We help schools and organizations become better at making change.
We work with school districts, nonprofits, and public agencies, from a single leader to a whole organization.
MN Educators PELSB-approved cultural competency renewal. Six self-paced modules, about 6 hours, with the Cultivating Courage ebook included.
Explore Your Leadership. Free tools to see how you lead and what a real situation is asking of you
Develop Your Leadership. An honest picture of how you lead and a clear next step, for individual leaders.
Align Your Team. Understand what's getting in the way, and agree on what matters most.
Strengthen Your Team. Strengthen how your team decides, works together, and follows through.
Lead Your Organization's Change. Build the capacity to lead and sustain change that matters. Shaped with you.
Nearly ten years of building change from the inside.
Co-built the statewide Cultural Competency training every licensed teacher in Minnesota completes to earn and renew their license
Facilitated the Minnesota Department of Human Rights' multi-year statewide committee on school discipline disparities, working with 41 districts andcharter schools.
Built the coalition behind Minneapolis Public Schools' first African American History course — the seed that grew into a district-wide graduation requirement by 2025
Co-founded Minnesota's first community-first Teacher Apprenticeship Program, still training BIPOC educators today
Most leadership and culture initiatives create temporary awareness. Sankore is designed to create lasting organizational change.
Our work is grounded in The Sankore Simple ABCs™ Pathway a proprietary methodology that helps organizations move from insight to implementation through a structured developmental journey of Assess, Build, and Champion.
The Sankore Simple ABCs™ Pathway guides leaders through a measurable developmental arc with practical tools, leadership profiles, innovation frameworks, and implementation-focused outcomes at every phase.
We listen to everyone first. Before your team meets, we hear from each person, so you know what people really think, including the voices that rarely speak up in a group
We work on your real priorities. Your team practices on the decisions and challenges in front of it, between sessions as well as in them .grow. Every engagement begins here.
Culture and systems together. We pay attention to how people experience the work and how the organization is built, so the changes your team makes hold up after we leave..
Tools you keep. Profiles, frameworks, and practices stay with your organization after we leave, so the work continues without us in the room.
Three phases. One complete arc. Every Champion starts with the basics.
Where are we starting?
We listen to everyone first, so you see clearly where your team stands and what's getting in the way
What will we do?
Your team practices new ways of deciding and working together on the real priorities in front of you.
What will we champion?
Your team owns the results and the practices, and keeps leading the change after we leave.
Thank you for your work with us! Your class was the most valuable and practical of all the classes I took.
Let's talk about where you are and what would help. Or start on your own with a free leadership profile.