US and Local Nonprofit Services
Five Oaks Consulting now offers services to local nonprofits and philanthropies in New York State and beyond!
Having lived in Upstate New York since 2001, serving local nonprofits and foundations is a natural way to expand our impact.
We also partner with other Upstate New York based consultants, coaches and team coaches to deliver scalable, high-impact client services.
Leadership Development
Do you or your nonprofit or foundation want to access cutting edge leadership development support through either leadership coaching or training?
Here’s how this will help you:
You will learn how to turbo charge your impact as a leader and drive meaningful change.
You will develop deeper self-awareness, understanding your strengths, areas for growth blind spots, and the assumptions or beliefs that may need rethinking.
Your organization will benefit from the multiplier effects of your leadership capabilities and increase its effectiveness, performance and cohesion.
Read more about our leadership development solutions HERE.
A sample of our local clients includes:
Central New York Community Foundation
Greater Buffalo Community Foundation
Thrive Wellness and Recovery in Watertown
Our Glass Consulting LLC
Team Development and Team Coaching
Here’s how this will help you and your team:
Do you want to put an end to your leadership team’s suffering—caused by ineffective meetings, lack of common purpose, unclear goals, slow decision-making, or poor conflict management?
These issues drain your team’s performance, effectiveness, and cohesion.
You’ll gain a clear understanding of how to foster complementarity and collaboration within your team.
Your team will feel more motivated, supported, and aligned under your leadership.
Your team will be more mutually accountable to each other, which leads to clearer decision-making, consistent follow through and better results.
And many more benefits: read more about our team development and team coaching solutions HERE.
Change Management
Do you want to de-risk big transformational change processes?
Are you worried your organizational change projects will fizzle out, lead to interminable discussion or explode in discontent?
Read more about our change management advisory solutions HERE.
You’ll be better equipped to lead organizational change, with a strong foundation in change leadership and management principles tailored to the nonprofit sector.
You’ll gain practical tools to shape your organization’s culture, aligning it with new strategies, core values, and shifts in the external environment.
Facilitation
Do you need your important board or staff strategy, review and planning meetings to be facilitated well?
Is your board in need of being more strategic, more engaged and higher performing?
Read more about our facilitation and board development solutions HERE.
- Your important strategy and planning meetings will be facilitated effectively, leading to stronger alignment and actionable outcomes that help the organization pivot when the external environment changes (once again).
- Your governance structure and mechanism will be better fit for purpose: providing your organization with not just fiduciary oversight and strategic insight, but also legitimacy and credibility– while simultaneously allowing for sufficient agility. You will feel that you derive value from what you and the organization invest in it.