Inspiring Executive Strategies, LLC

We specialize in values aligned strategy consulting, coaching, and implementation support grounded in love, emergent strategy, and collective wisdom frameworks.

Ways we can work together…

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    Budget and Change Strategy

    • Empathetic strategy coaching through succession planning and organization changes

    • Provide guidance on values-driven budget planning and implementation

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    Collective Planning and Implementation

    • Facilitate collective engagements to shape and refine organizational structures and practices

    • Provide support for strategic program design, budgeting, and implementation

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    Philanthropic and Grant Strategy

    • Review and edit funding policies to align with unrestricted giving

    • Review and provide feedback on grant applications

    • Offer intersectional, equity-driven grant budget frameworks and tools

Engagement Examples

Budget and Operations Strategy

  • Collaboratively facilitate budget and operations planning and implementation strategies, including staff engagement, organization assessment, and budget considerations.

  • Align budget needs with fund development strategy.

Organizational Policies Assessment and Analysis

  • Conduct equity-centered assessment of formal and informal internal power structures, organization structure, and budget and funding priorities.

  • Review and provide thoughtful recommendations on organizational policies and practices to enhance alignment with core values.

Race and Class Conscious Funding Practice

  • Support grant-making organizations to evolve from restricted program-based to unrestricted general operating funding.

  • Conduct analysis of current funding practices, develop recommendations, provide implementation strategy, and train program officers and board.

Empathetic Strategy Coaching

  • Provide coaching and thought-partnership centered on individual and organizational aspirations.

  • Create a supportive environment for thoughtful self-reflection.

Article: Equitable Budgets for Nonprofits

“An equitable and inclusive budgeting process is a year-round process that draws from many of the same organizing and advocacy approaches that nonprofits already use to engage their communities – such as making sure people are informed, able to participate, and valued for their expertise and unique perspectives. ”

Consulting Partner

Tercero Solutions

“Cultivate human centered + agile organizations that thrive during growth, are optimized for productivity, and enable innovation.”

  • Vision

    It begins with a vision. A vision to have a thriving, sustainable, mission-centered organization that is filled with people who are inspired and passionate about community.

  • Plan

    The planning process is where we explore the how. It's where we develop a holistic understanding of how systems function and how each person contributes to the collective well-being internally and in community.

  • Create

    Creating new or improved processes is the fun part. Here is where we collaboratively build out from how things currently flow to what is needed to achieve the vision.