Better ways to lead and work together.
Practical workshops in trauma-informed and transformational leadership for mission-driven organizations. Strengthen communication, improve decision-making, and give your team tools for working together under pressure.
Commitment alone can’t resolve how work gets done.
What the training addresses.
Your team may care deeply about the mission and still struggle with:
✓ Decisions that stall or repeatedly return to one person.
✓ People responsible for results without the authority or support to deliver.
✓ Workloads that depend on committed people continually stretching beyond capacity.
✓ Staff who stop offering ideas because their input rarely influences what happens.
✓ Good people leaving—and taking valuable knowledge with them.
v Changes that look right on paper but never become how the organization works.
Our workshops help leaders and teams address the everyday practices behind these patterns, building the capacity to work differently and sustain change.
Strategic & Organizational Consulting
When priorities compete, growth stretches your team, or decisions keep returning to one person, we help clarify what your organization can realistically accomplish—and how the work should be organized.
Together, we assess commitments against available capacity, identify where responsibilities and authority are misaligned, and establish who decides, who contributes, and who owns the next step.
Your engagement can include: a focused strategic plan, an assessment of staffing and capacity, clarified roles and decision-making authority, and an implementation roadmap with priorities, owners, and timelines.
Fractional COO & CFO
When an executive seat is empty or your organization needs more senior capacity, we step into an ongoing leadership role to help manage the work and move decisions forward.
As fractional COO, support can include coordinating operations, supervising staff, improving workflows, and leading cross-functional priorities. As fractional CFO, it can include overseeing budgets and cash flow, developing forecasts, preparing board reports, and helping leaders evaluate financial trade-offs.
Your engagement can include: an agreed portfolio of executive responsibilities, a regular leadership presence, financial and operational oversight, and hands-on accountability for implementation.
Financial & Operational Consulting
When funding shifts, a budget gap emerges, or your board needs a clearer picture before making a major decision, we help turn financial information into practical choices.
We examine revenue, expenses, cash flow, and the processes behind the numbers. Then we build forecasts and scenarios that show what different choices would mean for staffing, programs, and your ability to sustain the work.
Your engagement can include: an operating budget, cash-flow forecast, funding and staffing scenarios, board financial reports, and a plan to bring costs, workloads, and operations into alignment.
Change & Implementation
When you’re restructuring, adjusting to reduced funding, introducing new systems, or navigating a leadership transition, we help turn the decision into a coordinated process people can follow.
We map what will change, what needs to keep running, and who will be affected. Then we work alongside your team to sequence the work, communicate expectations, resolve obstacles, and adjust workloads as new practices take hold. A trauma-informed approach brings clarity, predictability, and opportunities for input throughout the process.
Your engagement can include: a transition or implementation plan, staff communications, revised workflows and responsibilities, updated procedures, and team training to help sustain the changes.
Turn the challenges into a workable plan.
Executive experience. Hands-on partnership.
I’m Jen Hutchinson, founder of Transform Together. My experience spans CFO, fractional COO, founder, and board treasurer roles. I’ve helped grow a business from $12 million to $35 million in revenue, supported organizations through financial and operational change, and worked alongside teams turning ambitious missions into practical action.
I bring that experience to the decisions, systems, and working relationships that shape your organization’s ability to deliver.
Highlights:
Client experiences:
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“Jen’s forecast modeling gave our trustees the clarity we needed to move forward on a $40 million affordable housing project. She translated complex financial scenarios into something our whole board could understand and act on. We made our decisions with confidence because of her work.”
— Maya Dunne, Maya Dunne & Associates, Chair of Trustees, Neighborhood Congregational Church Laguna Beach
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“Jen came in as our fractional COO and changed the trajectory of the company. She helped us raise $2.25 million, built the financial, operational, and production systems we needed to scale, and cut our production costs by 40%. We went into our growth phase on a foundation that could actually hold it.”
— Chris Boucher, COO, JuiceTiva