THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE WORK
Decades of experience.
One shared mission.
The Stratcolab team brings over 30 years of hard-won, cross-sector expertise.
At Stratcolab, the practitioners you meet in the first conversations are the same ones who lead your engagement from start to finish. No hand-offs. No surprises.
THE LEAD TEAM
The people you'll work with - and what they bring.
"Resilient organizations don't just survive disruption — they're built to learn from it, adapt through it, and emerge stronger on the other side."
ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY · RESILIENCE STRATEGY · CAPACITY BUILDING · UTILITY SECTOR
Dave is a highly skilled practitioner and facilitator of agile leadership and capacity building. With more than 30 years of experience creating agile and engaged organizations, he has led work across aligned vision, collaboration, assessment, facilitation, and coaching — from organizations serving twelve million people to those serving fewer than twenty-five households.
MANAGING PRINCIPAL
Dave Siburg, MPlan
David Siburg does not arrive as an expert who dispenses solutions. He arrives as a practitioner who has spent a career of learning, from a small water cooperative in rural Washington, from community leaders in Namibia, from executive directors navigating organizational crisis, from faith communities wrestling with mission drift, from public servants trying to serve equitably under resource constraint. He has led and failed, rebuilt and succeeded, and carried humility as a professional asset through all of it.
He believes that the people experiencing any given situation are the experts. His job is to help them surface what they already know, name what they cannot yet see, and build the relationships and strategies they need to move forward together. He is, in the deepest sense, a capacity builder, not because he brings capacity to organizations, but because he helps organizations discover and deploy the capacity they already have.
If you are a community, a non-profit organization, a faith community, or any organization animated by a commitment to the common good, and you are asking hard questions about your direction, your culture, your sustainability, or your ability to serve your mission in a changing world, David is the kind of practitioner who will walk alongside you through the questions, not offer you premature answers.
"Lasting change is possible through community development and community organizing together — one alters the physical infrastructure of a place, the other builds the relationships and leaders who make change stick."
URBAN PLANNING · COMMUNITY ORGANIZING · LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT · EQUITY
Thomas has spent a couple decades pairing community development with community organizing — two disciplines that are too often practiced in isolation. His work brings together people's experiences, identities, and stories to build stronger relationships and more capable leaders, while creatively imagining what communities can make possible for themselves.
PRINCIPAL
Thomas Francis-Siburg, AICP, MURP, MSW
Thomas has worked with domestic and international government, nonprofit, and faith-based organizations — from informal settlements in Namibia to Somali refugee youth and low-income African American families in Minnesota, to parish outreach programs in Washington State, to resilient infrastructure planning in the Florida Keys.
Thomas holds a Master of Social Work and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Minnesota, and is an AICP-certified urban planner. He is a credentialed professional who leads with the belief that communities already hold the knowledge and capacity to transform — and that the work is to build the conditions where that power can emerge.