Working Together

Why does your organization exist? Is your mission helping, or harming? What assumptions have been made about the community you serve? Who isn’t involved that needs to be?

Responsible change agents ask these questions from time to time, whether your organization is new or decades-established.

I can help you check your assumptions and confirm or create your Theory of Change, always centering the lived experience of the people you impact.

Strategic plan stuck on your shelf? Beloved by one and confusing to many? Non existent? No matter where you’re starting from, I’m here to bring clarity and build buy-in.

Every team has dreamers and do-ers, people that love to think long term and people that just want to get out of the meeting and back to their task list. The best strategy work knows how to include them all.

I’ll help you name big ideas for tomorrow and turn them into manageable steps for today.

Culture can be cultivated or left to grow wild. Choose to make your organization’s values more than a list of nice words.

I’ll help you demonstrate authenticity and integrate new norms so that every person that touches your organization feels who you are, consistently.

Whether you’re being proactive or addressing a conflict, I help shape cultures where people are respected for their full identities, empowered to bring their strengths, and connected to a shared purpose.

Do you have it? Are people using it? Is it working? Let’s find out and address what we discover together:

• Team collaboration and accountability

• Learning and evaluation loops

• HR policy

• JEDI plans

• Fund development standards of practice

• Communications plans

• Staff development and education

Board composition, culture, policy, and operational processes are essential to supporting your mission. I help boards become truly mission-aligned and equipped to govern with the right mix of support and accountability.

Avoid survey-fatigue and engage your community in a way that brings value and stronger relationships all around.

We’ll come up with a plan to consistently bring lived experience into the design, implementation, and evaluation of your services so you can be confident your mission is aligned with what your community wants and needs.

Every nonprofit is trying to improve something in a system, and no one group or person can move the needle alone. I have a decade of experience building and facilitating cross-sector, cross-functional collaborations for tangible systems impact. Let’s talk.

Whether the problem is here today or on the horizon, untangle the knots and gain clarity on the path forward. If you’re ready with some bravery, self-reflection, and a willingness to challenge assumptions, I’ll step into it with you, ready with tools for the work:

• Program or process improvement

• Redefining roles and/or your org chart

• Restorative Justice processes for conflict

• Scenario planning for worst-case tomorrows

• Etc.