Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
Consulting
Storyweaving Consulting tailors active, practical, and contemporary strategies for trainings, learning tools, and research initiatives.
We provide services grounded in data-focused, evidence-based practices and informed by qualitative methods, offering active learning and problem-solving that centers on your challenges, strengths and goals. We particularly focus on organizations large and small that value community-building, education, and innovation at the core of their mission. At the center of Storyweaving Consulting is awareness of the mindsets that are at the heart of organizational cultures and initiatives. These habitual approaches, often expressed in mission and vision statements, but sometimes hidden in policies and practices, can either block innovation or fuel and support healthy organizational and social change. Understanding the professional and personal stories that shape a group’s decisions is key for designing meaningful trainings and supporting strategic teams. Storyweaving assesses the needs of leaders, educators, administrators, students, parents, and other team stakeholders as we work together to co-create practical and visionary professional development. Online, face-to-face, and blended learning are available, depending on your needs. In addition to developing innovative and practical trainings, we offer coaching, grant and whitepaper writing, research, strategic planning, and evaluation/assessment.
Recent Storyweaving Consulting Projects
Centers for Spiritual Living
Since 2023, I have offered trainings in leadership development to new thought communities, including the home office, Centers for Spiritual Living. Storyweaving leadership development program focuses on all levels of leadership: board, community leaders, and congregation, supporting transitions with ministers , improvements in organizational structure, branding, growth and expansion. I have offered Zoom and in-person workshops, talks, grant development, and initiative planning sessions. Since 2012, I have been the leadership, business, and spirituality columnist for Science of Mind Magazine, and publishing articles on the intersection of spiritual practices and business tools as fundamental to community-building, organizational success, and grounded leadership.
Delaware Department of Education
Storyweaving is currently serving in a broad project management, research, and evaluation role to pilot, revise, and design trainings for Social-Emotional-Learning (SEL), Transition Planning, Work-Based-Learning, Equity Development Programs across the state. We prepared key white papers and research publications for Delaware’s K-12+ ongoing Transition Initiative, and support innovation and expansion with focus-groups, grant-writing, leadership coaching, and professional trainings. Since 2022, we have designed and facilitated a student leadership program in Delaware, and in 2025 piloted a student leadership initiative with students at the Silver Lake Residential program.
National Alliance for Partnership in Equity (NAPE)
Training and Curriculum Development, PIPEline to Equity for Students with Disabilities, PIPEline to Equity for NonTradtional Careers.
Researcher/Writer for updated Literature Review about equity for all at-risk students and populations in CTE/STEM fields, Equity in CTE & STEM: Root Causes and Strategies (2022). Cited in Techniques, April 2022, and a resource for current interdisciplinary and integrative approaches to analyzing and addressing root causes for exclusion and bias. In 2024, she published an article about PIPEline’s support for CTE educators and administrators, RESOURCING TEACHER EFFICACY IN CTE: Best Practices from a Delaware Long-term professional development program.
Researcher/Writer for PIPEline to Equity for Students with Disabilities:
Created workbook, training manuals, literature review (2019/2021 editions) for this pioneering program to bring the PIPE process to specifically support equity in CTE/STEM for students with disabilities (SWD)
Researcher/Writer for NAPE’s 2021 Mission Alignment:
Researched and wrote the Root Cause Literature Review for Equity in CTE/STEM, 2021, focusing on Education, Employment, Community, and Individual causes for exclusion, with tools for evidence-based interventions and best practices to increase equity. Co-author on Equity in CTE/STEM: A Call to Action.
Leader for webinars and trainings introducing this broad interdisciplinary approach to inclusion in CTE/STEM career paths.
Developer and Facilitator for Student Leadership trainings to bring student voice into the PIPEline Process. Combining Work-Based-Learning experience with leadership development and action research to share insights about improving College and Career Preparation for SWD and at-risk learners.
Opportunity Brokers Consortium
As part of a growing group of educational experts, Storyweaving designs and facilitates online and face-to-face trainings and prepares white papers to present best practices for teaching and learning. Maryland, Delaware, Rhode Island, Nevada, Connecticut and other states.
Projects include:
CUSTOMIZED WBL/EMPLOYMENT FOR STUDENTS AND ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES: Asynchronous and Synchronous Online Training for CTE and Workforce Development Professionals. We also offer in-person trainings based on this practical, interactive training, supported by best-practices from the field and literature.
CUSTOMIZED YEAR-LONG TRAININGS for CTE SUCCESS: Making your Classroom Work for All Learners:(Currently Rhode Island, Maryland). Incorporating Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Collaborative Teaching and Learning, Insights from Counselors and Special Educators, and Best Practices for College and Career Readiness in Vocational Education. Curriculum Development Support. One-on-one coaching, needs assessments, and virtual/in-person trainings.
Tilson & Diaz Associates
As a sub-contractor, she serves as a researcher, trainer, and editor/writer for select projects supporting university and K-12 educators with professional development.
“Carol has an uncanny understanding of the needs of school systems, educators, and young people, alike. She is a visionary and a thought partner who rolls up her sleeves and jumps into the trenches to develop quality products and programs. Carol has a unique way of simultaneously pushing and supporting educators to challenge their thinking and make systemic changes to provide equitable access, supports, and outcomes for every learner. She is smart, fair, strong, and compassionate; truly one of kind!”
— Lisa Stoner-Torbert, Former CTE Policy Advisor, Delaware Department of Education
Contact us.
Let me know something about your goals and questions, and we’ll schedule a time to get to know each other and see how Storyweaving can help you or your teams work smarter (not harder!) and more creatively.
I look forward to meeting you.