Trust Has A Very Clear Goal

To provide your team with the structure, process, and tools to accelerate your growth, reach, and impact.

Here’s how we do it.

  • Training and Coaching

    I provide in-person and remote training to develop a clear communication toolbox for your team. I will train and coach teams and individuals to become confident and effective facilitators and communicators. On-demand courses are also available.

  • Meeting Facilitation

    As a facilitator, I provide customized support to guide stakeholders through an engagement and decision-making process that meets the needs and long-term vision of the institution.

  • Strategic Planning

    I use my skills to create conditions for meaningful and impactful collaboration that lead to a strategic plan that has the buy-in necessary for implementation.

  • Convene For Impact

    Trust can play the role of “connector” for cohorts and alliances looking to use their collective impact to tackle larger, complex projects to overcome systemic barriers.

Learn More

Dallase Scott

I am the proud founder and principal of Trust.

It is easy to be driven exclusively by a fixed goal or destination. We become obsessed with checking the boxes, reaching the organizational metrics, delivering the product. As a long time strategic planner for colleges and universities, mission-driven organizations, and for-profit entities alike, I have often seen well-meaning teams hinder their own good work by only focusing on the end goal and not examining their pathway to success.

Trust is about how we choose to work together in a healthy, productive, and honest way; about where we want to be when goals are reached, and fostering the lasting relationships necessary for the interdependencies of mission-driven work.

Welcome to Trust!

Let’s Connect

  • “Working with Trust is fun, engaging, and provides tremendous value. Dallase is a thoughtful leader who can easily adapt to changing circumstances.”

    — Meghan Fay Zahniser, Executive Director, Association for the Advancement of Higher Education

  • "We hired Trust to guide us through a complicated, inclusive, and transparent strategic planning process. An unexpected benefit in working with Trust was the skills, methods, and thought processes Dallase showed my team and me that will help us on every project we will undertake in the future. Game changing."

    Lindsey Kalkbrenner, Director, Center for Sustainability, Santa Clara University

  • “Since partnering with Trust, I've been able to create workshops and processes within my organization to gather input from diverse stakeholders. I've been able to build an effective change management program. And I've grown and developed myself as a facilitator and a leader.”

    — Sandra Goldmark, Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Engagement, Columbia Climate School & Professor of Professional Practice, Barnard College

  • “Dallase has brought a unique combination of talents to this work – strong technical expertise; great process and project management skills; and very artful and engaging facilitation – not to mention a great sense of humor! You usually don’t get all these skills in the same consultant. She has significantly accelerated our work and we wouldn’t be where we are without her help.”

    — John Cleveland, Senior Advisor, Boston Green Ribbon Commission

  • “I think that I can best speak to the high-value Dallase has provided in the facilitation of projects that are high profile and require delicate stakeholder engagement. Having Dallase support initiative development that required multiple layers of stakeholders, with varying priorities and visions, was instrumental in ensuring the collaborative approach and buy-in required to make implementation and operations successful.”

    — Jessica Berry, Director for the Office of Sustainability, Brown University

  • “When my college sustainability internship program needed to quickly pivot from in-person to remote experiences as COVID- 19 escalated, Dallase came on board as a key partner in a successful transition. My experience with her as the program administrator was that of a clear communicator, a creative thinker, and someone who leveraged her own diverse experiences and understanding of the human psyche to understand and execute on my goals for the program. She helped to transform what might otherwise have been isolated work projects into a shared experience of teamwork and community.”

    — Yancey Fouché, MS, ISSP-SA Director of Sustainability, Davidson College

  • “Thank you again for all of your amazing work on this project. Everyone was very complimentary of your value at the retreat, and really appreciated the balance you struck between pushing us along and letting issues air.”

    — Catherine Corson Leslie & Sarah Miller, Director of the Miller Worley Center for the Environment

  • "Trust's organized process and yet customized approach to engaging with our team was a really great balance. It has allowed us to both take advantage of pre-developed tools and yet create solutions that are unique to our organization."

    Sustainability Director, Office of Climate and Sustainability, Duke University

Access your free internal agenda template here!