Services

Core services:

Retreat facilitation for nonprofit and mission-driven organizations

Since 2016, I’ve been helping nonprofit organizations get motivated, aligned, and recommitted to their work through customized team retreats. More than any other service I offer, retreats can have a profound, transformative, immediate, positive impact on an organization—and that’s why I’ve made retreat facilitation the cornerstone of my work.

Many people think that retreat facilitation means showing up to run an event for the organization. However, the bulk of the work happens prior to the retreat.

Working together with your team, I will:

  • Discover the important issues for your organization. This typically includes one-on-one interviews with key staff, a survey, and a series of meetings with a core retreat team. Sometimes this will also include a written report. This discovery surfaces issues and opportunities that we’ll address in the retreat itself and can help generate pre-retreat excitement.
  • Building and revising an agenda collaboratively. Your organization will have a chance to review our goals and agenda and offer feedback. Revisions to the agenda are built into the timeline.
  • Nurturing your team’s facilitation skills. While I’m the main facilitator at any retreat I’m running, there are opportunities for your team members to take on different facilitation tasks, from running breakout groups to making presentations.
  • A custom retreat. The vibe and outcomes of the retreat can be wildly different based on your team’s needs. Some prior retreats have included:
    • A skills-based teach-in, where team members learn key skills to make them more effective at their jobs
    • A strategic planning session in which we work together to map out a rough draft of the coming years and discuss the future of the organization together
    • A low-stress, relational agenda that emphasizes reconnecting with team members who too often only connect over Zoom
    • A listening and reconnection retreat, where hard issues that had previously caused discord in an organization were stated and directly addressed
  • Post-retreat support. Post-retreat support can vary based on the organization’s needs and our agreement. Typically, I’ll capture and transfer the ideas developed during the retreat to you. Then we’ll have a post-retreat survey for participants and review those results. Additional post-retreat support can include facilitating working groups to continue the work started in the retreat, formalizing a written strategic plan, or any of the complimentary services listed below.

Interested in learning more? We can get started by scheduling an initial consultation.

Complimentary services:

Management training

I offer management training in small group settings or in one-on-one coaching. The coaching will be customized to your particular situation and needs. In addition to supporting your growth as a leader grounded in purpose and ethics, we’ll work on some of the challenges managers face:

  • Self-care for managers.
  • Managing through conflict and crisis.
  • How to keep your team working together and invested in the organization through the power of story.
  • Communicating your values and goals to the team.
  • Developing a roadmap for your team and organization.
  • How to address performance issues on your team
  • Value-driven hiring for more impactful teams
  • Succession planning

Leadership coaching

I am happy to offer leadership coaching to leaders within a nonprofit organization, regardless of whether or not they manage a team. Our work will be tailored to your needs and situation, but here are some of the things we might cover: 

  • Identifying your values and purpose in life, and using these as a guidepost as you develop your leadership style
  • Developing a personal mission statement
  • Support during transitions.
  • How to receive and offer constructive feedback.
  • Cultivating emotional intelligence.
  • Healing after failure and rejection.
  • Taking your team and organization to the next level.
  • Cultivating greater self-awareness.
  • Strategies for addressing broken trust relationships in the workplace.
  • Reframing conflicts as win-win collaborations.
  • Identifying barriers to productivity.

Communications consulting

As a professional writer, I’ll often step in to offer writing and editing support for mission driven organizations. This includes policy documents of all lengths, grant proposals and reports, and blogging. I also act as a coach, editor, and guide to help nonfiction authors from the initial proposal as you seek an agent to the final draft submitted to your publisher.

Strategic Planning for Mission-Driven Organizations

We use a light-weight, nimble approach to strategic planning that can help organizations of every shape and size become more coordinated and impactful. Partnering with your team, we’ll help you clarify your mission and vision for the future, identify the hard questions and future challenges you face, and identify a few key objectives that will advance your mission as well as the activities that will support those objectives. You’ll walk away with a clear, written plan you can share with your entire team, new employees, and funders. The process itself will create opportunities for collaboration and team-building and typically includes a retreat.

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Interested in learning more? We can get started by scheduling an initial consultation.