Discovery call
Free30 minutes
A conversation about your team, what's working and what isn't. You leave with a clear next step, whether or not it involves us.
By video or phone
Leadership and team development · Orlando, Florida
Build people. Strengthen teams.
Highbury Nou Consulting helps schools, nonprofits and growing organizations turn a team's early chemistry into synergy: the kind that holds up under deadlines, disagreement and change.
~180
trainings facilitated in the past five years
47
school partnerships overseen by Ali across two organizations
~500
AmeriCorps members led over ten years
4
signature programs, including Workplace Chemistry and The People We Build
Watch
Workplace Chemistry in 70 seconds
Why trust, not collaboration, is what turns a group of capable people into a team that performs.
Our approach
Turning chemistry into synergy
Most teams that struggle don't have a communication problem. They have a trust problem that shows up as one. We look at four things that decide whether a team holds together when the work gets hard.
Communication Style
How each person sends and receives information, and what gets lost between them.
Trust Triggers
What builds trust on this team, and what quietly breaks it.
Friction Tolerance
How much disagreement the team can hold before it shuts down or blows up.
Contribution Mode
How each person adds value, and whether the team's structure lets them.
Chemistry
How a team feels on a good day.
Synergy
How a team performs on a hard one.
Services
Four ways to work together
Every engagement starts with a free conversation about what your team is facing. From there, we scope the work and send a proposal with pricing built around your goals.
Workshops
Focused, interactive sessions for teams and leadership groups.
- Difficult Conversations Made Easier
- Creating a Culture of Accountability
- Workplace Chemistry: understanding personalities through DiSC
- Behavioral Agility
Half-day or full-day · on-site in Central Florida, or virtual
Leadership cohorts
Multi-session programs that build habits, not just awareness, with facilitator guides and participant workbooks.
- First-Time Supervisor Bootcamp
- Emerging Leaders Series: Owning It, Beyond Rapport, Closing the Gap
- From Potential to Professional
Multi-session · scoped to your team
Organizational engagements
Deeper work over three to six months: team diagnostics, culture and accountability work, and onboarding programs such as The First 90 for new managers.
- Discovery interviews and a written diagnosis
- Role-specific tracks and cohort sessions
- Progress checkpoints and a final report
- HNC's own tools included: Catalyst Coach and HNC Onboarding
Three to six months · scoped with your leadership team
Programs
Three areas of practice
Our programs are built on named, practical frameworks your people can use the next morning.
Trust and Connection
For teams where the work is getting done but the relationships are fraying.
- The Trust Ladder
- Workplace Chemistry
- It's Not a Communication Problem
Organizational Culture
Team diagnostics, leadership development and facilitated sessions built on the chemistry-to-synergy model.
- The People We Build
- Creating a Culture of Accountability
- Neurons and Narratives
Emerging Talent
For new supervisors and rising leaders moving from doing the work to leading the people who do it.
- From Potential to Professional
- Behavioral Agility
- Difficult Conversations Made Easier
K-12 schools and districtsNonprofits and AmeriCorps programsWorkforce development programsGrowing teams and small businesses
How the work sticks
Tools built from running these teams
Most training fades by the next busy week. Work gets done but never reaches leadership, and good intentions slip without anyone noticing. HNC engagements come with tools that keep the habits in place after the sessions end.
Catalyst Coach
Check-ins happen, but nobody can show they did, and people disengage quietly.
- Every check-in documented and confirmed by the person it was with
- Early warnings before someone checks out
- Recognition tied to the values your team already uses
For service-year programs, schools and frontline teams
HNC Onboarding
New leaders inherit a department mid-year, with expectations nobody wrote down.
- A 90-day plan with a deliverable at every checkpoint
- Leadership review and sign-off at days 30, 60 and 90
- Ends with a succession plan, so the investment stays when people move on
For new directors and managers · the system behind The First 90
Personal information stays private: leaders see summaries, not personal notes. Both tools are included in HNC engagements and set up for your team.
See them on a call
About
About Highbury Nou Consulting
Highbury Nou Consulting is a leadership and team development firm based in Orlando, Florida. We work with schools, nonprofits, service-year programs and growing organizations whose results depend on how well their people work together.
Our work is practical by design. Every program is built on a named framework people can use the next morning, and our engagements come with tools we built ourselves, so new habits hold after the sessions end.
We start every engagement by listening: to leaders, to the people they lead, and to what the numbers say. Then we scope the work around what your team actually needs.
"People are capable of more than they realize."THE IDEA BEHIND EVERY HNC PROGRAM
- Founded by
- Ali Murbe, with more than 25 years leading people across education, nonprofit operations, coaching and workforce development
- Experience
- 47 school partnerships across two organizations and budgets of more than $5 million
- Background
- Impact Director, City Year Orlando; Program Director, YMCA of Central Florida
- Writing
- Toast Monologues on Substack, and three books in progress on trust and leadership
Contact
Start with a free 30-minute call
Phone407-580-7695
Based inOrlando, Florida · working on-site in Central Florida and virtually nationwide
What happens next
- You send a short note about your team.
- Ali replies to set a time that works for you.
- You leave the call with a clear next step.