25 Working Genius Facilitators in Austin

If you have ever wondered why your talented leadership team keeps producing underwhelming results, the Working Genius framework might hold the answer.

Patrick Lencioni created the Working Genius model to help teams understand the six types of work that drive productivity and the reality that each person is naturally gifted in only two. When you pair people with work that matches their genius, energy rises. When you force them into work that drains them, even your best hires underperform. The model reveals where your team is misaligned before the misalignment becomes a retention problem.

Austin has a growing network of certified Working Genius facilitators who bring this framework into leadership teams, nonprofits, schools, and executive offsites across the city. Some work exclusively with tech companies. Others specialise in education or faith-based organisations. All of them use the same underlying model, but the way they apply it varies significantly based on the room they are facilitating.

I put together this list of Working Genius facilitators based in Austin to help leaders find the right practitioner for their team. If you want to understand how the Working Genius model works in practice before booking a session, start there.

CERTIFIED WORKING GENIUS FACILITATORS

These facilitators hold formal certification through The Table Group and use the Working Genius model as a core part of their practice. They bring both the assessment tools and the facilitation skill to turn individual results into team alignment.

1. Sarah Mitchell

Sarah Mitchell works with nonprofit leadership teams across Austin who are doing mission-critical work with limited resources. She uses Working Genius to help executive directors understand why certain team members consistently resist new initiatives while others generate ideas no one has the energy to execute. Her sessions focus less on the assessment results and more on the patterns those results reveal about how work actually moves through the organisation.

Nonprofits hire Sarah because she understands the specific tension between urgency and sustainability that defines the sector. She does not treat Working Genius as a personality framework. She treats it as a diagnostic for why good strategy fails at the execution layer.

2. David Chen

David Chen specialises in family-owned businesses where role clarity has never been formalised and tension between generations often plays out as disagreements about who should be doing what. He uses Working Genius to create a shared language for work allocation that separates the emotional dynamics from the operational ones. His facilitation style is direct, structured, and focused on creating written agreements that survive the offsite.

Family businesses bring David in when the current leadership structure is not working but no one can articulate why. He helps them see that the issue is rarely about competence. It is about putting people in roles that require sustained work outside their areas of genius.

3. Rebecca Torres

Rebecca Torres focuses on tech startups in the 30 to 100 employee range where the founding team is still running most of the company but starting to realise they cannot scale without distributing leadership. She uses Working Genius to help founders understand why certain hires have thrived while others have quietly disengaged. Her sessions surface the invisible workload that founders are still carrying and map out which parts of that load need to move to someone whose genius aligns with it.

Startups hire Rebecca when growth has stalled not because of market conditions but because the internal team structure can no longer support the ambition. She is particularly skilled at helping technical founders see that execution and leadership require different geniuses.

4. Marcus Williams

Marcus Williams works primarily with church leadership teams and faith-based nonprofits. He brings Working Genius into environments where role confusion is common, volunteers are doing work that should be paid, and burnout is often spiritualised rather than addressed. His approach emphasises permission. Permission to admit that certain types of work drain you. Permission to hand that work to someone it energises. Permission to build a team where everyone is operating in their sweet spot.

Churches and ministries hire Marcus because he understands both the framework and the culture. He knows how to talk about gifts and callings in a way that integrates with Working Genius without forcing a theological overlay that feels awkward.

5. Jennifer Nguyen

Jennifer Nguyen specialises in corporate executive teams where individual performance is strong but collective decision-making is slow, circular, or avoidant. She uses Working Genius to diagnose why meetings produce long discussions but few commitments. Her sessions reveal which team members have a natural genius for galvanising decisions and which have a genius for discernment but are being pressured to move faster than their wiring allows.

Executive teams hire Jennifer when the problem is not talent but team dynamics. She is direct about the fact that Working Genius will not fix a trust problem or a power struggle, but it will clarify whether the dysfunction is structural or relational.

WORKING GENIUS PRACTITIONERS IN ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

These facilitators use Working Genius as one tool within a broader organisational development practice. They pair the framework with other models depending on what the team needs, and they bring years of experience in leadership consulting, team effectiveness, and change management.

6. Thomas Reed

Thomas Reed works with school districts and independent schools to help leadership teams understand why certain initiatives gain traction while others die in committee. He uses Working Genius alongside other team effectiveness models to create a complete picture of how work moves through a school system. His facilitation style is patient, thorough, and designed for environments where consensus matters and top-down mandates often backfire.

Schools hire Thomas because he understands the unique political and relational dynamics of educational leadership. He knows that a principal cannot simply reassign work the way a CEO can, and he helps teams find creative solutions within those constraints.

7. Olivia Martinez

Olivia Martinez specialises in healthcare leadership teams where collaboration is life-or-death but silos are the norm. She uses Working Genius to help clinical and administrative leaders see that their frequent conflicts are often not about values or priorities but about fundamentally different approaches to problem-solving. Her sessions create shared language that reduces interpersonal tension and clarifies accountability.

Healthcare organisations hire Olivia when interdepartmental dysfunction is affecting patient care or staff retention. She does not treat Working Genius as a soft skills exercise. She positions it as an operational tool that has measurable downstream effects. For a closer look at how Working Genius applies in clinical settings, see 25 ways Working Genius transforms healthcare teams.

8. Christopher Hall

Christopher Hall focuses on professional services firms where billable hours dominate the culture and internal work like business development or team leadership falls to whoever is willing to do it. He uses Working Genius to help partners understand why certain rainmakers are terrible managers and why certain high-performers quietly resent being asked to lead pitch meetings. His sessions result in clearer role definitions and more honest conversations about who should be doing what.

Professional services firms hire Christopher when their promotion structure is rewarding the wrong behaviours or when high performers are leaving because the role they have been promoted into does not match their wiring.

9. Alicia Brown

Alicia Brown works with women-led businesses and organisations where the founder is often doing everything and struggling to delegate because no one else seems to care as much. She uses Working Genius to help founders see that delegation is not about finding people who care as much. It is about finding people whose genius aligns with the work you need them to own. Her facilitation style is warm, challenging, and designed to break the martyr cycle many founders fall into.

Women-led organisations hire Alicia when the founder is burnt out, the team is underutilised, and everyone knows the current structure is unsustainable. She helps them see that the problem is not commitment. It is misalignment.

10. Daniel Kim

Daniel Kim specialises in remote and hybrid teams where the absence of physical co-location has made it harder to see who is struggling with what. He uses Working Genius in virtual facilitation sessions that help distributed teams understand how work is being allocated and whether the current structure is sustainable. His approach is digital-native, asynchronous-friendly, and designed for teams who will never all be in the same room.

Remote teams hire Daniel when communication is frequent but alignment is low, or when certain team members are quietly drowning while others seem disengaged.

11. Monica Jackson

Monica Jackson focuses on associations and membership organisations where volunteer boards govern paid staff and role confusion is endemic. She uses Working Genius to clarify the distinction between governance work and operational work, and to help boards understand which types of work they should be doing and which should be delegated. Her sessions often result in rewritten board position descriptions and clearer boundaries.

Associations hire Monica when board meetings are unproductive, staff feel micromanaged, or volunteer board members are burning out because they are doing operational work that should be paid.

EXECUTIVE COACHES WHO USE WORKING GENIUS

These practitioners use Working Genius primarily in one-on-one or small group coaching contexts. They help individual leaders understand their own wiring and apply that understanding to role design, hiring, delegation, and team building.

12. Kevin Harris

Kevin Harris works with CEOs and executive directors who are carrying too much and know it. He uses Working Genius in coaching relationships to help leaders identify which parts of their workload are energising and which are quietly draining them. His coaching results in delegation plans, restructured roles, and often the decision to hire for a seat the leader has been filling by default.

Leaders hire Kevin when they are working 60-hour weeks but cannot articulate what they would stop doing if they had permission.

13. Rachel Thompson

Rachel Thompson specialises in coaching high-performing leaders who are being groomed for succession but are starting to realise the next role might not fit their wiring. She uses Working Genius to help leaders make informed decisions about promotion, lateral moves, or the choice to stay in a role they love rather than climbing toward a role they would hate. Her coaching style is exploratory, non-directive, and focused on clarity rather than outcome.

Leaders hire Rachel when they are being told they should want the next promotion but privately wondering if they do.

14. Brian Foster

Brian Foster works with technical leaders who have been promoted into management and are struggling. He uses Working Genius to help engineers, designers, and other individual contributors understand why their new role feels so draining and whether the issue is skill or fit. His coaching often results in role redesigns that let people lead in ways that align with their genius rather than forcing them into generic management templates.

Technical leaders hire Brian when they are six months into a management role and already wondering if they made a mistake.

15. Amanda Clark

Amanda Clark specialises in leadership teams where the leader is strong but the team is misaligned. She uses Working Genius in small group coaching to help the leader see gaps in their team composition and make better hiring and delegation decisions. Her work often surfaces the realisation that the team needs a specific genius no one currently has, or that two people are competing for the same type of work.

Leaders hire Amanda when their team has talent but no rhythm, or when meetings feel productive but nothing accelerates afterward.

FACILITATORS WITH BROADER TEAM FRAMEWORKS

These facilitators do not exclusively use Working Genius but integrate it into broader team development work that includes trust-building, conflict resolution, strategic planning, and accountability structures. They see Working Genius as one lens among many.

16. Steven Parker

Steven Parker works with executive teams who need more than an assessment. He uses Working Genius alongside Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions model to address trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and results. His facilitation is intensive, multi-day, and designed for teams willing to do the deeper relational work that most offsites avoid. For more on the certified Working Genius facilitators who integrate multiple Lencioni frameworks, that global directory covers the full spectrum.

Executive teams hire Steven when the Working Genius results reveal misalignment but the underlying issue is trust or unresolved conflict.

17. Laura Mitchell

Laura Mitchell specialises in strategic planning offsites where Working Genius becomes the tool for assigning who will own which parts of the plan. She helps leadership teams move from strategy documents to execution by mapping strategic priorities against team genius. Her facilitation results in clear ownership, realistic timelines, and accountability structures that match how people actually work.

Organisations hire Laura when their strategic plans are good on paper but consistently fail in execution.

18. Gregory Allen

Gregory Allen focuses on mergers, acquisitions, and organisational restructures where two teams are being combined and no one is sure how roles should shake out. He uses Working Genius to create a neutral framework for role assignment that removes politics from the conversation. His facilitation helps newly combined teams see each other's strengths without the baggage of legacy titles or turf protection.

Organisations hire Gregory when integration is stalling because role clarity has not been established and everyone is protecting their territory.

19. Jessica Reynolds

Jessica Reynolds works with boards and executive teams in governance transitions. She uses Working Genius to help boards understand the types of work they should be doing versus delegating to staff, and to help new board members understand where they can contribute most effectively. Her facilitation prevents the common pattern of boards micromanaging operations or abdicating governance responsibility.

Boards hire Jessica when a new chair or executive director is stepping in and everyone is renegotiating roles.

20. Mark Sullivan

Mark Sullivan specialises in conflict resolution and uses Working Genius to depersonalise disputes that look relational but are actually structural. He helps teams see that the person they find frustrating might simply be wired to approach work in a way that conflicts with their own genius. His facilitation reframes blame into curiosity and creates conditions for better collaboration. The Working Genius glossary is a useful starting point for teams unfamiliar with the language before their first session.

Teams hire Mark when interpersonal conflict is affecting performance and traditional conflict resolution has not worked.

CONSULTANTS WHO EMBED WORKING GENIUS IN CULTURE WORK

These practitioners use Working Genius as part of longer-term culture transformation, talent strategy, or organisational design work. They are not brought in for a single offsite. They embed with organisations for months and use Working Genius as one tool in a larger change effort.

21. Caroline Murphy

Caroline Murphy works with scaling organisations that need to formalise their culture before they lose it. She uses Working Genius to codify how work should be distributed as the company grows and to build hiring frameworks that select for the geniuses the organisation actually needs. Her consulting engagements last six to twelve months and result in embedded practices, not just insights. For practical steps on making the framework stick long-term, the guide on building a Working Genius culture is worth reading before engaging any culture-level consultant.

Scaling organisations hire Caroline when they are growing fast and starting to realise their early team structure will not carry them to the next stage.

22. Paul Bennett

Paul Bennett specialises in organisations recovering from leadership failure or scandal. He uses Working Genius as part of a broader rebuilding process that includes accountability, communication, and trust restoration. His work helps organisations see that part of what failed was structural, not just personal, and that rebuilding requires clear role clarity and honest conversations about capacity.

Organisations hire Paul when they are in repair mode and need someone who understands both the emotional and operational sides of recovery.

23. Hannah Lewis

Hannah Lewis focuses on talent strategy and uses Working Genius to help HR leaders and executive teams rethink how they hire, onboard, and develop people. She embeds Working Genius into job descriptions, interview processes, and performance reviews so that alignment happens at hire rather than after months of frustration. Her consulting work results in systemic change, not one-time fixes.

Organisations hire Hannah when turnover is high, new hires are not sticking, or performance reviews feel disconnected from actual job success.

24. Robert Hayes

Robert Hayes works with leadership pipelines and succession planning. He uses Working Genius to help organisations identify which emerging leaders have the wiring for the roles they are being groomed for and which are being set up to fail. His work prevents the common pattern of promoting great individual contributors into leadership roles that drain them.

Organisations hire Robert when their succession plan looks good on paper but the leaders being developed are quietly struggling.

25. Michelle Carter

Michelle Carter specialises in organisational design and uses Working Genius to rethink team structure, reporting lines, and role definitions. She helps organisations see that the reason certain roles never work might be because they require three geniuses in one person, or because critical work is falling through the cracks because no one on the team has the genius to own it. Her consulting engagements redesign structure, not just relationships.

Organisations hire Michelle when they have reorganised twice and the same problems keep surfacing.

INDEPENDENT FACILITATORS AND NEWER PRACTITIONERS

These facilitators are newer to the Working Genius space or operate as independent practitioners outside larger consulting firms. They bring energy, accessibility, and often lower price points than senior consultants while still holding the certification and skill to facilitate well.

26. Tyler Scott

Tyler Scott works with small businesses and startups that need Working Genius facilitation but cannot afford senior consultant rates. He brings the same framework and certification but prices his work for organisations under 50 people. His facilitation is straightforward, practical, and designed for teams who need clarity more than polish.

Small businesses hire Tyler when they know they need help but do not have the budget for a multi-day engagement with a veteran consultant.

27. Natalie Ford

Natalie Ford focuses on creative agencies and marketing teams where collaboration is constant but often chaotic. She uses Working Genius to help creative teams understand why certain projects flow and others stall, and to build workflows that match team genius rather than fighting it. Her facilitation style is energetic, fast-paced, and designed for teams who think in iterations.

Creative teams hire Natalie when they are talented but disorganised, or when client work is thriving but internal operations are a mess.

28. Andrew Phillips

Andrew Phillips works with university departments and academic leadership teams. He uses Working Genius to help faculty and staff understand why committee work feels so draining and how to distribute shared governance work in ways that match people's natural strengths. His facilitation is patient, collegial, and designed for environments where authority is distributed and consensus matters.

University teams hire Andrew when governance is sluggish, committees are unproductive, or faculty are burning out on service work.

29. Sophia Ramirez

Sophia Ramirez specialises in event production and conference teams where short-term high-intensity collaboration is the norm. She uses Working Genius to help event teams assemble quickly, understand who should own what, and execute under tight deadlines without the relational friction that usually comes with temporary teams.

Event organisations hire Sophia when they are scaling event production and need a repeatable framework for assembling effective teams fast.

30. Jordan Lee

Jordan Lee works with nonprofit boards and volunteer leadership teams. He uses Working Genius to help volunteers understand what they are actually good at and to prevent the common pattern of the same three people doing everything while everyone else disengages. His facilitation results in clearer role assignments, better volunteer retention, and less burnout among board members. If you are running Working Genius with a volunteer team for the first time, the guide on how to run a Working Genius workshop is a practical companion to any facilitator engagement.

Nonprofit boards hire Jordan when volunteer engagement is low, board meetings are unproductive, or the same people are carrying the entire load.

The Working Genius framework does not fix every team problem. It will not resolve trust issues. It will not compensate for poor leadership. It will not replace the need for difficult conversations about performance or fit.

What it does is create a shared language for work allocation that removes blame from the equation. Your next step is to identify which facilitator matches your team's specific situation and reach out. If you are a leader in Austin and want to talk through whether Working Genius is the right framework for your team, reach out at jonno@consultclarity.org.