Tracy Kunkler

Tracy Kunkler, MSW, is a Co-Founder and Co-Director of Circle Forward. She is a professional facilitator who has been providing facilitation, planning and consultation services since 2006, after nearly two decades of community development work in nonprofit and government sectors. Her consulting practice has been with nonprofit organizations and networks at many different levels, from neighborhoods and municipalities, to national landscape conservation, health, food policy networks, and other community development and cross sector networks around the country. Circle Forward and Tracy’s work has been featured in numerous research publications, blogs and podcasts.

For leaders and social innovators working in complex systems, Tracy brings the latest research and hard-won experience into your space, to support the co-design of your collaborative governance systems. She provides facilitation, design spaces, and practical tools and frameworks, so that you can engage diverse voices, empower distributed leadership, make decisions, address power dynamics, and adapt and respond to emerging conditions – to bring about more equitable and effective results in large-scale systems change.