Leigh Tillman

Leigh Tillman facilitates meetings, records meetings, and offers trainings. Leigh has a diverse background and a variety of skills in teaching and community project management. She is a certified mediator and brings these skills to her work with Good Group Decisions. She highly values the art of recognizing all the perspectives at the table and the intentional crafting of a vision’s direction.

After completing a degree in Anthropology and Creative Writing at Connecticut College, Leigh spent the majority of the past decade in cultural contexts other than the one in which she grew up, including:

• Studying anthropology and assisting a Heifer Project Natural Resource Management Assessment in Tanzania
• Studying navigation/oceanography and crewing on yachts in the South Pacific and the Sargasso Sea
• Helping Philippine University students further their efforts to create art, dance, sports, and music classes for youth in Ilocos Norte, Philippines
• Helping with the tsunami relief effort in Southeast India and with post-Katrina rebuilding in New Orleans and Violet, Louisiana
• Working at a consensus-based Quaker summer camp
• Working the Alaskan Salmon Season, fishing and hanging (i.e. making) fishing nets
• Traveling throughout New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, India, Morocco, the Caribbean, and Latin America
• Studying and teaching yoga and living in yogic communities in India, Thailand, and Mexico
• Starting up an organic farming project in rural Maine 

Living and working in these communities has helped Leigh recognize the relativity of perspectives, leading to her interest in meeting facilitation, the manner of group dialogue, and building awareness of how individuals collaborate.

Leigh Tillman has developed a series of trainings to assist groups in developing strategies for addressing dynamics that can naturally arise in the workplace. She also draws from a variety of facilitation techniques from Open Space technology to personality type assessments. Her specialty is developing trainings and facilitating meetings in a way that caters to your team’s specific needs.

Click here to see descriptions of the special workshops Leigh offers.

Leigh currently lives in Portland, Maine where she teaches yoga and farms, growing vegetables for local markets and restaurants. She loves getting out to bike, surf, and cross country ski.

You can send an email to Leigh by clicking here.

"It was so helpful to have someone neutral to move the process further and forward and to keep us on time and focused...  Great job, Leigh!"

"Leigh did a wonderful job -- can't be improved upon."

-- participant evaluations of an Arts Are Elementary Strategic Planning Session, 2011