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Build skills, trust, and alignment across your team.

Build skills, trust, and alignment across your team.




This might be for you if…

You’re planning a retreat, launching a new initiative, or building management and team capacity—but you don’t want a generic training. You want an experience that’s interactive, equity-informed, and deeply tailored to your team’s real-time challenges and opportunities.

BFM’s Process

People

We begin by understanding the strengths and dynamics of your team—what they need to grow and how they learn best.

Pathway

Based on your goals, we co-design a learning arc or facilitation plan that delivers the right content in the right way.

Practice

Through highly experiential workshops, strategic retreats, and training sessions, we help your team build new habits, shared language, and stronger collaboration.

Progress

We use feedback loops and participant reflection to assess learning and engagement—ensuring the experience leads to real change.

This might be for you if…

You’re planning a retreat, launching a new initiative, or building management and team capacity—but you don’t want a generic training. You want an experience that’s interactive, equity-informed, and deeply tailored to your team’s real-time challenges and opportunities.

Our Approach

People

We begin by understanding the strengths and dynamics of your team—what they need to grow and how they learn best.

Pathway

Based on your goals, we co-design a learning arc or facilitation plan that delivers the right content in the right way.

Practice

Through highly experiential workshops, strategic retreats, and training sessions, we help your team build new habits, shared language, and stronger collaboration.

Progress

We use feedback loops and participant reflection to assess learning and engagement—ensuring the experience leads to real change.

Tailored Learning for Impact

We design and deliver interactive learning experiences that build stronger teams, grow leadership capacity, and embed values into daily practice. Every session is tailored to your goals, strategy, and context—whether you’re training new managers, strengthening board engagement, or equipping your entire staff.

Flexible Formats & Custom Content

Our learning sessions are available in-person, virtual, or hybrid and range from foundational to advanced. We offer a robust library of proven content that can be adapted for different audiences—from frontline staff to executives—and aligned to your organization’s learning goals.

For Managers & Leaders

  • Managing High-Performing Teams – Learn practical frameworks to boost engagement, accountability, and trust across your team.

  • Coaching & Developing Talent – Equip managers to provide feedback, unlock potential, and support individual growth.

  • Managing Change – Lead through transitions with greater clarity, empathy, and stakeholder alignment.

  • Board Retreat Facilitation – Facilitate strategic alignment, deepen governance capacity, and engage board members meaningfully.

  • Leadership & Management Series – A modular learning arc designed to develop confident, values-driven leaders.

  • Servant Leadership – Shift from command-and-control to people-centered leadership that advances mission and impact.

  • Executive Team’s Role in Leading Culture – Align top leadership on how to model, reinforce, and steward organizational culture.

  • Managing Global Teams – Cultivate collaboration, inclusion, and clear communication across regions and cultures.

For Teams & Org-Wide

  • Staff Retreat Facilitation – Design and facilitate retreats that renew purpose, deepen relationships, and drive team clarity.

  • Customized Team Engagement Series – Curated multi-session learning to align, energize, and equip cross-functional and inter-departmental teams.

  • Project Management – Create a shared, scalable approach to managing work across teams—so projects move forward with clarity.

  • Community Organizing & Movement-Building – Develop collective leadership, campaign strategy, and public narrative to drive change.

  • Psychological Safety at Work – Build a culture of trust, voice, and belonging to improve collaboration and innovation.

For Professionals

  • Navigating Difficult Conversations – Build confidence to address performance, feedback, and conflict with clarity and care.

  • Public Narrative – Craft a compelling, values-driven story that mobilizes support and drives action.

  • Understanding Workstyle & Lens – Use data-informed insights to understand individual workstyles and improve collaboration.

  • Managing Up – Learn strategies to communicate effectively, advocate for your needs, and build trust across power dynamics.

  • Navigating Your Career – Build clarity and agency in your career journey—within or beyond your current role.

For HR and Advanced Professionals

  • Best Practices in Hiring High-Performing Teams – Design hiring practices that attract top talent aligned with your mission.

  • Org-Wide Dialogue Groups – Facilitate structured dialogue across roles and teams to build alignment and connection.

  • Train-the-Facilitator Series + Certification – Equip internal facilitators with tools to lead inclusive and engaging sessions.

  • TalentEQ Learning Series – Explore complex people challenges through expert-moderated discussions that balance empathy and analysis.

For Speaking Engagements

  • Keynotes – Inspire and challenge audiences with fresh insights on leadership, culture, and equity.

  • Workshops – Deliver hands-on learning experiences for conferences or partner events.

  • Podcasts – Share stories and strategies with broader audiences.

  • Guest Lectures – Engage academic or fellowship audiences with real-world insights and case examples.

  • Webinars – Compelling virtual learning experience that builds capacity for a wide audience.

Learning Management System

BFM’s Learning Management System makes it easy to scale high-impact learning across your organization. With on-demand access to curated content, custom pathways for different roles, and embedded reflection prompts, the LMS extends learning beyond the workshop. It’s an effective, sustainable way to reinforce culture and deepen internal capacity over time.

Trusted by leaders. Grounded in results.

Every organization we work with brings a unique mission, and together, we move it forward. Our clients share how BFM’s people-first strategies, customized support, and lasting partnerships have transformed their teams, culture, and outcomes.

Impact & Insights

Oak Street Health

Summary:

Our partners at Oak Street Health were looking to focus on applying a values lens to their work.  This included cultivating greater belonging among their team as they continued to build an organization with greater belonging. BFM’s work proposal included space for Oak Street Health’s leadership to deepen their understanding of how their personal experience and values were reflected in their approach to working with others. We also helped them understand the skills needed to lead intentionally, and set next steps to implement a culture of belonging at Oak Street Health.

“I took away a range of insights that will help me be a more effective leader – both introducing new concepts and considerations and helping me mature my understanding and thinking in areas where I had existing insights.”

CHI

Summary:

Building for Mission partnered with Centering Healthcare Institute to strengthen learning and collaboration during an intense period of growth for their organization. Our work focused on high-impact training and facilitated experiences—including two staff retreats, a multi-day leadership retreat, and customized project management training. Through these engagements, CHI teams deepened their ability to navigate change, clarify roles, and build cross-functional alignment.

Participants consistently rated BFM’s facilitation highly, noting the engaging design, relevance to their day-to-day work, and practical tools—like the MOCHA stakeholder model—that they continue to apply in real-time. From strategic planning to strengthening team dynamics, BFM helped CHI leaders and staff build the skills and shared language needed to lead effectively through complexity.

“BFM facilitators were amazing, the activities they presented were thoughtful and meaningful. If they have workshops that can be attended by anyone then sign me up!”

Give your org a learning experience they won’t forget

Schedule a free 30-min consult with BFM about learning opportunities