The best professional development doesn't feel like training. It feels like growth.
Olive Tree Consultants partners with educational institutions and organizations to design practical, research-informed development that builds capacity, strengthens communication, and supports long-term growth.
“We are grateful for Olive Tree's expertise and would highly recommend their services to any organization seeking meaningful and impactful professional learning.”
Practical Built for You
Every engagement is designed from the ground up around your people and priorities, not adapted from a generic curriculum.
Research-Informed
Grounded in decades of academic expertise in communication, instructional design, and organizational behavior.
Locally Rooted
Founded in Fort Wayne and committed to the organizations and institutions in our region.
Educational Consulting
We help universities and K12 close the gap between good intentions around teaching development and programming that actually changes how people teach, designed from the ground up, not pulled off a shelf.
- Faculty development reaches beyond the willing early adopters to the broader faculty population
- Institutions move from reacting to AI and instructional technology to using it purposefully, with approaches that are pedagogically sound and built around real teaching goals.
- Course design gets better in ways students notice and administrators can point to
- Institutions build something that lasts, not a program that disappears when a grant runs out
Leadership &
Communication Consulting
Olive Tree Consultants helps organizations strengthen alignment between what leaders intend to communicate and what employees actually hear, with results that show up on the floor, in the room, and across the organization.
- Frontline leaders communicate priorities with greater clarity and less repetition
- Messages translate consistently across organizational levels
- Leaders handle questions, pushback, and high-visibility moments with confidence
- Communication development is measurable. You'll know it's working
Let's strengthen your organization.
Contact Olive Tree Consultants today to start building clearer communication, stronger leadership, and growth that lasts.