For Nonprofits
Unlocking the full potential of your organization may require surfacing unspoken challenges. By creating space for open dialogue, we help our clients build comfort with the necessity of change and enable them to be the visionaries we need to solve today’s most pressing challenges.
Strengthening Your Leadership
We work with Boards of Directors and executive leaders to identify governance needs and to support the recruiting, onboarding, and training of new Board members. This may include creating Board role descriptions, training members and officers on roles and responsibilities, and defining an approach to Board and executive succession planning.
Managing Founder and Executive Transitions
A founder or executive transition can be both an incredible challenge and opportunity for an organization. We can partner with you through this transition, helping you to assess the state of your organization, defining criteria for new leadership, and engaging stakeholders to help manage change. We also are able to support the recruitment of new leadership, liaising with Board, staff, and search partners.
Aligning Mission, Strategy, and Operations
Every organization benefits from a periodic review of mission, strategy and approach. We support this process by facilitating dialogue among Board and staff, engaging internal and external stakeholders in the design of new directions, and proposing new operational structures and/or budgets to better align with mission goals.
Readying for the Future
We believe that change is an essential ingredient for any organization’s success. We will help you envision your organization’s future and advise on whether you would benefit from new staff positions or expertise, improved infrastructure, expanded program areas and/or partnerships, or a merger or acquisition opportunity.
Investing in Your Culture and Community
The people in your organization drive your impact. When supported, teams can deploy boundless energy and creativity, leading to new and unexpected positive outcomes. When team and community are deprioritized, staff may retreat into more isolated or independent roles, making it harder to collaborate or accomplish mission goals. We will help you assess your Board and staff culture and community to determine which elements are contributing to staff turnover, a reduction in Board size or effectiveness, a decline in fundraising, or an overall inability to meet goals.