Organizational Development
Strengthening the systems, culture, and governance that support your mission.
When organizations feel stalled, fragmented, or out of alignment, the root issue is often not programs or finances alone, but how leadership, decision-making, and communication function together.
Our organizational development work provides a clear-eyed assessment of how your organization operates today and what needs to change to support long-term effectiveness.
Our work includes:
Organizational culture and climate assessments
Leadership and governance diagnostics
Board–Staff relationship analysis
Inclusive Leadership Assessment (ILA)
Team analysis and recommendations (DiSC Assessment, Big Five OCEAN)
Organizational audits and performance reviews
Recommendations for role clarity, structure, and decision-making
Facilitated retreats, working sessions, and trust-building processes
Curated workshops and learning sessions informed by organizational psychology
Whether conducted as a focused snapshot or a full organizational analysis, this work creates a shared understanding of current realities and provides a foundation for meaningful improvement and planning.
We view it as a positive sign that increasing numbers of cultural organizations are committing time and resources to analysis. But we’re also concerned that too many wait until crisis descends. By engaging in a regular pattern of assessment many problems can be headed off altogether. In fact, organizations that conduct analyses during non-crisis periods find that they have the time and resources to act on the results of the analysis – to pursue new opportunities or nip problems in the bud. Indeed, many managers and board members who have discovered the value or organizational analysis treat it like an annual preventive checkup.
We know that this is a pivotal time for many cultural organizations. Over the years, we believe our most profound and longest-lasting contributions have been when we helped cultural organizations serve their missions more fully, more effectively. Organizational analysis can be invaluable in this regard – sufficient reason, we believe, to employ this valuable diagnostic tool, again and again.