About Commcoterie

We help purpose-driven organizations create, navigate, and communicate change.

Our clients are small- and medium-sized impact companies, nonprofits, values-centered tech companies, heart-led consultants, B Corps, and other organizations that are trying to make the world a better place.

We help compassionate and curious leaders get unstuck, design people-centered change strategies, navigate uncertainty, and drive the change they want to see.

We also partner with other consultants who do transformational organizational culture work with companies to design change communication strategies that make their work more equitable and impactful.

We are proud to be a women-owned, LGBTQIA-owned, and disability-owned business.

Our Founder

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Caitlin Harper is a strategist, speaker, advisor, writer, and the founder of Commcoterie, an organizational change consultancy.

For the past 15 years, she has advised leaders on project, people, and communication strategy for all manner of organizational change. As the former VP of Communication & Culture at a global digital media company and now as a consultant with clients across a wide range of industries, she has designed, implemented, and sustained change initiatives in all areas of business, from people to culture to tech to marketing and more.

Caitlin's communication-driven, people-focused approach to organizational change blends coaching, strategy, and implementation and leverages organic organizational tools and techniques to engage change-makers at all levels, ensuring restorative organizational change is not just an event-specific exercise, but becomes part of an organization's DNA.

Caitlin is a frequent speaker, workshop facilitator, panelist, and podcast guest on topics such as organizational change, internal communication strategy, DEIBA, leadership and learning, management and coaching, women in the workplace, mental health and wellness at work, and company culture.

Her proprietary peer coaching program has taught thousands of people to use professional coaching communication techniques in everyday workplace conversations to drive change and achieve business goals.

Caitlin earned her BA in English summa cum laude from the University of Florida with minors in Psychology, Linguistics, and Entrepreneurship and her MFA in Creative Writing summa cum laude from The New School in New York City.

She is the author of the young adult novel It Will Set You Free, partner to Dr. Bush, mama to Eleanor, and catmom to Bubble.

Our mission

Help the purpose-driven companies and nonprofits we work with create, navigate, and communicate change so that they can achieve their missions.

Our vision

To change the way organizations change — for the better.

Our Values

  • We center people first and always. Sometimes that puts us at odds with the very leaders who hire us. We understand they have competing priorities. Our favorite clients understand why we do what we do, appreciate our people-first challenge, and often come to realize that people-first change has the highest ROI.

  • We ask a lot of questions. We consider all angles. We coach clients and collaborators in every consulting engagement. We ensure that decisions result in action. We love our work. We care deeply about our clients and their missions. We know we don’t know everything, and we’re willing to be taught and learn about others’ experiences.

  • If there’s one thing that drives all of the work we do, it’s effective, inclusive, and engaging communication. Communication solves problems, but when it’s done poorly, we all know it can create new problems or make existing ones worse. We communicate early and often with clients, collaborators, and everyone involved with or impacted by our projects. It’s the most important tool in our tool belt.

  • We don’t do ‘move fast and break things’ over here. We keep projects moving while acknowledging that sometimes we need to slow things down to make sure our next swift move is the right one.

  • Commcoterie’s values aren’t just words — they’re actions. Because they show up in all of our client work, they also map to Commcoterie’s signature workshops (and of course are woven into our bespoke workshops and programs as well). They dictate which clients we work with and what engagements we agree to. They make us say no to potentially lucrative offers that aren’t values-aligned, freeing up space for the right work for us.

Want to see us in action?Join our next Organizational Change Office Hours

A free virtual strategy session for leaders of purpose-driven companies and nonprofits to learn how to create and navigate organizational change.