I support mission-driven organizations to work effectively for the common good
Organizational Consulting & Facilitation
I offer support in clarifying vision, designing plans, and building cultures that allow your team to maximize your impact, embody your values, and cultivate well-being.
Each service is customized to meet the unique needs of your team.
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Strategy
Strategic Thought Partnership: Strategic collaboration to support you to refine strategies, identify opportunities for innovation, and achieve mission-driven impact in tackling complex challenges
Organizational Assessment and Analysis: Identify key external and internal roadblocks to organizational success and establish focus areas for growth
Strategic Planning: Guided strategic planning processes to define organizational, program, or campaign vision, set strategic objectives, prioritize goals, develop strategies, and outline actionable plans for achieving desired outcomes
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Facilitation and Program Planning
Meeting Design and Facilitation: Customized meeting design and facilitation services to maximize engagement and productivity, for in-person and virtual gatherings
Organizational Program Planning: Support in designing and implementing program objectives, with clear work plans, timelines, and resource allocation strategies, to support strong alignment and smoother execution
Trainings and Workshops: Dynamic workshops and training sessions designed to support collaboration, effectiveness, and accountability, while fostering professional growth and promoting a culture of continuous learning.
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People Operations
Team Chartering: Facilitation of team processes to establish clear goals, roles, norms, and structures to foster alignment and cohesion
Process Improvement: Analyze existing processes and workflows and recommend improvements to maximize efficiency, effectiveness, and user experience
New Processes Design: Design new processes to meet the unique needs and goals of your organization’s people operations
Fractional People Operations Support: Provide added capacity for people operations strategy and execution of specific projects
Guiding values and principles
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I lead with authenticity and value the genuine expressions of others, fostering meaningful connections through honesty and integrity.
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I believe in the transformative power of collaboration, where trust and creativity amplify our collective impact beyond individual efforts.
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I embrace adaptability and allow unique possibilities to emerge organically in the face of inevitable change, while staying anchored in guiding principles.
Process for working together
Send me a message about what kind of support you’re looking for and how you hope to work together. We’ll schedule a free 45-minute consultation so I can learn more about your needs. Based on our conversation, I’ll provide a proposal outlining a service proposal and fee structure. We will meet again to refine and clarify the proposal together based on your objectives and budget.
My organizational rates range from $150-375 per hour, depending on the size and characteristics of the organization. I offer my services on a sliding scale so that I am able to support organizations of all sizes. If you are unable to pay within the range suggested for your organization but are still interested in my services and feel like we would be a good fit, let me know so we can discuss.
Interested in learning more about how I can support your organization?
What clients are saying…
Maya Alexander, Community Engagement Director, Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley
“Michaela has a unique facilitation style that makes big concepts feel approachable and directly applicable. Her workshops are well-designed and thoughtfully delivered. She helped deliver a series of 3 workshops, and I appreciated that with each session built on the last with similar foundational principles. Participants leave with tangible next steps.
[Michaela’s] communication is excellent, and she brings intentionality to the planning process to ensure workshops are truly meaningful. I appreciated the hands-on activities—whether small group discussions or collaborative exercises—that made each session engaging and relevant.
Michaela has added real capacity to our network by serving as a resource for trainings on board development, community engagement, and fundraising. It’s reassuring to know we can turn to her for support, both within our organization and across the Shenandoah Networks.”
Amanda Jacir, Director of People Operations, Corporate Accountability
"Michaela is a great partner because she not only provides keen assessments of what organizational systems could improve, but she is adept at supporting people to plan and execute new systems from start to finish.
After working with Michaela, we now have clear organizational processes that make the implicit explicit, and that’s key for advancing equity, ensuring fairness, and building trust across our team.
Working with her has been a true relief, as she is skilled at making huge undertakings feel actionable.
Michaela is sharp at noticing gaps and weaknesses in organizational processes and has a real strength in facilitating systems improvements that stick."