Taproot Consulting is led by facilitator and strategist Beth Trigg. Trusted collaborators are engaged for projects that match their specific backgrounds and skills.
Beth is a skilled facilitator and practitioner of inclusive strategic planning processes. Using co-design principles, she has an innate ability to partner with organizations to bring about clarity on issues or questions worth exploring. She also understands how to best engage people - board, staff, communities - in crafting the strategic direction of an organization or program in ways that maximize participation and generate excitement around a common vision."
- Lauren Rayburn, Researcher
About Beth Trigg
Beth (she/her) grew up in the Southern Appalachian mountains of Western North Carolina and has worked with organizations and communities for 25+ years, focused in the US South and Appalachia. Grounded in a deep commitment to equity and social justice, Beth works with organizations, collaboratives, and movements to build capacity, create consensus, mobilize resources, and develop strategy.
Working in partnership with organizations, funders, and collaboratives Beth creates caring, collaborative, adaptive facilitation of collective strategy and organizational change. With skilled facilitation and creative co-design of group process tailored to client needs, Beth helps groups build power, hone skills, and create the change that they envision together. Beth's approach is open, participatory, collaborative, and creative. With roots in popular education, anti-oppression organizing, and formal and informal consensus process, Beth draws on a lifetime of experience as a participant in movements and organizations.
Beth brings to her consulting practice deep experience with organizational capacity-building, organizational development, group facilitation, participatory planning, and fund development planning.
Beth has worked at every level of nonprofit organizations: as a staff member, as a board member, as a volunteer, and as a consultant, with organizations from the smallest, most grassroots level up to the scale of larger international organizations. She worked as a Development Director for national and regional organizations for 10 years and incorporates grassroots fundraising and resource mobilization principles into her work with groups. She is intimately familiar with the challenges and rewards of working in the nonprofit environment -- too often feeling under-resourced, under-staffed, and over-worked, yet full of passionate and committed people capable of amazing things.
Beth honed her skills as a facilitator by participating in grassroots and community-based organizations and by training formally as a facilitator with Training for Change (Training for Social Action Trainers) and with stone circles at the Stone House (Facilitation for Transformative Social Change and Advanced Training for Trainers) and Leadership that Works (Coaching for Transformation). She incorporates participatory approaches and popular education tools into her facilitation work, and is trained in and experienced with formal consensus decision-making and other participatory methods.
Beth developed the Inclusive Planning and Responsive Strategy curriculum for WNC Nonprofit Pathways, and works as a guest facilitator with Spiral Path Consulting to support organizations working to understand racial equity and create cultures of belonging.
For a list of past clients and completed projects, click here.
Working in partnership with organizations, funders, and collaboratives Beth creates caring, collaborative, adaptive facilitation of collective strategy and organizational change. With skilled facilitation and creative co-design of group process tailored to client needs, Beth helps groups build power, hone skills, and create the change that they envision together. Beth's approach is open, participatory, collaborative, and creative. With roots in popular education, anti-oppression organizing, and formal and informal consensus process, Beth draws on a lifetime of experience as a participant in movements and organizations.
Beth brings to her consulting practice deep experience with organizational capacity-building, organizational development, group facilitation, participatory planning, and fund development planning.
Beth has worked at every level of nonprofit organizations: as a staff member, as a board member, as a volunteer, and as a consultant, with organizations from the smallest, most grassroots level up to the scale of larger international organizations. She worked as a Development Director for national and regional organizations for 10 years and incorporates grassroots fundraising and resource mobilization principles into her work with groups. She is intimately familiar with the challenges and rewards of working in the nonprofit environment -- too often feeling under-resourced, under-staffed, and over-worked, yet full of passionate and committed people capable of amazing things.
Beth honed her skills as a facilitator by participating in grassroots and community-based organizations and by training formally as a facilitator with Training for Change (Training for Social Action Trainers) and with stone circles at the Stone House (Facilitation for Transformative Social Change and Advanced Training for Trainers) and Leadership that Works (Coaching for Transformation). She incorporates participatory approaches and popular education tools into her facilitation work, and is trained in and experienced with formal consensus decision-making and other participatory methods.
Beth developed the Inclusive Planning and Responsive Strategy curriculum for WNC Nonprofit Pathways, and works as a guest facilitator with Spiral Path Consulting to support organizations working to understand racial equity and create cultures of belonging.
For a list of past clients and completed projects, click here.
"I believe in the power of pooled resources -- energy, time, talent, and money -- to change our communities and our world for the better. I love working with grassroots groups of people coming together to make change, to meet community needs, and to advocate for more just and sustainable systems."
- Beth Trigg, Taproot Consulting