Relational Liability & Culture Consulting
I design people-centered systems that protect culture, strengthen safety, and support creative work before pressure becomes a problem.
Where people, power, and creative work intersect. Or collide.
The Work
Culture isn’t theoretical when outcomes, reputations, and creative integrity are on the line.
In high-stakes environments, decisions happen in real time. Between people. Within shared space. Under pressure. And in every case, those decisions shape someone’s experience of the environment.
When things go sideways, it’s rarely about the moment. It usually traces back to a broken agreement, unclear boundary, or a lack of accountability.
This isn’t conceptual.
It’s consequential.This work begins where policy stops. When culture, consent, and clarity need to coexist with creativity and risk, without shutting things down.
It’s not about perfection or optics. It’s about building frameworks people can actually operate within.
This is where creative power, psychological safety, and accountability meet.
We design for complexity. We hold power, risk, desire, and visibility in the same container.
Not to sanitize the environment, but to make it sustainable.
This is culture architecture for environments that can't afford guesswork.
When Creative Vision Carries Real Risk
Creative work that touches identity, embodiment, or lived experience doesn’t come with clean edges.
Power dynamics shift. Boundaries move. Personal history, public visibility, and real vulnerability all show up in the room.
Decisions happen fast. Stakes are high. When something goes wrong, it is rarely small.
Most leaders and creators in these spaces are doing their best to protect the work, the people, the brand, and themselves.
But often, they’re holding that tension quietly and on their own. They carry the weight of liability, the fear of getting it wrong, and the risk of being misread even when intentions were right.
In these environments, consent isn’t a checklist or a workshop you run once.
It has to live in the system. Shaping how decisions are made, how power moves, how people are held accountable, and how recovery happens when things go off course.
When consent is built as infrastructure, not ideology, creative risk becomes more sustainable without losing its edge. This applies across creative, experiential, and emerging industries where people, power, and responsibility intersect.
People can take risks without fear.
Work can stay bold without becoming reckless.
How This Work Shows Up
This work isn’t one-size-fits-all.
It adapts to the space, the stakes, and the dynamics at play.
It meets people inside the real risks they’re navigating: in the moment, in the work, and in the room.
This work shows up where creativity, collaboration, and power intersect. Where getting it wrong carries real consequences..
Where This Work Lives
Creative & Production Environments
Film, television, photography, live performance, and other creative spaces where bodies, boundaries, and story meet. Clarity is essential for people to do their best work.
Experiential & Community Spaces
Live events, nightlife, retreats, and member-based communities where intimacy, play, or vulnerability are part of the experience. Consent must be held intentionally, not assumed.
Organizations Navigating Power, Scale & Risk
Leadership teams and founders working inside growth, visibility, or complexity who need systems that protect people and culture without slowing momentum or compromising creativity.
What This Actually Looks Like
This work is practical, relational, and responsive. Depending on the environment, it can include:
Designing or refining cultural frameworks, agreements, and protocols
Advising leadership on power dynamics, boundaries, and accountability
Training teams to navigate communication, boundaries, and escalation in real time
Supporting incident response, repair, and decision-making under pressure
Translating values into systems people can actually use
The goal isn’t control or perfection.
It’s designing environments people can safely operate within.
Hi, I’m Arielle
I work at the intersection of creative expression, power, and safety, supporting leaders, producers, and community builders who are responsible for environments where people create, perform, and collaborate.
For over 20 years, I’ve worked in film, television, advertising, live events, and experiential spaces, supporting high-stakes creative work where pressure is real, power dynamics are complex, and the cost of missteps is tangible. My background spans production leadership, intimacy coordination, and culture consulting, with a focus on translating values into systems people can actually use.
What I’ve seen, again and again, is this:
Most people aren’t trying to do harm.
They’re trying to hold creativity, care, and responsibility at the same time, without the structure to support it.
This work builds that structure.
I partner with organizations and founders who feel the weight of keeping people safe, inspired, and protected, often while navigating vulnerability, performance, visibility, or power. These are leaders who worry about liability, reputation, and impact, but don’t want to flatten their culture or kill what makes their work meaningful.
My role isn’t to police behavior or drop in with generic policies.
It’s to help you:
Design clear, consent-informed systems that reflect how your environment actually functions
Clarify boundaries, expectations, and accountability before things escalate
Design and deliver trainings people remember, with the clarity and presence of a seasoned performer. Trainings that shift behavior and land with impact.
Support teams through difficult conversations, incidents, and repair
Create conditions where creativity and responsibility can coexist
This work is grounded in real-world execution, not theory. I’ve led teams through crisis, policy design, incident response, and high-pressure decision-making, including studio-wide health and safety leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. I understand how fast things move, how messy humans can be, and how essential clarity is before something goes wrong.
At its core, this is culture work.
Not about control.
Not about perfection.
It’s about building environments people can actually operate within, where trust is structured, not improvised.
Because when people feel safe, they get expansive. They take risks, collaborate and grow.
And that changes the game.
Trusted By Industry Leaders
Experience inside high-stakes creative environments, trusted by teams where culture, clarity, and creative risk converge.
Ways To Work Together
Consent & Culture Consulting
Relational liability consulting for high-trust, high-stakes environments.
I work with founders, producers, leadership teams, and community builders to design consent-forward systems that protect people, culture, and the work itself, especially in environments where relational risk, power dynamics, and visibility are real.
This may include culture and protocol design, leadership advising, training, incident response support, and accountability systems tailored to how your environment actually functions.
Intimacy Coordination
Where consent, story, and performance meet.
With two decades in production and advanced training in sexology and trauma-informed care, I support intimate content with clarity, care, and creative integrity.
I collaborate with directors, producers, and performers to create grounded environments where safety and storytelling can coexist without compromise.
I blend the logistical fluency of a producer and AD with the care and creativity of an intimacy coordinator.
Hosting, Speaking & Partnerships
Consent-forward conversations for stages, screens, and brands.
From panels and keynotes to on-camera hosting and moderated conversations, I bring warmth, precision, and cultural fluency to discussions around intimacy, creativity, and power.
With a background in the performance arts, I know how to play to an audience and bring the energy.
Ideal for organizations seeking thoughtful dialogue without flattening complexity.
Start With a Conversation
If you’re navigating complexity, risk, or responsibility in a creative or high-stakes environment, we can talk through what support would actually be useful.
This starts with clarity, not commitment.
Arielle is also the host and producer of of Birds & Bees Don’t Fck, a late-night podcast about sex, power, and the stories we were never taught how to talk about.