Mike Fleisch | Managing Member
Facilitator & Product Lead

Mike designs and facilitates collaborative work for organizations and communities across the world. He is currently supporting initiatives with the Global Commons Alliance, the Kauffman Foundation, and a variety of NSF-funded projects and programs. He founded Chase Public, a space for art and assembly in Cincinnati, Ohio, and continues to develop a local presence for dpict in Cincinnati through his work with the University of Cincinnati, the Haile Foundation and a variety of other community-based partners. He lives with his wife and three children in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Sita Magnuson | Managing Member
Experience Designer & Educator

Sita supports communities and organizations through the application of a variety of social technologies. She currently is leading our learning initiatives, in collaboration with Nicole Okumu and Alicia Bramlett, and is weaving our practices of graphic facilitation, meeting design/facilitation, and experience design into her work on civic stewardship and futures-based community development. She founded Easthampton Co.Lab (a community co-working space that has closed due to the Pandemic), and Fort Future as spaces to experiment locally–spawning a deep investigation into blanket forts, and the power our physical environments have on cognition and community. She lives with her husband and two children in Easthampton, Massachusetts.

Scott Holzman | Managing Member
Knowledge Worker & Resident Poet

Scott is a knowledge worker, poet, and community builder based in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the founder of The Welcoming Party, an experiment in helping new residents quickly make meaningful connections in their new communities.   

He is the former executive director of Chase Public, a collaborative space for art and assembly, named the city's "best regular, socially conscious programming in a free, public forum." 

He is a deep devotee to the creative power of communities, and a great admirer of very good questions.

Alicia Bramlett | Managing Member
Illustrator, Facilitator & Educator

Alicia is a world-renowned graphic facilitator, artist, and educator with nearly 3 decades of experience using art and creative, visual storytelling to support change initiatives at all scales.  She's been a student and practitioner of collaborative design and graphic facilitation since 1996 and is a founding member of The Value Web, a longstanding international network working to expand the field of collaborative design for the common good.  She has supported organizations, communities, and networks all over the world, employing creative tools to help draw connections between disparate experiences, model ideas to reveal possibility, and help people see and understand their work and each other in context. She has worked with large-scale, multi-national systems change initiatives and local community efforts alike and has seen the creative power and potential of art as a catalyst for change across this wide range of contexts.  She lives in Cleveland, Tennessee.

Visit her blog for a glimpse into her world. 

Nicole Okumu | Managing Member
Communications & Strategic Projects

Nicole Okumu supports external communications and strategic projects, as well as the development of workshops and learning initiatives. For the last 20 years Nicole has worked with organizations across industry to help uncover, shape and spread the stories that amplify purpose and engage teams through a variety of channels, including media relations, social media, internal communications, event planning, awards and engagement initiatives. She is passionate about the power of language, social impact movements and a champion for diverse collaborations.

Marsha Dunn
Facilitator & Strategic Learning Partner

Dpict is partnering with Marsha Dunn to deliver a number of our core educational offerings.
For the past 18-years, Marsha has worked as a designer, graphic recorder, and 
facilitator of both deep, reflective conversations and strategic, action-oriented 
workshops. She utilizes visuals, design thinking and deep listening skills to facilitate productive dialogue, clarity of purpose, effective communication and engaged learning. 
 Marsha studied Art Semiotics and Modern Culture and 
Media at Brown University, completed her Masters in Social Work training at Boston 
University, and is a founder and designer of Seguin Tree Dwellings in Maine.

Andy Goulet
Operations

Andy is a poet and musician based in Easthampton, Massachusetts. He supports dpict with core operational support for all of our service offerings, and serves as central coordinator for our Easthampton Learning Cohort.

Andy comes to us from UMass, Amherst where he was serving as Executive Assistant to the Dean of the College of Education. Previously he was a communication and office management specialist at the United Auto Workers, a diverse and multi-industry union. He lives in Easthampton with his partner, daughter, and a hamster named Betty.