Harwood Catalytic Guide Program

The Harwood Catalytic Guide program is an intensive learning experience for individuals who have a deep desire to guide and lead organizational and community efforts that create lasting impact. Across an orientation and 12 virtual sessions, this program equips individuals with the mindset and tools necessary to be “catalytic” so they can support and catalyze others to create much-needed change and impact in their communities and organizations.

Participants will learn to:

  • Develop and grow the mindset and behaviors Guides need to be catalytic by making ruthlessly strategic discernments, judgments, and choices.

  • Focus their efforts on guiding people to take actions that are doable, actionable, and achievable in order to unleash a chain reaction of actions that addresses fault lines and strengthens their community’s civic culture.

  • Encourage the people they guide to build teams of allies to support the work and spread the approach to others in the community.

  • Inspire people to “show up” differently in their work and lives.

As engaged learners, program participants will be challenged to actively apply themselves—to problem-solve; apply what they are learning to their role in an organization or community; and make time to reflect on their learnings, what it means to be “catalytic,” and what it will take to apply the approach to local efforts.

Qualities of a Harwood Catalytic Guide

Seeks clarity. Makes intentional discernments. An avid learner and doer. Highly self-aware.

Cohorts

  • Damary Bonilla-Rodriguez
    Dr. Damary Bonilla-Rodriguez and Associates LLC
    Harwood Affiliate

    Auria Bradley
    Reading Area Community College
    Reading, PA

    Kathleen "Penny" Christian
    Prichard Committee For Academic Excellence & KY PTA
    Lexington, KY

    Laura Cordero
    Centro Hispano Daniel Torres, Inc.
    Reading, PA

    Robin Crombie
    United Way Greater Toronto
    United Way Greater Toronto

    Migdalia Perez Garcia
    Communities in Schools of Eastern PA
    Reading, PA

    Tolanda Jones
    Operation Shoestring
    Jackson, MS

    Ma'at Lands
    Rooted School Indianapolis
    Harwood Affiliate

    Enjuelle Livingston
    Harwood Affiliate

    Sharon Mast
    Spark Solutions & Support, Training, and Facilitation
    Reading, PA

    Alexandra "Alex" Melnick
    Operation Shoestring
    Jackson, MS

    Stacie Molnar-Main
    Harwood Affiliate

    Gerri Nakirigya Lutaaya
    United Way Greater Toronto
    United Way Greater Toronto

    Natasha Noel
    Mitan Consulting, Inc.
    Harwood Affiliate

    Raj Sooknanan
    United Way Greater Toronto
    United Way Greater Toronto

    Valencia Stone
    Learning Abilities Education Consultant Co.
    Harwood Affiliate

    Adina Tatum
    Julietta Market
    Lexington, KY

    Sandi Trillo
    United Way Greater Toronto
    United Way Greater Toronto

    Juneeja Varghese
    United Way Greater Toronto
    United Way Greater Toronto

    Devin Winsett
    Refill Jackson Initiative
    Jackson, MS

  • Cheri Coryea
    The Patterson Foundation
    DeSoto County, FL

    Ashley Covington
    American Honda Motor Company, Inc.
    Honda

    Andrew Della Rocca
    Manifestara Coaching and Consulting, LLC.
    Harwood Affiliate

    Alicia Exantus
    The Patterson Foundation
    DeSoto County, FL

    Nicole Hilton
    American Honda Motor Company, Inc.
    Honda

    Yvette Hunsicker
    American Honda Motor Company, Inc.
    Honda

    Brooke Gill
    Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence
    Lexington, KY

    Tracey Grayzer
    Impact Alamance
    Alamance County, NC

    Marcy Green
    Impact Alamance
    Alamance County, NC

    Liza Holland
    Holland Management Services
    Lexington, KY

    Tyronna “Ty” Hooker
    Impact Alamance
    Alamance County, NC

    Brittany Kendricks
    American Honda Motor Company, Inc.
    Honda

    Samantha Lynch
    American Honda Motor Company, Inc.
    Honda

    Marilyn McGrone-Conley
    American Honda Motor Company, Inc.
    Honda

    Kris Nelson
    Durham College
    Harwood Affiliate

    Sherry Oehler
    The Patterson Foundation
    DeSoto, County FL

    Meredith Reffey
    American Honda Motor Company, Inc.
    Honda

    Katie Swenson
    American Honda Motor Company, Inc.
    Honda

    Emma Ter-Saakova
    Honda USA Foundation
    Honda

    Jewel Tillman
    Impact Alamance
    Alamance County, NC

    Bobbie Trittschuh
    Honda USA Foundation
    Honda

  • David Baumgartner
    Tresane, LLC
    Harwood Affiliate

    Jennifer Bowser
    Arcadia-DeSoto County Habitat for Humanity
    DeSoto County, FL

    Ashley Coone
    The Patterson Foundation
    DeSoto County, FL

    Hope Cross
    Cultivating Hope
    DeSoto County, FL

    Jennifer “Jen” D'Annunzio
    American Honda Motor Company, Inc
    Honda

    Tessa Fite
    United Way of Union County
    Union County, OH

    Sandra Fletcher
    ALIGN Coaching & Consulting, LLC
    Harwood Affiliate

    Carrie Fuller
    Grants On Point
    DeSoto County, FL

    Brandi Hibbs
    United Way of Union County
    Union County, OH

    Melissa Hirstein
    The Patterson Foundation
    DeSoto County, FL

    Matt Howells
    American Honda Motor Company, Inc
    Honda

    Gabby Levet
    The Harwood Institute
    Harwood Affiliate

    Amanda Reuter
    Hope DeSoto Long Term Recovery Group, Inc.
    DeSoto County, FL

    Scottie Seawell
    Leading and Governing Associates, Inc.
    Alamance County, NC

    Marla Smith
    The Patterson Foundation
    DeSoto County, FL

    Esteban Valenzuela
    American Honda Motor Company, Inc
    Honda

    Rachel Wade
    The Harwood Institute
    Harwood Affiliate

    Kurt Ward
    Pastor of Northside Fellowship & Co-Host of HOPE 104.5 FM
    Alamance County, NC

    Jennifer West
    City of Jackson, MS
    Jackson, MS

    Cheryl Wilder
    Burlington Writers
    Alamance County, NC

    Teresa Wiley
    Community Care of North Carolina
    Alamance County, NC

  • Clara Alvarez
    The Patterson Foundation
    DeSoto County, FL

    Sophia Antoine
    Sacred Sunflower Wellness Solutions
    DeSoto County, FL

    Dave Bezusko
    United Way of Logan County
    Logan County, OH

    Ryan Bowie
    The Avalon Theatre
    Union County, OH

    Nick Brake
    Western Kentucky University
    Owensboro, KY

    Jennifer Bressler
    Reading Public Library
    Reading, PA

    Magaly Cobian
    Ancillary Legal Corporation
    Harwood Affiliate

    Stacy Edds-Ellis
    Greater Owensboro Leadership Institute
    Owensboro, KY

    Tammy Gump
    Mary Rutan Hospital  
    Logan County , OH

    Adam Hodnichak
    Union County Foundation
    Union County, OH

    Liz London
    Constructive Communities
    Harwood Affiliate

    Trey Pippin
    Greenwell Chisholm
    Owensboro, KY

    Allen Reesor
    DeSoto County, FL

    Derek Robb
    United Way of Logan County
    Logan County, OH

    Michael Robinson
    North Carolina for Community and Justice (NCCJ)
    Alamance County, NC

    Allyson Sanders
    The Party Space Place, LLC. | Owensboro Health
    Owensboro, KY

    Ann-Marie Stout
    The Salvation Army of Reading PA
    Reading, PA

    Kathy Zeller
    Recovery Zone
    Logan County, OH

  • The work challenged my definition of catalytic, as well as challenged my definition of what it means to be turned outward. This program helped me to see ways I have continued to hang on to my own agenda. I am now more intentional about setting my personal thoughts aside when engaging others and when looking for solutions to various community problems.

    Harwood Catalytic Guide

  • Before this program I am not sure I ever truly considered my impact. My mindset was very much focused on getting things accomplished (many times just doing things myself) and very project based, without a lot of attention to how the good things I was working on might be amplified if they were part of a larger strategy.

    Harwood Catalytic Guide

MEET OUR PROGRAM TEACHERS

Rich Harwood

President & Founder

Rich Harwood has devoted his 35+ year career to revitalizing the nation’s hardest-hit communities, transforming the world’s largest organizations and reconnecting institutions like newsrooms and schools to society.

Ava Fenelus

Certified Harwood Coach, Researcher

Ava is a lifelong educator, having taught everything from middle school to graduate school. In her role at Relay Graduate School of Education she leads the design and delivery of practical, powerful instruction for classroom teachers to support them in creating caring environments where all children learn joyfully. Ava has worked with the Harwood Institute since 2020, as a Certified Coach, Community Researcher, Lab Teacher, and Lead Coach for our community initiative in Alamance County. Her approach reflects the idea that learning, especially learning oneself, is a path to liberation, power, and love.

Maritza Coscarelli

Certified Harwood Coach

Maritza is a former professional dancer turned professional speaker and certified life and leadership coach. Since 2020, Maritza has worked with the Harwood Institute as a Lab Teacher Community Researcher, and Certified Coach for multiple community initiatives. She founded Maritza Coscarelli Coaching in 2015 and delights in guiding others to maximize their potential in life and business and put it to use in service of others.