Approach

Ben brings an empathetic, client-centered approach to every engagement, listening to understand the context, stakeholders, and needs before designing an approach that will achieve your objectives.

Ben can draw upon cross-cultural expertise in people-powered campaigning, design thinking, systems analysis, campaign design, organizational change management, and group dynamics to craft projects and experiences at the group and individual level to help you achieve success.

Ben is an adept project manager, skilled at ensuring complex tasks are completed competently and on time.

Campaign Tune-ups and Audits

Bring more than a decade of industry-leading campaign experience to bear on your team’s strategies and tactics. Maybe you want to do an assessment of how your last big effort went? Or maybe you’d like an outside expert to do a deep dive into what you’re cooking up right now.

Either way, Ben can help.

Org and Team Strategy and Planning

In this VUCA world (variable, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous), you need support to figure out how best to stay relevant, powerful, and effective. Ben has been an invaluable support to organizations and teams seeking to figure out how to reorient themselves in a shifting landscape and continue to achieve their mission.

Individual Mentorship and Coaching

Ben has acted as a mentor and informal coach to senior and mid-level management at several organizations, helping them to problem-solve, plan, and grow to achieve their goals.

Virtual

Ben has been working as part of fully remote teams since 2013. All of the above services — campaign deep dives, project delivery, group facilitation, and mentorship — can be provided virtually, with many benefits over in-person work (and some downsides).

In-Person

As in-person convening and travel is safe again, Ben can figure out the best mix for your needs of in-person vs. virtual support.

In Partnership

Depending on the engagement, Ben may also bring in an expert collaborator to ensure optimal results. He has an extensive global network to draw upon.

Experience

Strategic Services Director at Mobilisation Lab
Senior Campaigner at Greenpeace
Director of New Media Campaigns at Democratic National Committee

Ben is a veteran of President Obama’s campaigns, leading global campaigning orgs, and top consultancies. He has driven substantial cultural changes at major global organizations, been a core member of highly-successful campaign teams, a senior adviser to successful organizational change initiatives, lead (or sole) facilitator for complex, multi-stakeholder coalition planning meetings, leadership mentor, and more. Here are a few of the organizations and campaigns Ben has helped to achieve success:

On every step of our journey to transform how UNICEF delivers change for children, Ben’s support has been critical — from building the internal capacity of our team in HQ, to facilitating volunteer engagement workshops in diverse countries around the globe, to providing mentorship and coaching as we navigate the myriad challenges an ambitious initiative invariably faces. There’s no question Ben has helped UNICEF unlock the power of people to improve the lives of children.

David Ponet – Head of UNICEF Global Volunteer Initiative

The workshop was an eye-opener and haven’t felt this energetic in a long time.

Participant in Campaign Strategy Workshop on Climate Justice in Johannesburg

The Campaign Accelerator process [that Ben led us through] was perfect for coalition working. The workshop model took our diverse group out of their comfort zones and moved us quickly through the creative process.

Sam Kennedy, Save the Children