ZTD & Co
Explore our range of services designed to help you move forward with confidence, wherever you're headed next.
If your organization is stuck, this is the work.
Unclear on who you are, where you're going, or how to get there?
Conflict, dysfunction, or equity gaps slowing everything down?
Meetings that stall, decisions that drift, and a team that can't quite click?
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Values shape how we see the world. Vision is the world we're working toward — one we hope our grandchildren's grandchildren will know. Mission is the long-term work we do to get there. Goals translate that mission into specific commitments. And an action plan is how we operationalize those commitments and know whether we've met them.
Each layer builds on the one before. Clarity at the foundation makes everything else possible.
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Effective teams — groups of people with genuine shared purpose — are the foundation of everything. They require trust, clear expectations, decision-making processes that account for power, and productive ways to navigate conflict. Building yours is a co-creative process: we assess what's working, and develop strategies together to strengthen what isn't.
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Democratic intentions don't make organizations immune to dysfunction — or to reproducing the very systems they're working to dismantle. Whether you're developing your board, aligning senior leadership, or building more authentic partnerships with the communities you serve, how you make decisions together is foundational.
Zachary offers customized facilitation, direct education, and expert consultation on participatory decision-making, drawing on twenty years of experience with Quaker consensus practice — one of the most sophisticated shared-power models in the world.
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Leadership at the intersection of mission and management is some of the hardest work there is — you carry the vision while navigating people, resources, and accountability, often with few peers who truly understand the terrain.
Coaching is for board chairs, executive directors, CEOs, department heads, and managers leading with a social impact mission who need more than advice — they need a thinking partner. Someone to help them get clear on who they are as a leader, where they're going, and how to show up with intention in roles that are, by nature, isolating.
Zachary works with leaders individually and with leadership teams and groups — because the internal work and the relational work are inseparable.
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What if your next team-building experience actually built something?
Drawing uniquely on his experience as a fitness trainer and facilitator, Zachary leads teams through a structured workout with intentional inflection points — before, during, and after — that do the work of real team development: clarifying roles, navigating conflict, naming strengths, and cultivating the kind of feedback and accountability that sticks. All while investing in the health and wellness of your people.
The body doesn't lie. Neither does how a team moves together.
Organizational Consulting Process
Lead with
equity, inclusion, liberation, and justice — not as buzzwords, but as a practice.
Go beneath the symptoms
to the underlying dynamics, so the changes we build together actually last.
Work collaboratively
to build your capacity — so what we develop together, you can truly own for the long haul.
Draw on data
and expertise alongside every way your organization knows itself: mind, body, and spirit.
Leadership Coaching Process
Start with you.
Before strategy or skill-building, we get clear on who you are as a leader — your values, your edges, and the internal conditions that shape how you show up.
Name the terrain.
We map the relational and organizational landscape around you — the dynamics, power structures, and patterns that are helping or holding you back.
Build toward movement.
We develop concrete practices and commitments that translate insight into action — in your leadership, your relationships, and your organization.
Stay accountable to growth.
We track what's shifting, recalibrate when needed, and ensure the changes you're making are durable — not just responsive to the moment.