dahlia strategic is the consulting project of Siobhan Ring. My superpowers are strategic thinking, careful listening, wise collaboration, and moving good work forward.
dahlia strategic can help you build strong organizations and strategic campaigns, craft communications to mobilize and inspire, and equip leaders with skills to change the world.
"Siobhan is creative and deeply committed to an equitable process of design. She has a strong set of skills to move groups of stakeholders through a design process that is collaborative and accessible. She also has strong follow though and is very proactive and yet still adaptable to inevitable changes."
— Eli Goss, Policy Director, OneAmerica
“Siobhan is a masterful facilitator who is able to engage each person in the room, tease out areas that need further attention/discussion, and adjust on the fly when needed. She was also a wonderful planning partner, able to take my half-formed ideas and refine them into agendas that got us to where we needed to be. Perhaps most importantly, she brings a deep experience working to advance racial equity and helped us incorporate that into every aspect of both retreats.”
— Rachael Myers, Executive Director, WA Low Income Housing Alliance
“Siobhan is the real deal. She’s intentional and sincere in her work. She brings a sincere spirit of connecting with values to lead an individual, a group of advocates, or an organization to where you need to be to achieve a goal and enhance your overall skills and expertise. What I really value is that she centers her work in race and social justice and care for her clients’ experience. She really listens to what her clients are trying to get out of an opportunity and focuses on that.
– Emijah Smith, Chief of Staff, King County Equity Now
“We were a newly forming office with little to no working relationship with each other. Siobhan met the challenge to help us clarify our values, working styles, and goals for the year. Siobhan is a unique facilitator that helped bridge our ideas to practical action and values into culture while being rooted in strong social justice practices. Siobhan is the essential ingredient to the success and stability of our work.”
-Alexis Turla, Chief of Staff, Seattle City Council Member Tammy Morales
“Siobhan is an experienced and skilled communications professional. Working with Siobhan for over 20 years in multiple settings, I’ve experienced her research-based framing, strong racial justice lens, and strategic communications for advocacy. She is team and capacity oriented—both highly productive and skilled at helping everyone on the team find and use their brilliance.”
-Jon Gould, Community Advocate