A Diverse Team with Experience Across Sectors
Our team brings together a diverse group of experienced consultants and facilitators—each with a unique background in organizational development, leadership, equity, adult learning, and group dynamics. What unites us is a shared commitment to creating meaningful progress for the people and organizations we serve.
With experience across sectors and roles, we tailor our approach to meet your specific goals, culture, and challenges. Whether you’re navigating change, strengthening your team, or designing an impactful gathering, our collective expertise helps you move forward with clarity, confidence, and connection.
Hannah Dubin, Principal + Founder
With over 20 years of experience working as a facilitator, trainer, and consultant, Hannah’s people-centered approach to problem-solving has helped hundreds of teams and organizations meet their goals and better serve their stakeholders.
Ashley Smallwood, Principal Consultant
Ashley is a facilitator, design thinker, educator, and strategist committed to advancing equity through collaboration. Through The Group Forward, Ashley partners with organizations of all stripes to unearth meaningful insight, design and facilitate team- and organization-wide convenings, guide strategic planning processes, create the conditions for collaborative innovation, and build capacity to galvanize teams to work better together.
Cornelius Lee, Principal Consultant
Cornelius is a staunch advocate of equitable and inclusive workplaces. As a Black queer man from a religious working-class Louisiana family, his background informs his unique perspective and approach to his work. He believes that balancing equity and excellence can unlock an organization's fullest potential.
Ready to move your team forward? Get in touch for a consultation call.
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Stephen Pham, Collaborator
Stephen is an educator, equity strategist, and nonprofit management consultant. He loves working with growing social impact organizations to clarify their strategy, build their organizational systems and capacity, and strengthen their culture to achieve community-centered impact.
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Jenn Jeffers, Collaborator
Jenn (she/her) is a leadership consultant, facilitator, and strategic advisor committed to building equitable, human-centered organizations. Jenn believes that when equity, clarity, and care are embedded into organizational design, teams are better equipped to lead with purpose and sustainability.
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Allison McMillan, Collaborator
Allison is a transformative leader and expert facilitator who specializes in guiding teams and organizations through periods of significant change and growth. With over 25 years of experience in workshop design and facilitation in a variety of industries, Allison has worked with large tech companies to impact driven nonprofits.
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Erin Blanding, Advisor
Erins’s areas of subject matter expertise include organizational development and design, strategic facilitation, equity focused human resource operations, learning and development strategies, performance management programs, conflict mediation, workplace mental-health and wellness and community organizing for social change.
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Sam Kuttner, Advisor
Sam is a learning and performance strategist who helps organizations strengthen their leadership, culture, and systems for growth. He partners with teams to build equitable, high-functioning workplaces through manager development, performance practice design, and capacity-building that aligns people to purpose.