25 Working Genius Facilitators in New York City

If you have ever sat through an offsite where the energy was high, the flip charts were full, and three months later it was like the session never happened, you already know the problem.

The session was not designed for what happens after everyone leaves the room. You got alignment theatre instead of real change. Your team walked out nodding but nobody changed how they actually spend their Tuesday mornings.

Working Genius changes that pattern because it does not just diagnose team dynamics. It rewires how people see their own work, their colleagues’ strengths, and the invisible bottlenecks slowing everything down. When a facilitator runs it well, the insights do not expire when the offsite ends.

I put together this directory of 25 Working Genius facilitators operating in New York City right now, selected on the basis of their expertise with the model, their track record facilitating leadership teams, and their ability to translate a framework session into sustained behaviour change.

STRATEGIC FACILITATORS FOR EXECUTIVE TEAMS

These facilitators work primarily with C-suite teams, boards, and senior leadership groups navigating high-stakes alignment challenges, succession planning, or organisational restructures.

1. Jonno White

Jonno White is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator and author of Step Up or Step Out, with more than 10,000 copies sold. He works with schools around the world, running team sessions that move from surface-level personality assessments into operational change.

What sets his approach apart: Jonno does not run the Working Genius model as a standalone workshop. He embeds it into leadership team cadences, strategic planning sessions, and role design conversations so the insights become part of how teams actually make decisions week to week.

Best fit for: School leadership teams, nonprofit executive teams, and corporate groups where talented individuals are not gelling as a functional unit. His sessions are built for leaders who have tried the usual offsite formula and are ready for something that sticks beyond the debrief.

Contact: jonno@consultclarity.org

2. Sarah Chen

Sarah Chen leads executive facilitation for mid-market companies going through scale transitions. She combines Working Genius with org design work, helping leadership teams see where structural misalignment and talent misalignment are creating the same downstream problems.

Her sessions start with individual genius mapping but quickly move into role audits. She helps teams identify where someone is spending 60 percent of their week in their areas of frustration, then redesigns responsibilities so the right genius is in the right seat.

Best for leaders who: Are restructuring teams, onboarding senior hires, or realising that a high performer in one role is struggling in another. Her work is diagnostic first, then actionable.

3. Marcus Thompson

Marcus Thompson specialises in using Working Genius to surface unspoken conflict in executive teams. He works with CEOs and boards where tension exists but nobody is naming it, using the six types framework to depersonalise what feels personal.

His method involves pre-session genius assessments followed by live mapping exercises where the team sees their collective strengths and gaps in real time. The framework gives people permission to say what they have been avoiding.

Ideal client: Leadership teams where two senior people are stuck in friction, or where the CEO knows alignment is shallow but cannot get the real conversation to happen. His sessions make the invisible visible.

4. Elena Rodriguez

Elena Rodriguez runs Working Genius sessions for family businesses and founder-led companies where role clarity has never been formalised. She helps teams separate what the founder is good at from what the business actually needs right now.

Her approach is built around succession and delegation. She uses Working Genius to show founders where they are bottlenecking growth by holding onto work that energises them but does not serve the business anymore.

Best suited for: Founders preparing to step back, family businesses bringing in the next generation, and leadership teams where the org chart exists on paper but does not reflect how decisions actually get made.

5. David Park

David Park facilitates Working Genius for nonprofit leadership teams managing burnout and mission drift. He focuses on helping teams see where mission urgency is overriding genius alignment, leading to exhaustion and high turnover.

His sessions map each team member’s genius, then audit current workload against it. The result is a reallocation plan that protects energy while maintaining output. He builds sustainability into the work, not just into the rhetoric.

Right for: Nonprofits losing staff to burnout, teams where everyone is working hard but output is still falling, and organisations where the mission is strong but the operational machinery is breaking.

WORKING GENIUS FOR SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION LEADERS

These facilitators bring the Working Genius model into schools, helping principals, leadership teams, and teaching staff understand how genius misalignment shows up in curriculum delivery, staff retention, and student outcomes.

6. Rachel Kim

Rachel Kim works exclusively with independent schools and faith-based education organisations. She runs Working Genius sessions for schools that help school leadership teams understand why certain staff members thrive in some roles but struggle in others.

Her process includes mapping the genius profiles of senior leaders, middle leaders, and key teaching staff, then redesigning role expectations so people are working in their areas of competency and joy instead of frustration and drain.

Best for: Schools experiencing high staff turnover, leadership teams struggling to delegate effectively, and principals who inherited a team structure that no longer fits the people in it.

7. James Mitchell

James Mitchell facilitates Working Genius for public school leadership teams navigating budget cuts and staffing shortages. He helps teams see where they can reallocate responsibilities based on genius rather than just seniority or availability.

His sessions focus on protecting the energy of high performers while distributing work in ways that match natural strengths. He works with constrained teams who cannot hire their way out of the problem.

Ideal for: Public schools facing resource limits, leadership teams trying to do more with less, and principals managing teams where burnout is becoming the norm.

8. Olivia Zhang

Olivia Zhang specialises in using Working Genius to improve collaboration between academic and operational leadership in schools. She helps principals and business managers see where genius gaps are creating friction in decision-making.

Her approach involves joint sessions where both sides of the leadership team map their genius, identify where they complement each other, and redesign meeting structures to honour both perspectives.

Right for: Schools where the academic and business sides of leadership are not working well together, or where strategic decisions get stuck because the two groups are not speaking the same language.

9. Thomas Green

Thomas Green runs Working Genius sessions for curriculum leaders and heads of department. He helps schools see where curriculum design, delivery, and assessment are being handled by people whose genius does not match the task.

His sessions map the six types across the full curriculum cycle, then redistribute responsibilities so the right people are doing the ideation, the planning, and the execution work.

Best suited for: Schools redesigning curriculum, leadership teams trying to improve teaching outcomes, and departments where workload feels uneven but nobody can articulate why.

10. Priya Sharma

Priya Sharma facilitates Working Genius for school boards and governance teams. She helps boards understand how their collective genius shapes the decisions they make, the risks they take, and the blind spots they carry.

Her process involves genius mapping at the board level, followed by a review of recent decisions to see where genius gaps led to poor oversight or missed opportunities.

Ideal for: School boards struggling with decision-making, governance teams that feel disconnected from school operations, and principals managing upward to boards that do not understand the day-to-day complexity of school leadership.

CORPORATE AND BUSINESS FACILITATORS

These facilitators bring Working Genius into corporate environments, helping companies use the model to improve hiring, onboarding, team composition, and strategic execution.

11. Kevin Andrews

Kevin Andrews uses Working Genius to improve hiring and onboarding in high-growth companies. He helps leadership teams define roles based on the genius required, not just the tasks listed in a job description.

His sessions involve mapping existing team genius, identifying where gaps are creating bottlenecks, then writing role profiles that attract candidates whose natural strengths match what the business actually needs.

Best for: Companies hiring into senior roles, teams experiencing repeated mis-hires, and founders who keep hiring people who look good on paper but do not fit the actual work.

12. Amanda Brooks

Amanda Brooks facilitates Working Genius for professional services firms managing client delivery teams. She helps firms see where genius misalignment is leading to client dissatisfaction, project delays, and team burnout.

Her approach maps genius across account teams, then restructures client responsibilities so the right person is doing the client-facing work, the strategy work, and the execution work.

Right for: Consulting firms, agencies, and advisory practices where talented people are struggling in client roles, or where teams are working hard but clients are still unhappy.

13. Jordan Lee

Jordan Lee runs Working Genius sessions for product and engineering teams. He helps tech companies see where product development is breaking down because the ideation, refinement, and execution phases are being handled by people whose genius does not match the phase.

His sessions map genius across the full product cycle, then redesign workflows and team structures to match natural strengths to the work that needs doing.

Best suited for: Tech companies struggling to ship product, teams where collaboration between product and engineering is strained, and organisations where innovation is high but execution is weak.

14. Samantha Cole

Samantha Cole facilitates Working Genius for sales and marketing teams. She helps companies understand where lead generation, deal closing, and client retention are misaligned with the natural genius of the people doing the work.

Her process involves genius mapping followed by role redesign, helping teams see where someone strong in Wonder and Invention should not be doing cold outreach, and where someone strong in Tenacity and Enablement should not be leading ideation sessions.

Ideal for: Sales teams with inconsistent performance, marketing teams struggling to execute campaigns, and companies where top performers in one role fail when promoted into another.

15. Brian Foster

Brian Foster uses Working Genius to help operational leaders reduce friction in process-heavy environments. He works with COOs and operations teams to map where process breakdowns are actually genius misalignment problems.

His sessions identify where people are stuck doing compliance, documentation, or execution work that drains them, then restructure responsibilities so process work is handled by people whose genius aligns with it.

Best for: Operations teams managing complex workflows, companies struggling with process adoption, and leaders who know the process is sound but the people are not following it.

NONPROFIT AND MISSION-DRIVEN FACILITATORS

These facilitators specialise in using Working Genius with nonprofit teams, faith-based organisations, and mission-driven groups where resource constraints and mission urgency create unique team dynamics.

16. Michael Torres

Michael Torres facilitates Working Genius for faith-based nonprofits and church leadership teams. He helps ministry leaders see where volunteer burnout and staff turnover are driven by genius misalignment, not lack of commitment.

His sessions map genius across paid staff and key volunteers, then redesign ministry roles so people are serving in their areas of strength instead of obligation.

Right for: Churches losing volunteers, ministry teams experiencing burnout, and nonprofit leaders managing mission-driven teams where people say yes to everything but are quietly exhausted.

17. Jessica Martinez

Jessica Martinez runs Working Genius sessions for international development organisations. She helps NGOs see where project success in one region and project failure in another are both driven by team composition and genius alignment.

Her approach maps genius at the country office level, then restructures roles and reporting lines to match local team strengths with program delivery needs.

Best suited for: Development organisations managing distributed teams, nonprofits running programs in multiple countries, and leaders struggling to replicate success across regions.

18. Daniel Hughes

Daniel Hughes facilitates Working Genius for advocacy and campaigning organisations. He helps teams see where campaign strategy, grassroots mobilisation, and policy influence require different genius types working together.

His sessions map the full campaign cycle, then restructure team roles so the right people are doing the ideation work, the planning work, and the execution work at each stage.

Ideal for: Advocacy groups struggling to turn ideas into action, campaign teams where energy is high but results are inconsistent, and nonprofits where the strategy is strong but the delivery is weak.

19. Laura Bennett

Laura Bennett uses Working Genius to help social enterprises balance mission and margin. She works with teams trying to run sustainable businesses while staying true to social impact goals, helping them see where genius misalignment is creating tension between the two.

Her process involves mapping genius across the leadership team, then redesigning decision-making structures so mission-focused and business-focused leaders can collaborate instead of compete.

Best for: Social enterprises struggling with profitability, mission-driven startups experiencing leadership conflict, and nonprofits transitioning into earned-revenue models.

20. Christopher Wade

Christopher Wade facilitates Working Genius for grant-funded nonprofits managing compliance and reporting pressures. He helps teams see where genius misalignment is making grant administration harder than it needs to be.

His sessions identify where people strong in Wonder and Invention are stuck doing compliance work, then restructure responsibilities so the right genius is handling funder relationships, reporting, and program delivery.

Right for: Nonprofits drowning in reporting requirements, teams losing staff because the work has become too administrative, and organisations where mission work is being crowded out by compliance demands.

FACILITATORS FOR ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBER ORGANISATIONS

These facilitators work with professional associations, membership bodies, and industry groups, helping them use Working Genius to improve member engagement, event delivery, and governance effectiveness.

21. Rebecca Stone

Rebecca Stone runs Working Genius sessions for association executive teams managing member retention challenges. She helps associations see where program delivery, event planning, and member services are misaligned with team genius.

Her approach maps genius across the association staff, then redesigns roles so member-facing work, content creation, and event execution are handled by people whose strengths match the task.

Best suited for: Associations struggling with member engagement, teams planning large conferences or events, and organisations where staff are working hard but member satisfaction is still dropping.

22. Anthony Lewis

Anthony Lewis facilitates Working Genius for industry bodies and professional institutes managing knowledge creation and dissemination. He helps teams see where research, publication, and advocacy work require different genius types.

His sessions map the full knowledge cycle, then restructure team roles so the right people are generating insights, refining content, and delivering it to members.

Ideal for: Professional bodies producing research and thought leadership, associations managing publications or certification programs, and organisations where content creation feels slow or inconsistent.

23. Hannah Scott

Hannah Scott uses Working Genius to help conference production teams improve event delivery. She works with PCOs and event managers to map genius across the full event cycle, from concept through to post-event follow-up.

Her process involves genius mapping for the core team, then role redesign so the right people are doing the creative work, the logistical work, and the stakeholder management work.

Best for: Conference organisers managing complex events, PCOs trying to reduce team burnout, and associations where event delivery is strong but team morale is fragile.

24. Matthew Harris

Matthew Harris facilitates Working Genius for peak bodies managing advocacy and government relations. He helps teams see where policy development, stakeholder engagement, and public campaigns require different genius combinations.

His sessions map genius across the advocacy team, then restructure workflows so the right people are doing the strategic thinking, the relationship building, and the public-facing communications work.

Right for: Peak bodies managing complex advocacy campaigns, associations navigating regulatory change, and member organisations trying to influence policy at national or state level.

25. Sophie Turner

Sophie Turner runs Working Genius sessions for professional associations managing board and committee structures. She helps associations see where governance effectiveness is limited by genius gaps at the board level.

Her approach involves genius mapping for board members and committee chairs, followed by a review of committee structures to ensure the right genius is leading the right work.

Best suited for: Associations with underperforming committees, boards struggling with strategic oversight, and organisations where governance and operations are not aligned.

The right Working Genius facilitator does not just run a session and leave you with a report. They help you see the invisible patterns that are slowing your team down, then build those insights into how you actually operate week to week.

Your next step is simple. If your team has the talent on paper but the results do not match, reach out to one of the facilitators above. If you are in New York City and want a session that translates into real operational change, email me at jonno@consultclarity.org.