Organizational Consulting
My consulting practice focuses on facilitating inclusive processes for strengthening organizational effectiveness. Using interactive exercises and discussions, I can help you establish or refresh foundational principles, define strategic priorities and goals, assess progress, capture lessons learned, and apply learned lessons to decisions and actions. Among my areas of focus…
Vision, Mission, & Values
Whether you’re just getting started, or pausing to take stock, articulating the What, Why, and How of your work is essential to gaining and sustaining the allegiance of internal and external stakeholders. I’ll partner with you to design and facilitate a process for eliciting success stories — both real and aspirational — that paint a vibrant picture of your organizational identity and intended direction and impact.
Strategy Development
Mission driven organizations can struggle with priority setting because there is so much need. But poor priority setting is a recipe for burnout and ineffectiveness. Leading your team in exercises such as S.W.O.T. (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) and stakeholder mapping, I’ll partner with you to clarify where you want to focus your efforts — and where you might want to let go.
Culture Check
Would you define your culture as entrepreneurial? inclusive? stable? principled? How aligned is your culture to the mission of the organization? Convening a representative cohort to explore and answer these questions could determine the success or failure of a chosen strategy or objective. I’ll partner with you on creating an inclusive process for defining the culture you want and mapping the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
After Action Review
Too often, leaders move right along to the next project or engagement without taking the time to identify key learnings that will enhance the success of future endeavors. Certified in the Emergent Learning methodology developed and refined over time by Marilyn Darling and her partners, I can help you facilitate multi-stakeholder processes for looking back and looking forward with intention.
"You have been such a pleasure to work with. Your kindness and growth mindset to advance our mission are greatly appreciated."
— Dean