what we do
The Malden Collective, LLC (TMC) provides consulting services in program development, training, and curriculum design that build and strengthen the health, well being, and community development sectors in the US and beyond.
Our Approach
It’s all about the people. Whether it’s a new idea or creative process or even a new public policy, progress depends on people seeing the same problem or opportunity, using a common approach to deepen their understanding, and sharing a commitment to change.
TMC understands how people work and connect to their mission. Sometimes what’s called for is a new way of seeing things. Sometimes an organization needs to figure out how to improve quality, or how to expand into a new business or programmatic area. TMC believes that the way systems are set up at their earliest stages has everything to do with how equitable and useful they become in the future.
That is why we use the tools of human-centered design, lean management, foresight, and social movement theory to bring to the surface the most impactful ways that organizations can create their own better future. We develop training and curriculum, workshops and consulting to meet each organization’s needs.
Our approach rests on the concept of empowerment. When people feel that they are heard, that their voice counts, that their ideas matter, and that the door is wide open for them to create their organization’s future, then many shifts at many levels take place. TMC helps to direct that process in a way that doesn’t diminish people or force culture change, but rather engages people in a collective effort for their own advancement.
To date, we have brought this approach to sectors as diverse as health care, education, and international social justice advocacy. We know that it works and invite you to see for yourself.
who we are
TMC is based in Portland, Oregon. Its name is inspired by the town of Malden outside Boston Massachusetts. On the forefront of social and political change for centuries, Malden was the first to advocate independence from Britain and the first to issue a same-sex marriage license. The name Malden is a reminder that transformational change starts at the local level. And that the distance between Oregon and Massachusetts, or between the US and England and Guatemala and New Zealand is insignificant when you realize that connectedness is what allows transformation to happen.
Barbara Kohnen Adriance, Founder, and CEO is a cross-cultural professional whose career has spanned the fields of international development, education, and health. Her specialty is sparking new ideas, public policies, programs, or services and building the governance, business, and people infrastructure to sustain them over time. With degrees in public policy and international relations, Barbara starts with a multidisciplinary and multilateral perspective. She is committed to the creation and advancement of new knowledge that improves the human condition.
Our Values
TMC works with people committed to excellence who are motivated to make the world a better place and can move through different sectors in order to create, improve, build, and design. In recognition of interdependence, TMC seeks to reduce its carbon footprint by purchasing offsets to reforest, prevent deforestation and invest in technologies that trap harmful greenhouse gases. These are third-party verified through the Bonneville Environmental Foundation. TMC is certified by Oregon's Office for Business Inclusion and Diversity as both an Emerging Small Business and a Women Business Enterprise.
TMC is keenly interested in the future of health, specifically the shift from sick care to well care. The application of new technologies means that our systems of health care delivery and payment will be completely disrupted in the near future. Now is the time to develop the systems, policies, structures and norms that will deliver what people need, and in a more equitable way. Imagine what we could do together.
