After a decade running The Center for What Works, a national nonprofit providing research, training, and consulting around outcome management, I chose to start DBN & Associates, L3C as it provides the best opportunity to continue my impact on the social sector.
With time and space to reflect on both my prior accomplishments and future interests, I gained clarity toward three goals:
1. To continue on my current trajectory, partnering with ready nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to implement outcome management toward becoming high performing;
2. To forge toward a vision for the sector more broadly – partnering with research efforts and practical approaches to make shared measurement and collective impact possible;
3. To be more available and more present for my family.
Through DBN & Associates, a social purpose consultancy, I am actualizing all three of my goals. I am working with several inspiring new clients, including several in Chicago and a few distant ones that I can manage mostly via the web. I am consulting with a top-notch think tank in DC. And I’ve been able to be home with my boys to help with homework, teach the younger ones to ride bikes, and re-calibrate my work-life balance.
I am excited to co-create innovative work in partnership with respected clients, colleagues, mentors and associates.
What you can Expect from me and DBN & Associates, L3C
As a consultant and professional advisor, I pride myself on being well versed in the trends and research regarding social sector management and results and then having the emotional intelligence to translate that research into client success. I use a systems design approach to connect vision, mission and outcomes for clients and then guide them on the best route to implementation. DBN & Associates balances clients' desired outcomes with realistic operations, facilitating social programs and collective initiatives to achieve the best results possible with and for their target populations.
Vision: Social change is defined in terms of client outcomes, rather than well-intentioned programs and activities.
Mission: DBN partners with mission-driven leaders to effectively manage for client results. DBN leads social sector organizations toward high performance by sharing extensive expertise and tools to reflect, learn, change and continually improve.
I look forward to sharing my learning, contributing to effectiveness and moving the needle on social issues!
Sign up for DBN eNews to receive my latest blogs and links of interest.
With time and space to reflect on both my prior accomplishments and future interests, I gained clarity toward three goals:
1. To continue on my current trajectory, partnering with ready nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to implement outcome management toward becoming high performing;
2. To forge toward a vision for the sector more broadly – partnering with research efforts and practical approaches to make shared measurement and collective impact possible;
3. To be more available and more present for my family.
Through DBN & Associates, a social purpose consultancy, I am actualizing all three of my goals. I am working with several inspiring new clients, including several in Chicago and a few distant ones that I can manage mostly via the web. I am consulting with a top-notch think tank in DC. And I’ve been able to be home with my boys to help with homework, teach the younger ones to ride bikes, and re-calibrate my work-life balance.
I am excited to co-create innovative work in partnership with respected clients, colleagues, mentors and associates.
What you can Expect from me and DBN & Associates, L3C
As a consultant and professional advisor, I pride myself on being well versed in the trends and research regarding social sector management and results and then having the emotional intelligence to translate that research into client success. I use a systems design approach to connect vision, mission and outcomes for clients and then guide them on the best route to implementation. DBN & Associates balances clients' desired outcomes with realistic operations, facilitating social programs and collective initiatives to achieve the best results possible with and for their target populations.
Vision: Social change is defined in terms of client outcomes, rather than well-intentioned programs and activities.
Mission: DBN partners with mission-driven leaders to effectively manage for client results. DBN leads social sector organizations toward high performance by sharing extensive expertise and tools to reflect, learn, change and continually improve.
I look forward to sharing my learning, contributing to effectiveness and moving the needle on social issues!
Sign up for DBN eNews to receive my latest blogs and links of interest.
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