Services
All services are customized and scoped for each client. Whether navigating complex multi-stakeholder processes or focused single-issue engagements, every partnership begins with understanding your needs, your people, and your goals.
How We Work Together
As Your Consultant
You hire dedicated expertise in listening, assessing, and analyzing needs. This role provides agility and candor that facilitates evolution and change, with the freedom to re-imagine and re-construct outside the constraints of an in-house position.
As Your Staff
You bring on a professional who aligns with your staff and leaders from within the organization. This internal operations role empowers delivery of excellence through the organizational framework and established relationships.
What We Deliver
Leadership Development and Coaching
You gain a dedicated Thought Partnership for your development and decision-making. Strategic counsel helps you refine your thinking, align your team, and move confidently toward your goals.
- Trusted advisory for leaders navigating complex decisions
- Strategy and framework design for decision-making and action
- DISC personality assessments with applied results
- Support at every level, from new managers to senior executives
- Confidential, customized counsel for career transitions and growth
Meeting Design and Facilitation — Meetings with Mary
Every gathering is designed for productive outcomes and meaningful participation. From conference-scale sessions to intimate retreats, meetings deliver results.
- Facilitation, agenda design, and goal-setting
- Stakeholder interviews, focus groups, and public workshops
- Conference-scale sessions and multi-day retreats
- Change management facilitation across all formats
Project Development and Management
You move from initial ideas to clarified programs with detailed scopes of work. Projects stay on track with focused content, appropriate stakeholder involvement, and disciplined time and budget management.
- Develop initial ideas into clarified programs or projects
- Detailed scopes of work and project scheduling
- Stakeholder and agency involvement with resource identification
- Time and budget tracking with regular briefings
Plan and Policy Making
Expert support for creating new frameworks or updating existing ones, paired with coordination of allied professionals and community engagement.
- Create new or update existing organizational and public service policies
- Technical assistance including reports and permit applications
- Coordination with allied professionals to accomplish goals
- Fiscal analysis, tradeoffs, and alternatives with metrics
- Guidance through bureaucratic and community processes
Written Deliverables — Reports for USE, not the shelf
You get documentation that is fully vetted, strategically designed, and ready for use across your organization and community. Materials are customized for multi-channel communication needs.
- Reports, policies, and summaries ready for immediate use
- Materials for web, social media, and electronic communications
- Strategic communications and talking points
- Content developed collaboratively with your team
Interagency and Public Coordination
You build and maintain the strategic alliances and community relationships essential to your mission. Coordination is managed with clarity and purpose.
- Build and maintain strategic alliances and positive relationships
- Public policy alternative development and strategy
- Interagency materials including letters of intent and agreements
- Stakeholder interviews, focus groups, and task forces
Communication Strategies
Strategic communications support for stakeholder processes, materials production, and multi-channel outreach.
- Stakeholder process design and management
- Materials production for multiple audiences
- Multi-channel outreach coordination
Areas of Specialty
Ready to Start a Conversation
Every engagement begins with understanding your needs. Reach out to explore how we can work together.