Human Capacity Design™

When you're facing a lot at once, there's no shortage of support. What's hard is knowing what comes first.

I help you see how the pieces connect, so you can choose where your time, money and energy go first.

Start with where you are.

Already know you want to work together?Let's begin with a conversation about what you're currently navigating.
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Where are you right now?

Choose all that apply.

What this makes possible

What usually matters most here, and what comes with it.

Matters most hereComes with it
A specialist can help with one of these. What's harder to find is someone who connects them, puts them in order, and protects what's already working, all at the same time.

Why one approach fits

How can one approach help with all of this?

Two things are true in every one of them.

1Every situation involves people.

BEFORE AROUND WITHIN
  • WithinHow they're wired, their strengths, needs and capacity
  • AroundFamily, work, relationships and the places they spend their days
  • BeforeFamily history, culture and the expectations they inherited

Most support asks people to change themselves. But some of what shapes them sits around them, or came before them. Seeing all three can lift blame that was never theirs, and show what's theirs to change and what needs to change elsewhere.

2One way of looking applies to all of it.

UpstreamBefore the plan, the program or the room is designed.
RelationalWhat's within a person, around them and before them, seen together.
SequencedWhat comes first changes what's possible next.

The situations change. The human, and the way of seeing, don't.

Human Capacity Design™ works alongside your experts, not instead of them. You keep the decision.

Yush Sztalkoper

Why me

I've lived it from the inside.

UBS · JPMorgan · Gartner

Global client events, marketing and strategy

From the ground up

Built an events department from a team of one

Founder

Created a new discipline

Through all of it

Parenting neurodivergent children

Every door on this page is one I've walked through.

More about me

Ways in

One human. Many roles. Connected decisions.

Every decision is shaped by what the person deciding can see. The doors are different ways in, not separate worlds. Choose the one that fits.

OnehumanYourselfMAKES DECISIONS AFFECTINGYour own lifeFor women →ParentMAKES DECISIONS AFFECTINGA child or familyFor parents →EventplannerMAKES DECISIONS AFFECTINGAttendeesFor events →LeaderMAKES DECISIONS AFFECTINGTeams and employeesFor organizations →ProfessionalMAKES DECISIONS AFFECTINGClients and customersFor organizations →
Exploring for yourself

For what you're navigating in your own life or your family's, at your own pace.

For women →For parents →
Bringing this to the people you're responsible for

Event planners, leaders and professionals bring me in to see the people their decisions reach: teams, audiences, clients, customers and families.

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VISIBILITY NEWSLETTER

Visibility

A newsletter about seeing human reality more fully, one shift at a time. Each issue starts with something you've likely experienced and leaves you noticing it differently.

Issue 10 | Humanspan

Human Capacity Design Issue 10 graphic reading “Visibility Changes What Becomes Possible,” about recognizing personal needs and how surroundings shape decisions.
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Visibility Issue 09, The Event Begins Before I Arrive: every lens describes part of one human reality, shaped by the conditions around it.

Issue 09 | The Event Begins Before I Arrive

Visibility Issue 02, When Value Isn’t Enough: creating value and realizing value are not the same thing.

Issue 02 | When Value Isn’t Enough

Visibility Issue 05, Why Is It Getting Harder to Know What to Do?: asking what needs to become visible before I decide.

Issue 05 | Why Is It Getting Harder to Know What To Do?