“I have found OPI's consultation to be of the highest quality, designed for concrete, positive problem solving and sustaining knowledge and structures.”

Bruce P. Guernsey
Director, Coordinated School Health
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Strategic Planning | Technical Assistance | Learning Events

“OPI's work with us on our strategic plan was beyond my wildest expectation!”

Camille D. Miller
President and CEO, Texas Health Institute

“The Colorado Prevention Leadership Council consists of representatives from six state agencies, two universities and various partners, and was created through state legislation to promote coordinated planning, implementation, and evaluation of quality prevention, intervention and treatment services for children, youth, and families at the state and local level. The PLC promotes statewide policies for advancing prevention efforts throughout Colorado. OPI has been instrumental in helping us achieve these outcomes: prevention core competencies; a coordinated system for state capacity development; articulation of philosophy for a diverse group of state partners; and surfacing new and innovative ideas.”

José Esquibel
Director, Interagency Prevention Systems
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

“OPI helped us dramatically improve our Quality Improvement Program. Stephanie has been instrumental in organizing and facilitating our annual strategic planning sessions. She has oriented, trained and facilitated various teams throughout the organization. Her efforts resulted in dramatic process improvements in multiple clinical and administrative areas. I strongly recommend her for consulting work in other organizations.”

Col. David Gilbreath
U.S. Air Force Academy Hospital

“OPI has facilitated our work at the multi-state, state and substate level. The aspect of her work that I appreciate most is her working knowledge of systems development from the policy level to the level of application. Such breadth is invaluable in designing systems that can support sustained implementation of State policy and direction. OPI brings the commitment to ‘co-creation’ that invites the integration of perspectives throughout the system in systems development. OPI is able to capture the vision and passion within an organization and to guide a process to align the infrastructure in support of that vision.”

Robert E. Bixler
Project Director, Regional Prevention Center Services
Rocky Mountain Center for Health Promotion and Education

“OPI was instrumental in getting us all on the same sheet of music about our future direction. Our vision is now clear along with the practical next steps for implementing new approaches (i.e. contracts with students, staff and parents regarding the school’s approach for encouraging learning). Their ability to help all stakeholders think as a system was instrumental in our success.”

“The consultants model a work ethic and appreciation of human-ness that leaves participants with a greater level of understanding of themselves and their specific environment. They are not only insightful, but are able to get the group to the heart of the matter. They have provided the best facilitation I have ever had the pleasure to experience.”

Mary A. Lewis
Principal, Millennium Quest High School

“The departments of education and public health were funded to work together on school health but efforts had stalled due to differences in expectations and agency cultures. Attempts to form a single team met with substantial resistance, and the project’s co-directors, of which I was one, had not formed a trusting, constructive professional relationship. OPI provided helpful guidance to the co-directors on improving their relationship, facilitated team building among the two agency staffs, and guided development of an infrastructure that will serve the project in coming years. The see volume of work that has been completed since OPI was engaged has been phenomenal.”

Bruce P. Guernsey
Director, Coordinated School Health
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

“Our group crosses agencies and disciplines with multiple funding sources. OPI was able to move us from a plethora of ideas from different perspectives to actual consensus agreements and valuable products. We benefited from their knowledge of what works best to keep groups motivated and committed to continue very hard work. They recognize individual strengths and cultivate them for use as part of the whole. Because of their very able facilitation, Colorado has made giant leaps forward in prevention.”

Mary VanderWall
Director of Prevention Services
Colorado Department of Human Services

“The result of this strategic planning process is that we now have built a strong state system of resources, training, and data collection for schools to access related to health and prevention of risk behavior. OPI's style is encouraging, empowering, and enlightening.”

Karen Connell, Coordinated School Health Initiative
Colorado Department of Education

“Our work with OPI produced the following outcomes:

• A clear understanding of the organizational and personal commitments that we needed to move to the next level of working together effectively.
• Provided an organizational map for "next steps", including prioritized plans.
• Went beyond normal strategic planning by helping the group put their beliefs and intentions into actions.”

Lloyd D. Malone
Director, Teller County Department of Social Services

“OPI assisted the state steering committee in focusing our efforts to support the provision of integrated efforts to multi-system families. The strategic planning session resulted in the development of three task groups that are continuing to productively function and are providing valuable input to inform our ongoing work. Omega Point engaged the diverse group of state agency, county, and community representatives in a positive and inclusive manner.”

Norman Kirsch, Director Collaborative Management Program
Colorado Department of Human Services

“OPI's work taught us the importance of aligning a few key support systems in order to leverage organizational change. We gained greater awareness that aligning agency support systems with organizational and cultural change efforts was essential not just for initial successful implementation but for sustained success. SRS has watched this awareness grow on the part of both agency business and program staff. SRS has garnered improved communication and partnership between the administrative and business sides of the organization as a result.”

Laura Howard, Deputy Secretary
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services

“We discovered experts all across the organization that could be called upon to implement integrated service delivery and we doubled the powerful nature of our partnerships in the community through strategic thinking and leveraging of resources that we learned through this process. OPI was key in developing the highly innovative, outcome oriented organization that we are today”

Barbara J. Drake
Director, Jefferson County Department of Human Services

“Our Strategic Planning work with OPI was very productive and engaging. We were able to get very clear about our goals for the coming years and to develop clear action plans that we could work on immediately. They provided artful facilitation, keeping us on track while still honoring the time and process it takes to clear away barriers to good decision-making and goal setting.”

Kit Thompson, Executive Director
Boulder County IMPACT Partnership

“We have used OPI in a variety of capacities - finding them especially skillful in the areas of strategic planning and systems thinking. OPI’s orientation is strengthening interconnections. Leaders from each of the 9 state department of education, juvenile justice, governor’s offices, public and behavioral health and human services departments have been exceeding positive in their evaluations of their work.”

Joanie Liebman
Southwest Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies

“Stephanie has the best combination of facilitation and writing skills that I have seen in over 30 years of work at the state and national levels. She sees meeting facilitation not as an end in itself but an integral part of an overall systems development process. She develops relations and gains input prior to meetings, provides a clear record of the meeting in a timely fashion, and follows up to support the process of change in between meetings. It is exciting to see the transformation of groups with which they work.”

Robert E. Bixler
SPFAS Project Director
Johnson Bassin & Shaw, International, Inc.

“I wanted to pass on my appreciation for the space OPI created and the content shared with our group.  I am grateful for the processes you design and find myself torn between losing myself in the experience and watching the presence of your consultants that gently and firmly holds the intention for the success of everyone in the room. You model this gift every time you come to the state -- and do it gracefully under some challenging conditions.  Thank you for your unique contribution to our group and to my awareness of living with right intention.”

Kelly Peak
Director of Prevention
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Topeka, KS

“When eight disparate sections were joined to form the single largest division within the health department, leaders were challenged to make it work. OPI was able to engage a core group of busy, largely cynical and demoralized managers and convert them into a coordinated team of advocates on a mission to improve the Division’s functioning. In a few months, we experienced huge positive changes in working conditions, changes that were felt at all levels within the division. The results demonstrated the profound difference top-notch consultants make in organizations.”

Bruce P. Guernsey
Director, Coordinated School Health
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

“OPI was brought in as last minute facilitators when an emergency arose. They came in ‘cold’ and within an hour and half had coalesced eight Prevention Specialists into a well-informed, organized, facilitation team. An attribute that impressed me greatly was their ability to distill information into its essential components, ask the right clarifying questions, develop a systematic approach to presenting the information, and train others to deliver appropriate facilitation. Finally, they showed timely and thorough follow-through. I can’t remember a time in my professional life when I have been more impressed.”

Nanci Ann Quintana
Director of Education
Western Colorado Area Health Education Center

“OPI premiered the success of our gathering. You were wonderful to work with, very professional, dynamic and focused. We accomplish so much, and we readily see how your help led us to constructive use of time and ideas. Thank you for helping us meet our goals!”

Ruth Michels and Margaret Pearson
Mesa County Build a Generation

“We were completely blown away by the focus group results! We had so many take-aways and new ideas that stemmed from the answers the women provided. Part of why it was so fruitful is because you did such a wonderful job laying the groundwork and asking questions! Thank you for making all of the women feel comfortable enough to give honest (often very honest!) answers. You are obviously gifted at what you do, and we were lucky to have your help. Thanks again, from the bottom of our hearts!”

Sarah Haegelin
Girlstart, Austin

“Omega Point's facilitation skills in bringing us together, assisting us in clarifying our new roles and bringing clarity to ambiguity, cannot be overstated. I believe it is a testament to your expertise that the same positive feedback came from physicians, managers, financial analysts, accountants and administrators. Omega Point is to be commended for this achievement.”

Hollie P. Mooers, Program Manager
U.S. Department of Energy

“Omega Point brought a wealth of experience and practical expertise that made the change process not only doable but fun as well. They were able to bring the most diverse groups of individuals together in unique and creatively productive ways. I highly recommend them to any organization that is interested in being successful for the long term.”

Sandra Matheson, President and CEO
Hanford Environmental Health Foundation

“Our recent innovative additions to our tool box would never have been created without your consultation. Thanks for working with us with such warmth, wisdom and generosity of spirit in order to create an environment for us to do fresh thinking together.”

Maggie Herzig, Founding Associate
Public Conversations Project

“You provided exactly what we needed. Your ability to relate to such diverse agendas created an atmosphere where needed and helpful dialogue took place. You are professionals of great dedication and skill, and the work of Omega Point is clearly making an important contribution to the common good.”

Richard W. Dunphy, SJ, Director
Regis University Institute on the Common Good

“The Women's Retreat is a clarifying experience. Stephanie presents a gentle process for sorting out the ‘noise’ that prevented me from being able to tune into myself. I am on a fresh start with affirmations about who I am and what I need to do. The process is a gift for gaining balance in a world with much conflict in organizations.”

Diane Galloway, Ph.D.
University of Texas, Arlington

“Omega Point has a particular gift for creating a safe, nurturing space that invites you to open your heart to what you can learn about yourself. In beautiful surroundings, with an engaging variety of tools and creative activities, you can explore who and what you bring to the world and what supports you to be your best. This workshop left me feeling totally cared for, refreshed and rejuvenated!”

Juli Fellows, Ph.D.
Organizational Consultant
Austin, TX

“Your workshop clarified the immense complexity of partnership, whether in personal life or business. New understandings about our mental models and assumptions about partnership helped us prepare a common platform for moving forward into creative partnering.”

Sharon Downer
Real Estate Agent
Austin, TX

“Omega Point events offer a rare gift of time and space for stillness, reflection, inquiry and discovery — allowing each of us to offer and explore thoughts, experiences and insights. As important is the opportunity to absorb the wisdom of others. Each time I participate I come away with a stronger connection to the past and deeper understanding of what it means to hold an intention to learn and serve the common good.”

LaDonna Coy
Social Media and Virtual Learning Consultant
Yantis, TX

“As with all journeys, our life's journey will experience both smooth and bumpy days. What is so assuring about the Four Step Path is that its four cornerstones keep you real and balanced whether your smooth and bumpy days are uneventful or eventful. The inner power, strength and tranquility that reside within each human being can be actualized when focus and care are sincerely given to this insightful, ancient approach.”

Jane Franke
Kerrville, TX

“I very much enjoyed your facilitation of the four-step path. I value the work you are all doing to help us find peace and personal power in change. Thanks for sharing your wisdom with us.”

Leia Francisco
Life and Executive Coach
Transition Management Consultant
Kerrville, TX

“The Four Step Path you so aptly presented us with at the ‘Past is Prologue’ program at Schreiner University was interesting and enlightening. It helped all of us to understand that life isn't about being somebody. It's all about being yourself. I hope our paths cross again as I surely look forward to sitting in on another of your presentations.”

Mildred Cuffaro
Kerrville, TX

“Thanks to Omega Point I now deeply understand the meaning of quantum leap and quantum thinking. If organizations applied your work, people would be awake and organizations would be alive. Your work enables organizations to reach their business goals because they are clear about their core work, they honor precious human talents, and they create legacies for the benefit of all humanity.”

Dr. Tom Boldrey
Organizational Consultant
Dallas, TX

“OPI learning events bring heart to leadership issues. Stephanie Nestlerode is a master at helping participants discover and than work from their core beliefs and passions for authentic work results.”

Mary VanderWall
Prevention Specialist
Denver, CO

“Stephanie has taught our capstone strategic planning class in our Masters in Health Administration degree program. She garnered superior evaluations from students. She has not only pleased students with her expertise and personable approach, she has impressed me with her professionalism and dedication to quality instruction.”

Greg Harruff
Assistant Director & Faculty Coordinator, Chapman University

“When I attend gatherings organized by Omega Point I know I an count on these things:

• My mind will be stimulated in ways that grow me as a person
• My habitual thinking will be challenged and encouraged to leave their tired ruts
• My sense of what is possible will be broadened
• My circle of friends will expand
• My connection to what matters will be deepened
• My respect for Omega Point's ability to bring value to people will increase

In short I know my time will be well spent.”

Ken Homer
Collaboration Consultant and Coach
San Rafael, CA

“Omega Point's models and tools have been so valuable to me that they will forever influence my thinking and facilitation.”

Naraya Stein
Leadership Coach and Consultant
Berkeley, CA

“Stephanie is a natural ‘systems thinker’ and her work shows it. She skillfully uses advanced team-learning methods with a pragmatic approach to organizational improvement — a winning combination in challenging times.”

Bette Gardner
President, Breakthrough Learning
Morgan Hills, CA

“Your efforts have touched me personally and professionally. I already have goals for when I get back to my office to incorporate what I learned into my work. You have allowed me to have more confidence in myself and to be able to speak up and be more assertive in what I want for myself. I truly want to thank you.”

Robynn Bears
Administrative Specialist, Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Topeka, KS

“I just wanted to thank you for your words of wisdom. You always say something profound that has an impact on how I look at the world. OPI has this kind comforting spirit inspires me! I appreciate you!”

Sarah Fischer
SPF Project Manager,Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Topeka, KS

“OPI’s approach takes you from theory to the practical. ‘ah-has’ and learning are the outcome.”

Dennis Rogers
Administrator, Kansas Services of Blind and Visually Impaired
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Topeka, KS

“You should know that your work and wisdom was incredibly impactful for me.”

Sarah M. Riley-Hansen
Executive Director, Corner House, Inc.
Emporia, KS

“The gifts from Omega Point were the explorations into the mental models we hold; experiences that opened us to new ways of thinking; and down-to-earth, practical ways that we many continue to integrate new ways of thinking into real-time partnerships in our lives.”

Teresa Ruelas
Organizational Consultant and Life Coach
The Philippines

“On behalf of the conference planning team, we congratulate and thank you for an extraordinary two days! We were all simply delighted with the time and talent that you so generously devoted to us! Everyone felt that clearly ‘you stole the whole show. The amount of new learning that took place was exponential!”

Jan Maylone
Office of the Secretary
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

“Absolutely refreshing … one of the best learning experiences I've happened upon, and one that truly exceeded my expectations! Green Gulch's lovely retreat setting was the perfect place to inspire creativity, growth, insight, learning and reflection. Overall, Creating Learning Partnerships was empowering and inspiring. How wonderful to be able to tap into the rich resources and wisdom of others from all walks of life, to gain perspective, to have fun learning at a deeper level, to laugh, to laugh again, and to laugh some more!”

Mary Anne Valentine
Program Manager, Organization & Management
Smithsonian Institution

“The morning was well-spent. I walked away with a renewed appreciation for the pressures and complexities that face our nation's hospitals and health care organizations.”

F. Kenneth Ackerman
Executive Associate to the CEO, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, PA

“I continue to get positive feedback from the experiential learning simulation. HSN strives to provide professional education programming that enhances our members knowledge, perspective and capabilities in dealing with a fast-changing industry. Your effort and genuine concern were essential to help us take a risk, embrace a new learning method, and expand its sense of purpose.”

John C. Blanchard
Program Chair, Health Strategy Network
Philadelphia, PA