Nonprofits often represent the buzz in communities. It’s a vibrant space, but not every nonprofit is successful in meeting its mission. Both things can be true at the same time. To execute on a mission, adequate back-office systems must be in place. While leading the west coast’s oldest domestic violence agency from 2019-2024, I always knew what each of my business meetings would lead to… More questions. After-hours requests were frequent from government entities seeking more last-minute spreadsheets, often on the Eve of the Christmas holiday. If my Finance Director and I could not source the data fast enough, we would miss crucial opportunities to financially sustain our programs. But most importantly, I realized that if we couldn’t source information fast enough through systems that functioned as we intended, I would fail at my number one job…to accurately assess the capacity of my whole team to outperform metrics that funders paid us to generate. In other words, we all need time and tools as Executive Directors and CEO’s to discern good money from bad money before we make adaptive decisions in a time crunch. Let me help you off this funder-generated hamster wheel.
I help organizations plan 5 steps ahead so that as you experience growth and success, you don’t also have to keep checking over your shoulder every few minutes, worrying if what you said your team could do is really happening.
I specialize in containing and managing administrative crises at the executive level. Over time, I have developed an efficient and straightforward style that begins with a proper assessment of deficient systems within a structure. From start to finish, I keep people at the center of my designs and strategies, but I do not ignore or minimize problem areas in business performance. Problems are where the potential for growth often hides out. Instead, I focus on what needs attention and then offer executive coaching as a supplemental offering so that as we tinker, change, take down, or amplify our services in a given area, the emotional chaffing that can occur for Directors and Executives can be supported and contained. On the other side of the storm is typically a bright and open sky. This profit-making recipe repeats itself over and over again with my work with nonprofit clients who invest their time and money in working with me to reach their inspired goals.
If you are interested in bringing on a business consultant to help your organization fix what’s broken and mend one thing at a time to help underperforming aspects of your business design become your top-performing service, consider submitting a project inquiry through my website at www.InspireAlchemy.com. Thanks for reading, and good luck out there!