Our Consulting Services

Chief of Staff

 

  • Combinations of building cultures, building operations, and social systems analysis and practices

  • Designing and managing a strategic agenda for the leadership team and aligning team in service of vision

  • Building and refining internal operations and people processes

  • Organizational development and recruitment

  • Facilitation and implementation of organization-wide strategic planning

  • Advising and coaching of executive team / founders

  • Special projects to expand organizational impact and sustainability

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