Ready to be courageous and discover new ways to communicate, learn and act? Comunica’s expertise enables creative interaction while deconstructing the traditional mindset of meetings, conversations and learning environments.
The world is challenging us to step into unknown territory — to find ways to work creatively to be healthy, successful and sustainable. Conversations designed to explore each other’s thinking and to build our collective IQ are critical to successfully navigate this fluid landscape. Comunica designs meetings, conferences and initiatives that harness the brainpower of diverse perspectives. We work with leaders and organizations to achieve innovative, inspired results using collaborative methods that bring out the best in people.
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Comunica is a creative partner. We imagine engaging ways to learn, invent and plan together. We work with you to create conversations and interactions to inspire, to build relationships, to energize and to put ideas into action. Contributing years of experience in group process methods and frameworks, Comunica structures meetings and coaches leadership to achieve organizational goals and bring out the best in people.
Comunica has developed a collaborative planning approach that provides a way for people throughout the organization or community to participate in creating the future they envision. This approach incorporates a series of meaningful conversations to capture critical insights and collective wisdom while building a robust plan. Commitment to the plan is established throughout the process to ensure effective execution.
Comunica designs practice fields where people experiment and learn together in the context of current work issues and opportunities. New concepts and tools are introduced through application to relevant situations in hands-on workshops. Topics include:
Comunica designs an experience and environment to inspire invention and possibility. Think tanks provide ways to incite each other to think and act differently. Teams (composed of cross-functional members, partners, customers, diverse stakeholders) tap collective IQ and build commitment to collaborative action.
Comunica brings to life the exchange of knowledge and experience through conversations that are linked and networked to discover new resources and forge connections. Comunica has found ways to bring the valuable, informal networking which often occurs outside the meeting room, inside, with a strong focus on what matters most to the community. facilitate meetings that work!
Keynotes can be interactive and conversational. Comunica stimulates new thinking with stories, powerful questions, images and “tried and true” tools. People in the room are directly involved in exploration.
Topics include:In summits, global forums, conferences, Comunica creates experiences where people collaborate, innovate and build community. People develop a shared vision, a sense of community and find new ways of working and learning together. Comunica offers: energizers to launch a meeting, networking activities to build relationships, creative visioning sessions and networked learning experiences.
(for leaders and teams, roundtable seminars, facilitation) Comunica works as an on-call resource in ongoing relationships with clients. Comunica helps teams and groups navigate difficult issues and challenges by phone or in facilitated seminars and staff meetings. Comunica helps leaders prepare leadership communication and facilitate meetings that work!
The function of a multinational company needed to shift its role from providing support to active leadership in the business. Comunica joined a diverse team (senior leadership, internal and external consultants to design an ongoing institute for learning. In workshops around the world, people learned and practiced new leadership. In a global meeting, the entire group convened to share knowledge and launch a system-wide networked community.
A group of independent nonprofit foundations saw the need to form a collaborative in order to achieve dramatic education reform that none could achieve alone. Comunica designed a process for members to leverage opportunities and explore ways to support their shared vision and each other’s work.
A growing communications company merged with another company to take advantage of new technology. People who feared they may not have a place or skills to do the new work became committed ambassadors through a series of networked conversations designed to answer questions and build understanding about the change and its possibilities.
A Fortune 500 Company embarked on an initiative to increase alignment across the global system. Comunica designed a Meeting to Learn to bring the global team together for a four-day interactive experience. Multiple stakeholders (field, corporate, external business partners) established common ground and built agreements that would strengthen the business of each stakeholder as well as the system.
A healthcare manufacturer was determined to understand customers’ needs in the rapidly changing surgical environment with more targeted innovation. Comunica designed and facilitated a collaborative Think Tank of healthcare leaders, inventors, customer service, and sales. Over a period of two years, members explored what they didn’t know and what kept them up at night in a series of think tanks. They analyzed “work-arounds” and laborious processes to invent new tools. Together they tackled challenges that healthcare workers believed impossible to solve and created a network of learning partners across the country.
In 1993 Piper Leigh founded Comunica Learning Partners, Inc., a consulting firm that creates interactive forums, learning labs and workshops to help leaders and teams communicate, collaborate and innovate. As a skilled practitioner in the field of interactive learning design for 20 years, she guides leaders and groups as they convert ideas into action. “I love to help unfold new possibilities and innovation through conversation and shared experience.” Piper is the author of a series of books, “Art & Science of: Courageous Conversation,” “Art & Science of: Innovation,” “Art & Science of: Conflict into Synergy,” and “Art & Science of: Meetings that Work.” She attended Carleton College and received a masters degree in Information Science from the University of Wisconsin.
A poet, photographer and book maker, Piper sees poetry as a conversation—listening and meaning-making, the weave of community. The practice of poetry provides immediacy, joy and directs attention to our unique experience of life and our connections with each other. She has published books of poetry and photography as well as participated in collaborative art projects. Living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she enjoys backpacking, river rafting and bicycling close to home and appreciates travel and collaboration with colleagues around the world.
Comunica
1204 San Jose Avenue
Santa Fe, New Mexico
87505
505 820 7651
piperleigh@comunica.com