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Over $9 million
raised and counting

Changing the world and our economy
one organization at a time.

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Changing the world
and our economy

Providing real world tools, blueprints, and game-plans to change the world...starting with your comminity.

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Results that
Speak for Themselves

Guidance and support based on values of cooperation, diversity, integrity, sustainability, and innovation.

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Capital Campaigns

Million Raised

Satisfied Clients

Clients won or nominated for Up & Coming Conference Award

About Me

Empowering Cooperation

Since the moment I learned about food co-ops I was all in. I jumped in first as a volunteer, later as an employee, and now as a coach (aka consultant). I’ve made it my mission to support, coach, and empower co-ops and have recently expanded my work.

Capital Campaign Planning

Growing & Engaging Ownership

Hiring Your First Employee

People Talk

Katie is definitely a leader in the "Cooperative Way"! From her consulting work, CoApp Capital Campaign Tool, and now Paint by the Numbers. WOW, she’s helping Cooperative Grocery Stores open more quickly than ever before.

Ron Binning,
Whitewater Grocery Co.

I couldn’t recommend Katie enough to any co-op start up. Her wealth of knowledge and troubleshooting skills are priceless. Katie has a solution to any issue and a bank of tested ideas and resources. Bay City Cooperative Market was lucky to have hired her and hope to use her services again in the long road to ‘open doors’!

Board Member

Katie is intuitive, innovative and willing to brainstorm any co-op situation and help find solutions. I highly recommend her services!

Outreach Coordinator

Katie is relentlessly positive, very flexible, and enlightened about the work that goes into building a co-op. She understands the time and energy that goes into coordinating co-op efforts, and her love for the work is contagious.

Communication Coordinator

It was so great to work with Katie. She is kind, compassionate and understanding and also very strategic and clear with communications and expectations. She held our team accountable and provided timely solutions for problem solving. She was always available for meetings when needed. She provided great coaching and tools to set us up for a successful capital campaign.

Capital Campaign Chair

I would recommend that if you want to give your staff the best chance of success, Katie’s service and guidance will lead to that. It’s also highly valuable to have someone who is not part of the co-op helping to set clear goals.

Board Member

The volunteer training was phenomenal. Our volunteers, some of whom were seasoned phone bankers, were very impressed with her training. It was well organized and volunteers walked away with tangible resources and clear direction.

Cooperative Board Member

I think this is a great idea and I’d personally fund this kind of content for my co-op!

Brenda Haines,
Oshkosh Food Co-op Board Member

This is brilliant. It will be a tremendous resource for co-ops. What an innovative, yet intuitively right model.

Stuart Reid,
former Executive Director Food Co-op Initiative

My Mission

My mission is to change the world and our economy, one organization at a time.

My Vision

My vision is to provide changemakers the tools, guidance and resources they need to change the world.

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Over $9 million
raised and counting

Changing the world
and our economy

Results that
Speak for Themselves