About 2Wanda
Towanda Carrigan, RBT
Behavioral Health, DDD & Allied Health Consultant
Founder, 2Wanda Brands
Creator of The Orientation Method™
2Wanda represents the vision connecting Towanda Carrigan’s lived experience, professional work, systems thinking, consulting, community, leadership, and the wider 2Wanda Brands ecosystem.
At the center of the work is a simple principle:
Before we determine what should happen next, we need enough understanding to know where we are.
Remember Who You Are™
The Person Behind 2Wanda
Towanda’s work has been shaped by more than 25 years of experience across behavioral care, developmental-disability services, childcare, special education, workforce development, direct support, family advocacy, leadership, and community-based human-service environments.
Her perspective is also informed by motherhood, foster care, adoption, entrepreneurship, and personally navigating many of the systems she now helps others better understand.
Those experiences taught Towanda to look beyond the first behavior, explanation, or conclusion.
They taught her to ask:
What is happening? Who is involved? What may be influencing this? What information is missing? What systems are connected? What is the responsible next step?
That way of thinking became foundational to 2Wanda.
Understanding Before Action
Towanda has experienced human systems from multiple positions—as a mother and advocate, foster and adoptive parent, childcare provider, direct-care professional, entrepreneur, leader, and person navigating systems herself.
Those experiences reinforced an important lesson:
People and systems cannot be understood well when we only respond to what is visible on the surface.
Greater clarity requires enough space to understand the people, environments, relationships, responsibilities, capacity, and systems surrounding what is happening.
The goal is to create systems that can flow as designed—not as forced.
From Experience to The Orientation Method™
Before it had a formal name, Towanda was already practicing what would later become The Orientation Method™.
The methodology developed from years of learning to slow down conclusions, gather what is known, recognize different perspectives, identify what may be missing, and examine the people, relationships, environments, responsibilities, and systems surrounding a situation.
Today, The Orientation Method™ provides a structured way to create greater understanding before decisions and actions are formed.
Building the Ecosystem
Towanda founded 2Wanda Brands to build the infrastructure around the vision.
2Wanda Brands is the social-enterprise ecosystem connecting behavioral care, workforce development, training and staffing, verification and readiness services, professional support, and community impact.
Remember Who You Are™
2Wanda is also rooted in the belief that understanding systems begins with understanding people—including ourselves.
Remember Who You Are™ represents seeing yourself beyond a behavior, label, role, difficult season, or someone else’s interpretation.
As people understand themselves more fully, what they have lived, learned, developed, and become begins to create an overflow.
That overflow may become work, leadership, service, advocacy, entrepreneurship, community impact, mentorship, or something else they are called to build.
That part of the vision is expressed through Loc’d In Self-Love™.
The Work Today
Today, Towanda works with individuals, families, professionals, leaders, organizations, teams, and communities that need help understanding what is happening, navigating connected systems, strengthening alignment, or identifying responsible next steps.
Her work includes consulting, systems navigation, facilitated conversations, organizational support, speaking, writing, community development, and connected pathways throughout the 2Wanda ecosystem.
The goal is not to make decisions for people.
The goal is to create enough orientation for people and systems to move forward with greater clarity and freedom.
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