Abloom Transformation Group

Burnout is structural. So is the response.

Abloom Transformation Group is a consultancy rooted in equity and justice. We work with mission-driven organizations to remove the structural fog that produces burnout, attrition, and disproportionate cost.

  • Foundations
  • Public Health
  • Universities
  • Healthcare
  • Mission-Driven Nonprofits
Take the Fog Assessment It takes about three minutes.
What we do

The work.

ATG works at the intersection of organizational health, equity, and justice. The team brings practitioner experience and a peer-reviewed methodology, The Clarity Walk, to organizations that already recognize the cost of structural ambiguity in their leadership, their teams, and their outcomes.

We engage through training, advising, strategic planning, and organizational assessments shaped to the specific structure of each engagement. The work is rigorous. The voice is direct. And the result, when the engagement is right, is an organization that can name what it is actually doing, and rebuild the parts that need to hold differently.

Strategic Planning

We lead diagnostic-led planning processes that name the fog before structuring the response.

Custom Training & Workshops

We design single sessions and multi-part series around your team’s specific structural questions.

Executive Advising

We work one-on-one with leaders carrying weight no spreadsheet captures.

The Clarity Walk Courses

Our two flagship courses serve different audiences. Navigate is built for individual contributors and team leads, and Lead is built for executives and senior leaders.

Who we serve

Our clients are willing, ready, and doing the work.

ATG works with organizations whose missions matter and whose people carry that weight. The buyers who fit best are the ones who already suspect that something structural is producing the symptoms they are seeing, and who want a partner who will name it without flinching.

  • Foundations and philanthropic intermediaries
  • State and local public health departments
  • Universities and schools of public health, including HBCUs
  • Mission-driven nonprofits
  • Healthcare systems and federally qualified health centers
Founder

The founder.

Dr. Tenesha J. Lewis, DrPH, MPH, is a public health practitioner, researcher, and faculty member who built ATG out of two decades inside organizations watching brilliant teams collapse under unclear systems. She works at the intersection of organizational health, equity, and the lived realities of the people doing the work, particularly Black women and women of color carrying the weight of mission-driven labor.

Dr. Lewis is faculty at Virginia Union University and serves as Guest Editor of the PHILLIS Journal. Issues she has edited include “From Access to Action.” Her published research includes lead authorship in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities and co-authorship in the Journal of Healthcare, Science and Humanities.

She speaks regularly on organizational fog, leadership clarity, and equity at work. Inquire about a keynote or workshop →

“Naming the fog is half the work. The other half is rebuilding the structures that produced it.”
Dr. Tenesha J. Lewis
Why ATG

Three things distinguish the work.

The framework is anchored in peer-reviewed evidence.

Our methodology rests on a documented systematic review of contemporary organizational behavior, behavioral economics, occupational health, and equity research. The full evidence base is published in the white paper that accompanies the framework.

Equity is operational, not aspirational.

We name who fog harms most: Black women, women of color, visa-dependent staff, and other systemically pressured teammates. We then structure the responses that redistribute the cost. The equity layer is built into the diagnostic, not added at the end.

The Clarity Walk delivers what existing models leave out.

Kotter, Lewin, Edmondson, Senge, and Heifetz each name something true about organizational change. None of them operationalizes the diagnostic step that distinguishes ambiguity from clarity. Our framework fills that gap.

Where to begin

Two ways in.

Most engagements begin in one of two ways. You can take the Fog Assessment to identify which fog is operative in your organization, or you can reach out directly to start a conversation about the work.

Inside TenJo Holdings

One practice. Three brands.

ATG is one of the brands inside TenJo Holdings, its parent company. Together, the TenJo brands span institutional consulting, wellness, and the team’s writing. Each brand has its own audience, and all share a commitment to clarity, equity, and enduring work.