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Real and sustainable organizational change comes from within.
To create powerful and lasting organizational improvements, everyone who is part of an organization must engage in transformative change so that the desired changes within all organizational structures can be maintained through improved habits and by changing old and limiting patterns that keep holding organizations back.
As a consultant and certified coach, Alex helps organizations to achieve powerful transformative change so that all organizational improvements can have the greatest possible impact and bring your organization to new heights.
Consulting for Nonprofit Startups
Starting a nonprofit can be a daunting task. When it comes to starting a nonprofit, there are many questions that need to be figured out. For example:
What is the first and most important thing I need to focus on or put in place when building an organizational structure from scratch?
How can I build a foundation for my new organization that embodies values that are important to me. And how can I ensure that I have the right structure in place to support the mission and vision I want to carry out through the work of my new organization?
What is the right financial management system, the right staffing system, or the right management system for my new organization?
How can I develop and implement the most effective marketing and fundraising strategies to build my new organization?
What is the best balance between paid staff and volunteers for my organization? And how can I best keep volunteers involved and motivated to keep working alongside paid staff?
Alex will work with you to create a blueprint for your new nonprofit that you can use as a roadmap for creating a sustainable organizational structure that is based on your mission, vision, and values.
During his nearly 30 years of working in the nonprofit field, Alex has founded and co-founded several award-winning organizations from scratch. This has led to the creation of many new organizational development approaches that are based on his own experiences as well as those of other successful nonprofit leaders and founders. He has dedicated himself to share these approaches and experiences so that others can achieve the same powerful results faster and without having to make costly mistakes.
With Alex’s support, you will be able to:
Build a strong and sustainable organizational structure
Grow your organization fast and smart
Increase the number of your financial supporters
Create an organizational structure that supports your values, mission and vision
Increase your level of confidence as a nonprofit leader
Create the highest level of service and impact for your clients, constituents, members, and audiences
Coaching for Leaders
Overwhelming demands and challenges often cause organizational and institutional leaders to find themselves in situations where they feel forced to react to crisis after crisis instead of acting from a creative and proactive place. Having created several organizations from scratch and then leading them, Alex has the experience and expertise to help you to step out of your day-to-day work so that you can perceive new opportunities and find new ways to maximize your leadership potential.
Alex will help you to further develop and enhance your professional skills as a leader. Through his personalized coaching approach, you will gain more confidence to lead your team and staff. You will learn new techniques to help you prioritize your goals and organize your work responsibilities more effectively. Working with Alex will also help you gain more clarity about your personal vision for your career path as a leader. You will create strategies for achieving more work-life balance so that your job becomes more sustainable for you. Creating strategies for making your job more sustainable as a career path and thereby decreasing the chances of burnout will in turn help increase the productivity and health of your organization.
Alex is a Certified Professional Coach and has many years of organizational development and management experience, creating and leading multiple successful and award-winning organizations. Because he has been in the role of leading organizations as Executive Director a number of times, he understands the struggles and challenges Executive Directors and organizational leaders face on a daily basis.
Leadership coaching programs can focus on some of the following areas:
Staff development & supervision strategies
Expertise & niche-based skill development
Holistic management approaches & practices
Effective staff meeting structures & approaches
Creating more work-life balance
Effective planning & goal setting
Maximizing the potential of each employee
Creating a healthy & sustainable work environment
Improving time management & productivity
Creating a long-term vision & strategic plan
Resolving interpersonal conflicts
Coaching for Employees
Often, when staff members attend professional development trainings without continued support, they absorb new knowledge and newly learned skills only intellectually and without internalizing them on a deeper level. Internalizing new knowledge and skills on a deeper level means creating awareness about how we can get better at what we do, building on our existing personal and professional strengths, dismantling internal barriers that have been holding us back, and internalizing new positive behavioral patterns.
This requires a commitment of each employee to continue to learn and grow. However, setting up a support structure to support employees in their ongoing professional development, especially when it comes to helping them overcome barriers and challenges, will significantly strengthen your organization’s capacity and impact. This in turn will allow your organization to emerge as a stronger leader.
As a certified coach, Alex will work with individual employees to create and pursue inspiring professional and personal development goals, which support the mission and vision of your organization. The coaching process will support your employees in building their professional capacity and help them to overcome any obstacles they may be facing along the way.
Alex is also available to facilitate group coaching and training sessions to help your employees connect their individual professional development goals to the collective goals and vision of your organization.
Providing coaching support for your employees leads to:
Increased organizational productivity & impact
Greater professional competence and confidence among staff members
Better organizational communication practices
Increased ownership among employees and thereby higher levels of commitment toward your organization’s goals and mission
Increased leadership capacity among employees so they can effectively lead projects and programs in a self-sufficient manner
Workshops, Trainings & Consulting Services
To create powerful and lasting organizational improvements, everyone who is part of the organization must engage in transformative change so that the desired changes within all organizational structures can be maintained through improved habits and paradigm shifts.
Identifying and transforming old and limiting patterns within organizations that want to move to the next level is crucial. This is because old and limiting patterns are like anchors that keep organizations stuck and prevents them from evolving to the next level. If organizations stop evolving, they’re likely to lose their competitive edge and relevance within the field they are operating.
Through his trainings and workshops, Alex will help you to break out of old paradigms and patterns that have been holding your organization back, so that you can operate from a place of vision, inspiration and possibility.
Alex has founded and led several award-winning organizations. He has also studied responsible business development practices and successful marketing strategies, which he incorporates into his training and consulting approach. As a certified professional coach, Alex provides the expertise to help organizations achieve internal transformation so that all organizational improvements can have the greatest possible impact and lift your organization to new heights.
When it comes to his facilitation approach, Alex believes that learning environments need to foster transformational change within each individual and help participants to connect to training content on a deeper level. This ensures that participants are inspired to take action and keep applying the newly learned skills and knowledge long after the completion of the workshop or training program. As part of his approach, Alex works with workshop participants to create strategies for setting up sustained support structures through which continued growth and development can be fostered.
The workshops, trainings and consulting servies Alex offers help organizations to:
Create and implement inspiring visions and strategic plans
Improve productivity among all employees
Increase staff retention
Increase the professional capacity of employees
Increase the professional capacity of managers and leaders
Create better communication structures and synergy among staff
Create effective program evaluation systems and tools
Increase organizational capacity and impact
Successfully overcome challenges and internal conflicts
Create and implement effective marketing, branding and outreach strategies
Improve financial stability and fundraising capacity
Become stronger leaders in their field
Increase overall organizational health
Current workshop offerings include:
Effective tools for managing stress
Optimizing team communication
Effective mentoring & supervision (which includes “coaching as a transformative approach for supervision”)
How to thrive in times of great complexity
Creating thriving organizations for greater impact: How to shift from a scarcity to an abundance mindset
Alex also offers customized training programs and workshops to meet the specific needs of organizations.