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CoCreative helps leaders solve complex challenges through collaborative innovation and systems change.

Our Team

Experienced. Deeply passionate. Seriously enthusiastic. And ready to help other people become catalysts for the systemic changes our world needs.

CoCreative helps leaders solve complex challenges through collaborative innovation and systems change.
CoCreative helps leaders solve complex challenges through collaborative innovation and systems change.

Our Values

The Power of difference is one the CoCreative Values.

The Power of Difference

We believe that our differences, woven together with unified purpose, hold the answers to creating a world where everyone can thrive.

Being Grounded in Love is one the CoCreative Values.

Being Grounded in Love

LOVE is at the root of CoCreative’s practice…love for one another, for our differences, and for our planet.

Joy and Hope is one the CoCreative Values.

Joy and Hope

The result? Not just systems change, but joy, laughter, and hope. We know that the work is working when we’re experiencing the future we want today.

CoCreative values.
CoCreative helps leaders solve complex challenges through collaborative innovation and systems change.
CoCreative helps leaders solve complex challenges through collaborative innovation and systems change.
CoCreative helps leaders solve complex challenges through collaborative innovation and systems change.
Whole People is one the CoCreative Values.

Whole People

Each of us is a whole person worthy of love, respect, and the opportunity to thrive.

Beloved Community is one the CoCreative Values.

Beloved Community

Our work is guided by empathy, generosity, reciprocity, accountability, integrity, and trust in our human capacity and ability to learn to create well-being for all.

Embracing Both-And is one the CoCreative Values.

Embracing Both-And

We lean into conflicts by honoring the truths in each perspective and weaving seemingly opposing truths for deeper understanding and empathy.

Start date:

June 18, 2025

Start date:

May 14, 2025

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CoCreative's team members are ready to help other people become catalysts for the systemic changes our world needs.

CoCreative is a small team of individuals who come from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences and are driven by our belief that no problem can’t be solved by genuine, intentional human collaboration.

Heather Equinoss

Heather Equinoss

Process Design, Facilitation, Training, Coaching

Issac Carter

Issac Carter

Process Design, Facilitation, Training, Coaching

Luzette Jaimes

Luzette Jaimes

Facilitation, Training, Coaching

Maricela Aceves Wexler

Maricela Aceves Wexler

Project Management, Facilitation, Event and Marketing Coordination

Melissa Darnell

Melissa Darnell

Collaborative Strategy Design, Facilitation, Training

Melissa Hardy

Melissa Hardy

Financial Operations

Russ Gaskin

Russ Gaskin

Process Design, Facilitation, Training, Mentoring

Sittie Aleeya Nawal

Sittie Aleeya Nawal

Team Support & Project Management

Community of Collaborators

Our work is made vastly better by the talented folks we partner with to support our clients and field-building initiatives.

CoCreative helps leaders solve complex challenges through collaborative innovation and systems change.
COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS
Akash Bhalerao is a CoCreative collaborator.

Akash Bhalerao

Akash Bhalerao is a CoCreative collaborator.

Ana Lucia Castaño Galvis

Akash Bhalerao is a CoCreative collaborator.

Danny Fisher-Bruns

Akash Bhalerao is a CoCreative collaborator.

Jessica Conrad

Akash Bhalerao is a CoCreative collaborator.

June Wardé

Akash Bhalerao is a CoCreative collaborator.

Kate Trompeter

Akash Bhalerao is a CoCreative collaborator.

lawrence barriner ii

Akash Bhalerao is a CoCreative collaborator.

Léna Borsoi

Akash Bhalerao is a CoCreative collaborator.

Marqus Cole

Akash Bhalerao is a CoCreative collaborator.

Marta Ceroni

Akash Bhalerao is a CoCreative collaborator.

Monica Cuneo

Akash Bhalerao is a CoCreative collaborator.

Rio Holaday

Akash Bhalerao is a CoCreative collaborator.

Tema Okun

Beliefs of CoCreative team members.

Our Beliefs

The problems are hard, the answers are human.

We believe that the toughest problems we face in our communities, countries, and the world can only truly be solved when people collaborate across their differences and create solutions together. And we believe that cultivating a world where all life can flourish requires that we address the needs of the people most negatively impacted by inequity and oppression in our systems.

Our clients are often surprised we’re as invested in the success of their projects as they are. That's because we believe that the challenges we take on aren’t just problems to be solved; they’re opportunities to co-create the world we most want.

In order to make that world possible, we believe that 7 system conditions must be met.

7 Conditions Guide Our Work

The work we do is guided by our drive to create a world in which shared prosperity and ecological regeneration are at the forefront of every innovation and development that takes place.

01

We support inclusive wealth-building and work to eliminate the concentration of economic wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer entities.

02

We support shared political power and work to eliminate our contribution to the concentration of political power by certain segments of society.

03

We support shared control over common assets and work to eliminate our contribution to the concentration of control over the common assets that sustain society, including natural resources and genetic material.

04

We help create conditions that systemically support people's choice and capacity to meet their needs and address the systemic barriers that people of different identities and backgrounds face. In pursuit of ecological regeneration:

05

We support finding healthy, sustainable methods of taking care of the planet as well as ourselves, and support the protection and regeneration of places that are sacred to Indigenous people.

06

We support the creation of substances that don't systematically build up in our bodies and planet while still facilitating innovation and aid.

07

We support finding methods of production that do not do irreparable harm to our environment.

*System conditions 5-7 are based on The Natural Step @ thenaturalstep.org.

Any questions?

Curious to learn more? We’re here to assist, no strings attached.

Contact CoCreative to learn more about solving complex challenges through collaborative innovation and systems change.

Fellow Travelers

We collaborate with others to build the field and practice of systems change

Academy for Systems Change collaborates with CoCreative.
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Illuminate collaborates with CoCreative.
School of System Change collaborates with CoCreative.
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