Interim Leadership

Our Approach

Navigating challenging relational tensions or significant change (e.g. leadership transitions, growth or downsizing, shifts in economic and political climates, etc.) is intense. Changing patterns, even ones that are dysfunctional, can generate feelings of deep insecurity. Making wise and efficient choices while tending to emotional impacts of change can feel like walking a tightrope.

Get Free Interim Leadership provides the experienced and objective guidance necessary to stabilize your team, transform tensions into trust, and develop dynamic strategy.

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As an interim leader,
I share the risks and responsibilities of navigating turbulent waters.

Miakoda

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Transform your team from the roots

Miakoda supports your team in traversing this challenging terrain by:

  • drawing on extensive experience navigating conflicts and transitions

  • implementing potent practices and structures designed to transform tensions into trust

  • infusing change processes with fresh and objective perspectives 

  • dynamically developing strategy in real time and in response to emerging needs

  • positioning current leaders to experience and share their own vulnerability as a place of power

Interim leadership affords me an intimate opportunity to do the work I love most: transforming the obstacles that stand in the way of dynamic collaboration.

This work asks me to deeply root in my values of justice, integrity, and hope. It ignites the depth of my love for all people.

It confirms my vision that a healthier reality is possible. When I am rooted here, I know I am doing the work I have been called to do.

Miakoda

“My work with Miakoda has left me living the values of my spirituality and my faith. I am more deeply committed and equipped to act on my desire to create the type of culture that centers repair work, and resolving conflicts in a way that makes them generative and helps us all stay in relationship.”

—Co-Interim Leadership Client

“This work takes the conflicts, even the mistakes, and turns them into high level generative learning for building trust and power.”

—Co-Interim Leadership Client