About

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Participatory Facilitator  





Visionary Project Manager

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Change Catalyst  

​Welcome!

My name is Kyler Grandkoski (he/him/el), the Founder and Lead Facilitator of Aligned Action. I support community-centered organizations and initiatives in change making through highly participatory processes that lead to collective resolve, action and impact. I built my tool box as a local food systems leader affecting collaborative change in the American Southwest and Pacific Northwest working with diverse stakeholders from the grassroots to state and federal institutions. Having held leadership positions in both nonprofit and private sectors I foster wide reaching understanding and commonality.   
 
My facilitation services are grounded in the following values:

• Participation: Everyone’s voice is valued, heard, considered. No one has all the answers. The diversity and experience in the room holds more intelligence than the individual or parts.
• Trust: Trust in the process.  Trust who is in the room. Trust in your value and contribution.
• Alignment: Exploration and articulation of values, vision, mission, strategy, and the coalescence of these energies in service to the defined 'IT'.
• Curiosity: We don’t know what we don’t know until we know, and we can’t get there if we think we know.
• Action: Collective and personal commitment to, and accountability for, the co-created big and small steps. 
• Refinement: Life is based on change or it would not be.  We have to be adaptable, learn from challenge, adjust, evolve, change, repeat anew.  Iterate!

I have training in: ToP (Technology of Participation) Strategic Planning, ToP (Technology of Participation) Facilitation Methods, Liberating Structures, Holistic Decision Making, Results-Oriented Management and Accountability, Facilitating Racially Just Spaces, Being an Ally in Indian Country, Cultural Humility, and more.  I received BA degrees in Communication Theory and Spanish from the University of Portland. (Se habla español.) 

I engage in culture-shifting civic duty with on-going volunteer support to the following organizations:

• Durango Wild Soul - Co-founder, Advisory Council 
• La Plata Food Equity Coalition -  General Member
• SW Colorado Equitable Land Access Coalition - Collaborating Member, Workgroup Facilitator

Contact me for a scope of work in support of your team!

​See who I've worked with.

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​​​“If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important - and you do that by being genuine and humble.”  

- ​Nelson Mandela