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  • Sara Agostinho
    President/Owner - Hume Collaborative, LLC.

    At Hume Collaborative we are focused on how people think, feel, and behave – which means that the principle of human learning is at the core of our services. Our change management and strategic planning approaches are grounded in learning about our client’s organizational culture and priorities to ensure we deliver support models that strengthen organizational readiness to adopt new processes, effectively meet customer needs, and identify success metrics that resonate throughout an organization. Our focus is on facilitating learning spaces that promote leadership team development and designing channels to engage stakeholders in key organizational milestones.

    We are passionate about collaborating, partnering, and supporting organizations that value the importance of stakeholder engagement and aim to anchor their growth and strategy development in collective input of their community’s voice. Our past projects have included engaging Boards, Leadership Teams, Internal Stakeholders, and Community Members across diverse industries including:

    ● Early Childhood Education
    ● Federal, State, and Local Grant Initiatives
    ● K-12 Public School Systems
    ● Non-Profit

    Hume Collaborative’s services are grounded in asking the questions that lend to solutions for our clients, and we specialize in:

    ● Grant Development
    ● Strategy Development (Mission, Vision, & Values)
    ● Goal Setting & Strategic Initiative Planning
    ● Stakeholder Survey Design & Data Collection
    ● Data Analysis, Visualization, & Storytelling
    ● Organizational Redesign &; Change Management
    ● Communication & Stakeholder Engagement

    As a lead consultant, Sara Agostinho brings over 15 years of experience in program development, strategic planning, and learning solution implementation across education, workforce development, and non-profit fields. She has led complex, multi-stakeholder engagements across a diverse range of clients including early childhood education programs, K-12 school districts, and state and federal government agencies. As an expert designer of training models and change management strategies, she is equipped to lead organizations through planning processes that enhance the internal capacity needed to deliver quality services and systems change to deepen impact. Sara holds a Master’s Degree in Educational and Development Psychology and a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Development and Philosophy, both from Boston College.

    Contact: Sara Agostinho, humecollab@gmail.com

  • Larry Campbell, MA
    Principal of Campbell Coaching & Consulting LLC

    As an Executive Coach and Consultant Larry helps Directors build exceptional leadership teams. His familiarity as a former Executive Director of Head Start uniquely positions himself having walked in the Director’s “shoes.”   His expertise enables him to drive change using professional coaching techniques to help the C-Suite leaders achieve organizational effectiveness and implement strategic initiatives. From this vantage point he is very skillful at utilizing coordinated approaches to break silos, training Education Coaches on core tenants of professional coaching frameworks, building a culture of continuous quality improvement, cultivating programs capability to improve management systems, achieving long-range program goals, and solving systemic problems.  He also consults with Head Start board of directors supporting them in strategic planning as well the development of vision and mission statements.  Larry is available for keynote speaking engagements, Pre-Service and Professional Development days.

    Larry is a member of the Certified Coaches Alliance holding credentials in both executive and organizational development coaching. He also holds a certificate in Change Management from Cornell University.  Larry is a graduate of the UCLA Fellows Program.

     

  • Niki Spears
    Niki Spears, Founder/Chief Culture Creator

    Niki Spears is an Educator, Author, Motivational Speaker, and Founder of Culture Cre8ion who radiates a profound passion for empowering educators and leaders to reshape their lives and workplaces into extraordinary places of possibility. Drawing from her experience as a former Head Start Parent and Teacher, Niki’s wisdom blooms from over 25 years of experience in education. Niki witnessed firsthand the staggering impact negativity can have on a team’s mission—this sparked her passion to help others create and sustain positive culture.

    As the founder of Culture Cre8ion, Niki’s purpose found its wings. Here, she becomes a catalyst for transformation, supporting teams and organizations as they embrace a positive culture by understanding their personal energy and presence.

    Niki travels the country and journeys away from the conventional, choosing a path devoid of assurances but brimming with purpose. Through her vibrant and immersive keynotes, training, workshops, and coaching sessions, Niki and her team helps you unearth the tools to foster self-awareness, embrace personal responsibility, thrive amidst unforeseen circumstances, nurture the spark of creativity, and cultivate a culture of enCOURAGEment.

    Niki’s game-changing revelations rejuvenate spirits, igniting an immediate integration of fresh perspectives.

    Gather your aspirations and embark on a life-altering journey of self-discovery with Culture Cre8ioni, as possibilities unfold and challenges transform into steppingstones, propelling each person closer to their unique purpose.

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