Alma Partners

10/13/2026

10/11/2026

We facilitated a workshop recently Waldorf School of Baltimore that left us all feeling inspired! Thanks to our hosts and to all the families, faculty, & staff who came. We can’t wait to return to your beautiful campus!

10/07/2026

Meet Marianela Comino, who’s leading an online class on People Strategy from 12-1pm ET on October 21st for Alma Partners!

Marianela is a Waldorf parent and a People Strategy Consultant with more than 20 years of global experience helping organizations strengthen leadership, develop talent, and navigate organizational change. Throughout her career, she has partnered with leaders across North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America to design people strategies that support growth while fostering healthy, resilient workplace cultures.

Drawing on both corporate and consulting experience, Marianela believes that sustainable organizational health begins with clarity—clear roles, thoughtful leadership, and systems that enable people to do their best work. Her approach combines strategic thinking with a deep commitment to human development, helping organizations balance operational effectiveness with meaningful relationships.

In this interactive webinar, Marianela brings a fresh perspective to one of the most common yet often overlooked challenges in schools: the hidden cost of ambiguity. Through practical examples and reflective exercises, she invites Waldorf school leaders to explore how greater clarity can strengthen collaboration, trust, and the overall health of their school communities.

Participants will:
🎯 Learn about Blurred Accountability & The Weight of Consensus
🎯 Hear How High-Functioning Schools Manage Decision-Making
🎯 Engage in Real-life Reflection Exercises
🎯 Gain Clarity on People Strategy

This session will be recorded. Register now at the Community Classes link in our bio.

10/05/2026

Are the Kids All Right? Panel Discussion on Student Well-Being, with Tania Adams, Keelah Helwig, Synon Holman, Kelly Molinet, Victoria Reyes, Simone Shurney, & Stephen Sagarin

In this panel discussion and Q & A, participants will:

👂Hear about the most pressing issues facing students today, from Early Childhood through High School, from AI, screens, and social media to building relationships in a polarized world and facing the future with hope and a sense of purpose

🤔 Learn what schools are doing to meet young people’s needs and help them thrive

📹 Can’t attend live? The presentation portion of this session will be recorded and shared with all who register.

Registration starts at $25/person. Register at the link in our bio.

09/30/2026

Join us online on October 28th with Early Childhood educator Rie Seo!

What does Waldorf Education look like as it interacts with modalities such as anti-bias education, culturally and historically responsive education, decolonizing education, and the complex world of state curriculum standards?

In response to many requests and to support teachers in their daily classroom work, Alma Partners is offering a Community Class Series in 2026-27 in which teachers will share about the concrete, practical steps they are taking to contextualize their pedagogy, curriculum, and classroom for the young people in their care. Our series will be jump-started with special guest Rie Seo, who teaches in a Waldorf Early Childhood program.

Through this series, we will explore what contextualizing means, and discuss the delicate and skillful art of weaving traditional Waldorf education with the needs of the children in front of us. Guests with expertise working with different age groups will present their work, share resources, and engage directly with questions from participants. We will also hold additional space for brainstorming, with facilitation provided by Alma Partners.

Fee: Sliding scale, $25-100 per person.

Link will be shared after you register. Register at the Community Classes link in our bio.

09/28/2026

Join Alma Partners & Marianela Comino for a People Strategy session on October 21st.

In this interactive webinar, Marianela brings a fresh perspective to one of the most common yet often overlooked challenges in schools: the hidden cost of ambiguity. Through practical examples and reflective exercises, she invites Waldorf school leaders to explore how greater clarity can strengthen collaboration, trust, and the overall health of their school communities.

Participants will:

➡️ Learn about Blurred Accountability & The Weight of Consensus

➡️ Hear How High-Functioning Schools Manage Decision-Making

➡️ Engage in Real-life Reflection Exercises

➡️ Gain Clarity on People Strategy

Marianela Comino is a People Strategy Consultant with more than 20 years of global experience helping organizations strengthen leadership, develop talent, and navigate organizational change. Throughout her career, she has partnered with leaders across North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America to design people strategies that support growth while fostering healthy, resilient workplace cultures.

Register at the Community Classes link in our bio. 💫

09/18/2026

Registration ends tomorrow (Saturday, September 19th). Don’t miss it!

September 23rd class! Developing Organizational Infrastructure for Inclusion and Belonging, with Randolph Carter and Vicki Larson

In this interactive webinar, participants will develop skills to:

➡️ Align practices with vision and mission

➡️ Develop a shared organizational framework, from faculty/staff to parents/caregivers to Board

➡️ Create policies and procedures that support inclusion and belonging

Registration starts at $25/person. Register at the link in our bio.

09/10/2026

Vicki Larson, co-founder of Alma Partners, was delighted to talk with Sage Lewis from SageRock on the Open House podcast today! Here’s a synopsis:

“Vicki Larson has spent over two decades in and around Waldorf and independent schools — as a development director, communications director, and now as co-founder of Alma Partners. In this episode, she and Sage get into the nitty-gritty of what ‘advancement’ actually means, why the admissions person, the marketing person, and the fundraising person need to be telling the same story, and what happens when they’re not. They cover the enrollment funnel (awareness → interest → consideration → intent → inquiry), the courage it takes to tell your school’s real story, and Vicki’s concentric circles model — the idea that families need a relationship to their teacher, the school, and Waldorf education itself if you want them to stay. They also get into focus, systems, the myth of multitasking, and why giving yourself one intentional hour a month might be the most productive thing you do all year.”

Watch the podcast and let us know what you think - and then sign up for the Advancement Team Essentials course with Vicki & Alex Borders, MBA, CFRE. Registration closes on September 18th (link in bio).

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09/04/2026

We love on-site work with clients! Over the past two weeks, we’ve been Brooklyn Waldorf School facilitating a workshop with Early Childhood teachers, Camellia Waldorf School to support their School Director search, and Waldorf School of Cape Cod leading a faculty/staff workshop. Get in touch to bring us to your school or organization: [email protected].

08/27/2026

We loved leading Professional Development workshops over the past two weeks for Prairie Hill Waldorf School & The Waldorf School of San Diego & Hawthorne Valley

We engaged in work that deepened relationships among colleagues, built skills for high-stakes conversations, & offered tools for contextualizing curriculum.

Bring us to your school or organization for your next in-service day! Details at the link in our bio.