Massachusetts General Hospital Aspire

Here at Massachusetts General Hospital Aspire, we've been working with Raelene Bergen Harder and her team at Origin Leadership Consulting to develop a customized, leadership training program for neurodiverse teens. When starting our journey, we sought out the best of the best in leadership consulting firms to build up our understanding of leadership training best practices, and Origin did not disappoint! Raelene spent hours connecting with our team to learn more about our youth population, current programmatic needs, and desires for future growth. What she then presented was revolutionary--a "plug and play" model for teen leadership training that prioritized the needs of our participants and provided room for those needs to fluctuate between different cohorts and seasons.

Something so very special about the team at Origin Leadership is their knack for collaboration; it's second nature. Origin has taken the time to get to know who we are as an organization, and they've used that information to guide our staff in building programs that Aspire. One way this collaboration has really shone is in the flexibility Raelene demonstrated in supporting staff to tweak program structure to participant needs mid-way through our summer session. When program progress halted due to waning camper motivation levels, Raelene wasn't scared; rather, she encouraged staff to lean into the "youth perspective" and head back to the drawing board accordingly. Besides the effortless teamwork Origin has modeled with us and for us, they also practice using a growth mindset in all situations. Raelene consistently solicits feedback about Origin services, always making sure they live up to her high standards of excellence, and she builds programmatic evaluation into debriefs as a deliberate piece of the leadership training puzzle. 

We couldn't have asked for more from our work with Origin Leadership Consulting, and we look forward to many more years of creative, collaborative partnership."

Taylor Levesque, MA
Assistant Program Manager for Child Services