Carrie Kappel

Background

About Carrie Kappel

I help organizations and teams to design and facilitate engaging and participatory processes that enable strategic thinking in the face of complexity and uncertainty, support learning, deepen trust and strengthen relationships, foster creativity and productivity, build capacity for shared leadership, and model best practices for collaboration. I've supported local, national, and international nonprofits, government agencies, research teams, and public-private partnerships. My approach draws upon my research background, integrating knowledge across diverse disciplines and ways of knowing, and my training and deep experience facilitating and leading collaborative teams. I bring a unique mix of technical, interpersonal, listening, and visual skills to bear in helping foster the emergence of new insights and paths forward. In addition to my deep hands-on experience with collaborative teams, I have professional training in facilitation and graphic recording from The Grove Consultants, Liberating Structures, and Kelvy Bird’s Visual Practice Workshop. Systems thinking is an integral part of my practice.I work as an independent contractor under the umbrella of Carrie Kappel Consulting and also, at times, as part of the LegacyWorks Group team. I am also a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at UC Santa Barbara and a past science advisor for the Science for Nature and People Partnership. My research focused on the dynamics of marine and coastal social-ecological systems and the development of science-based tools to support more holistic decision making.