Our Services
Our suite of services are highly customized to meet the particular needs of each client and are designed to be put into action immediately, so that you can begin to thrive from day one. Drawing from the skills, knowledge, and experience developed over 40 years, the Thrive Partnerships consultants are uniquely poised to meet you where you’re at and are eager to help you reach your specific goals.
Click on each item to the right to read more about that service offering. Scroll down to see our Executive Leadership Coaching and Leadership Training packages.
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Our team has over 15 years of experience supporting new, emerging, and experienced nonprofit leaders to bring out the extraordinary leader in us all.
Our Executive Nonprofit Leadership Coaching packages are designed to grow and support clients in finding the extraordinary leader within each of us. Coaching sessions include a mixture of exploration and development of your leadership skills. Sessions combine opportunities to practice and use new skills to address right-now issues with planning for the future.
All our services are tailored to meet the needs of experienced and newly emerging leaders on your staff or Board.
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Our founder, Nachama Wilker is a seasoned non-profit professional and Interim Director. With over 20 years of experience, Nachama is passionate about assisting organizations to utilize opportunities presented during a transition to lay the groundwork for the next leader's success. She has worked with organizations in crisis, growing organizations, organizations recovering from trauma, and those fighting to increase their impact.
In laying the groundwork for a smooth transition in leadership, Nachama conducts organizational and staff assessments to identify and remedy potential structural liabilities; strengthens financial, HR and other organizational processes; assures funders and community partners; builds staff capacity and supporting staff in managing the transition; and assists with the search and on-boarding process as necessary.
Nachama is a member of the Interim Executive Network . The Interim Executive Network's mission is to strengthen nonprofit organizations experiencing leadership transitions by providing access to a Network of professional, experienced interim executives.
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From one-off webinars, to all day trainings to year-long courses, let us develop a training plan that is right for you. How does your organization recognize and develop the potential of your people and their ideas? Leadership is not only for top managers. We will train you, your staff or network to connect your employee engagement to leadership development, learn the essential components of an equitable leadership pipeline, assess the strengths and challenges of your agency's pipeline, and identify next steps you can take to strengthen your pipeline for internal development.
If we give ourselves a few minutes, we can easily identify the leaders we admire. Given a few more minutes, we can even see the kind of leader we want to become. What we often cannot see is how to go from where we are to become the kind of leader we admire and want to become. Join us for our closing session focused on the behaviors that exemplary leaders do, no matter where they sit in an organization, when they are at their best. We will focus on how you can display the characteristics you admire and identify a few activities you can take home to help you move closer to liberating the leader within you.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the sessions, participants will be able to:
—Reflect on leadership characteristics from leaders you have known and admired.
—Describe the behaviors that make up the five elements of exemplary leadership.
—Consider your workplace culture and how to embed principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility and belonging in your leadership practice.
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From working to support Board understanding and fulfillment of its roles and responsibilities to its ability to be exceptional, Thrive will partner with you to design trainings, retreats, materials or a process to bolster your board's ability to be strategic and mission driven.
Tailored to the specific needs of your board and organization as a whole, Thrive will assist your board in rising to the challenges of our times to increase your organizations impact. Thrive can help you evaluate your board’s functioning, strengthen the way the board works, increase board engagement, deepen the relationship between the board and Executive Director, identify Board goals, and develop processes and tools to achieve its goals from engaging in strategic thinking to recruiting and integrating diverse members.
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Ideal for new Directors looking for an assessment of the program they are now responsible to lead or anyone looking to solve a structural issue, our organizational reviews identify agency strengths and key challenges, and then work with program leadership to develop recommendations to address specific identified challenges.
The goal of the review is to support you in removing roadblocks you may be facing to providing high-quality and impactful services by improving your ability to operate in an efficient and effective manner.
The reviews are conducted by a small group of Thrive Partners utilizing relevant community standards combined with their 40 years of experience leading and managing P&A, legal services or other mission driven agencies. Reviews are based on advance materials review, community input, as well as board and staff interviews. They can be designed to assess governance, leadership, program, operations, DEIA practices and/or financial management.
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Our approach to strategic planning is to create an authentic and inclusive process with key leaders and stakeholders driven by voices of the communities most impacted by your work. Partnering with key leaders in your agency and community, we assist you to develop a shared vision of success, a roadmap of how to get there, the commitment to make it happen, and the metrics to track your progress.
Our team understands that success in strategic planning requires addressing a number of challenges and critical points in the process. Our process starts by getting input from key constituencies as well as staff and Board members to identify the strategic questions for the organization; an environmental scan to identify internal and external drivers and trends; an opportunity to analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats; and a chance to use the results of this analysis to develop measurable and meaningful outcomes, goals and strategies that build on your organization’s strengths and opportunities. We bake diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging throughout the process.
We know that the ultimate success of strategic planning requires ownership of its implementation by key players. We work with the staff, board members and others as appropriate to support the development of their own implementation plan to ensure that ownership of the plan's, and therefore the vision's, success permeates the organization.
Thrive Partnerships’ Executive Leadership coaching and training packages are designed to grow and support powerful effective leaders. Our goal is to enhance leadership skills to ensure that your organization rises to the challenges of our times while creating a more just and equitable society.
Coaching sessions include a mixture of exploration and development of your leadership abilities combined with an opportunity to practice new skills to simultaneously address urgent issues while also planning for the future. Standard packages are described here.
Leadership Training packages can be created to support an assessment of participant leadership skills, a chance to deepen their understanding of leadership behaviors and an opportunity to practice newly introduced skills.
Coaching as well as leadership training can be scaled to accommodate your group as well as modifed to support experienced as well as newly emerging leaders.
Not sure which plan is best for you? Contact us and let us help.
Our Packages
Your Leadership Goals and Plan Executive Leadership Coaching three-month package
By the end of your six (6) 90-minute sessions, you will have a clear awareness of what needs to be done within your organization, have identified a set of leadership goals for yourself, and have a strategic and customized plan to accomplish your goal(s).
Identifying What Needs to Be Done Executive Leadership Coaching one-month package
Includes four (4) 90-minute sessions, an abbreviated organizational landscape assessment and access to the Leadership Challenge Self-Empowered Assessment. At the end of the package period, you will have a clear awareness of what needs to be done to build your leadership skills or solve a specific challenge.
Implementing Your Plan, Reaching Your Goals Executive Leadership Coaching six- to twelve-month package
These ten (10) 90-minute sessions will include a thorough organizational landscape assessment, identification of what your organization needs and an actionable plan to accomplish your specific goal(s). Within this timeframe, you will have begun implementation of your strategy with the mentorship and support of your Thrive coach.
Leadership Training and Development Package
Depending on the focus of the training designed for you, your leadership training participants can develop skills and knowledge of the next generation of leaders to:
Recognize qualities and behaviors of effective leaders.
Enhance their individual leadership skills and behaviors of program participants.
Integrate the values and principles of your organization into their daily work and that of their teams.
Identify effective strategies to lead agencies in times of change, promote diverse workplace culture, high quality work and accountability as well as zealous advocacy across participant organizations.
Support the development of diverse leaders across the network with a focus on individuals from traditionally marginalized communities.
Understand different styles of communication and how to build effective teams.
Develop understanding of public and private funding sources, the rules that govern them, how to manage finances in uncertain times and strategies to diversity support.
Promote exceptional board practices to support their vision of what is possible and a way to add lasting value to the organizations they lead.
Our leadership training can include:
Leadership Assessment: An individualized 360 evaluation of the frequency of proven leadership behaviors of program participants. See more information below
Individual Coaching: Each participant will have two to three sessions with a faculty coach to help them take full advantage of the 360 evaluations, and for support throughout the Institute;
Core Curriculum: Didactic 60-minute webinars led by leadership experts that introduce and build the knowledge of participants.
Curriculum Enhancement: Small break-out sessions one week after the didactic session to provide an opportunity for participants to discuss what they learned from homework and practice new skills.
Intensive On-Site Leadership Bootcamp: A full-day training either on-site or split across several days virtually.
Homework and Resources: Materials will be provided to help participants synthesize the information shared in the webinars, as well as to support their learning and use of new skills during the training. They will be housed in accessible location.
Create leadership cohort: If done for a group, Thrive will help you establish a collaborative cohort for mutual support of Leadership training participates after its conclusion.
Individualized Leadership Assessment and Coaching:
Depending on the depth of our work together, you have the option to support each participant in completing a 360 Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) as part of the program. The assessment is designed to help participants understand their individual leadership behaviors and for program facilitators to use the results to mold the program to meet the needs of its participants. The LPI will be accompanied by individualized coaching to assist each participant to take full advantage of the feedback within the report to identify areas of strength and behaviors they wish to increase or develop, to set goals to accomplish desired behavioral changes and to support participants to identify opportunities and strategies to practice behaviors.