Judy Futch Consulting, Inc. provides facilitative leadership to organizations and communities by guiding change processes, building collaborations and developing strategies for productive and sustainable futures. She custom designs interventions to develop organization capacity-building, full participation, and honest dialogue and is known for her versatility and innovation.
Judy has twenty years experience as an organization development consultant to non-profit and profit organizations, health care and community based organizations, and college and educational institutions. Basing her consultation on Appreciative Inquiry methodology, Judy incorporates strengths and value identification aspects of appreciative inquiry into facilitation and mediation services, strategic planning, values “surfacing”, mission definition and systems expansion and reinvention. She focuses her work on human dimensions of managing change and transition challenges as well as coaching organizations on developing strategies, focusing on governance, and organizing collaborations to achieve sustainable results.
She has expertise with executive transitions in both for profit and nonprofit sectors providing organizational assessment, board development, coaching and transition planning.
Judy has a M.Ed. and Ed.S. degree from Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia. She has received additional training in facilitation, mediation, dialogue, appreciative inquiry and Jungian psychology. She is active in her community, serving on the WNC Nonprofit Pathways Advisory Council, Woman for Woman Steering Committee and Center for Participatory Change and WCQS, Inc. Board of Directors. She has dogsled in Minnesota in January, kayaked in Glacier Bay, hiked in Lappland, paddled the length of the Everglades three times and rowed a rowboat down the length of the Suwanee River.