We help leadership teams re-imagine and redesign themselves to respond to the complex collaborative challenges they face.
KITE was created to elevate the practice of team leadership within the international development and humanitarian fields to advance peace, equity, and sustainable change in the world.
KITE’s strength is in helping to create the essential conditions for teams to function effectively and humanely. Our approach focuses on developing your team’s core team leadership capabilities.
Drawing on decades of study and experience, our practitioners lead your team through a rigorous, research-based process customized for your unique needs and priorities.
Our process emphasizes continuous action-learning and structural change that can be shared with future team members as the team continues to evolve over time.
We begin with a comprehensive assessment of the four key capabilities within your team. We use this understanding to build a detailed action plan tailored to your team’s strengths and growth areas.
During the team LAUNCH phase, we help your team develop its capacity for effective team leadership. We walk through your team’s four core capabilities as defined above: enhancing your team’s attention, clarifying its design, strengthening its cohesion and sharpening its execution.
Through an action-learning process rooted in your actual work, your team will examine, re-imagine and redesign its collaboration.
Here we consolidate new learning and reinforce new patterns of team behavior. The FLOW phase supports the team in action, strengthening the leadership within the team as a whole.
This phase is a powerful investment in solidifying and sustaining the gains the team has made in our first two phases together.
KITE practitioners are skilled coaches that can offer individual, peer and group coaching to leaders, in multiple languages and across time zones.
KITE practitioners have deep experience in the design and delivery of learning programs.
We hold diversity as a vital means for the pursuit of knowledge, understanding, and the establishment of justice and equity.
We believe in the power of collaborative action, of mutual support, and collective wisdom.
We hold clarity, openness and honesty as the foundation for all generative relationships and effective collaboration.
We believe that people support what they create and champion the honoring of all voices.
We are committed to work that we believe to be timely, responsive to our clients' actual needs, impactful, and courageous.
Teams that invest in all three phases of our process report a clearer sense of collective purpose, greater alignment and efficiency, stronger project outcomes, more supportive relationships, and improved well-being among team members.
Our team consists of a diverse cadre of highly skilled and experienced practitioners with deep contextual knowledge of the inner life of international organizations.
We are strongly committed to gender and racial equity and inclusion. Like the majority of our clients, we’re intentionally multicultural, multilingual, geographically diverse and with a distinctly global perspective.
End Violence Against Children (EVAC)
InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB)
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Global Fund for Women (GFW)
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB)
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United Nations Fund For Population Activities (UNFPA)
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF)
UN Office at Geneva (UNOG)
United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)
United Nations System Staff College (UNSCC)
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
World Food Programme (WFP)
To explore how KITE can support your team to move forward, please reach out via the form below.
