PAST WORK
Clients & Projects
Alexis Goggans brings more than 7 years of experience designing and leading organizational equity assessments, strategic planning initiatives, and professional coaching for small to medium-size non-profits, networks, professional associations, and startups across the United States. She has worked and consulted in just about every industry including in the education, tech, government, design, art, and movement sectors.
Over the past three years, she has partnered with individuals and organizations to design thoughtful, bold and strategic processes that transform the way we work and the world as we know it.
Read on to learn more about her work and clients.
RE-AMP NETWORK
Equity Assessment (Framework)
Landscape Analysis
Annual Meeting Facilitation
2019
Conducted a network assessment to identify opportunities to advance equity across programs, internal policies, and processes.
Deliverables included a comprehensive equity survey, a 20 page S.W.O.T. Analysis, 20+ staff/partner interview, 3 Issue/Opportunity Maps, an implementation timeline, a presentation of survey data, and a series of in-person and virtual Listening Sessions to discuss findings and next steps.
Outcomes included a revamping of their Equitable Decarbonization Framework pillars and implementation of a points system to ensure grant-making is equitable.
Sustainable States Network
Equity Assessment (Program)
Annual Meeting Facilitation
Training & Coaching
2019 - 2020
Conducted four equity audits to assess the extent to which certification program design and administration exacerbated inequity. Key deliverables included leading training, facilitating planning discussions, conducting 20+ stakeholder interviews, and providing memos of findings.
Outcomes include at least one program formally adopting an equity statement and several groups pursuing best practices and next steps from my reports, including re-designing engagement strategies to partner with historically underserved communities and pursuing grants to expand investments in training & development.
Peoples Climate Movement
Strategic Planning Consulting
Stakeholder Interviews
Webinar Facilitation
2018
Conducted 10+ Nationwide Listening Sessions with partners and members to support development of a 5 year strategic plan.
Deliverables included a comprehensive summary of stakeholder feedback for funders and a summary of recommendations to ensure campaign plans prioritized concerns and values from members of color and those living on the frontlines of environmental injustice.
ATHENA
Strategic Planning
Facilitation (Coalition)
2020
Supported a national coalition of representatives from various labor, environmental and environmental justice organizations working to hold Amazon accountable to it's climate pledge and communities impacted by emissions from fleet operations.
Deliverables includes a 6 year campaign plan, and engagement strategy and a coalition approved budget and disbursement strategy.
Outcomes included a streamlined communication and meeting strategy, management of all documents including meeting minutes, foundational content and coalition contacts.
Sustainable Jersey
Stakeholder Interviews
Strategy Coaching
Communications Support
2020
Provided editing support for external communications to advance their equity commitment. This work built upon stakeholder interviews and an audit of their program previously conducted.
Deliverables included a review of internal program documents and development of recommendations to align communications with strategic priorities. Additional recommendations to integrate into decision-making and advisory bodies was also provided.
Organizational coaching is also being provided on an going basis to advance health equity initiatives and opportunities to integrate an implicit bias action into the Sustainable Jersey best practice actions.
University of Minnesota
Organizational Training
Case Study Research
2019
Provided the Clean Energy Research Team with training on diversity, equity, inclusion and systems thinking.
Deliverables included a two hour training delivered via power point presentation, review of templates and handouts and support to develop a training agenda.