At True North: Center for Organizational Health, we empower organizations to bridge the gap between aspiration and action.

We provide expert facilitation, coaching, and strategic partnerships to organizations seeking to remove the barriers to teams feeling supported, engaged, and effective.

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Our Why

We believe work can contribute to, rather than diminish, an individual’s sense of well-being. Yet, much like an unhealthy relationship, we inherit beliefs, values, and practices that shape our relationship with work that keep us drained and disconnected. We are taught  to equate exhaustion with dedication, sacrifice with success, and productivity with self worth. But just as a healthy relationship nurtures and uplifts, we believe professional communities designed around human-centered practices and effective communication create meaningful experiences, drive purpose, and foster fulfilling connections.

Our Services

Consulting

As partners, we collaborate with organizations to drive collective growth and transformation. We engage staff, leaders, and teams to target areas of opportunity and help design structures, strategies, and cultures that align with their core values and objectives.

Coaching

We help leaders—both seasoned and emerging—transform how they engage with themselves, their work, and their teams. In a constantly changing world, leadership requires adaptability, courage, and a responsive approach. Our coaching supports leaders in expertly navigating the complexities of culture, policies, and people to create meaningful impact within and beyond their organizations.

Professional Development

Whether the goal is team-building, critical conversations, or strategic design, we believe that expert facilitation is essential for collective learning and growth. Our offerings—leadership retreats, staff workshops, and skill-based training—are grounded in our value of Joyful Orientation, creating spaces that are buoyant, engaging, and forward-moving. We support organizations in navigating complex dynamics with care and clarity, ensuring that nothing is heavier than we can carry together.

Testimonials

Our True North facilitator masterfully centered voices with a very clear and genuine facilitation style that allowed us to work towards a true cultural shift.

Yetunde, VP of Programs

Our True North consultant has been a partner and a guide this past year for our work on capacity building through a race equity lens. They were kind, nimble, open, and welcoming, which has allowed us to have better conversations, set clear goals, and to take more risks.

Sharon, Executive Director

We had the intention but not the direction. True North helped us clarify our values and create a roadmap of actions and priorities that embodied those values.

Evelyn, Board President

True North training was a true game changer for our organization. With their incredible insight we were able to have challenging conversations in a healthy and productive way that uplifted our humanity and pushed us to take an honest evaluation of where we stood on the antiracist continuum.

Reginald, HR Associate

Erin Dunlevy was a powerful asset to me during the coaching call. She pushed my thinking and affirmed my ideas about bringing culturally relevant and sustainable educational practices to a global scale. During our time together, she was able to share many resources, perspectives from her life, and scholars that I should research and reach out to. She gave me clear next steps that were aligned with my goals and connected me with theories, books, and ideas that I feel will be of great support to me in the near and distant future.

Janelle, Consultant

Cardozie is a joy to talk with! I appreciate how he sets the tone of our virtual session so that I can be my authentic self and engage in conversation wholeheartedly. He helped me to understand my concerns from a lens unfamiliar to me and provided tools that can help me navigate and facilitate with peers. I intend to apply and share what I learned and look forward to building success pathways with my organization.

Lisa, Program Manager

Working with Cardozie and True North has helped me realize that equity work in organizations is a long-term commitment to shifting culture, not a short-term strategy for responding to acute issues. But each time we work through a small thing, we get a clearer picture of the big thing—a place that actively welcomes BIPOC people and provides the conditions for flourishing. I’m grateful to True North for helping us establish that common goal, align our values as an organization, and put those values into action with accountability.

Sara, Trustee

Cardozie has a unique gift for grasping the central leadership challenges facing CEOs, especially those related to cultural issues and change management. He is empathetic, creative and practical. He is incredibly effective with helping to manage interpersonal and organizational issues, and in helping his clients see their problems with a different, more constructive and objective perspective, and to find ways to move their agenda forward.

David, President

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