Our Team
LOLA ELFMAN IS A CERTIFIED LEADERSHIP COACH AND MASTER TRAINER WITH PASSION FOR CREATIVE LEARNING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
For over 20 years, Lola’s work has focused on developing strong leaders and teams through community building. From leading the “bootcamp” training programs and RootsCamp ‘unconference’ at New Organizing Institute to scaling global organizations like Change.org, she has worked with leaders and organizations at all stages of growth. She has set the standard for engaging and productive team retreats with groups like UltraViolet and Coworker.org, meaningful management practices with groups like ActBlue, and was deemed the “Chief Listening Officer” by her peers at Change.org.
Lola believes that everyone is a leader, not just the people in the C-Suite, and that everyone has the potential to positively impact their organization, their families, and the world. By approaching her clients holistically as leaders, parents, and partners, Lola supports people in becoming their best selves in both work and in daily life.
LOLa elfman
Founder and CEO, She/Hers
HOLLY WITHERINGTON IS A CERTIFIED HUMAN RESOURCES PROFESSIONAL WITH OVER 15 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WORKING TO GROW, DEVELOP, AND CULTIVATE MEANINGFUL COMMUNITIES OF PEOPLE
She helps create dynamic teams by building inclusive organizational cultures and structures that provide nurturing environments where teams and leaders can thrive and have a profound impact. She's highly intuitive and deeply passionate about bringing people together and unlocking their collective potential to lead and flourish.
Holly has held a variety of roles in business management and non-profit advocacy where she focused on cultivating healthy and impactful teams. In addition to managing DevelopWell, she works with a variety of clients on creating sustainable, people focused work cultures and human resources practices.
Holly Witherington
COO and Partner, She/Hers
Phoebe is a proponent of people-first working relationships and process-person who loves to support teams in transition.
Building on their experience of people, program, and project management across sectors, including nonprofit workforce development programs and democracy reform, Phoebe brings a harm reduction framework to team dynamics and workplace culture. They believe intersectional equity and whole-personhood in the workplace is integral to creating and maintaining sustainable working relationships, and in turn, builds tools for individuals and teams to dismantle systemic inequities both within their teams and in the world.
phoebe sanders
Consulting Coordinator, They/Them
MAIA MAREŠ IS A CAPACITY BUILDER, FACILITATOR, AND A TOTAL NERD ABOUT PROCESS
They have experience in digital organizing, grassroots fundraising, communications, and project management, having worked in organizations across the country, from New York to Minnesota to Alaska.
They are committed to leveraging their skills and resources to support groups of people, organizations, and movements working toward social change and collective liberation.
Maia strongly believes that the daily, habitual ways in which people communicate with each other and work together are fertile ground for shifting the culture of groups and organizations away from supremacy-based thinking and toward more equitable and human working relationships.
Maia Mares
Senior Consultant, They/Them