Our Mission
To empower and equip leaders and organizations to build innovative, sustainable systems that strengthen communities and contribute to a more just and equitable world.
Empowerment Now brings deep expertise in modern business and organizational strategies, helping mission-driven organizations evolve, strengthen performance, and position themselves for long-term, sustainable success.
We support organizations in fostering cultures of empowerment while equipping them to build high-performing operational systems, adaptive teams, and transformative, accountable leaders. Our approach combines evidence-based research with decades of collective experience across the education, health and human services, and economic development sectors—at local, state, national, and global levels.
Empowerment Now is committed to helping organizations not only meet today’s challenges but thrive in the future with clarity, efficiency, and purpose.
Our Services
Transformational, Adaptive, and Holistic Leadership Consulting to inspire innovative approaches to leadership and organizational change.
Research and Information on these leadership models, helping organizations build strong foundations for long-term, sustainable success.
Human Service and Advocacy Expertise with real-world industry insights.
Equipping leaders, non-profit, and government organizations with effective and practical solutions and strategies to address complex challenges.
Fostering inclusive, adaptive, and holistic strength-based leadership.
H.E.L.P.
H.E.L.P. is a Holistic Empowerment Leadership Program that was originally developed by Dr. Anne Friesen in order to empower survivors of interpersonal violence to become more self-sufficient.
Today, the H.E.L.P. fosters and promotes a culture of empowerment and adaptive leadership development, resulting in the ability to successfully navigate through change and crisis.
Our Empowerment Tools
“Empowered people, empower people.” — Anne Friesen
Resources
Resources on social justice, domestic violence, environmental protection, and holistic leadership.
Research
Recommended research books, publications, and blogs on empowerment and leadership.
Leadership
Applying holistic leadership through an empowerment anti-oppressive lens.
Dr. Anne Friesen
Dr. Anne Friesen earned a Doctor of Education In Leadership and has over 20 years of leadership experience working with government, non-profit, and corporate organizations. Empowerment Now provides Leadership Consulting and Training.
Dr. Friesen specializes in both individual and team transformational leadership development. Her H.E.L.P program has successfully helped transform, foster, and promote cultures of empowerment, inclusion, and engagement to help build high-performing leaders and adaptive teams.
If you would like more information on leadership development, strategic planning, board/leadership consulting, trauma-informed crisis intervention, and conflict resolution strategies, please contact Dr. Friesen. To help reduce barriers to non-profits, Dr. Anne Friesen offers her training and consulting using a sliding fee scale. Contact Dr. Friesen at anne@annefriesen.com for more information.