Approach

We use an approach that involves four collaborative steps requiring full participation and investment of the organization.

1. Assessment: The first step is to deepen our awareness about the organization’s history and culture through data collection involving multiple stakeholders. A realistic and accurate present-day analysis leads to clear, attainable goals and a process that meets the unique needs of your organization. 
2. Planning: The planning phase is grounded in the project goals, organizational capacity and needs. This critical step is co-designed with clients and reflects what is learned during the assessment.
3. Implementation: Planning has no impact without implementation. This stage is especially challenging for most organizations as it is frequently where resistance and conflict arises. For this reason, we build implementation support into our consulting projects. 
4. Evaluation: Evaluation, often overlooked and undervalued, is essential to building strong organizational systems and cultures. Through formal and informal processes, we work with clients to strengthen their evaluation muscles and expand their capacity to meet their missions.

Services

We design and facilitate high impact processes that are goal focused and flexible according to the dynamics and emerging needs of the organization. Our work is focused on helping our clients make significant, measurable shifts that result in lasting culture change. Our projects fall predominantly within these areas:
 
Leadership Development and Coaching: We support board development, leadership teams, and executive transitions. We also provide individual coaching to CEOs/EDs, Board Chairs and other key leaders. 

Team Effectiveness: High performing teams increase impact, engagement and satisfaction. We support internal teams (staff and board), as well as cross-organizational teams via coalitions and strategic partnerships. ​

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:  We bring an equity lens to all of our work. This value enacted means that we identify, assess and work to eradicate organizational barriers to equity so that our clients actualize their ultimate vision of social justice. Our approach encourages organizations and coalitions to become inclusive of and responsive to differences at all levels of systems. 

Strategic Planning: Strategic planning can mean very different things to different organizations. We facilitate one-time planning sessions and full-fledged strategic planning processes. Strategic planning may include: organizational assessments; mission, vision and value statements; campaign and program strategy; infrastructure development (policies and procedures); sustainability planning; implementation support and more.

Workshops: We provide custom designed workshop in all of the areas mentioned above and more. Ask us!