“Roan has been a gift to work with. He has a deep listening skill that makes each person feel heard and understood, even if they’re in conflict with each other. Our staff have raved about him from the very first training session. Roan has a unique ability to pull on all the threads of your thoughts and weave them together in a way that can help you synthesize and learn them better for your own understanding. Roan has been a true partner in helping us grow and push for a better way to work together.”

— Heidi Benrud Nybroten, Gender Justice

“I worked closely with Roan for eight years at the Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance (AORTA). Roan brings an astute political analysis, a generosity of spirit, and an unparalleled graciousness to his consulting and facilitation work with movement organizations and activists. He is a willing listener and thought partner, and is able to blend a deep understanding of the patterns that plague most organizations, with attention and empathy for the unique ways these issues manifest in each specific context. Roan always pushes me to broaden my thinking and deepen my political practice, and he does so with wisdom, humor and kindness. He is a fantastic teacher and facilitator! Highly recommend working with him!

— Autumn Brown

“Roan listened deeply to everyone on our team. He designed a brilliant process in which we could begin to not just have conversations, but actually make meaning together. When points of tension arose, Roan beautifully tended to emergence and adapted in real time to hold us in the space to dig deeper, something we've been unable to do for ourselves. When things seemed hard, Roan was our cheerleader—reminding us how far we had come and what we were capable of. I had never before experienced such skills process design and facilitation.”

— Susan Phillips, Climate Generation

“Typically, I hate all things Zoom, especially workshops because my ADHD makes it very difficult to lock into it and stay engaged. With that being said, the structure and Roan’s ability to read the room with breaks at the right moment and for the appropriate length of time were masterful. The facilitation and atmosphere that Roan created provided us with the ability to engage verbally and non-verbally. The depth of thought and knowledge presented was on point and set us up for further discussion.”

— Training participant

“Roan is a process wizard....the design of each day, his facilitation skills, adaptability to emergence was a gift to us.”

— Consulting client

“I really appreciated Roan's sense of humor and sincerity. It really helped me take the process seriously and engage with it earnestly because of little things about the way he talked about things--little jokes he made and subtle cues that he was listening carefully and not masking behind the language of his work, but genuinely invested in it.”

— Consulting client

“Roan is amazing at holding space for folks and respecting the needs and desires and places where we all are at; warm, but not afraid to push back; professional, organized, and knowledgeable. Truly an incredible facilitator—inspirational capacity to address challenges directly and kindly.”

— Consulting client