Our Consulting Services

Chief of Staff

• This work is a combination of building cultures, building operations, and social systems analyses and practices

• We discover what you uniquely bring and help you build and act on it with organization-wide strategic planning

• We collaboratively craft internal operations and people processes for the work you do and are moving toward

• We help you pilot, design, and hire the people you need to grow your impact

• We advise and coach executive team / founders

• We have undertaken a variety of projects to expand organizational impact and sustainability, including marketing, business development, and program pilots

Building Cultures

• Cultivating or retaining intentional culture while an organization or program grows and changes

• Organizational development and recruitment, including deciding next roles to hire, scoping, and executing or designing recruitment operations

• Harnessing internal communications to make better, more inclusive, decisions 

• Honing processes that focus and align teams for impact with attentiveness to bandwidth

• Clarifying the big picture mission and values you want to share with the world

• Aligning formal and informal practices with that mission and values

Building Operations

• Supporting future growth with more scalable process 

• Building or refining foundational project management processes

• Strategic design and facilitation, and tactical structures for strategic implementation

• Repeatable structures for doing and communicating the work internally

• Building and piloting new programs, service lines, and/or revenue sources

• Retaining, engaging, and expanding existing customers

• Collaborating with you and your team to integrate the big picture with the everyday details

Social Systems Analysis + Practices

• Research and landscape analysis of how the work you aim to do is situated within existing social systems

• Values facilitation and structure for how you engage with the communities you serve, whether customers, clients, grantees, recipients, funders, or otherwise

• Uncovering surprising ideas and connections borrowing from other industries or movements in social space

• Inspiration from grassroots organizations and startups innovating in our moment

• Building and piloting new programs, service lines, and/or revenue sources

Other ideas?

We also excel in the ambiguous places that successful organizations and programs often find themselves: potential turning points; opportunities to amplify values and impact; and nuanced group or community dynamics, to name a few. Happy to hear more about your unique situation and see how we can help.

We are ready to dive in at the level you need

Fractional leadership - a deeper relationship to supplement your leadership team without the structural reorganization and at a fraction of the expense

Project-based work - honing together a well-defined project to meet key goals