About the Studio
The EnCompass Appreciative Growth Studio turns our 25-year appreciative experiment in business into simple, powerful ways for leaders, teams, individuals, and practitioners to grow. We embrace possibility and build on strengths while delivering real business results.
From Our Experience to Your Workplace
This work began as the story of how our women-founded company - EnCompass LLC - grew through distinct phases, living its values while evolving its structure, systems, and leadership as complexity increased. Over time, we scaled from early entrepreneurial years to rapid growth and global operations, opening country offices and upgrading the capabilities needed to sustain performance and culture in the complex and diverse field of international development.
Now, we translate those lessons into practical learning programs, tools, and daily practices you can bring into your own workplace.
Why the Studio? Why Now?
We created the Studio because we kept seeing the same pattern, in our own company and in the leaders and organizations we work alongside: the moments that matter most rarely arrive with a warning. Growth accelerates, complexity rises, and suddenly the habits and systems that once worked begin to strain.
For 25 years, we have been living and testing a strengths-based, possibility-focused way of building a business and leading teams at EnCompass. We have made decisions, built systems, navigated change, and learned in real time what it takes to grow without losing what makes an organization worth belonging to.
We brought our strengths-based approaches to other organizations and supported their growth with a range of services. Over the years, we have trained thousands of leaders, managers, and supervisors; designed onboarding, mentoring, and team development experiences; supported cohesion in fast-growing global organizations; and conducted organizational audits across functions including strategy, knowledge management, communications, and evaluation.
The Studio exists to bring that learning forward in forms you can actually use: practical frameworks, learning, tools, and daily practices that help you protect what is working, meet what is changing with clarity, and build what is next with steadier rhythm and real results.In a time when many workplaces feel stretched thin, we believe this kind of grounded, strengths-based leadership is needed more than ever.
Built for Results in Real Conditions
The People Behind the Studio
The Studio is led by EnCompass leadership and supported by collaborators who bring depth in organizational development, leadership learning, facilitation and evaluation across diverse contexts.
Our Connection to EnCompass LLC
The Studio is an initiative of EnCompass LLC. EnCompass provides evaluation, learning, and organizational performance support for mission-driven public, private, and international partners. The Studio grew from the way we have worked for 25 years: supporting these organizations to learn, adapt, and deliver in complex environments, while staying anchored to what gives people energy, purpose, and capability.
Think of EnCompass’ Appreciative Growth Studio as a more focused expression of that same commitment. It is where we translate what we have learned over two decades into practical frameworks and resources you can use day to day, whether you are leading an organization, shaping people systems, or strengthening your own leadership practice. So the way you work gets stronger as the work gets more complex.
