Beth Glick and Yoni Gordis have been working together for thirteen years, bringing complementary skill sets and an ever-evolving shared toolbox to our clients. We built ChangeCraft with the dream of a partnership that mirrors our work with organizations: astute and incisive work products, consistent growth as people and practitioners, and the weaving of joy and possibility throughout our work.
Narratives are rarely linear, and much is learned from those junctures called change.
Beth Glick, Partner
2002
After studying inter-religious peacebuilding as a graduate student in the United States, I moved to Sri Lanka - my first experience working in a conflict zone. I helped an organization grapple with internal inter-ethnic and inter-religious tensions, while being tasked with developing their peacebuilding strategy. I was extremely humbled by the experience, both proud of the work and existentially questioning of my role as a white foreigner.
2006
Working in India’s first venture philanthropy firm, I found what I loved: working behind the scenes, building the capacity of those doing the hard work on the ground. I learned that I naturally buoyed human potential, loved simplifying complexity, and seeing the world through the lens of shifting strategy.
2010 / 2014 / 2016
The births of my three sons profoundly changed me. Birth 1: gratitude and the precarious line between life and death. Birth 2: power. Birth 3: awe of creation.
2020
After two decades of working with mission-driven organizations, the pandemic’s life-without-travel ironically exposed me to new worlds. Encountering these communities - diverse in identity, experience, and perspective - unsettled me and what I had thought I had perfected. And yet there is no perfect in this work. At a tipping point, I found myself energized to rethink fundamental precepts of organizational design and build new ways of working.
Beth is currently experimenting with:
Decentralized and co-leadership models
Organizational characteristics most critical for adaptivity
Equity principles applied in practice
Radical transparency
Yoni Gordis, Partner
1980
At sixteen and a devotee of the band the Grateful Dead, great luck led me to spend several hours with Jerry Garcia, the group’s leader. Over several hours of meandered chatting, giggling and delving, he showed that he saw me as an interesting equal on the journey, validated my critiques of the world, and gave me my first taste of being witnessed.
1992
As an assistant to midwives, I learned that the greatest teachings come through patience; the most dazzling heroes can look like ordinary women; and prayer is a very powerful tool.
2001
Having lived in Israel since my late teens, I realized at 37 that my values necessitated that I live in a different country. The four winds landed our young family in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where I found that you can’t always calculate your way to home but need to simply unfurl your sails.
2011
Four years in a senior executive position at a private family foundation is the professional life of which many in our sector dream. And once in it, I came to realize that my personality was more nimble than possessing power would allow it to be. Being white, male, and a boomer gave me privilege where I didn’t even seek or want it. To step out of technical certainty and return to consulting was to return to a much richer forest for me.
Yoni is currently experimenting with:
Distributed power as a tool in staff retention
The intersection between the mystical and the therapeutic
The inequity in the infrastructure of western philanthropy
The undiscussed role of luck in strategy