Offerings
Practical wisdom, in the right hands.
Whether you're a social innovator building something new, or an organization looking to do this work more authentically — OLE has something for you. Start by choosing who you are.
Built for people who know from experience.
You've done the living. We help you turn that into impact — with the infrastructure, connections, and community to back you up.
Temporary back-end support
Need a bank account to receive funds while you're still in beta? Want to apply for a government grant but need more infrastructure? We've got you covered as a fiscal sponsor through Inquiring Systems, Inc.
Get started →Phone-a-friend (with lived experience)
Need help block-and-tackling tasks, streamlining processes, or thinking through your vision? We connect you with people who can amplify your work, brainstorm funding ideas, and even help write grants.
Get started →Patchwork Quilt curriculum build
Using our signature method, we scope courses that weave together local lived experts — building community as people learn. We help with curriculum design, marketing, and pricing structure.
Get started →Courses & peer learning
Got a big idea in social innovation? Whether you're early-stage or ready to scale, we connect you to peer learning communities and courses designed to move your work forward.
Explore courses →Our commitment to innovators
You maintain 100% ownership of your intellectual property — always. We don't own what you've spent your life living and learning. We treat you with radical kindness, and we're roll-up-our-sleeves people: no task is beneath us.
What people say.
"It's like you've been building a home for me."Takeem Morgan, Founder & CEO — LEAD
"Fifteen minutes with the OLE team saved me HOURS of exhausting research."Tina Loarte-Rodriguez, Founder & CEO — Latinas in Nursing
"The movement is underway to uplift the voices of lived experts. What OLE offers is so needed right now."Lynn Handy, Managing Director — Talent for Good
"To everyone looking around, imagining a better way, rolling up their sleeves, and doing the work: We celebrate you. OLE is for us."Shannon, Sonya & Victoria — OLE Founders
Bring lived expertise into your work — the right way.
We match you with vetted lived experts, facilitate transformative training, and help you build the internal capacity to integrate lived experience authentically and sustainably.
How We Heal: somatic practices & healing-centered engagement
A transformative session facilitated by Dr. Denicia Carlay and Shannon Scott. Available as a 1-hour virtual session, or a half- or full-day community healing experience.
Bring this to my group →Motivational interviewing
Evidence-based MI training facilitated by lived experts matched to your patient population. Available as a 1-hour session, half- or full-day workshop, or an ongoing series. Facilitators include Janae Schallert and Aaron Weaver.
Bring this to my group →Lived expert design session
Have a service model in development? A lived expert reviews your plan, advises on engagement strategy, identifies gaps, and validates where you got it right.
$3,000–$5,000 / 8-hour day per SME (travel separate)
Get started →Apply a lived expert model in your community
For city/state governments and large organizations designing population-level strategies. Several OLE network members have developed replicable models ready to scale.
Half/full-day: $2,000–$4,000 · Ongoing: $150–$300/hr · Toolkit: $15,000+
Get started →Practical wisdom coaching
Ongoing strategic thought partnership from a lived expert — ideal for organizations already in implementation who want to improve outcomes and efficiency.
$150–$300/hr per lived expert
Get started →Building capacity for lived expert talent
Our most popular service. Whether you're building an advisory group or hiring directly, we support at the individual, role, and organizational level so talent can truly thrive.
$150–$300/hr per lived expert
Get started →Keynote speakers
Looking for a lived expert speaker? We'll connect you with dynamic, seasoned speakers who bring perspective your audience won't find anywhere else.
Avg. $1,500 / one-hour keynote (lodging separate)
Find a speaker →Patchwork Quilt curriculum build
A bespoke curriculum that weaves together local lived experts around a content map — so your community builds knowledge and relationships at the same time.
Highly context-specific — schedule a consult to discuss
Get started →All pricing calculated using the Fair Market Value Calculator from the National Health Council. Ranges reflect average negotiated rates and may vary based on client circumstances.
Meet some of our facilitators.
Dr. Denicia Carlay
Somatic healing & HCECo-founder of Village Is Possible. Brings survivor leadership and healing-centered facilitation to organizational settings.
Shannon Scott
Facilitation & healingOLE Co-Founder and master facilitator. Specializes in large-scale, complex group dynamics and healing-centered engagement.
Janae Schallert
Motivational interviewingCrisis mental health professional and FBI Hostage Negotiator. MI training for high-stakes and co-responder contexts.
Aaron Weaver
Motivational interviewingExecutive Director of ReImagine Omaha. MI training for organizations serving unhoused populations.
Why organizations come to us.
"We're designing a statewide approach to care."
We build you a customized team of people who know your arena — and help you avoid the rabbit holes they've already stepped in.
"We talk about centering lived experts, but we don't know how."
Inviting lived experts to the table and actually integrating their voice are different competencies. We help you build both.
"We're facilitating a group with complex dynamics."
Shannon Scott is a master facilitator. We'll help curate a team tailored to your specific situation.
"I'm fighting fires and need to streamline our program."
We've helped dozens of programs move from start-up to fully operational at scale — with zero judgment about how they got there.