Nonprofit Leadership

Leadership Coaching & Consultation

Leadership Coaching

Explore your unique leadership challenges and opportunities with support of a seasoned leadership guide. Leadership coaching offers space for you to:

Understand your leadership in the context of your whole self
Engage in self-discovery of leadership values & strengths and how to leverage your gifts for impact
Create a vision for HOW you want to lead and goals to make that vision a reality
Explore your learning edges and how to grow and shift practices in service of your mission and continued leadership development
Process complex decision-making, interpersonal challenges, and unexpected roadblocks that come up in your role
Be an active player in creating your ongoing leadership legacy

Reflective Supervision/Consultation (RSC) is a practice in which professionals consider experiences and interactions within their work life through guided reflective approaches with the support of a trained reflective supervision consultant. These sessions consider the thoughts, emotions, and body experiences that come up in our work with teams, partners, and community stakeholders; what enhances effectiveness in those interactions; and what might get in the way.

Reflective Leadership Sessions equip leaders and groups with skills and strategies in mindful self-compassion, centering relationships, self-regulation, and reflective practices that can be integrated into supervision with teams and direct practice with constituents served by your organization.

Individual Sessions with Executive Leaders, Board Presidents or Staff
Group sessions for staff teams or Boards of Directors.

Reflective Leadership Consultation

60-90 min bi-monthly or monthly sessions available for individuals or teams via zoom

Schedule a free consultation appointment

Executive Leaders Community of Practice Groups

Impact Collective

The Impact Collective is a professional networking cohort group for Executive Leaders that hold a mission and vision for helping others to grow and thrive.

In this group, members:

Share and learn from peers about building your organization vision, brand, infrastructure, services, community engagement, and impact.
Gain support from others in the shared journey of purpose-driven leadership and nonprofit best practices
Explore strategies for whole-person leadership that leverages your strengths and supports your wellbeing as you make an impact in your community

Program includes:

Twice-monthly group sessions that build on a topic of the month
Resources for further learning and application on topics discussed
Virtual platform for questions and resource sharing throughout the series

Example themes to explore:

Leadership Identity: the strengths and saboteurs we bring into our work
Mission and Vision: creating values-based impact
Organizational Planning: putting vision into action
Goal setting: mapping your course, tracking progress, reflection on progress and knowing when to pivot
Storytelling: authenticity and impact
Leading others: working with staff and volunteers
Co-Leading Governance: working with Boards of Directors
Life and Leadership: Honoring and caring for whole selves and the contexts from which we are leading

Facilitator Jamie Elzea, MPH, LICSW, is a seasoned nonprofit executive leader, professional development trainer, leadership coach, and nonprofit consultant. She aims to create a leadership peer learning experience that centers relational learning and reflection, while equipping leaders with practical knowledge and tools for effective nonprofit leadership.

Strategic Consultation and Organizational Support

Additional Services:

Theory of Change Development
Stakeholder Focus Groups/Interviews
Board or Staff Retreat Facilitation
Project Management Consulting
And more!

Nonprofit Organizational Consultation

Nonprofit leaders are asked to strategize, innovate, build teams, execute programs, outreach/partner, fund/oversee finance, build infrastructure, work with boards or funders and "other duties as assigned".

Consultation with Nurtureways can give leaders the support they need in strategy, planning, resources and tools to build and carry out these functions, from a seasoned nonprofit executive leader and solo entrapenuer who has built and managed growing organizations, teams and initiatives.

Strategic Planning

Strategic planning is essential for any nonprofit to ensure quality service delivery, supported staff, adherence to industry requirements, financial sustainability, and effective impact. Organization leaders deserve the same support in the development of their businesses that you put into the delivery of your services. Consultation and group facilitation includes exploring:

Who and how to prepare for an effective strategic planning process
How to use organizational history, organizational assessment, and financial assessment to set the stage
Approaches to meaningful stakeholder engagement to inform process, including consideration of current or needed anti-racist/racial equity practices to expand voices informing work
Creation or adaptation of Mission, Vision and Identity Statements
Determining multi-year strategic priorities and how to create supporting objectives to implement plan
Creation of evaluation strategies to identify success metrics, monitor progress and inform adaptive shifts as needed

Nurtureways combines executive leadership experience, best practices from organizational change and leadership approaches, with a relationship-based, reflective approach. The Strategic Planning consultation process is tailored to meet the unique needs of your team and community served.

Board Development

A Board of Directors is a critical component of nonprofit leadership and sustainability. Board members are often draw to serve due to connection to mission or passion for the impact, but often don't have formal training in nonprofit governance. Like organizations, boards have their own stages of development, infrastructure and leadership needs.

Nurtureways provides Board Development consultation and trainings tailored to your organizations needs. Often working with the executive director and board chair or board development committee this consultation can include:

Board Health Assessment
Trainings on: board vs staff roles; transitioning from working board to governance board; boards role in fund development
Board Policy and Practices Development Support
Board recruitment, engagement, and development strategy
And other best practice supports for strengthening and sustaining a engaged board with positive impacts on organizational mission

"In my first year of being an executive director, Jamie has been an invaluable partner in my journey. She has extensive knowledge of non-profit boards - from how they run, to understanding where the organization is in development, to helping to move from a working to a governing board.

Jamie provides me with individual consulting, both executive coaching and reflective consultation, and having a consultant who has experienced serving as an executive director has allowed me a safe space in which I can explore how I am showing up in my own work and through my transition to executive leadership.

Jamie is warm, responsive, and also challenges me in my own growth and development. I feel supported by Jamie, especially in a role that can be very lonely, I feel I have a partner who is invested in my success."

Erin, Executive Director (Hawaii)

Nonprofit Leadership