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We create diverse and inclusive spaces by changing hearts, minds, and behaviors

Fostering interconnectedness and community-building

Employees don't leave their community contexts at home when they come to work. By analyzing the demographics, socioeconomic factors, and current events/issues in the geographic communities where employees live, we work to understand the full context employees are operating in, not just what happens within the office walls. This analysis helps our clients see themselves as part of a larger ecosystem and community. 

Factors influencing workplace dynamics and culture

  • Employee neighborhoods
  • Transportation access
  • Childcare needs
  • Community-level issues

About Our Founder, Jennifer Sconyers

Jennifer founded Abundance Leadership Consulting to facilitate connections and to break down systems hampering social impact. Her entrepreneurial journey was born out of her own experiences of feeling overworked, stressed, and isolated in previous roles. Having worked over 20 years in for-profit and national nonprofit sectors that provided different forms of client engagement and training, Jennifer saw how organizations were often hindered by disconnects. This inspired her to found ALC to help organizations and teams not just perform better, but to see themselves as part of a larger community ecosystem.

 

Jennifer pairs her 20+ years of experience with a Master’s degree in Political Science and Bachelor’s degree in Communication from the University of Illinois at Springfield. Jennifer also has her certification in Mergers and Acquisitions from the Wharton School of Business. Her educational background, along with her years of experience in creating high performing teams, provides her with unique expertise to lead ALC.

Our Team

Andrea Griffith

Operations Manager, ALC

Andrea is a highly experienced Operations Manager with more than 20 years of expertise in streamlining business processes, marketing, administrative coordination, financial oversight, and compliance management.

She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration with a focus on Marketing. Beyond her professional achievements, Andrea is dedicated to community involvement She currently serves as the President of the Sun Valley High School PTL and holds several leadership positions within local organizations.

 

Brittany Woodburn

Chief of Staff, ALC

With an eclectic career background in Education, Psychology, and Business, Brittany is a business creative most interested in Organizational Development, with a focus on Human Resources.  Brittany has worked in many sectors including Higher Education, Real Estate, and the Accounting Industries.  She believes that work and career decisions are important but can also be creative and should work for us.  Brittany uses her skill set to oversee client projects and internal projects at ALC.  As Chief of Staff, she assists in talent development and is an overall support to the staff at ALC.

Brittany holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Her interest areas are Performance and Self-Esteem, Compensation, and Workplace Culture.  Her research focuses on the effects of Self-efficacy on Performance.  She is always excited about the Modern Workplace. 

 

Strategic Partners

ALC works with a talented group of strategic partners who bring their unique backgrounds and skills to ALC’s external team.

 

Mark Fairfield

Adjunct Coach

Mark Fairfield, LCSW (Principal, Fairfield & Associates) is an Organizational Consultant & Leadership Coach. Mark is typically called into situations where there are challenges in teams and between managers and their direct reports. He frequently works in the fairness, justice, and belonging space, collaborating with other consultants to integrate relational culture as a foundational support for all equity work. 

Mark was a health organizer and social worker during the AIDS crisis in the 1990s in New York City. He is best known for founding The Relational Center in Los Angeles, a community health and wellness project that combines mental health prevention and care services with community-building and peer advocacy. Currently, Mark’s work focuses on bringing relational culture practices to change-making institutions devoted to protecting civil and human rights and fighting for climate justice. Mark has been a Strategic Partner of ALC since 2021.

 

Sujata Tejwani 

Adjunct Coach & Trainer

Sujata Tejwani, Founder and President of Sujata Strategies, is a well-known leader in the progressive movement working across aspects of the movement – from the Democratic party and candidates across the country, to progressive issue advocacy and grassroots community-based organizations, to donors and foundations.  Sujata uses her experience to guide movement organizations and leaders as well as their staff and members to adapt, thrive, win and succeed in the fast-paced, fast-changing world of advocacy and politics.  She’s focused her work on helping her clients be more strategic in their work for the short term AND the long term. She advises and mentors rising stars of our movement as they grow into leadership roles, paying special attention to those working in communities of color.  Sujata has been a Strategic Partner of ALC since 2021.

 

Noah Schuettge

Adjunct Coach, Facilitator, and Trainer 

Noah is a coach, facilitator, and trainer who believes that inclusive organizational cultures lead to impactful strategy and operational success. They have worked as a community organizer, educator, leadership coach, and trainer with non-profits. They center relationships in their work, and believe they have the power to be catalysts for great transformation. 

Noah engages in client facing roles, including lead trainer and lead facilitator, as well as support project roles, such as curriculum developer.  With a heavy focus on relationships, Noah has a unique way of meeting the needs of the ALC client. Noah has been a Strategic Partner with ALC since 2022.

Noah holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master’s in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

 

Frankie Beesley

Adjunct, Special Projects

Frankie Beesley is deeply passionate about all forms of intersectional social and environmental justice and has brought this to her roles as a community activist, educator, coordinator, and project manager. In her work with ALC, Frankie helps build out programming design and curriculum and develops qualitative-based organizational assessments and strategic plans.

Before her time as a Strategic Partner with ALC, she served as the Coalition Director for Election Protection Arizona, where she oversaw a non-partisan coalition of 13 state-wide grassroots civic engagement organizations in their efforts to ensure voting access across Arizona. In her grassroots community organizing efforts, she specifically worked on workers’ rights and immigration justice issues 

 

Frankie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Studies and a Master of Arts in Sustainable Communities.

 

Cedar Landsman

Adjunct Coach, ALC

Cedar Landsman is Co-founder and Co-director of the relational culture-focused training and coaching institute Relational Uprising. Cedar is a Relational Organizational Gestalt Practitioner and a heart-centered organizer, facilitator, teacher and consultant who has worked in the field of social justice for nearly 25 years.

She worked as Development Director at the Los Angeles Food Policy Council, and as Director of Outreach and Development at The Relational Center in Los Angeles. 

Cedar earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Globalization theory and Social Movement History and holds a Master’s Degrees in Latin American Studies and in Urban Planning, concentrating on food and health policy with a critical race lens. Cedar has been working in Strategic Partnership with ALC since 2019.

 

Luciėn Demaris 

Adjunct Coach, ALC

Lucién Demaris is Co-founder and Co-director of the relational culture-focused training and coaching institute Relational Uprising. Lucien is a Gestalt and Somatics based coach, teacher and consultant who has worked in the fields of personal transformation and social change for over 25 years in the US and internationally. As a coach, he specializes in relational leadership development and embodied change. 

Lucién is a Gestalt Professional Certified Coach (GPCC), a Relational Gestalt Practitioner in Community Engagement & Leadership, and is trained in various coaching modalities including the Power of Embodied Transformation, and the Art of Transformational Consulting.

Lucién holds a Masters and a National Diplomate in East-Asian Medicine. He is also a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist, and a Nationally Certified Bodyworker. Lucien has been working with ALC in Strategic Partnership since 2019.