What kinds of projects, tasks, or challenges do you typically partner with nonprofits on?
I help organizations:
- engage in participatory strategic planning to envision the future and identify the key steps to getting there
- plan for and manage leadership transitions
Why would someone choose to work with you?
I partner with organizations using a collaborative approach to help you focus on your most critical issues, to support you in identifying your strengths and to facilitate you imagining new options and choosing a way forward.
I enjoy helping people tap into their creativity to solve the challenges that face them. Some of my favorite sentences start with, “what if we were to…?” And I want to have some fun along the way. I believe that the best teams and organizations laugh together as they work together. Fun for me includes questioning conventional wisdom and imagining new possibilities. I love to learn and this helps me get to know your organization and its strengths and challenges quickly.
I am known for my candor. People describe me as someone who speaks my truth and is a down-to-earth. People appreciate my perspective and seek out my advice.
Host of the podcast, Mission: Impact, I have more than 25 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, working at organizations with a range of missions including anti-poverty, women’s employment and empowerment, children, youth and family issues, leadership development, education and conservation. I speak and train frequently on leadership, strategy and innovation topics. I graduated from Swarthmore College, have my Masters in Organization Development from American University and am a Standards for Excellence Licensed Consultant. I also trained with BoardSource and have a certificate in design thinking from University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Key words and additional details
strategic planning, strategy, design thinking, human centered design, organization development, program design, organizational sustainability, impact