About Commcoterie

Leaders of purpose-driven companies and nonprofits partner with Commcoterie to ideate, navigate, and communicate change.

We help our clients uncover and untangle challenges, design strategies that catalyze change, and create compelling communication that engages stakeholders internally and externally for change that sticks.

Our effective and engaging change strategies help our clients reduce their operating costs, increase employee engagement, and build long-term change capabilities at their organizations.

We also work with other consultants who do transformational organizational culture work with companies to design change communication strategies that make their work more equitable and impactful.

We are proud to be a women-owned, queer-owned, and disability-owned business.

Caitlin Harper, Founder

For more than 15 years, Caitlin has ideated, navigated, and communicated change in businesses across the globe; grown phenomenal teams; and served organizations large and small as an organizational change, internal communication, and operations leader.

Now she helps leaders of small and midsize purpose-driven companies and nonprofit organizations design effective and engaging change strategies that help them reduce their operating costs, increase employee engagement, and build long-term change capabilities at their organizations.

Caitlin's communication-driven, people-focused approach to organizational change blends coaching, strategy, and implementation and leverages organic organizational tools and techniques to engage change-makers at all levels, ensuring organizational change is not just an event-specific exercise, but becomes part of an organization's DNA.

She is a frequent speaker, facilitator, panelist, and podcast guest on topics such as organizational change, internal communication strategy, DEIBA, leadership and learning, management and coaching, women in the workplace, mental health and wellness at work, and company culture.

Her proprietary peer coaching program has taught thousands of people to use professional coaching communication techniques in everyday workplace conversations to drive change and achieve business goals.

Caitlin earned her BA in English summa cum laude from the University of Florida with minors in Psychology, Linguistics, and Entrepreneurship and her MFA in Creative Writing summa cum laude from The New School in New York City.

She is the author of the young adult novel It Will Set You Free, partner to Dr. Bush, mama to Eleanor, and catmom to Bubble.

Our mission

Help the purpose-driven companies and nonprofits we work with ideate, navigate, and communicate change so that they can achieve their missions.

Our vision

Change the way organizations change — for the better.

Our Values

  • We center people first and always. Sometimes that puts us at odds with the very leaders who hire us. We understand they have competing priorities. Our favorite clients understand why we do what we do, appreciate our people-first challenge, and often come to realize that people-first change has the highest ROI.

  • We ask a lot of questions. We consider all angles. We coach clients and collaborators in every consulting engagement. We ensure that decisions result in action. We love our work. We care deeply about our clients and their missions. We know we don’t know everything, and we’re willing to be taught and learn about others’ experiences.

  • If there’s one thing that drives all of the work we do, it’s effective, inclusive, and engaging communication. Communication solves problems, but when it’s done poorly, we all know it can create new problems or make existing ones worse. We communicate early and often with clients, collaborators, and everyone involved with or impacted by our projects. It’s the most important tool in our tool belt.

  • We don’t do ‘move fast and break things’ over here. We keep projects moving while acknowledging that sometimes we need to slow things down to make sure our next swift move is the right one.

  • Commcoterie’s values aren’t just words — they’re actions. They dictate which clients we work with and what engagements we agree to. They make us say no to potentially lucrative offers that aren’t values-aligned, freeing up space for the right work for us. They show up in every decision we make and every strategy we create. They are how we do business.