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Fart 1. General Information <br />Verve Consulting <br />Tracy Nordstrom, Principal <br />3301 East Calhoun Parkway <br />Minneapolis, MN 55408 <br />612.386.6257 <br />tracy@tracyn o rdstrom. co m <br />Statement from Verve founder, Tracy Nordstrom <br />Verve Consulting is a unique Pacemaking consultancy founded in 2014 to leverage my extensive <br />experience as a small business owner, designer, elected official, participatory leadership practitioner, and <br />citizen advisor and planner to guide communities toward resiliency, to solve complex challenges, and to <br />create great public spaces. <br />My work enlivens livability, expand equity and inclusion, leverages local assets, daylights resources, <br />identifies barriers, builds key relationships, and influences public space activation and management to make <br />communities more competitive, sustainable, and joyful places to live and work. <br />Stakeholder engagement, community conversations, policy creation and implementation, population health <br />and economic vitality are of special interest, and I work across sectors and perceived boundaries for change. <br />I am trained in Art of Hosting or participatory leadership methods to facilitate productive meetings and <br />community conversations. I am an experienced qualitative researcher and writer, and am skilled at guiding <br />organizations as they shape questions, spark public processes, build and sustain trust relationships, and <br />achieve stated short and long-term community goals. <br />Firm definition and philosophy <br />Verve Consulting provides integrative consulting services and research to influence practice, policy and <br />decision-making in the public, non-profit, and commercial sectors. Committed to advancing public affairs <br />and planning, daylighting implementation challenges and opportunities, engaging multiple partners to <br />catalyze ownership and enhance outcomes, and adding verve to important civic initiatives. <br />Verve Consulting leads communities and partners to envision and implement safer, healthier, livelier, more <br />strategic and economically prosperous places that are people -focused, innovative, and resilient. <br />Building community as we build a great place to be <br />