Practice areas: Board Governance, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Executive Coaching, Executive Transition and Succession Planning, General Management, Leadership Development, Organizational Design and Structure, Programmatic Design, Strategic Planning, Vision/Values, Adaptive Planning, Team Development

Experience: Arts, culture, humanities; Diversity, equity, and inclusion; Women

Liz Dreyer focuses on discovering and implementing the conditions for new visions to blossom. Throughout her career—from independent stage management of new work, to founding and leading a successful for-profit/nonprofit experimental theater, to her current work in process facilitation, adaptive planning, leadership coaching, and program design, delivery, and management—she has created spaces for clients, artists, staff, board members, and community participants to think, develop, and evolve. Her work helps individuals, organizations, and communities learn how to live in the discomfort and ambiguity that emerges from tackling their most deep-set challenges.

Her approach is collaborative, working to envision, develop, and manage programs, policies, and procedures. From recruiting, onboarding, and supporting professional development to facilitating cross-team and cross-departmental learning, she brings experience in team development, optimizing interpersonal dynamics, questioning ingrained assumptions, designing and assessing prototyping efforts. She supports organizations in generating, testing, and implementing new strategies while building buy-in for evolving approaches.

Liz brings significant experience in planning and logistics, alongside a track record of working with diverse organizations and communities. She integrates equitable practices into organizational structures and processes, supporting efforts related to recruitment and retention, staff development, program design, and board engagement. She maintains an independent consulting practice and partners with organizations to design and implement initiatives that support growth and transformation, moving beyond initial ideas and “business as usual” toward “next practices.”

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