Self-Organizing Workshops For Organizations
Self-Organizing is a game-changing paradigm. Self-organizing provides the flexibility and agility for organizations to act quickly on opportunities, while also creating inclusive, engaged cultures.
Our Clients
We have implemented customized self-organizing structures into a diverse group of organizations, such as American Express Global Business Travel, Dev BootCamp, Pantheon Inc, and Kahler Financial.
The Benefits of Self-Organizing
Agile Organizational Structure
Build a culture of “respons-agility” (a culture of individuals who take responsibility for timely, healthy, and adaptable workplace action.)
Accountability and Autonomy
Increase transparency around roles and accountabilities – allow individuals to have autonomy over their work and an understanding of when to collaborate.
Harness collective intelligence
Establish meeting practices and operational processes that tap into the collective intelligence of stakeholders to drive innovation.
Our Team
WonderWorks is a California-based agency that works globally to support purpose-focused leaders and organizations in achieving their aspirations. Established in 2003 by co-founders Anna McGrath and Margaret Ryan, WonderWorks is an industry leader in high-performing operational structures and conscious cultures. We work in a wide variety of industries: Technology, Advertising, Natural Food, Healthcare, Retail, Nonprofit, Sports, and Financial.
Anna McGrath
Founder and President
“‘Polite’ and ‘nice’ have outlived their usefulness. Strict hierarchies squash innovation and engagement. It’s time to hit the reset button and start thinking about making a fundamental shift in the way we structure our organizations.”
– Anna McGrath
Find out more about Anna
Anna is a proven thought leader who has pioneered transformational business practices for over two decades. As a dedicated agent of conscious change, she lives and breathes the values and practices of purposeful, positive impact. She loves awakening individual engagement and supporting purpose-focused leaders and organizations.
Her big vision: That every individual may show up fully, live their purpose, and share their creative genius in service of themselves, others, and the planet.
Her expertise: Conscious behavior practices. The Holacracy® Operating system and governance structure. Strategizing triple bottom line business plans (People, Profit, and Planet). Creating and implementing innovative, impactful, and customized solutions for clients. Staying present in the thick of big emotions. Lasering in on the key factors for positive change in leaders and teams. Building and revitalizing authentic business cultures.
Anna has over 20 years of organizational development, senior corporate experience, and sought-after public speaking engagements. Before launching WonderWorks, Anna gained extensive experience in finance and sports management. During her time in the golf industry, Anna spearheaded state-of-the-art updates for a dramatic improvement in sustainability and eco-friendliness.
Her credentials and affiliations:
- Holacracy® Licensee, Holacracy® Certified Coach, and Holacracy® Certified Facilitator
- Hendricks Institute Certified Leadership and Transformation Coach
- Exercising Influence Certified Coach
- Focused Holistic Facilitation Advanced Certification
- Emotional Intelligence Training Certified
- Mediation Training Certified
- Myers Briggs Qualified Instructor
- DDI Certified Leadership and Management Development Facilitator
- PGA of America Business School Graduate at top 5% of Class
- Pachamama Alliance San Francisco Community facilitator and leader
- Conscious Capitalism Bay Area Chapter Co-chair.
Her genius: Sourcing, implementing, and dynamically steering business practices that invite authentic connections, spark autonomy, and align with the highest-leverage concerns.
Her special sauce: Anna is driven by appreciation and authenticity, and she weaves playfulness into every strategic move. Her focus and presence open up wide vistas of possibility, creativity, and innovation. She blends intensity with play, challenge with ease, and real world savvy with soulful vision.
Her Co-Founder reflects: “I have never seen anyone able to translate love into business the way I experience Anna doing. She’s an off-the-charts problem solver. She’s an explorer, a pioneer, constantly opening up space for another solution to show itself. It’s simply amazing to see her in action.”
Margaret Ryan
Co-Founder and CEO
“I want our current leaders to rock the world awake and become role models for the next generation of conscious capitalists.”
– Margaret Ryan
Find out more about Margaret
Margaret holds a glowing reputation as an agile, forward-thinking explorer. She has spent years bringing conscious business practices and tools into a variety of industries and environments (often for the first time), advising executives, CEO and Founders and supporting conscious, engaged, and strategically thoughtful teams. Along the way, her can-do optimism has driven her to accomplish a number of firsts and break her share of glass ceilings. Margaret is thrilled by the potential conscious business has for creating positive impact in the world.
Her big vision: That everyone may feel alive and inspired to do more than they thought they could.
Her expertise: Supporting cultures of wellness and authenticity. Designing custom leadership development programs. Revitalizing teams through the implementation of Self-Organizing Structures and embodying conscious leadership practices. Executive coaching and advising, ideation sessions, and strategy meetings. Asking the skillful questions that invite others to drop into their core values, express them, and believe that they truly can achieve what they most want. Inviting rich collaborations that create win-win-win business opportunities and personal growth.
Margaret boasts over two decades of leadership and business consulting experience. She’s been an entrepreneur since the moment she left college, first at a UK media agency, then in independent film and startups in technology and sports management. She was the first female PGA Director for Arnold Palmer Golf Management, where she managed 500+ employees.
Her credentials and affiliations:
- Holacracy® Certified Practitioner
- Hendricks Institute Certified Leadership and Transformation Coach
- Over 2500+ hours of coaching education
- Conscious Capitalism Bay Area Chapter President
Her genius: Speaking bold truths with authenticity, appreciation, and humor. Rapid, flexible ideation. Storytelling.
Her special sauce: Skipping the baby steps and going straight for the big leaps. (And identifying the highest-leverage leaps.) Melding strategy and levity. Innovation, agility, and bridge-building.
Her co-founder reflects: “I love Margaret’s insatiable, we-can-do-anything explorer energy. She’s a natural storyteller and outrageously creative: whether she’s writing a novel, coaching a CEO, or crafting a business strategy, she finds ways to bring people from where they are to their ultimate destination. And she has an enormous skill for appreciation.”
“There were many aspects of self-organizing that we previously did clear, and I valued pinpointing the specific issues that are the highest priority for us to work on.”
