Our Team

 
jody gold corporate culture consultant

MSOD

beth ronsick corporate culture consultant
lauren golten corporate culture consultant
sam elmore corporate culture consultant

BJ, PCC

MA, MS

MA

corporate culture consultant jody gold

Jody Gold, Founder, MSOD

“This is gonna be fun!” Jody told his new friend after both were tapped to sing in Yale’s oldest A Capella group. “I have this habit of being a part of groups when they’re at their best.”  Though he wouldn’t know it for years, Jody was already on his life’s journey to improve the experience of being in groups, the way they function, and what they can achieve.

As a middle school math and science teacher, Jody built ‘we’re in this together’ classroom cultures in which his students consistently outperformed district peers on statewide tests.  After completing a Master’s Degree in Organizational Development from Pepperdine, he became an expert in Matrix Leadership, a replicable methodology that produces resilient, interdependent, and highly effective teams.  Jody has since helped fortune 500 technology companies, alternative energy, healthcare, non-profit, and educational organizations achieve their most important goals and keep growing stronger as they do.  

Jody believes that scarcity, separation, and fear are the mindsets that produce so many problems and that also prevent people from working together more effectively to solve them.  But his experience has led him to know that when people expand their capacity to think, decide, and act like ‘we’re in this together’...there’s hope.  Hope that we will navigate the climate crisis, prioritizing connection over consumption.  Hope in bending the arc of history toward greater social, economic, and environmental justice. Hope that people will solve problems together that they cannot solve alone.  And, hope that it’s gonna be fun.

beth ronsick the way we can

Beth Ronsick, Consultant, BJ, PCC

“You are likely to learn more than you’ll ever impart.” Those were the words of advice from a mentor and former expatriate on the eve of Beth’s departure for Hong Kong in 2000 to begin a regional talent development role for Ogilvy & Mather, supporting 5,000 employees in 20 offices across Asia Pacific. The truth of that advice sparked a lifelong passion for understanding and optimizing complex cross-cultural dynamics. From her current base in Colorado, Beth now uses her skills as an executive coach and facilitation whiz to weave diversity into strength. She coaxes forth inclusive, aligned vision and creates a force-field of trust between team members to own and embody authentic paths forward for culture and performance. 

lauren golten the way we can

Lauren Golten, Consultant, MA, MS

Lauren is a nature-based therapist and a group facilitator drawing upon her extensive training and experience with Matrix Leadership Institute, the Work That Reconnects, and the Wild Mind model of Animas Valley Institute. She holds masters degrees in Wilderness Therapy and Field Biology. Her background in ecology and field biology originally led her to develop an ecological view of the world, and studying the natural world has been a place of deep meaning and path of connection with the Earth. Fifteen years ago, Lauren found her way to working with people, following a deepening understanding that both people and the Earth are suffering for lack of connection and belonging. In her work with individuals and groups (indoors and out in the natural world), she finds that approaching groups as living systems allows people to feel connected to and part of something bigger than themselves, bringing health to individuals and groups, as well as the possibility for a healthier world. Lauren’s life and work are also informed by her 25-year practice and study of meditation and mindfulness. She sees clients and leads nature-based programs at her home-place near Lyons, Colorado; and she collaborates with Jody Gold and The Way We Can to facilitate groups to become more interconnected and to function more like living systems, so that they can more effectively do their work to make the world a better place. 

sam elmore the way we can

Sam Elmore, Consultant, MA

As an experiential coach and facilitator Sam believes that experiences are what shape us. His lifelong inquiry into the body’s innate intelligence has traversed competitive athletics, improvised theater and backcountry adventuring. Today Sam’s work as a coach takes place in nature, the classroom, boardroom and onstage. His approach is grounded in the theory and science of change and is highly experiential. He combines agile methodologies, design thinking, somatic psychology, group process, social justice theory, neuroscience, and improvisation. He leverages his client's strengths and utilizes these various modalities to support more adaptability, sustainability and joy. Sam has coached founders from Uplight, Halp, Term Scout and teams at Twitter, Home Advisor and the University of Colorado. He has supported these leaders and teams through mergers, acquisitions, funding rounds and taking their companies public…all while becoming more deeply connected to themselves and each other.  

Our Values

  • Dream Big

    Work can be a place of great achievement, great progress, and great growth. Our work helps clients bring about their visions even as it helps create a more just and loving world.

  • Thrive Together

    We support each other as we grow. We welcome and include our different identities, ideas, and styles. They make the whole of us greater than the sum of our parts.

  • Make Something Better, Today

    We’re in it for the long haul. But we measure ourselves one day at a time. How did we build relationships or deliver results today? How did we help clients deliver on their goals today?

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results”

- Andrew Carnegie