Todd & Melanie provide training nationally,
but they call Buffalo, NY home.
We are Todd and Melanie, and we do most of the work at Sage Training and Consulting. We have been married for over 25 years, and our interactions and examples in role plays (and real plays!) with each other provide a fun source of entertainment. We know each other so well that our work together, and in our groups, is natural, fun, and engaging. We model professional curiosity, humor, vulnerability, care for the people we work with, and lifelong learning.
In training, we nudge participants toward thinking bigger about what drives human behavior, encourage and cajole participation and practice, and help people identify their own reasons for becoming better helpers. We try to see the humanity in everyone we work with and model this for our participants.
Our approach is informed by cultural humility, and practices that are humanistic, client-centered, and trauma-informed. We understand the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences and other Social Determinants of Health, including poverty and racism.
We love our work.