What we do.
Improve vitality, well-being, and economic prosperity for communities (cities and organizations).
The overall goal is to help the community become more economically and relationally prosperous, while preserving its unique identity, history, and self-sustaining ways.
We aim to develop a sustainable cycle of insight and action owned by the people, drawing from their strengths, relationships, and resources (rather than relying on outside investors or developers, which changes the character of the community).
Why we’re doing this.
The main idea is simple:
our relationships are our most valuable resource
Think of the community as a woven fabric. Every person is a unique thread that influences the overall health and success. By focusing on our relationships, we build respect and trust. By learning and working together, the fabric grows strong and becomes something more beautiful. The community’s well-being and prosperity improves and achieves way more together than anyone could alone, creating a place people want to be.
Nurturing the community as a system of relationships creates opportunities for growth that wouldn’t exist otherwise. Through shared experiences they embrace uncertainty with a willingness to experiment, learn from the results, and adjust as they go…becoming a Learning-Doing (LD) community.
Everyone is born with unique abilities and the capacity to care. We need positive relationships with other people to grow to our full potential as individuals and as a community. We cannot reach our full potential on our own. Becoming a LD community is a way to turn our good intentions into intentional good.
The outcome is a self-sustaining community where everyone feels supported and valued. Everyone finds meaning and purpose in their contributions by connecting their caring capacity and the resources they are willing to share. This is the environment for both individuals and the community to grow to their potential.
Meet the Team
Creativity, passion, and structure combine in this team to form a powerful resource and guide for your community.
Our leadership expertise and experiences reach out of this world but are also grounded in the foundation of relationships and intentional design to produce true prosperity, which could include:
Increased economic wealth and success
Robust infrastructure
Advancements in technology and innovation
Personal well-being and health
Access to quality education and healthcare
Thriving, supportive communities with strong social bonds and personal freedoms
and more…
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Founder & Principal Consultant
LinkedInElizabeth is a strategist and builder of transformative organizations. Over a 24-year career at NASA, she honed the ability to lead teams through ambitious, complex, and high-stakes missions—where failure was not an option and innovation had to be delivered with precision. From transforming a $300M advanced technology program to developing the operational backbone for the world’s first autonomous, human-rated space station, Elizabeth has a proven track record of turning chaos into thriving structure and ambitious vision into tangible reality.
At Prosperity Threshold, Elizabeth translates these competencies into value for communities, companies, and institutions striving for breakthrough change. She specializes in:
High-Stakes Transformation: Turning bold vision into structured pathways, she aligns teams, designs scalable operating models, and drives cultural shifts that unlock innovation.
Strategic Growth & Efficiency: Known for delivering measurable impact, she has led initiatives that tripled science output, halved operating costs, and created sustainable growth platforms.
Stabilizing Pioneering Ventures: Elizabeth brings clarity to cutting-edge but unstructured efforts, converting potential into actionable strategies and winning the buy-in that sustains momentum.
At the core of Elizabeth’s approach is a deeply human-centric philosophy: that true breakthroughs occur when individuals understand what they contribute to the larger system and are empowered and supported in working together to achieve something otherwise impossible. As a certified Strategic Doing workshop leader, she fosters trust, alignment, and collaboration so individuals can become caring, thriving teams and communities.
Whether you are helping a community chart a new future, navigating a complex organizational turnaround, aligning global partners on a first-of-its-kind initiative, or seeking to unlock new levels of performance, Elizabeth partners with you to provide the clarity, discipline, and momentum required to cross your own prosperity threshold.
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Co-Founder and Principal Consultant
LinkedInKim’s current work represents a shift in how community well-being and prosperity are created. It grew from understanding community as a whole system of relationships and recognizing that relationships are our most valuable resource. The work focus is raising community relational capacities to imagine a future they lovingly and persistently bring to life by becoming a Learning-Doing Community guided by Relational Leadership Teams.
Over 50 years of learning and doing pathfinding experiences have contributed to insights and practices that have emerged as Learning-Doing Communities. The path began in 1970 with earning Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degrees from Louisiana Tech University. Graduate studies included specific focuses on sociology, architectural programming, and sustainable design.
In 1976 Kim began his career in Architecture and Planning. As a member of American Institute of Architects (AIA), National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), and American Planning Association (APA), Kim served in local, state, and national leadership roles including founding chairperson of the Louisiana Architecture Foundation. He received US Green Building Council (USGBC) certification as a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) AP with a LEED specialty in Building Design and Construction. As adjunct professor, Kim taught architectural programming and team-taught an urban design studio.
He cultivated skills in project management, architectural programming, design, community planning and public design Charrettes. In 1994 Kim began investing his skills in co-creating an open network collaboration discipline, “Strategic Doing,” that he incorporated into planning practices. The discipline has grown through practitioners around the world. As a Strategic Doing Institute Fellow, Kim continues to help guide and develop the discipline.
Projects which Kim led for his firm, MHSM, received over 60 awards from local, state, regional, and national organizations. Publications featuring his work include Architectural Record, Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Metropolitan Home, School Planning and Management, Architecture South, Louisiana Life, USA Today,Strong Towns and Renewal News.
During 2000 Kim began learning about a relational model, Community Renewal. He successfully adapted model principles to experimental planning practices he later (2021) described in a book chapter, Strategic Doing Powered Agile Community.
A new chapter of growth began in 2014 with Kim becoming founding director of the Center and Institute for Community Renewal. He developed and guided Center activities to support Community Renewal (CR) model replication cities as well as Institute research and development to grow model applications. Through Institute work, Kim sought to align the CR model with other innovations, like Strategic Doing, that strengthen local relational capacities.
Kim also convened, guided, and studied emergent in-community learning-doing group experiments that apply relational principles to system change. Allendale Strong (began 2012) and We Care Schools (began 2018) are successful examples. Think Tank Charrettes, Agile Communities,Relational Leadership Networks, and Learning-Doing groups are among concepts and practices that Kim began developing in 2000 and continued to develop through Kim’s Institute work.
All of the experiences that began in 1970 are preparation for the 2025 next pathfinding step to raise relational capacities with Learning-Doing Communities and Organizations.
