For Nonprofit Executive Directors/CEOs

Let me be your strategic partner. In my work as a CEO/Executive Director and Interim, I have navigated significant organizational existential crisis, financial challenge, an overreaching board, staff unrest, personal burnout, and more. I can help you:

• Feel more grounded in your leadership and decision making abilities as we work through short range (day to day) and long range (strategic) challenges together.

• Build and lead an engaged staff.

• Develop a strong relationship with your board leadership team.

• Explore aspirations for the future.

• Vent - honestly, sometimes you just need someone to be a little messy and candid with. I got you.

For Board Presidents

Let’s build a breakthrough board! As someone who has served as board president on multiple boards big and small, I understand the complexity of board leadership—and the frustrations. As your coach, I can serve as a resource and advisor, helping you:

• Understand your scope of authority and legal responsibilities

• Build and lead an effective Board, including activating your committees and recruiting new board members.

• Develop a strong relationship with your Executive Director

• Assess and understand board function (and dysfunction!)

• Brainstorm and identify solutions to emergent and ongoing problems.

Guiding Lights for Organizational Design

A thriving organization is marked by the following four qualities:

Ethical - An ethical organization prioritizes acting with integrity and doing the right thing, taking into account not only the results achieved but also the manner in which they are achieved. It emphasizes honesty, transparency, and accountability in all aspects of the organization's operations.

Excellent - A focus on excellence in organizational design entails seeking exceptional results with meaningful impact. This involves setting high but realistic standards, striving for continuous improvement, and leveraging innovation to achieve exceptional outcomes that drive the organization forward.

Enduring - An enduring organization plays the long game, sustaining excellent results over time. This requires a commitment to maintaining the financial health of the organization, prioritizing the well-being and development of its people, and using appropriate levels of resources to ensure long-term sustainability. It also involves adapting to changing circumstances and continually evolving to stay relevant and competitive.

Equitable - An equitable organization fosters a culture of inclusivity, where all voices are heard and respected, and everyone feels valued and supported. It promotes equal opportunities for growth, advancement, and recognition, while also working to eliminate systemic biases and discrimination.

Personal Leadership Principles

If I had to describe my leadership style in 3 words…

Pluralist - Distributed and democratic leadership is the future. I believe that all members of an organization should feel like they are a part of key leadership processes and decision making, and that we should be building awareness of our differences in order to benefit from them.

Restorative - We are all interconnected and interdependent. I believe it is critical to  empower people to fully participate in co-creating the organization, and help teams move towards healing, build systems for accountability, reintegrate where there has been division, and create supports to sustain a healthy community.

Transformative - Change is the only constant, and I believe it can be joyful. I work to weave together the individual motivations and needs of staff with the mission and work of the organization, and thoughtfully guide change