Leadership & Organizational Development
Novo Praxis designs and facilitates leadership programs that turn training budgets into measurable behavior change for mission-driven organizations and the people who lead them.
Who We Help
We partner with nonprofit and mission-driven organizations that need their leaders — executives, managers, and frontline supervisors — to grow, align, and perform. Over more than ten years across public health, higher education, and the nonprofit sector, we've learned that the difference between a forgettable workshop and lasting change is design and facilitation, not content alone.
Every engagement is built to do one thing: turn what people learn in the room into how they actually lead once they leave it.
Development shouldn't end when the workshop does.
So we design for what happens after the room empties: the Monday morning conversation, the hard feedback, the decision made a little differently because of what was practiced, not just presented.
That's the whole idea behind the name. Praxis is theory put into action. It's the only kind of leadership development worth an organization's time.
What we believe, at Novo PraxisWhat We Do
Multi-session programs, designed and facilitated end to end, for executive teams, manager groups, or supervisor cohorts. Scoping, custom design, live facilitation, materials, and a results loop.
A focused half- or full-day intensive: performance management, feedback, team culture, adaptive leadership, or a strengths and styles debrief. A strong first step or a standalone reset.
We'll run your existing content with the room presence it deserves, or advise your internal L&D team on an ongoing basis. Best when you have the material but need the facilitator.
Selected Results
Completion across an agency-wide performance cycle for 437 employees
Completion on organization-wide inclusion training, C-suite to staff
Employee agency served with leadership programs at every level
Person team guided through a custom talent-discovery workshop
Change Managers
A learning and organizational-development leader with an Ed.D in Executive Leadership and more than ten years designing programs across public health, higher education, and nonprofits. He's led everything from executive adaptive-leadership work to agency-wide development series reaching hundreds of people. What he brings isn't just curriculum — it's the facilitation that makes development land, working from a strengths-based foundation and reading each team individually, in English or Spanish.
More than thirteen years of educational leadership experience, including nine years as a building principal. Named the 2024 New York State Elementary Principal of the Year by SAANYS, he combines hands-on school leadership with doctoral research into what helps students and educators thrive. Farid holds an Ed.D. in Executive Leadership from St. John Fisher University and is the author of a forthcoming book on turning adversity into purpose, and host of the Everyday a Better You podcast.
And we don't work alone. Novo Praxis brings together a team of experienced facilitators, so we can support organizations of any size — from a single workshop to a multi-site leadership program.
Start a Conversation
Tell us what your leaders are working through. If there's a fit, we'll map out what an engagement could look like — no pressure, no obligation.