it embody a truly experiential, dialogical, improvisational and exploratory ethos? Would I find the workshop leaders mature, stimulating and inspiring? The answer to each of these questions was a resounding YES! “
Zora, MA, RDMP, MCC
Committee Co-chair and PCC / MCC Assessor
International Coaching Association
"I've let go a few times in my life but not many. I am a get things done type of person. This was a profound experience. It was not just the shift, there are plenty of transformative workshops that happen and then people go home and kick the dog or fight with their husband. I think what is important in this work is the changes that I observed in myself and others. There was a way that Open Circle guided people, asked the right question in difficult times that cleaned the film of that lens of just saying 'OK this is who I am' and opened a door beyond that."
Ingrid Ammondson
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Irvene and Associates
"Attending this workshop put on by Open Circle was the most impactful 2 hours I've ever spent in an online training event. It was a powerful experiential learning opportunity that imparted the gravitas of applying the tools taught in building self-transforming culture within organizations."
Sylvie Croteau-Willard
DEI consultant and Culture Specilaist
"Going into this trip, I was hoping for a life changing experience, but I didn't know the depths of that change and what would be required to elicit it. From the very beginning of this program, I was faced with challenges, both physical and mental, but the guides "lead without leading" and steered me up the mountain. During our fireside circles, we delved deep into pain points and unpacked years of suffering and trauma. In only 6 days I came out with a renewed belief in myself and what I was capable of. This trip definitely changed my life and I am now putting in the work to ensure others receive value from the work that was done up there."
Antonio DeAscanis
Founder and CEO
Blk Ops
"I reflected on the way I approach every task and every person. Using intentions before I start my day was a skill I acquired through this Open Circle. It changed my mindset. I went from zigzaging through the day to calmly approaching each task. I also became a better listener and in turn, a better speaker.Open Circle meets you where you are. They provide a safe environment to grow wherever you are planted in your professional life."
Bridgétt Rangel Rexford
Board President
Siskiyou County Arts Council
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