Your Organization Already Knows What It Needs
You just can't feel it anymore.
Somewhere between the quarterly reviews and strategic frameworks, between the meetings about meetings and the metrics that measure everything except what matters, your organization forgot something essential: it's made of humans.
I help you remember. Not through another model or methodology, but by listening—with the kind of deep, embodied attention that lets patterns reveal themselves. By creating experiences where you feel the difference between what's working and what's slowly killing your capacity to create anything worth creating.
This isn't traditional consulting. I don't arrive with solutions. I arrive with presence and curiosity about what your organizational body is already trying to tell you—through the recurring conflicts, the chronic exhaustion, the initiatives that keep failing no matter how hard you push.
When organizations remember they're human, everything shifts. Not because of a framework, but because humans who can breathe, rest, and release naturally create what no amount of strategic planning can force into being.
What I Do
I help organizations remember they're made of humans.
You know something's off. The 70% burnout rate. The crying in bathrooms. The meetings where everyone's present but no one's actually there. The talent that keeps leaving, especially the ones who seemed to see things others couldn't.
Traditional consulting would give you frameworks to fix this. I don't do that.
Instead, I listen. To what your space feels like. To what patterns keep repeating. To what your organizational body already knows but your strategic mind keeps overriding.
Through facilitated sessions—call them workshops if you need to, though they're really more like guided experiences—I help groups feel what's actually happening:
Why everyone's exhausted (hint: it's not workload)
What those recurring conflicts are actually about
Why certain initiatives keep failing no matter who leads them
What the people leaving are trying to tell you
No frameworks. No models. Just creating space to notice what you already know: that packing humans into back-to-back meetings creates suffocation, not productivity. That never letting anything die means nothing new can be born. That when humans can't breathe, rest, or release, they stop creating anything worth creating.
Why It Matters
Because treating humans like machines is expensive.
Not just the turnover costs or the sick days. The real expense is what you're not creating because everyone's too exhausted to think. What you're not seeing because the people who could sense it already left. What you're not becoming because you're too busy maintaining what should have died two years ago.
When organizations remember they're human:
People stop pretending everything's fine
Meetings become conversations again
Rest stops being a guilty secret
Work starts meaning something
This isn't revolutionary. It's obvious. But obvious isn't easy when you've spent years training yourself not to feel what your body knows.
I hold space for that remembering. Sometimes it's uncomfortable. Sometimes it's relief. Usually it's both. Always it's real.
The result? Organizations that work with human nature instead of against it. Not because they've implemented a new system, but because they've stopped ignoring what every body in every meeting room has been screaming for years: we're human. Let us be human. That's when the real work becomes possible.
DR. MATTHEW DUNN
Matthew is an organizational psychologist who helps organizations remember they're made of humans, not metrics.
His path started on soccer fields, where a decade of collegiate coaching taught him that teams move as living systems, not collections of individuals. After earning his doctorate in Organizational Leadership Psychology and founding Performance Rising in 2016, it was the dissolution of his own practice that taught him the most: sometimes things need to die for truth to emerge.
Now he works at the intersection of the practical and profound. He doesn't fix organizations—he listens for what they're trying to become. Through facilitated sessions that feel more like experiences than workshops, Matthew helps leaders and teams feel what their bodies already know: that 70% burnout isn't normal, that crying in bathrooms isn't "handling it," that exhaustion is intelligence about unsustainable rhythms.
His approach is simple: create space where organizations can feel what's actually happening rather than what should be happening. No frameworks to master. No models to implement. Just humans remembering they can breathe, rest, and release—and discovering that when they do, they naturally create what no amount of strategic planning can manufacture.
Matthew works with organizations ready to stop pretending they're machines and start acknowledging they're living systems that already know how to heal, evolve, and create meaning. Because transformation doesn't come from better tools. It comes from feeling what you've trained yourself not to feel, naming what everyone knows but no one says, and remembering that before you were a workforce, you were human.
The Service I Provide
Strategic Witnessing
A facilitated experience for organizations ready to feel what they already know.
Your team knows something needs to shift. The symptoms are everywhere—exhaustion that rest doesn't fix, conflicts that keep recycling, initiatives that fail regardless of who leads them. Traditional consulting would diagnose problems and prescribe solutions. Strategic Witnessing does something different.
I create space where your organization can feel its own patterns and recognize what's already trying to emerge.
What It Is
Strategic Witnessing is a facilitated session where teams discover what their bodies already know about organizational health. Through carefully held experiences—not exercises with right answers—participants feel the difference between:
Forced alignment and natural coherence
Productive tension and destructive pressure
Sustainable rhythm and mechanical motion
What needs to die and what wants to be born
This isn't training. Nothing is taught. Instead, patterns reveal themselves through simple, embodied experiences that bypass analytical defense and speak directly to what everyone already senses but hasn't been able to name.
What Happens
We begin by arriving. Not just showing up, but actually landing in our bodies, in the room, in the present moment. This alone often shifts something.
We listen to patterns. Through movement, through stillness, through simple objects like rope or stones, your team feels how energy actually moves (or doesn't) in your system. Where it flows. Where it sticks. Where it's dying.
We follow what emerges. If everyone's exhausted from perpetual ascent, we practice descent. If everything feels rigid, we explore release. Not as metaphors but as actual experiences in the body.
We name what we notice. Without forcing conclusions or action plans, we witness what became visible, what surprised us, what confirmed what we suspected, what remains mysterious.
We identify natural next steps. Usually three simple shifts emerge—things like one human conversation, one rhythm change, one thing to stop doing. No permission needed. No budget required. Just humans remembering they can move differently.
Who It's For
Organizations where:
The usual approaches aren't working anymore
Bodies know something minds keep denying
The sensitive ones keep leaving
Everyone's tired of pretending everything's fine
There's readiness to feel truth rather than perform solutions
This works particularly well for:
Leadership teams sensing misalignment they can't name
Organizations in transition who've lost their center
Groups where trust has eroded despite team-building efforts
Teams whose bodies are screaming what their meetings won't discuss
What You Get
Not what you expect:
No framework to implement
No model to roll out
No report with recommendations
No action plan to manage
What actually helps:
Felt clarity about what's really happening
Shared language for patterns you've been sensing
Permission to stop doing what isn't working
Small shifts that restore natural movement
The beginning of remembering you're human
The Invitation
Your organization doesn't need another intervention. It needs space to feel what it already knows. To name what everyone senses. To remember that before you were a workforce, you were humans who knew how to breathe, rest, and create meaning together.
Strategic Witnessing isn't about learning something new. It's about remembering something essential: organizations that remember they're human naturally create what no amount of strategic planning can force into being.
If your body (not your strategic mind) recognizes something true in this description, let's talk.
"The outcomes are not pre-determined. The session is designed to surface what wants to emerge—not to force an answer. Success isn't a deliverable—it's a shift in clarity, coherence, or capacity."
