ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Peter Drucker often argued that a company's culture would trump any attempt to create a strategy that was incompatible with its culture. Has your organization deployed strategy after strategy and still been unable to achieve the level of success you envision? Have the people you've hired been unsuccessful?
Is your culture capable of supporting your strategies?
We help build successful organizations and fundraising efforts by developing high functioning cultures that are built to support sustainable and effective growth and fundraising strategies. We do this through a disciplined approach, utilizing many of the tools you currently use, focused on building a successful culture. From strategic planning to budget and board development, we build the road map to prepare your culture for ultimate organizational success.
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
Expertise
Strategic Planning
Governance and Board Development
Budget Process Development
Organizational Audits
Culture Planning and Implementation
Board and Staff Training
Mentorship and Guidance
FUNDRAISING
We are fundraising and capital campaign experts. While many consultants provide process and structure, we also bring to each client over 50 years of successful experience raising major gifts, developing and managing capital campaigns - in organizations large and small, and working effectively with board and volunteer leadership.
We bring top level fundraising experience to each of our clients. Our deep experience is generated from the successful guidance of numerous institutions, at the leadership level, for each campaign we have worked on. Either as the chief fundraiser or executive and as consultants, we have guided numerous organizations toward fundraising success.
“It always feels impossible, until it’s done”
Expertise
Capital Campaigns
Feasibility, Market Research and Positioning Studies
Capital Campaign Management
Strategic Communications
Strategic Prospect Development
Fundraising
Development Audits
Development Planning and Implementation
Major Gifts and Capital Projects
Analytics
LEADERSHIP
As an organization accepts the challenge of growth, leadership becomes crucial. We strive to increase your capabilities to engage the entire organization in achieving success. We do this by gaining an understanding of the strengths and opportunities for your current leadership and then apply our key leadership topics, approached from a situational perspective, to strengthen the overall organizational capacity for attaining a high functioning culture of philanthropy.
“The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake. ”
Expertise
Executive Coaching
Board Leadership Coaching
Organizational Dynamic Alignment