Belonging Consulting

Your event, community and culture have more belonging potential than you think. Let's find it.

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I work directly with community leaders, event professionals and organizations to design belonging and engagement into the experiences and cultures they're responsible for.

These focused strategy sessions bring Eli’s 20+ years of performance expertise and evidence-based belonging research directly to your biggest design challenges. You’ll dig into what's working, what's not, and how to use P.L.A.Y. to set up the conditions for belonging and engagement again and again.

3 ways to work with me. Choose the one that fits where you are.

  • Belonging Brainstorm (3 Hours)

    The Belonging Brainstorm is two focused virtual sessions with me to for 90 minutes each, scheduled within two weeks, where we go deep on your specific upcoming event. You’ll come out the other side with a concrete plan for making belonging happen on purpose inside it.

    Session one is diagnosis and design. We map your full participant journey from arrival, opening, transitions, key moments, close, and identify exactly where connection is being left on the table. I bring the P.L.A.Y. Method to every touchpoint and we build the belonging architecture together in real time.

    Session two is refinement and scripting. We take everything we built in session one and translate it into an actionable experience script: the specific language, rituals, icebreakers, transitions, and facilitation moments that will make your event feel like something your people will actually talk about afterward.

    You walk away with a written experience script you can hand to any facilitator or use yourself with specific language, structure, play and belonging interventions mapped to every key moment of human interaction of your event.

    This is for you if you have an upcoming conference, retreat, off-site, community event, or recurring gathering that you want to elevate. The event exists. You just want it to do more.

    Price: $500

  • Belonging Lab (4 Weeks)

    You’re building a new community, a recurring program, a culture initiative or maybe a signature gathering series and you need a seasoned belonging buddy (hi, that’s me!👋) who can go the distance with you through the messy middle.

    Four weekly 60-minute sessions plus async support between them. We move through vision, architecture, activation, and launch using the P.L.A.Y. Method to build belonging into every layer of what you're creating.

    You walk away with a complete written P.L.A.Y. Plan (experience design framework), facilitation scripts for key moments, community engagement strategy and a launch plan. Plus one 30-minute follow-up call within 60 days for when you've run it once and extra real questions.

    This is for you if you're a community builder, event professional, people leader, or solo-preneur launching something new and need both the structure and the accountability to actually build it right.

    Price: $1,000

    Best for: Annual conferences, retreat design, membership community overhauls, or flagship experiences that need to deliver.

  • Community Engagement Partner

    For organizations that want belonging built in

    Retainer · Custom scope · 1–2 clients at a time

    For organizations that need less of a one-time consult and more of a belonging expert embedded in their culture, showing up consistently to help design, activate, and sustain engagement across their team, events, and community.

    This can look like ongoing experience design, community activation and programming, employee engagement strategy, communication consulting, or direct support for the leaders responsible for culture. Every engagement is scoped in conversation because every organization's belonging gaps are different.

    I take on one or two of these at a time. If you're ready for a real partner, let's talk.

    Best for: Event teams, community managers, HR/culture teams, or organizations launching major engagement initiatives.

Street Cred.

Clients love working with Eli for her unique ability to turn everyday interactions into immersive, transformative experiences that ignite connection through play, foster belonging on a budget, and bring out the best in them and those they lead.

“Working with Eli is true magic. She hones into your vision then uses her special skill set to introduce new and fun aspects that were likely never on your radar. I had people dancing in the kitchen while we simmered tomatoes; this never would have happened without her.”

- Antonella Aguilera-Ruiz
Founder of Dr and the Chef

Work with Eli to build belonging & engage your people.

With a proven track record as a belonging facilitation expert and live experience designer, Eli has worked with global organizations and leaders as well as solo-entrepreneurs-turned-community-facilitators to enhance connection through play, mindfulness, and storytelling.

Eli Walker sitting in front of a desk with a microphone, a laptop, and a notebook, in a studio setting with a plant in the foreground, black and white photo.

Her P.L.A.Y. Method is a tested and transformative approach to cultivating belonging, combining live experience design and interactive engagement to inspire lasting connection. Let Eli help you create the conditions for belonging to arise naturally so you can grow more sustainably, do more good and make the positive impact you’ve always wanted.