Personalized support, technical assistance and hands-on guidanceFor small business owners, entrepreneurs, sole proprietors and ordinary peopleWho are good at what they do, know where they want to go and want specific guidance, instruction or support |
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Martha and I began with a complete reorganization of systems: financial, administrative, record keeping, forms development and web site creation. She helped rid me of two alluring but bad business ideas and helped me with version control (every writer’s bugaboo). When I contacted Martha my subject line read 'HELP' and that is exactly what she did — with integrity and deep listening skills. She was able to see more clearly than I what I actually needed to get my business up and running to its maximum potential. |
Martha is one of those rare professionals who feels like one of your good friends. It takes a lot of skill to be casual & comfortable while also having the right amount of pushy and directive. She has a Mary Poppins bag of tricks and a contagious way of tackling problems. But she also isn't afraid to say she needs to recommend someone more skilled than herself. 
Each time Martha arrives at my office I present her with another of those dilemmas that comes with running your own business. She coaches me without judgment to a resolution each time. |
Martha is fabulous to work with in every dimension. She's patient and energetic while asking the right questions. She's collaborative while at the same time keeping me moving forward in the process. As a borderline technophobe, I found Martha incredibly helpful in walking me through the electronic logistics of what I hoped to accomplish. I love the results and and am grateful for her help. I was doing too many things at once and going crazy, as many self-employed people do. Martha turned my business (and life) from a scattered 15-ring circus to juggling just a few plates at once — much more doable! She helped me set up a work/life infrastructure that matches the way my brain works. Now I feel nourished by my business instead of constantly panicked about it. |
Well-conceived visions often come without road maps.
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Manage the TransitionWhether your transition calls for a sudden jump or a slow build, we'll start with a thorough look at where you want to go and what needs to happen between here and there. Then we'll pool skills, resources and creativity to plot out a course that centers around priorities and minimizes overwhelm.
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Create System EaseWe'll seek out the systems that make you cringe - from filing to passwords, device synching to expense tracking - and replace them with ease, flow and efficiency. With the back of an envelope or the latest app, we'll build an infrastructure of organized systems that works for you.
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Personalize the PathBy leveraging your enthusiasms, exploring your hesitancies and sitting with your resistances, we'll invite your more human aspects to influence the path to your goal. Hand-holding, back-patting, confidence-fluffing and sound-boarding are key services in the mix.
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Short-TermA quick alignment of uncoordinated devices, a new newsletter template design, the shirking of nostalgia to clean out boxes and files; these can be accomplished in a short engagement that keeps the focus on relatively brief organizational, technical or training fixes.
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OngoingAccomplish a broad set of tasks or reach a particular goal in a multi-month engagement. Meet with Martha on a regular basis to set priorities, assign tasks, work with timelines and get the work done. You'll build some skills and develop a resource base along the way. Engagements last from several months to over a year.
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Martha is an educator by training, with professional experiences spanning the inner life and out-of-doors, both intellectual content and physical skills, with individuals & groups of hundreds. Not one for travelling known routes, Martha's career has included teaching qigong to people with cancer, providing writing & workshop design for child welfare reform efforts and leading mountaineering courses for groups ranging from youth-at-risk to executives. An enduring interest in relationships of power has informed Martha's studies, career choices and persistent questions. She has studied the psychology of secrecy, co-founded an off-the-charts democratic school and most recently, undertaken a pursuit of fluency in the terrain of whiteness, anti-racism and racial equity. This winding route is the inspiration for Mountain Way: finding paths through obstacles, making & tossing plans, paying attention to what's presented, proceeding as the landscape calls for. Martha lives in a small green development north of Seattle with her husband and two fabulous teens. |
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