A few months ago, someone asked me what I do. And I stumbled.

Not because I didn’t know — but because I hadn’t yet found the language to describe it.

At the time, I was mid-evolution. Testing ideas. Refining frameworks. Delivering results that didn’t always show up neatly. Some clients said they felt clearer. Lighter. Like something had been unlocked. Others said, “I don’t see the impact.” I didn’t blame them. They were measuring change in the only way they’d been taught to: output, speed, and certainty.

But what I was actually doing was something else entirely.

I was helping them make sense.

Not just of their numbers or goals, but of themselves. Their systems. Their silence. Their contradictions.

And now I know how to name it.

I am an Organizational & People Development Sensemaker.

What That Means in Practice

I work inside the mess.

• Inside the tension between how things are and how leaders wish they were.
• Inside the moments when growth creates confusion.
• When something isn’t working, but no one knows why.
• When a business outgrows its old story — but hasn’t found the new one yet.

I don’t come with a 10-point plan. I come to help you see what you’ve been missing.

Here’s what that actually looks like:

I Gather What’s Real — Not Just What’s Reported

Most organizations run on half-truths. On dashboards that tell you what happened, but not why. On surveys that give you surface-level answers, but miss the full emotional texture underneath.

I gather both data and story. I collect weak signals and lived experience. I pay attention to the silences in the room, the questions no one asks, and the ideas that keep showing up on sticky notes but never get actioned.

My role is to build a shared picture of reality — not through top-down declarations, but through bottom-up insight.

I Create the Space for People to Interpret, Together

Change doesn’t stick when it’s imposed. It sticks when people participate in making meaning.

So I don’t arrive with all the answers. I create the container where real conversations can happen. I facilitate the forums where different perspectives collide, where people name what they’ve been sensing but didn’t have permission to say.

That’s how understanding spreads. That’s how ownership forms. That’s how collective intelligence takes shape.

I Help You Challenge What You’ve Been Standing On

Most of what keeps a team stuck isn’t skill. It’s assumption.

• Assumptions about who holds power.
• About what matters most.
• About what can or can’t change.
• About how “we’ve always done it.”

I help teams see the water they’ve been swimming in — so they can finally stop drowning. Because you can’t build a new future on inherited constraints.

I Guide Micro-Experiments, Not Grand Overhauls

Most change programs fail because they’re too big, too abstract, or too removed from daily reality.

I work differently.

Together, we test. We probe. We try small, safe-to-fail experiments that reveal something about how the system actually behaves — not how we think it should.

This is how you find out what works — without burning out your team or faking buy-in.

Change becomes practice. And practice becomes capability.

I Build Organizational Capacity to Keep Making Sense

I’m not here to be your permanent fixer. I’m here to embed the capacity to notice, interpret, and respond.

• That means designing rhythms of reflection.
• Integrating feedback loops.
• Helping people at every level learn how to sit with uncertainty, make better sense of it, and act accordingly.

Because clarity isn’t a one-time event. It’s a continuous process. And when it becomes cultural — that’s when the organization becomes resilient.

Looking Back, This Was Always the Work

When I reflect on every project I’ve taken on — even the ones where the outcome looked “unclear” on paper — the thread was there.

• I was never just facilitating a workshop.
• Never just mapping out roles.
• Never just guiding change.

I was helping people pause long enough to make sense of what was unfolding.

I just hadn’t named it yet.

Now I have.

And it changes everything.

Strategic Reflection Prompt

Where in your business are you solving symptoms… while ignoring what needs to be made sense of?

About Giselle

I’m Giselle Hudson — writer, possibility thinker, musician, Organization & People Development Sensemaker™, and MCODE Legacy Coach. I help leaders and soul-driven professionals decode the deeper patterns shaping their business, work, identities, and results especially when it look like a performance issue but it’s really misalignment in disguise.

If something in your life or business feels off and you can’t quite name it, message me. Sometimes one conversation is all it takes to see what’s really going on.