GOALS

• Assess significant trends and strategize for the future.
• Revitalize and realign your workforce.
• Strengthen family business relationships and practices.

APPROACH

• Work with you and a representative group to assess organizational strengths and needs.
• Customize planning and developmental processes that are right for your organization.
• Facilitate retreats and planning sessions using established whole-system approaches such as Future Search™, scenario planning, and others appropriate for your system.
• Design implementation plans to maintain momentum.
• Propose structural changes and strategies for improving working relationships.
• Provide group and individual coaching.

RESULTS

"Staff report significant positive changes in the way they work together, the empowerment of teams, middle integration, people meeting well without the director and people taking responsibility and being very pleased about the results.”
Organization Development NGO Consultant, Southeast Asia. Anne conducted the Organization Workshop and consulted to several international NGO’s in Southeast Asia as part of a joint organizational capacity-building effort.

"Board members have a renewed sense of commitment and energy since our work with Anne. Now our monthly virtual board meetings are fast-paced and productive."
Ann Marie Almeida, President, Association of Women's Business Centers. Anne facilitated a strategic planning process that resulted in a new bold vision and a re-energized board of directors. Click here to learn more.

"With Anne's help, staff members began to let go of adversarial attitudes. This helped us to get through the difficult task of streamlining operations."
Suellynn A. Stark, Vice President, Mt. Tom Mental Health Center. With Anne's help, Ms. Stark honed her executive and leadership skills to prepare for reorganization. In the process, she earned a promotion to vice-president, and now heads the entire health center. Click here to learn more.

"Anne and I have worked together with family businesses for almost 10 years. Anne couples experience in her own family business with strategic planning and an understanding of family systems. Anne has a unique ability to ally with people in a therapeutic way while providing business expertise. I value her ability to form relationships and provide planning and systemic interventions."
Dr. Donna Healy, Family Therapist

EXPERTISE

• Have consulted to for-profit organizations for more than 20 years.
• Have consulted to many entrepreneurs, including family businesses.
• Involved in my family's retail business from the age of 8; coached my brother when he took over from my father; served as CEO for 7 years.
• Have held numerous leadership positions in nonprofit organizations: NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, Agency for Child Development, Angela Davis Institute for Social Justice, Angela Westover House, New Repertory Theater, and West Side Action for Peace and Social Justice.
• Have been, and continue to be, an entrepreneur.
• Co-edited the book Managing in the Age of Change.
• Ph.D. in Organization Development expected 2008.

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