25 Working Genius Facilitators in Houston Teams Trust

If your leadership team nods during strategy sessions but nothing shifts when everyone returns to their desks, the problem is not your strategy.

The problem is that you are asking people to execute work their brains are not wired to do. Working Genius reveals which types of work energise each person on your team and which types drain them. When a facilitator uses the model well, the team stops pretending alignment exists and starts building the kind of clarity that produces real change. Most teams in Houston have talented people sitting in the wrong seats, doing work that exhausts them while the work they were built for goes undone.

I put together this list of 25 Working Genius facilitators in Houston who can walk your team through the assessment and help you redesign how work actually gets done.

These facilitators are Certified Working Genius practitioners who understand the framework and know how to apply it inside real teams facing real friction. They work with school leadership teams, nonprofit executives, corporate teams, and association boards. The list includes people who facilitate full-day sessions, people who integrate Working Genius into broader leadership development programmes, and people who use it as a diagnostic tool during team offsites. Selection was based on certification status, experience facilitating in Houston or surrounding areas, and a track record of working with senior teams where the stakes are high and the dysfunction is costly.

CERTIFIED WORKING GENIUS FACILITATORS IN HOUSTON

This section features facilitators who hold formal certification in the Working Genius model and are based in or regularly work in the Houston area. These are practitioners who can deliver assessments, debrief results, and facilitate team sessions that move from insight to implementation. Most of them also integrate Working Genius into broader consulting or leadership development work, which means the model becomes part of a longer engagement rather than a standalone session.

1. Jonno White

Jonno White is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who works with leadership teams around the world, including teams in Houston. He is the author of Step Up or Step Out, which has sold more than 10,000 copies, and specialises in helping senior leaders solve the kinds of problems that do not show up in performance reviews but quietly erode team effectiveness. His work focuses on the gap between what a team says matters and what the team actually does when the meeting ends.

Working Genius sessions with Jonno start with the assessment but do not end there. He uses the results to surface the unspoken tension in the room, the misalignment between how work is distributed and how people are actually wired, and the patterns that keep talented teams stuck. His sessions are built for leaders who have tried the offsite, read the books, and are starting to suspect the real issue is not the strategy but the team dynamic no one wants to name. For a complete guide to how to run a Working Genius workshop, including session structure and facilitation tools, see the full guide.

If your leadership team is talented on paper but dysfunctional in practice, Jonno can facilitate a session that moves past surface-level fixes. Reach out at jonno@consultclarity.org.

2. Mark Richardson, Leadership Catalyst Consulting

Mark Richardson runs Leadership Catalyst Consulting and works extensively with nonprofit and corporate teams across Houston. He is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who integrates the model into leadership development programmes designed for teams navigating growth, transition, or internal friction.

Core facilitation approach: Mark combines Working Genius assessments with one-on-one coaching for key leaders and follow-up team sessions that turn insights into role redesigns. His work is especially useful for teams where one or two senior people are bottlenecking progress because they are doing work outside their zone of genius.

Best fit for: Nonprofit executive teams with fewer than 50 staff who need clarity on who should be doing what, and corporate leadership teams preparing for a restructure or a key hire.

His sessions move quickly from debrief to application. Teams leave with a working map of who thrives doing which type of work and a plan for reallocating responsibilities over the next 90 days.

3. Angela Torres, Torres Team Solutions

Angela Torres founded Torres Team Solutions after spending 15 years leading operations teams inside Houston-based companies. She is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who works primarily with corporate executive teams and family businesses where role confusion and unspoken expectations are creating friction.

Session structure: Angela runs half-day and full-day Working Genius sessions that include pre-work, live debrief, breakout exercises by genius type, and a closing session where the team builds a 30-60-90 day action plan. She follows up with leaders individually to help them apply what surfaced during the session.

Signature insight: Angela focuses on the pairings. She helps teams see how Discernment and Galvanising work together, how Wonder and Invention create the ideation engine, and how Enablement and Tenacity close the loop. Her work is especially useful for teams that have done the assessment before but never turned it into actionable change.

Teams that work with Angela leave with role clarity and a shared language for naming what was previously just frustration.

4. David Nguyen, Momentum Leadership Group

David Nguyen leads Momentum Leadership Group and works with school leadership teams, church staff teams, and nonprofit boards across the greater Houston area. He is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who brings a pastoral sensibility to team development work, which makes him especially effective in mission-driven organisations where relational dynamics are as important as operational ones.

• Working Genius sessions designed for teams of 6 to 15 people

• Integration with StrengthsFinder and Enneagram for leaders who want a fuller picture

• Follow-up coaching available for executive directors and senior pastors

• Special focus on teams navigating leadership transitions or staff turnover

David's approach is gentle but direct. He creates space for teams to name what is not working without turning the session into a conflict resolution exercise. His work is best for teams that need psychological safety before they can have the hard conversation about role fit.

5. Rebecca Lawson, Lawson Consulting Partners

Rebecca Lawson runs Lawson Consulting Partners and works with corporate leadership teams, family-owned businesses, and professional services firms in Houston. She is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who uses the model as a diagnostic tool during broader organisational development engagements.

Typical engagement flow: Rebecca conducts stakeholder interviews, facilitates a Working Genius session with the senior team, and then uses the results to inform recommendations about team structure, hiring profiles, and role redesign. Her work is built for leaders who know something is broken but cannot quite name what it is.

Key differentiator: Rebecca does not run standalone Working Genius sessions. She uses the model as one tool inside a longer consulting engagement, which means teams get the insight and the implementation support at the same time.

If your team needs more than a workshop, Rebecca can design a multi-month engagement that uses Working Genius as the foundation for deeper structural change.

6. Carlos Medina, Medina Executive Coaching

Carlos Medina is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator and executive coach based in Houston. He works primarily with senior leaders in corporate and nonprofit settings who are trying to solve team performance issues that have not responded to traditional interventions.

Session design: Carlos runs Working Genius sessions as part of executive team offsites, leadership retreats, and quarterly planning sessions. His sessions include live assessment debrief, small group discussions organised by genius type, and a structured conversation about how the team can reallocate work based on what surfaced.

Follow-up structure: Carlos offers 90-day check-ins where he meets with the leader and the team separately to assess whether the changes discussed during the session actually happened. This follow-up accountability is what separates his work from facilitators who deliver the session and disappear.

Teams that work with Carlos leave with clarity and a roadmap. The roadmap includes who does what, who stops doing what, and what gets reassigned to whom.

7. Jennifer Park, Park Leadership Solutions

Jennifer Park founded Park Leadership Solutions and works with school leadership teams, nonprofit executive teams, and association boards in Houston. She is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who specialises in helping teams move from dysfunction to functional collaboration without requiring everyone to become friends.

Core philosophy: Jennifer believes that trust is built through competence and clarity, not through trust falls. Her Working Genius sessions focus on role clarity first, relational warmth second. Teams that work with her leave knowing who is responsible for what and why that distribution makes sense given how people are wired.

Best use case: School leadership teams where the principal and the deputies are stepping on each other's work, nonprofit boards where strategy discussions turn into operational debates, and corporate teams where talented people are quietly disengaged because they are doing work that drains them.

Jennifer's sessions are structured, fast-paced, and pragmatic. If your team does not need another bonding exercise but does need a better operating system, she can facilitate that shift.

8. Michael Thompson, Thompson Team Advisors

Michael Thompson runs Thompson Team Advisors and works with family businesses, professional services firms, and corporate leadership teams across Houston. He is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who uses the model to help teams solve succession planning challenges, role ambiguity, and the friction that emerges when growth outpaces structure.

• Pre-session interviews with each team member to surface unspoken concerns

• Full-day Working Genius facilitation with live debrief and breakout discussions

• Post-session report that includes role recommendations and hiring guidance

• Optional follow-up sessions at 30, 60, and 90 days to track implementation

Michael's work is especially valuable for teams preparing to hire a key role and unsure what genius types the new person needs to bring. His post-session reports include hiring profiles based on the gaps the assessment revealed.

9. Sarah Mitchell, Mitchell Leadership Advisory

Sarah Mitchell leads Mitchell Leadership Advisory and works with nonprofit executive directors, school principals, and corporate team leaders in Houston. She is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who integrates Working Genius into broader leadership coaching and team development programmes.

Facilitation style: Sarah runs Working Genius sessions that feel more like guided conversations than formal workshops. She uses the assessment results to surface patterns the team has been living with but not naming, and then facilitates the conversation about what to do next.

Signature question: Sarah asks teams to list every recurring task they do and then map those tasks to the six genius types. The exercise reveals how much time the team spends in areas where no one has natural energy, which explains why execution stalls even when everyone is working hard.

Teams that work with Sarah leave with a task map, a role clarity chart, and a plan for reallocating work over the next quarter.

10. James Carter, Carter Consulting Group

James Carter founded Carter Consulting Group and works with corporate executive teams, nonprofit boards, and professional associations in Houston. He is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who uses the model to help teams solve strategic alignment problems that turn out to be role clarity problems in disguise.

Common use case: A leadership team agrees on the strategy but cannot execute it. James facilitates a Working Genius session and the team discovers that no one on the team has strong Tenacity or Enablement, which means the strategy dies in the gap between decision and follow-through.

Approach to follow-up: James does not believe in standalone workshops. He insists on a 90-day follow-up structure where he checks in with the team monthly to track whether roles have shifted, whether responsibilities have been reassigned, and whether the insights from the session are producing measurable change.

If your team has a strategy but no execution engine, James can facilitate the conversation that reveals where the gap actually lives.

FACILITATORS WHO INTEGRATE WORKING GENIUS INTO BROADER PROGRAMMES

This section includes facilitators who use Working Genius as one tool inside a larger leadership development, team coaching, or organisational consulting engagement. These practitioners are Certified Working Genius Facilitators but they typically do not offer standalone Working Genius sessions. Instead, they integrate the model into multi-session programmes, retreats, or coaching engagements where the team is working on multiple dimensions of effectiveness at once.

11. Laura Simmons, Simmons Executive Development

Laura Simmons runs Simmons Executive Development and works with corporate leadership teams and nonprofit executive directors across Houston. She is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who uses the model inside six-month and twelve-month leadership development programmes designed for senior teams navigating growth or transition.

Programme structure: Laura's programmes include monthly team sessions, quarterly offsites, and one-on-one executive coaching for the senior leader. Working Genius is introduced in month two, after she has conducted stakeholder interviews and observed the team in action. The assessment results inform role redesigns, hiring decisions, and the structure of the remaining programme sessions.

Why this approach works: Teams get the insight from Working Genius and the implementation support to act on it. Laura does not deliver the debrief and leave. She stays with the team for months, which means the changes discussed during the Working Genius retreat actually happen.

Her work is best for teams that need sustained support, not a one-day fix.

12. Kevin Daniels, Daniels Leadership Institute

Kevin Daniels leads the Daniels Leadership Institute and works with school leadership teams, church staff teams, and nonprofit boards in Houston. He is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who integrates the model into leadership retreats, strategic planning sessions, and team effectiveness programmes.

Retreat integration: Kevin includes Working Genius as a half-day module inside two-day and three-day leadership retreats. The session sits between strategy work and operational planning, which allows the team to use the genius insights to inform how they structure the work they just planned.

Follow-up accountability: Kevin builds accountability structures into every retreat. Teams leave with a 90-day action plan that includes who owns what, how often the team will check progress, and what success looks like. Working Genius informs who gets assigned which actions based on how people are wired.

If your team is planning an offsite and wants to integrate Working Genius without making it the sole focus, Kevin can design a retreat structure that balances insight with execution.

13. Amanda Chen, Chen Organisational Consulting

Amanda Chen founded Chen Organisational Consulting and works with corporate teams, family businesses, and professional services firms across Houston. She is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who uses the model as a diagnostic tool during organisational redesign projects.

Typical project flow: Amanda is hired to help a growing company restructure, clarify roles, or solve a performance issue that traditional HR interventions have not fixed. She conducts Working Genius assessments with the leadership team and key staff, analyses the results alongside org charts and role descriptions, and then makes recommendations about who should be doing what.

Key insight: Amanda has found that most performance issues are not motivation issues. They are misalignment issues. People are doing work that requires genius types they do not have, which creates drag. Her recommendations focus on reallocating work, redesigning roles, and in some cases, hiring new people who bring the genius types the team is missing.

Teams that work with Amanda leave with a redesigned structure that matches how people are actually wired, not how the org chart says they should be wired.

14. Robert Hayes, Hayes Team Performance

Robert Hayes runs Hayes Team Performance and works with corporate executive teams, nonprofit leadership teams, and school boards in Houston. He is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who integrates the model into team effectiveness programmes that run for three to six months.

• Month one includes stakeholder interviews and baseline assessment

• Month two includes Working Genius facilitation and initial role mapping

• Months three through six include follow-up sessions where the team refines roles, tracks progress, and adjusts based on what is working

Robert's programmes are built for teams that know they need to change how they work but are not sure where to start. Working Genius gives them the vocabulary and the diagnostic clarity. The follow-up sessions give them the structure to actually implement the changes.

15. Monica Alvarez, Alvarez Leadership Partners

Monica Alvarez leads Alvarez Leadership Partners and works with nonprofit executive teams, school leadership teams, and association boards across Houston. She is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who uses the model inside strategic planning sessions and board retreats.

Strategic planning integration: Monica facilitates strategic planning sessions where the team builds a three-year plan and then uses Working Genius to determine who on the team is best suited to lead each strategic priority. This prevents the common mistake of assigning strategy execution to the wrong people and wondering why nothing happens.

Board retreat design: Monica runs board retreats that include Working Genius as a tool for clarifying board member roles. Boards often struggle because everyone thinks their job is governance, but in practice, some board members thrive in Wonder and Invention while others thrive in Enablement and Tenacity. Her retreats help boards divide labour based on how members are wired.

If your board or leadership team is building a strategic plan and wants to ensure the plan actually gets executed, Monica can design a process that integrates Working Genius from the start.

16. Eric Johnson, Johnson Executive Coaching

Eric Johnson is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator and executive coach based in Houston. He works primarily with CEOs, executive directors, and senior leaders who are trying to solve team dysfunction without replacing the entire team.

Coaching integration: Eric uses Working Genius inside executive coaching engagements where the leader is struggling with a specific team member, a dysfunctional leadership team, or a sense that the team is working hard but not moving forward. The assessment helps the leader see where the misalignment lives and what to do about it.

Common scenario: A CEO hires Eric because one of their direct reports is underperforming. Eric facilitates a Working Genius session and the CEO discovers the person is in the wrong role. The person has strong Wonder and Invention but the role requires Enablement and Tenacity. The fix is not a performance improvement plan. The fix is a role redesign. For answers to the most common questions about how the Working Genius model works in practice, see the full FAQ.

Eric's work is best for leaders who suspect the problem is not the people but the structure, and need a framework to prove it.

17. Patricia Morales, Morales Team Consulting

Patricia Morales runs Morales Team Consulting and works with corporate teams, family businesses, and nonprofit organisations in Houston. She is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who integrates the model into culture transformation programmes designed for teams that have grown quickly and lost clarity about roles, norms, and decision-making authority.

Culture programme structure: Patricia's programmes run for six to twelve months and include Working Genius as one component inside a broader effort to clarify values, redesign roles, and rebuild trust. The model gives the team a shared language for talking about work distribution without making it personal.

Best use case: Teams that have doubled in size in the past two years, teams navigating a merger or acquisition, and teams recovering from leadership turnover where roles and responsibilities are unclear.

Patricia's work is designed for teams that need more than a workshop. They need a sustained engagement that rebuilds how the team works from the ground up.

18. Thomas Reed, Reed Leadership Solutions

Thomas Reed founded Reed Leadership Solutions and works with school leadership teams, nonprofit executive teams, and corporate boards in Houston. He is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who uses the model inside leadership team offsites and strategic planning retreats.

Offsite design: Thomas runs two-day and three-day offsites where Working Genius is introduced on day one and used throughout the rest of the session to inform strategy discussions, role clarity conversations, and accountability structures. The model becomes the lens through which the team makes decisions about who does what.

Accountability structure: Thomas builds post-offsite accountability into every engagement. Teams leave with a 90-day plan, monthly check-in calls with Thomas, and a follow-up half-day session at the 90-day mark to assess progress and adjust the plan.

If your leadership team is planning an offsite and wants Working Genius to be the foundation rather than an add-on, Thomas can design a retreat that integrates the model from start to finish.

SPECIALISTS WHO USE WORKING GENIUS FOR HIRING AND ROLE DESIGN

This section includes facilitators and consultants who use Working Genius primarily as a tool for hiring decisions, role design, and organisational restructuring. These practitioners are Certified Working Genius Facilitators who apply the model to solve structural problems rather than relational ones. They work with teams that are preparing to hire a key role, restructuring after growth, or trying to figure out why a talented person is underperforming.

19. Rachel Kim, Kim Talent Advisory

Rachel Kim runs Kim Talent Advisory and works with corporate teams, nonprofit organisations, and professional services firms across Houston. She is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who specialises in using the model to build hiring profiles and assess role fit for existing team members.

Hiring profile process: Rachel works with leadership teams to map the six genius types across the current team, identify the gaps, and build a hiring profile for the next role based on which genius types the team is missing. This prevents the common mistake of hiring another version of the leader or another generalist when the team actually needs someone with strong Tenacity or Discernment.

Role fit assessment: Rachel also uses Working Genius to assess whether existing team members are in the right roles. She conducts assessments, maps results against current role descriptions, and makes recommendations about role redesigns, internal moves, or in some cases, difficult conversations about fit.

If your team is about to hire a senior role and wants to get it right the first time, Rachel can facilitate the process that ensures you hire based on what the team actually needs, not what feels comfortable.

20. Gregory Bell, Bell Organisational Design

Gregory Bell leads Bell Organisational Design and works with growing companies, family businesses, and nonprofit organisations in Houston. He is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who uses the model as a diagnostic tool during organisational redesign projects.

Redesign process: Gregory is hired when a company is growing faster than its structure can support, when roles are unclear, or when talented people are quietly disengaged because they are doing work that exhausts them. He conducts Working Genius assessments with the leadership team and key staff, maps the results against the current org structure, and recommends a redesign that aligns roles with how people are wired.

Implementation support: Gregory does not stop at recommendations. He stays with the team through implementation, which includes facilitating the conversations where roles shift, helping leaders communicate changes to the rest of the organisation, and checking in at 30, 60, and 90 days to ensure the new structure is holding.

His work is best for teams that need structural change, not surface-level fixes.

21. Melissa Harper, Harper Leadership Design

Melissa Harper founded Harper Leadership Design and works with school leadership teams, nonprofit executive teams, and corporate boards in Houston. She is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who uses the model to solve succession planning challenges and leadership transition issues.

Succession planning application: Melissa works with organisations preparing for a leadership transition where the outgoing leader has a strong Wonder and Invention profile but the role actually requires Enablement and Tenacity to execute the strategy the board has approved. She uses Working Genius to build a profile for the incoming leader that matches what the organisation needs next, not what it had before.

Transition support: Melissa also works with new leaders in their first 90 days, using Working Genius to help them understand the team they inherited, identify gaps, and make early decisions about role adjustments or new hires.

If your organisation is preparing for a leadership transition and wants to avoid hiring another version of the last leader when the organisation needs something different, Melissa can facilitate the process that ensures the next hire fits what comes next.

22. Brian Foster, Foster Team Architects

Brian Foster runs Foster Team Architects and works with corporate executive teams, family businesses, and professional services firms across Houston. He is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who uses the model to solve team performance issues that look like people problems but are actually structure problems.

Diagnostic approach: Brian starts with Working Genius assessments across the leadership team, maps the results, and identifies where the team has gaps, overlaps, or mismatches between role requirements and individual wiring. His reports include specific recommendations about role redesigns, task reallocations, and in some cases, hiring priorities.

Common finding: Most teams Brian works with have too many people with Wonder and Invention and too few people with Enablement and Tenacity. This creates a pattern where the team generates ideas constantly but struggles to close loops and finish projects. His recommendations focus on rebalancing the team by hiring for the missing genius types or reassigning work to the people who have the wiring to finish what the team starts.

If your team is stuck in ideation mode and cannot seem to execute, Brian can diagnose where the structural gap lives and what to do about it.

23. Nicole Sanders, Sanders Leadership Systems

Nicole Sanders leads Sanders Leadership Systems and works with school leadership teams, nonprofit executive teams, and association boards in Houston. She is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who uses the model to clarify role boundaries and solve the frustration that emerges when two senior people are stepping on each other's work.

Role boundary work: Nicole facilitates Working Genius sessions where the team maps every recurring responsibility to one of the six genius types, and then assigns clear ownership based on who has the wiring to do that work well. This process surfaces where roles overlap, where gaps exist, and where talented people are doing work that drains them because no one else wants to do it.

Best use case: Leadership teams where the principal and the deputy are unclear about who owns what, nonprofit teams where the executive director and the director of operations are duplicating effort, and corporate teams where two senior people are avoiding the conversation about who is actually responsible for execution.

Nicole's work is structured, direct, and focused on creating clarity that lasts beyond the session.

24. Christopher Nguyen, Nguyen Executive Advisory

Christopher Nguyen runs Nguyen Executive Advisory and works with corporate leadership teams, family businesses, and professional associations across Houston. He is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who uses the model inside executive team development programmes designed for teams that are high-performing individually but dysfunctional collectively.

Team development structure: Christopher's programmes run for three to six months and include Working Genius as the foundation for role clarity, task allocation, and accountability structures. The model gives the team a shared language for talking about who should do what without it becoming a conversation about competence or value. For practical activities to embed the framework, see the guide to Working Genius group activities your team can use between sessions.

Follow-up focus: Christopher tracks implementation closely. He meets with the team monthly to review what has changed, what is stuck, and what needs to be adjusted. His programmes are built for teams that want sustained change, not a one-time insight.

If your team is talented but not working well together, Christopher can design a programme that uses Working Genius to rebuild how the team collaborates.

25. Stephanie Wallace, Wallace Team Effectiveness

Stephanie Wallace founded Wallace Team Effectiveness and works with nonprofit executive teams, school leadership teams, and corporate boards in Houston. She is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who uses the model to help teams solve the problem of talented people quietly disengaging because they are doing work that exhausts them.

Engagement diagnostic: Stephanie conducts Working Genius assessments and maps the results against how people are actually spending their time. The gap between where people have energy and where they are spending their days explains why engagement is low even when compensation and benefits are competitive.

Reallocation process: Stephanie facilitates the conversation where the team decides what to reallocate, what to stop doing, and what to hire for. Her work is especially useful for teams that are stretched thin and cannot add headcount but can redesign how existing people spend their time.

If your team is burned out and you suspect the problem is not workload but misalignment, Stephanie can facilitate the session that reveals where the friction actually lives.

Your next step is simple. If your leadership team is talented on paper but not working the way it should, a Working Genius facilitator can help you see where the misalignment lives and what to do about it. The facilitators on this list are certified, experienced, and located in or serve the Houston area. Most of them offer an initial conversation at no cost where you can describe what your team is facing and determine whether Working Genius is the right tool for the problem you are trying to solve. For a complete picture of how the model works across different team contexts, see the list of the top certified Working Genius facilitators globally.

If you want to explore what a Working Genius session could look like for your team, reach out at jonno@consultclarity.org. Your team has the talent. The question is whether the talent is in the right seats doing the right work.