Relationships are the fuel for every leadership team.

 
 

We help small to mid-size nonprofit leadership teams navigate strategic changes intentionally, effectively, and confidently through coaching engagements.

Your leadership team is emerging, and coaching supports the team as you harness all your strengths and navigate the future with confidence.

We have all been on a team that navigated major organizational changes – changes in leadership or strategic direction, turnover on the executive team – and kept moving forward. Maybe the new leaders received some coaching, but we ignored the leadership team itself. The organization missed an opportunity for smooth success. 

Coaching is a powerful methodology for tapping into the wisdom and creativity of your team while ensuring the team openly discusses and tackles internal challenges.

Coaching is a part of an overall toolkit for team development. It begins by recognizing that the team itself is an entity that needs attention. Just taking training together isn’t enough - coaching goes beyond to ensure that team members lock in the cultural changes to the team itself. 

 

 

WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT

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We work with…

ENTIRE TEAMS

Nonprofits looking to make an impact, regardless of scale, dream of having management teams that act and feel like a cohesive, healthy team. 

We believe that teams are an entity and healthy relationships within that entity are the fuel that keeps an organization fresh, thriving, and capable. After decades of this work, we’ve learned that the primary need for any nonprofit is to build up the management team entity. We do this by putting an emphasis on the binder of the entity- relationships! Team coaching is the glue in an overarching team development strategy.

TEAM LEADERS

Team leaders want to lead confidently and struggle less while engaging their team effectively. 

While systems coaching is usually about coaching systems, the principles are equally powerful when used 1:1 to explore and grow with the team. We recommend doing this in conjunction with team coaching to allow the team to grow alongside the leader.

 

We work with…

ENTIRE TEAMS

Nonprofits looking to make an impact, regardless of scale, dream of having management teams that act and feel like a cohesive, healthy team. 

We believe that teams are an entity and healthy relationships within that entity are the fuel that keeps an organization fresh, thriving, and capable. After decades of this work, we’ve learned that the primary need for any nonprofit is to build up the management team entity. We do this by putting an emphasis on the binder of the entity- relationships! Team coaching is the glue in an overarching team development strategy.

TEAM LEADERS

Team leaders want to lead confidently and struggle less while engaging their team effectively. 

While systems coaching is usually about coaching systems, the principles are equally powerful when used 1:1 to explore and grow with the team. We recommend doing this in conjunction with team coaching to allow the team to grow alongside the leader.

 

Our clients include…

 

Kind words…

  • “Betsy engaged everyone on my diverse board. She delivered a balanced agenda that not only addressed the what – the practical, substantive goals for our strategic plan, but also focused us on the how – how we as a board will successfully work together to achieve it.”

    -Lucy Norris, Executive Director, Fresh Approach

  • “Our team engaged Betsy at a complex inflection point in our strategic plan. Betsy moved nimbly through her roles as facilitator, consultant, and at times coach, to help us reach what we asked for: something big enough to dream about, but small enough for us to achieve. Since our engagement with Betsy, we’ve moved to executing our strategic plan and our community is responding powerfully. Our donors and school partners are investing and partnering in our plans, our volunteer community members and allied organizations are showing up to help deliver the vision of the plan, and most importantly, we have never seen better promise for transformative impact for the young people we serve.”

    -David Flink, Founder & Chief Empowerment Officer, Eye to Eye

  • “Betsy approached our project with patience, guidance, and wisdom that I greatly appreciate. She took time to check in with the team, help us set a clear direction for the future, and as an end result the team is super happy and we are making steady progress on our goals.”

    -Andre Torrey, Program Manager, COMMUNITY AMBASSADORS PROGRAM SF

  • “We had one day to bring together more than a dozen people with a stake in the project not only to come to a consensus on key aspects of a shared data system but also to build enough relationship strength to help key team members continue the work. Betsy coached and facilitated us through building the necessary foundation, allowing some of the challenging aspects to surface so we could handle them, and giving us a clear path to move ahead.”

    -Hilarie Beyer, Executive Director, McKinleyville FRC

  • “I first met Betsy when we were both working at United Way of the Bay Area. She quickly became my go-to person for many years afterward whenever I needed to solve a data or evaluation-related problem, and she and I have worked together on a few projects supporting nonprofits to better utilize data. Her coaching skill, facilitation knowledge, and evaluation expertise are a unique combination that can be an incredible asset to nonprofit agencies trying to improve their performance management culture and tools.”

    -Aimee Durfee, Chief Program Officer, JVS