Contact Name: Kate Van Waes, Ph.D.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 406-794-3624
Address: Billings, MT USA
Van Waes Consulting can support your organization through all stages of development – from strategic planning to board governance, executive transition to leadership coaching, and more. Follow CEO and Founder, Kate Van Waes, on LinkedIN for nonprofit management tips, advice, and support.
Strategic Planning
Van Waes Consulting facilitates and guides dynamic strategic planning processes for nonprofits of all sizes. Our goal is to ensure team-wide alignment behind a unified mission, vision, and values and then to guide you in building a nimble strategic plan that can respond to challenges and new opportunities, flex your creativity, fully engage your stakeholders, track your outcomes, and make the best use of the organization’s time and resources.
We believe that strategic planning should be nimble and be built by the board and staff working together, with input from a variety of stakeholders. We’re here to facilitate and guide the process for you, not to create your plan ourselves. A flexible strategic plan is not a single, etched-in-stone document, but rather a combination of contextual work, topline outcome goals and scenario planning, risk tolerance assessment, an accountability mechanism, and a communication plan.
For MNA members contracting for full-service strategic planning, we offer 10% of our time pro-bono.
We also have affordable strategic planning options for small nonprofits, starting at $595.
Find out more:
- Building a Strong Strategic Plan
- Flexible Strategic Planning
- Our Full-Service Strategic Planning
- Our Small Nonprofit Strategic Planning packages
Non-Profit Management and Board Development
Van Waes Consulting provides a number of services to strengthen and modernize nonprofits, including:
- Board and organizational health assessments
- Board and Staff retreat facilitation
- Board training and engagement
- Board recruitment and onboarding planning
- Maximizing the board-staff relationship
- Executive Transition services
We provide tailored retreat and workshop design and facilitation services that are specific to your organization, not pre-boxed. We will work with you to ascertain your needs and design a package that works for you and your budget. Our goal is always to ensure an engaging experience with concrete, practical results for your organization – no one likes something that feels and sounds good in the moment and then vanishes as soon as the day is over.
We also provide Executive Transition support. Ideally, we begin working with you before a transition is announced, helping to craft the position description and recruitment plan all the way through to the 90-day plan for the new Executive and coaching them and the board through that transition. Getting that transition right can be critical for minimizing burnout and turnover and maximizing trust-building and collaboration.
For MNA members we offer 10% – 50% of our time pro-bono, depending on budget size.
Executive Transition
Van Waes Consulting provides Executive Transition services for nonprofits that do not have the budgetary capacity to hire a recruiting firm. We provide many of the same services that a recruiting firm does, with the added benefit of our deep expertise and experience in what it takes for an organization to thrive. We won’t just tell you what you want to hear – we’ll push your organization to think strategically and holistically about this incredibly important transition period.
Learn more:
- Full-Service Executive Transition Support (10% discount for MNA members)
- Budget-Friendly Executive Transition Services for Small Nonprofits
- Executive Transition: Getting the First 90 Days Right
Executive Coaching and Professional Development
Van Waes Consulting provides a number of professional development services tailored for nonprofits:
- Executive Advising/Coaching
- Senior Management Coaching
- Leadership and Management Training
- Half or full day workshops
- Workshop series
- 90 minute mini workshops
- Career Coaching
Our Executive Advising services go beyond coaching in that we get into the weeds with you and co-strategize solutions to your most pressing leadership and management conundrums, almost as your invisible co-pilot. Our goal is to take a weight off your shoulders and make your c-suite job less lonely, with a trusted thought partner in your corner, staving off burnout and taking your leadership to the next level.
We provide Senior Management Coaching as well, helping you to manage up, manage your team, and build your leadership presence within your organization, your community, and your field. We also provide career coaching, helping you to uncover your next career move. Group coaching is also available at this level, providing a lower cost option and a chance to problem-solve with peers.
Our leadership and management training is flexible to meet your needs and budget, ranging from half and full day retreat workshops to 90 minute mini-workshops. Topics can include everything from managing up to leading remote and matrixed teams to providing constructive feedback to building healthy workplace cultures, and everything in between. The topics we choose to cover together depend on the needs of the particular organization and group of participants.
For MNA members we offer 10% – 50% of our time pro-bono, depending on budget size.
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