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At Sublingual, we believe that the most pressing issues nonprofits face are no longer solely technical in nature but deeply rooted in the fabric of our societies. To address these challenges, you need more than traditional strategies – you need fresh perspectives, collaboration, and a commitment to positive change.
"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."
— Albert Einstein
Our Services
Individual Strategic Thought Partnerships
Our Strategic Thought Partnerships provide your nonprofit leaders a personalized experience, where Sublingual’s experienced co-organizers collaborate closely to foster your growth mindset, enhance your cognitive skills, navigate the future with foresight, and tackle complex problems with holistic solutions.
Group Workshops
Our workshops for nonprofit teams are dynamic, collaborative spaces where participants engage in hands-on activities and thought-provoking discussions. Whether you're a team or an entire organization, our workshops are designed to challenge assumptions, cultivate skills and capabilities, enhance collaboration, and inspire creative problem solving.
Our Learning Journeys are long-term immersive strategic thought partnerships that are designed to meet your nonprofit teams goals and objectives. Through a customized, strategic sequence of individual and team partnerships and immersive workshops, we help you and your team approach your projects with a new perspective, embrace personal and professional growth, and cultivate unmatched resilience by navigating ambiguity and uncertainty together.
Learning Journeys
Our Secret sOS
The Sublingual Operating System
At Sublingual, we've developed a transformative framework known as the Sublingual Operating System (sOS) to help you navigate your Liminal Spaces and tackling today’s most significant challenges. sOS is the foundation for our approach to innovation, collaboration, and problem-solving. It comprises five essential components, each designed to empower individuals and organizations on their journey of growth and positive change.
Mindset
Mindset is the lens through which we perceive challenges and opportunities, and the key to unlocking human potential. We help individuals cultivate a growth mindset, enabling them to embrace challenges, learn from failures, and see opportunities where others see obstacles. With the right mindset, innovation becomes a way of life.
Relational Practices
Relationships form the bedrock of successful collaboration. Strong relational practices enable individuals and teams to build authentic connections, foster empathy, and inspire trust. By nurturing these connections, we create a fertile ground for co-creation, where diverse perspectives converge to address complex challenges.
Systems Thinking
Complex problems often have hidden layers of interconnectedness. We use systems thinking to equip you to see the bigger picture, understand interdependencies, and identify leverage points for meaningful change.
Cognitive Skills
In a world teeming with information, cognitive skills are the compasses that help us navigate uncertainty. We equip individuals with the mental tools they need to make informed choices, solve problems creatively, and drive innovation.
Strategic Foresight
The future is not a fixed destination, but a landscape that can be shaped by those who study it. Our strategic foresight component empowers individuals and organizations to stop reacting and responding to the future and start choosing and shaping it, positioning themselves for success in an ever-changing world.
Meet Your strategic thought partners
Shyam Patel
Shyam has 15+ years of experience exploring the intersection of art and science to deliver business growth, creative vision, and product innovation. He has a deep understanding of applying human-centered design, design thinking, cultural analysis and lean development processes to manifest business growth across a broad set of industries and business functions. As an executive he has built and grown purpose driven brands and cultures that resulted in two of the Top 100 Best Places to Work in Dallas.
Cindy Jones-Nyland
Cindy is an experienced executive leader, strategic advisor, and professionally certified executive coach. With a demonstrated history as an executive in both public and private sectors, Cindy a unique blend of expertise in technology and social impact agendas. As a seasoned executive and strategic advisor, Cindy has witnessed the transformative power of guiding individuals and teams towards unlocking their true potential, fostering authentic connections, and building a future that aligns with core values.
Nilesh Morar
Nilesh has a unique blend of experience as an executive in the opportunistic real estate private equity space, a biological and agriculture engineer, macroeconomist, and a social innovator. He has extensive experience in leading global projects and managing key executive and board relationships from entrepreneurial start-ups, NGO's, and middle market to Fortune 500 companies and has been involved in both buy and sell side M&A as a CFO. As an engineer he has conducted research on wastewater treatment technology, the growth of leafy greens in hot and humid climates, and has worked with local governments on infrastructure projects. Nilesh seeks to apply his experiences to solve complex problems creatively in the areas of liminal leadership, regenerative futures, ESG programs, and social inequality.
Mandy Hornbuckle
Mandy is a passionate strategist and multi-business owner with more than 15 years of experience using creativity, experimentation, and strategy to bring teams together and drive business growth. She is obsessed with creative problem-solving and fostering psychological team safety, an expert in workshop facilitation, experience design, and fostering collaboration.
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We are looking forward to seeing what we can create together!