About Us

Our Story

Kin Consultant Group was born from a simple but powerful realization: organizations get stuck in the same destructive patterns as individuals.

As an organizational consultant and healing facilitator, I spent years dancing between two worlds—helping organizations build strategic capacity and supporting individuals in healing from negative conditioned patterns. The breakthrough came when I recognized that organizations struggling with strategy were caught in the same unconscious behaviors as the people in my healing work –avoiding difficult conversations, making fear-based decisions, and reacting instead of responding intentionally.

This insight changed how I work. I realized that lasting organizational change requires both strategic rigor and deep pattern awareness and transformation. When leaders recognize what’s really blocking progress and commit to more conscious responses, real transformation becomes possible.

From coaching hundreds of people, I know the power of this integrated approach. Organizations that were paralyzed by fear discover courage to take bold action. Leaders who bounced from one thing to the next became focused on the highest priorities. Strategic plans that once lived on shelves become living documents emerging from both analytical wisdom and authentic knowing.

At Kin, we bridge strategy and consciousness to help organizations break free from the patterns preventing them from achieving impact.

Kin Team & Collaborators

Dominique Samari

Principal

Dominique Samari is an experienced attorney, strategist, coach, facilitator and healing arts practitioner. For over 15 years, Dominique has led strategy, planning and training efforts for organizations seeking to drive equitable and inclusive change. In 2020 Samari launched Kin Universe, a technology platform that helps individuals and organizations build social capital, increase trust and strengthen the connections needed to bridge differences and enhance collaboration. Samari is also an advisor at the Collective Impact Forum and a teacher at the Hoffman Institute, where she supports individuals in learning how to transform the counterproductive patterns limiting their lives.

Samari began her career as a criminal defense attorney and a criminal court commissioner. She transitioned from the practice of law to international development, serving in key management positions for the U.S. Department of State’s Rule of Law Program in Afghanistan.

Deeply reflective about spirituality, race and culture in America, Samari is a speaker in the U.S. Department of State Speaker’s Bureau and has been published in Nonprofit Quarterly, Milwaukee Magazine, Urban Milwaukee and Our Human Family. She received her Juris Doctorate from Marquette University Law School and is the recipient of various awards.

Jessie Tobin

Director of Strategy and Planning

Jessie Tobin serves as Kin Director of Strategy and Planning and brings 25+ years of experience in public health, community development and consulting. Across her career, her work has focused on advancing equity, building healthy environments, and increasing inclusive pathways into the economy. Her consultant portfolio includes a diverse mix of strategic planning, program design, qualitative research, and community real estate projects.

Previously, Ms. Tobin led community health initiatives with Walnut Way Conservation Corp and the Center for Resilient Cities in Milwaukee, WI. In addition, she has worked to advance community-academic partnerships at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Community Campus Partnerships for Health. She is the author of “Milwaukee Invests: Innovations in Commercial Real Estate Development For Community Wealth Building.” Ms Tobin received her MPH from the University of Washington School of Public Health in Seattle, WA and a BA from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN.

Paul Schmitz, Strategy Partner

CEO, Leading Inside Out and Senior Advisor of the Collective Impact Forum

Through his consulting firm Leading Inside Out and his role as Senior Advisor to The Collective Impact Forum, Paul Schmitz builds the collective leadership of organizations and communities to achieve greater social impact. Paul is the author of Everyone Leads: Building Leadership from the Community Up, and the former CEO of Public Allies, where he helped more than 5,000 diverse young adults begin careers working for community and social change.

Paul is a faculty member of The AssetBased Community Development Institute, was a social innovation advisor to the Obama White House, and has been named three separate years to The Nonprofit Times list of the 50 most influential nonprofit leaders in America. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his wife and five children.