About Working Harmony

What Do We Do?

Working Harmony designs and facilitates retreats and workshops that build an effective organization, where people and processes work in harmony.

For Whom?

We serve a diversity of clients around the world, from global corporations to local nonprofits. We are particularly proud of our service to the United Nations and other international development organizations dedicated to reducing poverty.

How?

Why does most of our business come from repeat clients and word-of-mouth referrals? Because we deliver exactly what you need, using the most appropriate facilitation methods for your organization's unique needs and culture. Unlike other firms, we don't brand ourselves around a single process or tool. Our toolkits are too big for that! It's what we help you build that counts-an effective organization.

Our Team

Working Harmony’s associates have demonstrated expertise in the following areas:

• Facilitation
• Individual and team coaching
• Leadership development
• Effective teams
• Organizational change
• Training

History

Working Harmony was founded in 2000 as Lorraine Aguilar and Associates, providing executive training and facilitation services to global corporations and UN agencies and programs. Over those few years (thanks to our clients’ demands), we had grown to become a world-class provider of retreats and workshops. In 2005, we incorporated under the name Working Harmony and expanded our services to include board of directors and other strategic retreats for nonprofit organizations.

President's Bio

Lorraine Aguilar is the founder and president of Working Harmony, Inc. She serves a diverse clientele including Fortune 500 companies, the United Nations, the British Government and nonprofit organizations. As a skilled facilitator and management consultant, Lorraine helps her clients achieve a common goal: an effective organization with cohesive team united around a clear strategy.

Before founding Working Harmony, Lorraine led a corporate facilitation program for one of the largest utilities in the U.S. She regularly consulted with the CEO and executive team to design and facilitate large-scale interventions to reduce bureaucracy and streamline work processes. This program succeeded in building a culture of facilitative leadership, as many of her program alumni were promoted to executive and senior management positions across the business units.

A native of California, Lorraine has worked in Asia, Europe and Latin America, as well as the U.S. Some of her most notable projects include:

• Facilitating the first national HIV/AIDS conference for newly-independent East Timor, with the President of the country as keynote speaker; and
• An historic collaboration to reduce poverty in Cambodia, facilitating synergistic strategies between the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the United Kingdom Department for International Development.
• Facilitating a program of international cooperation to eliminate the trafficking of women and children into sexual exploitation and forced labor in Southeast Asia.

Prior to her work as a facilitator and management consultant, Lorraine was an engineer for an international environmental consulting firm.

Lorraine has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. She is a licensed Chemical Engineer (P.E.) in the State of California.