Coaching & Consulting
We partner with individuals, organizations and companies to build customized, strategic support and resources.
Coaching
BSI’s Founder, Toby Herzlich, offers 1:1 coaching with an emphasis on partnering deeply with each client towards their most ambitious and heartful goals and dreams. Grounding the work in nature-based wisdom, Toby integrates her ICF Coaching accreditation and a Brain-Based Coaching Certification from the NeuroLeadership Institute, along with 18 years as a Senior Trainer and coach with the Rockwood Leadership Institute. Coaching clients include innovative and adaptive leaders intrigued by applying a living systems lens to their social benefit results, as well as Biomimicry Professionals committed to advancing their professional practice as powerfully as possible.
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“Toby approaches coaching with kindness and curiosity, both of which ignite safe, inspired personal discovery and an authentic starting place for deep work and lasting personal change.”
Christine Lintott, Architect and Certified Biomimicry Professional
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"Toby's coaching style is unique in that it has a gentle, nature-informed emphasis, while still keeping me on the leading edge of my comfort level, constantly supporting me while I grow. With Toby's guidance, I have set clear and achievable goals for both my personal and professional life. She provides me with the tools and support I need to stay accountable and focused, and I am proud to say that I am achieving my goals with her help. Toby's remarkable ability to listen deeply and provide thoughtful insights has helped me develop my own superpowers. She's amazing. I cannot recommend Toby enough to anyone who is looking for growth in their personal or professional life. If you are looking for a coach to help you set and realize your goals, look no further. Hire Toby."
Christina Williams-Saulter, Chief Customer Officer at America Learns
Consulting
BSI’s team consults with teams, organizations, and networks – bringing insights from nature as guidance for collectively expanding what’s possible. By introducing and applying BIOS - Biologically-Inspired Organizational Strategies, we help leaders and their teams design transformative and regenerative structures, systems, and practices to transform strategically in these evolutionary times.
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"Toby Herzlich and Tre' Cates have been insightful and sensitive partners for integrating regenerative practices into our campaign. Learning from nature, we are deepening our understanding of personal and team dynamics to increase our resilience, adaptability, and effectiveness."
Bill Corcoran, Beyond Coal Campaign Director, Sierra Club
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"At the Agroecology Fund, we've worked with Toby for over 7 years, entrusting her to lead us through strategic planning, participatory program assessment and through sticky management conundrums. Each time, Toby, with her warmth and intelligence and creative use of biomimicry. helped us find excellent solutions. Toby has a gift for inclusivity, managing to bring together our diverse board of advisors, donors and grantees from across the world."
Daniel Moss, Agroecology Fund Co-Director
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“As a consultant and facilitator, Toby is masterful in disarming a room of potent leaders, inviting dialogue nested in values found deep within the heart and creating space for reframing business discourse to one that invites the genius of nature into the conversation.”
Christine Lintott, Architect and Certified Biomimicry Professional
Recent Clients
As a post-pandemic revitalization effort, BSI teamed with n’Rhythm to support the largest climate solutions advocacy campaign within one of the nation’s largest environmental organizations to integrate practices for individual personal ecology and team regeneration.
We have consulted with AEF through their growth and development over more than seven years, connecting this global network of philanthropists, scientists, and practitioners through evolutionary, whole-systems strategic planning and organizational development.
BSI’s Science Team investigated how nature’s intelligence can inform the Seven Key Practices of a Beloved Economy, enhancing this book with research, nature-positive references, and a contributed chapter on “Life’s Principles and the Seven Practices.”
A Canadian-based rainforest protection NGO, whose mission is to shift supply chain decision-makers from being forest destroyers to conservation champions. Canopy engaged BSI in the inquiry, “How does nature maintain win-win collaborative partnerships that can endure even in the face of disruption?”
Together we developed “Nature’s Four Key Criteria for Enduring Partnerships” and supported their strategic application to advance Canopy’s success.
Speaking Engagements
BSI team members are available for keynotes and paradigm-shifting nature positive inspiration. Contact us to learn more.
Recent Speaking Engagements
