Connection. Creativity. Action.

Partnering with mission-driven organizations, inspired leaders, and conscious businesses to guide them on the pathway to a successful future.

Maximizing the power of relationships, making outcomes visible, and turning ideas into action.

Welcome to Ideas Into Action

Organizational & Leadership Development Services

Leadership informed by over 20 years of organizational development experience.

Maketa leads with equity and brings a depth of expertise to every project and coaching client. When the project calls for it, he calls in expert partners to ensure the rights skills are there to support every need.

Maketa Wilborn

Founder & Principle Consultant
Culture Development
Community & Stakeholder Engagement
Team Development
Thought Partnership & Coaching
Planning and Execution
Client Successes

Checkout How Maketa Has Turned Ideas Into Action

Building Leadership Capacity to Support Organizational Growth

Fast-growing environmental consulting firm

As the firm expanded, it sought to prepare director-level leaders and managers to support continued growth and respond to increasingly complex organizational challenges…

Leadership Development
Executive Coaching
Team Growth
Building Cross-Department Solutions for Managing Trees in the Public Right of Way

City municipality

The municipality was facing significant challenges related to managing trees in the public right of way while ensuring adequate space for utilities, transportation, access…

Human-Centered Design
Cross-Department Collaboration
Strategic Facilitation
Strengthening Executive Presence in Healthcare Leadership

Senior executive in the healthcare industry

The client wanted to strengthen their executive presence, build confidence, and communicate more strategically with senior leaders and key stakeholders…

Executive Coaching
Leadership Presence
Strategic Communication
My Philosophy

Relationships are the foundation.

Centering relationships consistently delivers strong, enduring, positive results

Creating space for authentic connection across difference
Setting agreements to listen and seek to understand new perspectives. Listening with our eyes, ears, and heart to feel and find out what is most important to folks who are different than us. This is diversity in action.
Honoring and respecting every person
Creating space for other cultural ways of being, communication styles, values and decision-making processes. Recognizing and acknowledging the inherent dignity and profound uniqueness of every person in the space. This is inclusion in action.
Practicing and naming equity throughout the process
Calling out inequities in the moment and engage courageously in conversations around challenging topics. Every engagement becomes the space to learn and grow together. This is equity in action.
Client’s Review

Testimonials

Paul Shoemaker
"There are facilitators that can facilitate, some that can add brainpower and strategy, and there are some that bring graphics to their work. This guy can do it all. Maketa has the skills to work in corporate ,with nonprofits, and to bridge to the public sector. He is a total pro who brings his full heart and head to the work.”

Paul Shoemaker

Senior Consultant & Speaker, Author of Can't Not Do, Founding President of Social Venture Partners International ”
Emily McGrath
“The way that he captured everything that was said created a visual transcript that we kept referring back to over and over again. We were really able to see the progress we made. Independent School Administrator”

Emily McGrath

Director of Professional Development, Pacific Northwest Association of Independent Schools
Sean Warren
Maketa was personable and inviting. He was an excellent facilitator - leading but not directive. He kept us on track without squelching the creative process. Well done!”

Sean Warren Bill & Melinda

Gates team member