From OUr Founder

Growing up, I watched the people around me and saw so much pressure to conform.  ​I was born into an abusive household and was raised inside a cult.   

​Fifteen years later and my life doesn’t look at all like my childhood. When I left I realized I had no idea how to build healthy relationships, despite my best efforts, and I certainly didn’t know how to lead in a way that truly empowered innovation and profitability and even at twenty six I knew I would start a business and soon. So, I started studying leadership and relationship for my own purposes. I as I learned and applied what I learned to my life and leadership at my corporate job, I began to realize my perspectives were unique - my life inside the cult religion and household I grew up in, gave me unique insight.

I began to develop a framework for what I saw as the pillars for all ethical relationship and realized that leadership, in its most powerful and empowered form is ethical relationship with those we lead. This is when I made the decision to lean into my leadership and relationship work full-time.

​Being human is hard and being a leader puts us in a unique position to empower the kind of change that revolutionizes our organizations, communities, right down to our neighborhoods and families. We empower people to embody ethical leadership and relationship through curiosity, respect, and accountability - to build community and connection empowering ‘bubbles of life’. 

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Shana Francesca
Founder & CEO
Ethical Leadership & Relationship

OUr Name

CONCINNATE came to be our name in a beautiful and weird way. 

Mid year 2020, I had just finished writing out our brand values, they took me two years to formulate and are found below, and then I discussed them with a very close friend.  A week or so later she text me the word Concinnity (n).  She sent it because we share a love of vocabulary words and I think, our discussion, led her to this word.  I immediately went on a deep dive into related words.  As soon as I read the definition of Concinnate (v), I knew that was our name.  

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I know that we are building a company that will forever change us and our clients lives.  I am thankful to all of the people who are joining me in this adventure and those who have been teachers in my life, who have led me and CONCINNATE to this moment.

-Shana Francesca, Founder & CEO

OUr values

  • As people and as a consulting firm, we are a community and we actively create community.

  • Lasting relationships matter and are key to our success, both in life and as a company.​

  • Great talent is rare, people are not ‘replaceable’ they are individual, unique, and critical to our success.

  • We must constantly challenge all of our assumptions, and search for flaws that could destroy our culture, community, and our integrity; personally, as a brand, and in our work. 

  • We believe that it is critical to our success that our community be one that is made up of a diverse group of individuals who contribute to and are responsible for our success and that people are honored for their contribution with equitable pay.

  • We cannot succeed without open lines of communication that are actively used with intention, often, with thoughtful pause but not hesitation, and with respect, not reverence.

  • Well crafted actionable, transformational ideas do not come about by accident, they are created when we work together, to solve a problem, or set of problems allowing boredom and exploration to lead us to reimagine that which has become or is sliding into the mundane.

  • Great ideas can and do come from everywhere and anyone, there is NO hierarchy that will stand in the way of facilitating good ideas, being brought forward by anyone, at any time. 

  • We are ALL in this together, no one is above doing the little things or beneath doing great things.