Slingshot Designs is a human-centered consulting and creative studio built to support leaders, teams, and communities doing meaningful work under real-world constraints.
Founded by Michelle Formanczyk, we bring together leadership consulting, coaching, facilitated learning, and original frameworks that help people think clearly, communicate honestly, and build systems that actually work. Our approach is designed to grow across disciplines, practice areas, and partner collaborations — all grounded in trust, accessibility, and practical impact.
Leadership & Organizational Consulting
For organizations ready to move beyond surface-level change.
We work with leaders and teams to identify what is truly happening inside their systems — culturally, operationally, and relationally — and design strategies that people can understand, adopt, and sustain.
Areas of focus include:
- Culture and trust breakdowns
- Decision-making under uncertainty
- Cross-functional friction
- Change fatigue and burnout
- Aligning values with everyday behavior
The outcome is shared clarity, stronger alignment, and forward momentum.
Executive & Professional Coaching
For leaders who want clarity — not scripts.
Our coaching engagements support people navigating complexity, transition, expanded responsibility, or competing personal and professional demands. Sessions focus on how you think, how you decide, and how your voice shows up when it matters most.
Coaching is:
- Tailored to the individual
- Confidential and practical
- Designed to build both confidence and capacity
VoicePrint™ Workshops & Speaking
Helping people find — and use — their voice with integrity.
VoicePrint™ is an original framework for understanding how lived experience shapes communication, leadership presence, and trust. Through engaging keynotes and interactive workshops, participants learn how to communicate clearly under pressure and build credibility in every space.
This is ideal for leadership teams, professional associations, nonprofit convenings, and mission-driven organizations.
Team Learning & Facilitation
Where insight becomes shared capability.
We design and facilitate structured learning environments where people can think together productively. Sessions are interactive, grounded in real work, and designed to support collaboration across roles, generations, and perspectives.
Formats include:
- Team offsites
- Strategy and alignment sessions
- Cross-generational learning
- Stakeholder and community conversations
The goal isn’t consensus — it is shared understanding and progress.
Who This Work Serves
Slingshot Designs works with a wide range of clients, with particular focus on communities where clarity, trust, and sustainable systems matter most, including:
- Veterans and veteran-adjacent communities
- Foster and adoptive families and support organizations
- Small businesses and family-owned organizations
- Nonprofits and mission-driven teams
- Leaders navigating caregiving, disability, or complex life demands
This work is built to be accessible, respectful, and grounded in lived experience.
How We Work
Our approach is:
- Human-centered, not performative
- Evidence-informed, not trend-driven
- Structured, without rigidity
- Creative, without abstraction
We do not impose answers.
We design conditions where the right answers can emerge.
Our Practice Ecosystem
Slingshot Designs operates as part of a growing ecosystem of consulting, creative, and community-centered work. Additional practice areas, partner offerings, and collaborative services will be introduced over time — all grounded in the same values of integrity, accessibility, and thoughtful design.
Let’s Connect
If you’re interested in coaching, consulting, speaking, or collaboration, the best way to begin is with a short note below. Tell us a bit about what you’re navigating, and we’ll follow up as soon as we can.
We do not use automated scheduling tools. All inquiries are reviewed personally.
We do not use automated scheduling tools. All inquiries are reviewed personally.
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