Bonnie Hudspeth

Independent Consultant

Introduction

Bonnie helps organizations achieve their goals through aligning their values, culture, and operations.  

Bonnie helps people navigate transition while helping design systems and work culture to help teams thrive.   

As an experienced facilitator, community organizer, and project manager, Bonnie brings over two decades of experience in the non-profit and cooperative sectors. Through system design, leadership development, and relationship and capacity building, she supports individuals and organizations to bridge between strategic vision and concrete action.

Whether facilitating peer groups or meetings, building communities of practice, contributing to strategic planning, or supporting organizations to complete innovative projects, she uses an asset-based approach to development, noticing and drawing out peoples’ strengths and shared values for deepened connection and innovation.

Bonnie loves serving as a sounding board, helping reveal unnamed needs in individuals and organizations, facilitating leaders in connecting the dots, articulating what’s happening, and then creating an action plan to address unmet needs.

  • Served as trustee helping to transform the organizational culture for the Cooperative Fund of the Northeast, advancing community-based, cooperative, and democratically owned or managed enterprises across the Northeastern United States.

  • Led Co-operative Development for the Neighboring Food Co-operative Association, supporting the shared learning, innovation, and success of more than 45 food co-ops and startup initiatives. This work included leading several food security and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, communities of practice, peer learning groups, and supporting leadership development at food co-ops across the Northeast.

  • Co-created several organizations, including serving as the Project Manager to open the community-owned grocery store Monadnock Food Co-op (2013) in Keene, NH.

  • Master of Science degree in Sustainable Community Development from Antioch University New England (2008).

  • Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Studies and English Summa cum Laude and Honors in Environmental Studies from the University of Vermont (2004).

  • In 2020, Bonnie was honored at the national Up & Coming Food Co-op Conference as the year’s ‘Cooperative Champion’ for widely respected work with northeastern startups in the cooperative sector.

  • Bonnie was named an ‘Emerging Leader’ in 2010 by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, one of the United States’ largest community foundations.

Areas of expertise:

  • Facilitation

  • Systems design

  • Transition planning

  • Leadership development

  • Strategic planning

  • Meeting and retreat design and facilitation

Contact

Testimonials

I reached out to Darnell when I felt I was floundering in my business; I wanted to move in a new direction and felt stuck. Darnell listened and heard the meaning beneath my words. Her questions helped me reframe my thoughts in a more positive light – moving from ‘what’s holding me back’ to ‘what energizes me’. Darnell’s empathy and expertise pack a powerful punch. I felt heard and supported, and I came out with clarity and renewed energy.

I reached out to Darnell when I felt I was floundering in my business; I wanted to move in a new direction and felt stuck. Darnell listened and heard the meaning beneath my words. Her questions helped me reframe my thoughts in a more positive light – moving from ‘what’s holding me back’ to ‘what energizes me’. Darnell’s empathy and expertise pack a powerful punch. I felt heard and supported, and I came out with clarity and renewed energy.

Beth Saunders

Beth Saunders and Associates

Kaye and Mel are the best evah!

 

Kaye and Mel are the best evah!

 

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Darnell, satisfied client

I can’t recommend working with Darnell Adams enough. Darnell was incredibly integral to the process of starting my own business. She is knowledgeable, patient, encouraging, and has such a calm presence that helped ground me if I got anxious or negative about where I was at in my process. Darnell helped me organize my ideas, look at the big picture and also zoom into the details. I’m about to celebrate the one year mark of working with my very first clients and I wouldn’t be here without Darnell’s guidance. Thank you!

I can’t recommend working with Darnell Adams enough. Darnell was incredibly integral to the process of starting my own business. She is knowledgeable, patient, encouraging, and has such a calm presence that helped ground me if I got anxious or negative about where I was at in my process. Darnell helped me organize my ideas, look at the big picture and also zoom into the details. I’m about to celebrate the one year mark of working with my very first clients and I wouldn’t be here without Darnell’s guidance. Thank you!

Lottie Gurvis

oh my nosh, LLC