Nelli Noakes

Background

About Nelli Noakes

I am a professional organization effectiveness consultant, specializing in the design and facilitation of multi-stakeholder collaboration. I am a partner at Community At Work and am a previous director of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF), Oceania region. As well as consulting, I teach Community At Work's acclaimed "Group Facilitation Skills: Putting Participatory Values into Practice" workshop and co-teach "Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration: Strategies, Design Principles and Best Practices" – both as public programs and in-house for a wide variety of clients. For more than a decade, I have worked internally and externally at the intersection of organizational strategy, group dynamics, and strategic communication. In addition to my MBA, I hold master's degrees in Public Administration (EMPA) and Marketing (MMA). My clients include the Wikimedia Foundation, City And County of San Francisco, Kaiser Permanente, Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, University of Illinois, University of California San Francisco, The Russell Family Foundation, DPR Construction, Bozeman School District, Tides, First Five San Francisco, Los Angeles County, The Scan Foundation, International Livestock Research Institute, High Court of Australia, Australian Agency for International Development, The South Australian Department of Social Inclusion and many more. I build high-quality, high-trust relationships with my clients and receive a high level of word-of-mouth recommendation. Please contact me if I can help you with any aspect of the group dimensions of organizational effectiveness.