Getting from your current state to your desired state can present challenges for the team who is committed to getting you there.

Managing those challenges is essential to achieving results.

And yet, most project teams lack the skills and support to effectively navigate these unavoidable challenges – and even better, to use those conflicts as a catalyst for change.

That’s where Halcyon comes in.

Working with mission-driven organizations, we combine proprietary project management prowess with professional mediation, research, and facilitation skills.

So you get optimal results. And a process with your team members that is a source of growth and transformation.

This isn’t just project management. It’s project LEADERSHIP.

And it’s why 100% of our clients would hire us again.

The higher bar that Halcyon sets ensures your custom projects and change-transformation initiatives:

• Tap all individual and collective skills, talents, voices, and contributions of your team
• Apply qualitative research-backed efforts that uncover the most critical needs among customers, stakeholders, and employees
• Run more efficiently via consensus-driven, stabilizing facilitation
• Foster a more stable culture with inspired, engaged employees who stay longer
• Build diverse coalitions in environments that support psychological safety
• Achieve ambitious and high-visibility policy goals and ROI

Katherine Boyd

Change Management & Strategic Planning

Katherine Boyd is a certified project management professional (PMP) and change management specialist (CMS) with 15 years of experience. She specializes in public sector and non-profit organizations. Katherine helps clients take the next step to achieving their vision, by planning and accomplishing complex projects to achieve ambitious and important policy goals. She takes pride in going the extra mile, because she truly cares about and believes in the success of her clients. As a facilitator, certified mediator, and business analyst for data systems development, Katherine has extensive experience in working with large-scale, diverse teams and coalitions. She often partners with designers, data analysts, editors, writers, program managers, and executive leadership to produce positive, successful outcomes. She is also a talented writer, with several published public-sector plans and reports.

Martha Burwell

Change Management

Martha is a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) expert with a focus on intersectional gender equity. Her specialty using data and research to pinpoint DEI opportunities with small companies, then using a design-based approach to translate that data into positive action. In addition to her work on the Halcyon Northwest change management team, she also leads Martha Burwell Consulting.

Bridget Eileen Manalo

Project Management

Bridget is a passionate communications-centered project manager, focusing on team dynamics and clear messaging to deliver results. She is a certified project master and has demonstrated success leading large-scale events and change management projects.

Bridget has experience in working with cross-functional teams and understanding communication barriers. She also has an entrepreneurial eye targeting process improvement, program language, and mentorship while creating opportunities to market success.

Chinua Lambie

Project Management

Chinua is a forward-thinking leader who brings 15 years of experience delivering business transformation, workflow optimization and technology solutions for evolving organizations. His experience spans implementation of systems for managing data, people, and enterprise resource planning. Chinua has a demonstrated track record of success in on-time, on-budget delivery and excels at leading and aligning people, technology, and processes to drive scalable change across complex and decentralized organizations.

Bill Braswell

Process Improvement

Bill is a process improvement consultant with more than 20 years of experience in leveraging Lean concepts and Organization Development, including a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt from the Management and Strategy Institute. He has a talent for bringing together diverse groups to identify priorities and to ensure buy-in for transformation efforts. His specialty is in coaching staff and leaders to excel in their roles and to continuously seek excellence.

Kathryn Bost

Business Development Lead

​Kathryn Bost has been supporting marketing teams for over 25 years by finding project opportunities, developing subconsultant teams, and submitting winning proposals. From her work in engineering, architecture, and communications firms, she has developed significant expertise in navigating public agencies and procurement processes. She specializes in working with small and disadvantaged firms to help them develop new markets, expand their connections, and win more work.