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Consulting services to bring your organization to its goals.

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Speaking and Workshops
Listening out loud

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It is always easier to see a clear path for others than for ourselves.

Wendy calls upon more than twenty years of executive coaching and mentorship experience from her time at Leadership Tulsa to serve as a confidential thought partner.

Wendy helps leaders cut through the noise of daily challenges, identify ways to tackle their stickiest issues, and build their leadership capacity for the future.

She serves up truth with humor and compassion and has a powerful toolbox of coaching tools to draw from.

Executive Coaching

Focus Groups, Listening Sessions, and Feasibility Studies
360 feedback when you need it the most

Whether you are confronting dysfunction on your team, planning for big new initiatives or capital campaigns, or simply wanting feedback from your clients or customers, Wendy can help.

Wendy will start by formulating powerful questions and then provide a neutral and empathetic ability to listen to what is said. She knows when and how to probe deeper to reveal blind spots and unspoken truths.

Finally, she will present to you a consolidated and confidential report to guide your next steps.

Accountability Chart Development
Building structures to support future growth

Organization growth often happens in a haphazard or random fashion. At some point, it helps to step back and look at the whole with a trusted partner.

Wendy can help you build out your organization chart for future growth, examine the ways current employees can fit into those plans, and help you make decisions to move from surviving toward thriving.

Strategic Planning
Setting catalyzing goals and the pathways to achieve them

Wendy’s comprehensive strategic planning process begins with an environmental scan and stakeholder engagement through surveys, focus groups, and individual interviews.

From that information, she identifies your key areas of strategic focus and customizes a board planning that will align your mission and vision to long-term goals. Your comprehensive strategic plan will outline goals, strategies, and timelines for implementation.

Wendy has an expansive strategic planning tool kit from more than twenty years of facilitating group process and planning initiatives.

Small nonprofits are a particular area of expertise as there is a special skill needed to create goals and processes for shared board/staff leadership.

Team Building and Training
Supporting team plans and communications

Drawing on years of workshop facilitation at Leadership Tulsa as well as a robust network of partners throughout the community, Wendy can design a customized team retreat or training to meet your organization needs.

Planning for your retreat or workshop begins with a courtesy exploratory call to determine needs and fit.

Strategic Planning
Setting catalyzing goals and the pathways to achieve them

Wendy’s comprehensive strategic planning process begins with an environmental scan and stakeholder engagement through surveys, focus groups, and individual interviews.

From that information, she identifies your key areas of strategic focus and customizes a board planning that will align your mission and vision to long-term goals. Your comprehensive strategic plan will outline goals, strategies, and timelines for implementation.

Wendy has an expansive strategic planning tool kit from more than twenty years of facilitating group process and planning initiatives.

Small nonprofits are a particular area of expertise as there is a special skill needed to create goals and processes for shared board/staff leadership.

Team Building and Training
Supporting team plans and communications

Drawing on years of workshop facilitation at Leadership Tulsa as well as a robust network of partners throughout the community, Wendy can design a customized team retreat or training to meet your organization needs.

Planning for your retreat or workshop begins with a courtesy exploratory call to determine needs and fit.

Year-long partnership for organization impact

Let's work.

Capacity Building Partnerships include the following wrap around support from Wendy:

  • Nonprofit Needs Assessment
  • 360-degree feedback from some of your most important stakeholders (up to 10 individuals or groups)
  • Expert diagnosis of the key strategic issues and opportunities facing your organization
  • Monthly support for your organization’s Executive Director and/or Board President
  • Customized leadership team retreat (board or staff)
  • Development of a comprehensive strategic plan
  • Alignment of accountability charts and committee roles and goals with the strategic plan

Wendy can help you understand and focus on your key organizational issues, formulate strategies to address them, and give you the skills and information you need to be successful.

Wendy will help you set the catalyzing goals that propel your organization to the next level and provide clear pathways, strategies, and timelines to help you along the way.

Capacity Building Partnerships

Board Training and Retreats
Coming together around shared mission and purpose

Your customized board retreat can achieve myriad goals including: organization team building, board development strategies, alignment on committee roles and goals, and work on your mission, vision and values.

Final design of the workshop can be customized in collaboration with your leadership.

Interim Executive Director and Transition Services
Your coach through major transitions

Executive Director transitions can be scary. Whether your board simply needs some guidance for successfully navigating the transition or needs comprehensive interim executive director services, Wendy has the experience to step in and help.

She can guide you through the proper steps to successfully ramp up a search committee and begin your search. She can help manage the day-to-day operations so you can fully focus on the future.

Fundraising and Campaign Planning
Building income for sustainability and scalability

With more than thirty years of fundraising experience, Wendy knows that building sustainable income streams that allow your organization to scale and thrive isn’t easy. It’s an ongoing partnership between professional staff and board.

Wendy can help you document and expand your annual fundraising strategies, conceptualize growth and capital campaigns, and build organizational alignment to advance your mission.

Great fundraising isn’t a goal, it’s a means to an end. Wendy helps you clarify both your means and your goals.

Strategic Planning
Setting catalyzing goals and the pathways to achieve them

Wendy’s comprehensive strategic planning process begins with an environmental scan and stakeholder engagement through surveys, focus groups, and individual interviews. 

From that information, she identifies your key areas of strategic focus and customizes a board planning that will align your mission and vision to long-term goals. Your comprehensive strategic plan will outline goals, strategies, and timelines for implementation. 

Wendy has an expansive strategic planning tool kit from more than twenty years of facilitating group process and planning initiatives. 

Small nonprofits are a particular area of expertise as there is a special skill needed to create goals and processes for shared board/staff leadership.

Fundraising and Campaign Planning
Building income for sustainability and scalability

With more than thirty years of fundraising experience, Wendy knows that building sustainable income streams that allow your organization to scale and thrive isn’t easy. It’s an ongoing partnership between professional staff and board.

Wendy can help you document and expand your annual fundraising strategies, conceptualize growth and capital campaigns, and build organizational alignment to advance your mission.

Great fundraising isn’t a goal, it’s a means to an end. Wendy helps you clarify both your means and your goals.

Strategic Planning
Setting catalyzing goals and the pathways to achieve them

Wendy’s comprehensive strategic planning process begins with an environmental scan and stakeholder engagement through surveys, focus groups, and individual interviews. 

From that information, she identifies your key areas of strategic focus and customizes a board planning that will align your mission and vision to long-term goals. Your comprehensive strategic plan will outline goals, strategies, and timelines for implementation. 

Wendy has an expansive strategic planning tool kit from more than twenty years of facilitating group process and planning initiatives. 

Small nonprofits are a particular area of expertise as there is a special skill needed to create goals and processes for shared board/staff leadership.

Let's talk.

In this highly interactive workshop each participant will:

  • Increase their awareness of interpersonal styles; their own and others’ strengths and “behavioral blind spots.”
  • Become aware of and appreciate differences in others’ interpersonal styles.
  • Learn how workplace stress impacts behavior in very predictable ways.
  • Improve their ability to build more effective working relationships, despite stylistic differences, by learning how to become situationally flexible.

Individuals complete an online assessment and are provided both individual and group reports.

Wendy holds a certification to guide groups through an exploration of their Interpersonal Leadership Styles.

The goal of the ILS Workshop is to significantly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of how individuals communicate, make decisions and work within teams.

Speaking and Workshops:
Interpersonal Leadership Styles

Let's talk.

  • Board Best Practices
  • Chairing Committees and Leading Meetings
  • Generations in the Workplace
  • Managing Up
  • Secret Sauce of Board Engagement
  • 7 Habits of Highly Successful Nonprofits

Drawing from thirty years of teaching and facilitating, Wendy has a number of topics which she enjoys speaking and training on including but not limited to:

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Tulsa, Oklahoma