What We Do

Our services are designed to both solve problems and build capacity. We teach as we work, learn as we go, and work hand-in-hand with our clients to make their organizations stronger and more capable. We provide consulting services that help support fundamental transformation, helping organizations and key programs move “to the next level.” We specialize in the big projects – opportunities and challenges that lay it all on the line and have to be done right. We also take on the smaller projects that require exactly the right person to help make a difference.

Organizational Transformation

Creating more capable, strategic, and sustainable organizations

  • Conduct assessments that focus energy and inspire commitment.
  • Lead strategic planning that includes analysis, facilitation, strategic thinking, and plan development.
  • Facilitate key decisions to help groups make quantum leaps at critical moments.
  • Help boards strengthen their governance capacity.
  • Offer training to help groups improve their effectiveness and achieve their mission.
  • Help people find ways to work together more effectively.
  • Design and implement authentic engagement processes (internal and external) to learn from diverse perspectives and build ownership.

Fundraising and Philanthropy

Helping organizations develop the plans and resources to ensure success

  • Facilitate fundraising planning that helps groups understand their current and potential fundraising program to best meet their strategic plan expectations.
  • Offer training and development to help share the right approach, the best strategy, and the critical systems needed to make fundraising a positive, capacity-building investment. 

Sustainable Leadership

Supporting the people who make organizations successful

  • Conduct leadership assessments.
  • Design leadership development programs to build leadership competencies. 
  • Develop succession plans to help organizations prepare for the future. 
  • Manage executive transitions. 
  • Conduct executive searches to match the right leader with the organization.

Durable Collaboration and Merger

Helping groups capitalize on shared visions and diverse strengths

  • Facilitate the discovery process that can lead to durable collaborations, strategic alliances, joint ventures - and sometimes mergers. 
  • Offer guidance and organizational development for merging two or more organizations into a new entity, highlighting the best of the former groups in support of the new one.

Land Trust Accreditation Assistance

Helping land trusts prepare for and manage the accreditation process

  • Conduct assessments that help land trusts understand their practices and make improvements to their compliance with the LTA Standards and Practices. 
  • Offer training workshops that address key improvements needed by many land trusts connected to their standards and practices.
  • Provide guidance and support for individual organizations in their process of preparing for and applying to the Land Trust Accreditation Commission for accreditation. 

Train-the-Trainers and Program Development

Helping organizations involved in training and development programs create program structure and train the managers and trainers within their program

  • Consulting with program managers in the design and implementation of their training program.
  • Training for consultants involved in assessment, planning and training programs for groups committed to effective land protection.

Conservation Planning

Defining the proactive and responsive programs that best meet the challenge of perpetual land protection.

  • We help groups access, interpret, and apply detailed data in support of proactive conservation planning.
  • We provide tools and resources to help groups engage their constituents and bring them into the conservation planning process, ensuring that their conservation plan has a healthy balance of qualitative and quantitative information. Perhaps most importantly, these plans have strong community buy-in.