Advising + Consulting – Michal Fedeleš

ADVISING + CONSULTING

When pursuits are meaningful, people cared about, and systems well aligned, we connect more deeply, contribute more creatively, and make a difference. This conviction has shaped my work in higher education, healthcare, leadership, professional learning, and organizational development.

Michal Fedeles

Design something consequential. Sometimes a program, initiative, learning ecosystem, leadership-development approach, supports, or organizational intervention could use some rethinking.

Make sense of complexity. Is your system or program not producing the intended results; players see the problem differently; the pieces are not aligned; or nobody has quite managed to see the whole?

Examine what is making a difference. Let's go beyond activity and satisfaction measures to investigate outcomes, impact, unintended consequences, and the experiences of the people the work is to benefit.

Bring people together. I facilitate the conversations through which leadership teams, educators, and others involved and impacted can make thoughtful choices together.

PURPOSE + IMPACT

I begin with questions that can help us see a program or system more fully:

  • What is this program or system really trying to make possible?
  • How well is it serving the people it is meant to support?
  • Where are the gaps between aspiration and lived experience?
  • How might learning, leadership, culture, structures, and support be better aligned?
  • What is becoming different because of what we are doing?

EXPERIENCE

Over 30 years, I have worked across higher education, healthcare, professional development, leadership, and organizational systems — from supporting health professionals to strengthening academic programs, developing leaders, and helping organizations examine how their systems influence results.


Working across disciplines and sectors has taught me to look beyond the immediate problem, examining the dynamics among people, purpose, structures, learning, culture, and outcomes that can be difficult to see from within a system.

HOW I WORK

I don't arrive with a solution in mind. I bring questions and curiosity to think alongside you about what is happening and what might become possible.


Let's meet, discuss what matters to you, and define how we can partner. We can examine how your team creates results, what success looks like, and how to measure progress. We can brainstorm and test design and implementation ideas.


We will want to create an approach that can continue to adapt to the complex and dynamic nature of your work, while strengthening your capacity to navigate what comes next.

This is what some of my clients have said about the work we had done together:

“Thank you for creating a space of good energy, learning and a culture of respect.”

“There were many insights you provided that I will use for the rest of my life.”

“Approachable, non-judgmental, but also held all of us accountable.”

Perhaps something important in your organization is not working quite as well as it could. Or perhaps you are creating something new, and want to think more deeply about what it could become. Either is a good place for a conversation to begin.