Duet exists to release ease, effectiveness, and harmony into the ways we work together.
We start by grounding in your purpose. Then we facilitate the use of dynamic and adaptive structures and processes that are best suited to help you express it.
Successful collaboration between people in different teams or organizations is our aim and specialty.
Our emerging offerings include professional services, workshops, training, coaching, and backbone support for collective impact work.
Purpose Agents
Duet is a self-organizing enterprise running with Holacracy. Each purpose agent energizes several evolving roles.
Melissa Ransdell
Purpose Agent / Co Founder
Melissa has been a leader, advisor and collaborator to private, public and nonprofit organizations in operations and marketing/communications for more than 30 years.
Her work is focused on helping purpose-driven organizations and groups move beyond the status quo and she specializes in advancing the work of “small giants”—those that value impact over growth. She holds graduate certificates in Women’s Integral Leadership from Saybrook Graduate School, has a BS in Visual Communications from Western Washington University, is a Certified Holacracy Practitioner and a trained Holacracy Coach.
Sophia Flot-Warner
Purpose Agent
Sophia is an accomplished communicator in both business and the dramatic arts. She has over 30 years of work experience as a project manager, meeting/event planner, executive assistant, receptionist, customer service trainer, and writer. A multi-faceted actress, voice-over artist, and audio producer for more than 20 years, Sophia is a master in the art of communications and is adept at improving communications in teams and for professionals.
Sophia attended the University of Houston’s School of Communications and was the recipient of a 2011 University Commission on Women’s scholarship.
Dianne Dickerson
Co Founder
Dianne has over 30 years of positive impact as a leader and consultant for organizations in private, corporate and healthcare sectors. An expert in Lean practices, the unifying theme of her career continues to be helping individuals and teams collaborate to produce unprecedented results.
She holds a BS in Business Administration from Central Washington University, is a Certified Holacracy Practitioner, and is a trained Holacracy Coach.
Duet is based and operates on the unceded ancestral land of the first people of Seattle, the Duwamish. Though the city named for the Duwamish leader Chief Seattle thrives, the Tribe has yet to be justly compensated for their land, resources, and livelihood. Duet is a monthly supporter of Real Rent Duwamish.