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Overview Shared Sun Studio has been focused for the past 15 years on assisting organizations with complex challenges and opportunities: accessing their vision, clarity of purpose, strategic direction, and building their innovative and collaborative capacity. The name ‘Shared Sun Studio’ emerged from its purpose— Sometimes, when organizations are looking for assistance, the story they tell is one of broken relationships, conflict, and lack of alignment on the future. It’s important to reframe those stories to focus on what the strengths are, the deep purpose and missions contained, what commitments are shared, and the resources already available... just as everyone can access the life-giving, generative energy of the sun. Click here to contact Us.
Services Sallie Lee and Shared Sun Studio partners have worked with Fortune 100 companies as well as with start-up non-profits with fewer than five employees. Projects may be as simple as half day training on organizational change or as complex as partnering with a company's multiple divisions and their clients to undergo a complete redesign of services and direction. The principal consultative offerings fall into these categories, applied worldwide:
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We adapt and invent processes for each client's situation, combining the best of organizational and systems design, adult and collaborative learning, appreciative and strength-based principles and practices.
APPROACH
Building on years of experience practicing the deep principles of Appreciative Inquiry, along with other large system change methods, Integral theory, new developments in positive psychology and neuroscience and values-based assessment, Shared Sun Studio has evolved a fundamentally novel and effective way of approaching organizational and community health. In important respects, human beings and organizations move in the direction of what they talk about. What organizations focus on, and the language they use, becomes their reality. So, what is the most powerful focus possible for organizational conversations? What kind of conversations are important to encourage? Questions, in fact, create conversations.
Using an appreciative, strength-based approach, organizations have the opportunity to shift their focus and framing to more energizing approaches that create the agile, adaptive cultures of innovation and collaboration needed today. Click here to see a chart of the Shift in Perspctives.
Sallie Lee, Founder of Shared Sun Studio and strategic partner of Innovation Partners International, has spent her career in organizational development and design, serving as a thinking partner, facilitator, and strategist for client groups around the world. Trained in psychology and philosophy at NC State University, she also holds an MA in International Development from the University of Miami and certification in Global Change and Social Innovation from Case Western Reserve University’s Global Excellence in Management program [GEM]. She served as VP, director of human resources for D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles [DMB&B] in New York and senior consultant for Drake Beam Morin’s change management division. She spent six years in Latin America, giving her strong communication skills in both Spanish and English. Sallie specializes in consulting/coaching on whole system collaboration and innovation, including strength-based system design and facilitation of strategic planning processes that can engage all stakeholders and tap the collective intelligence present in the organization.  Sallie has applied and taught Appreciative Inquiry [Ai] and other strengths-based whole system approaches, using the curriculum she developed for rapidly enabling participants to use Ai with their own organizations and clients. She first trained with David Cooperrider, Ai’s originator, in Case Western Reserve University’s year-long certificate program. She has been offering in-depth, practical studio workshops for the past 12 years and has trained more than 1,000 people around the world in both the foundations and advanced elements of APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY. Sallie lives in Asheville, NC in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Other workshop offerings:
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Facilitated the capacity assessment and strategic formulation process for an international non-governmental organization with operations in 17 countries.
A fundamental operating principle at Shared Sun Studio is that each organization is unique and contains its own answers. We assist the surfacing and implementation of those answers in ways that leave the organization stronger and happier.
Questions designed to focus on organizational health, strength, and wisdom create a move from confusion and despair to dialogue and co-creation, from problem to positive change.