Basic consultation on business and financial planning is available for free to INN members each week through the INN Box Office Hours or Startup Sessions, held most alternating Wednesdays. Sign up from the INN calendar.
Added custom consultation is available for a fee:
BUSINESS COACHING
Looking for business advice and feedback on how to steer your organization forward or a place to chat about your revenue diversification strategies? INN’s Chief Knowledge Officer Fran Scarlett holds INN Office Hours every other Wednesday.
Services include:
- Assess and enhance your current business plans
- Evaluate new opportunities comprehensively
- Develop and implement new strategies and business models
About: Fran Scarlett is a professional business growth coach with a background in journalism. She specializes in helping organizations understand and leverage their value propositions to build business models that maximize their potential for revenue growth and long-term sustainability.
Fran has extensive experience in starting and growing businesses. She ran her own management consulting firm, Scarlett Ink Media, providing strategic and tactical consulting to news media organizations with an emphasis on developing new revenue models, product development and cross-platform collaborations. She has been regional director of the Small Business & Technology Development Center (SBTDC) at the University of North Carolina. She received her MBA from Harvard University and a B.S. in Mass Communications from Boston University.
Rate: Free for INN members, $100 per hour for non-members
STRATEGIC PLANNING & FACILITATION
Most strategic plans live on a shelf instead of guiding organizational decision-making. INN's chief knowledge officer, Fran Scarlett, designs and facilitates strategic action planning sessions that result in actionable steps intended to move organizations from where they are to where they want to be. The result of a strategic action plan are prioritized strategies, tactics, resource allocation needs and implementation timelines, essentially the operational roadmap that steers your organization to the next level of growth.
Services include:
- Consultation on strategic roadmaps
- Planning sessions and interactive workshops designed to help formulate a strategic plan for your organization
About: Fran Scarlett is a professional business growth coach with a background in journalism. She specializes in helping organizations understand and leverage their value propositions to build business models that maximize their potential for revenue growth and long-term sustainability.
Fran has extensive experience in starting and growing businesses. She ran her own management consulting firm, Scarlett Ink Media, providing strategic and tactical consulting to news media organizations with an emphasis on developing new revenue models, product development and cross-platform collaborations. She has been regional director of the Small Business & Technology Development Center (SBTDC) at the University of North Carolina. She received her MBA from Harvard University and a B.S. in Mass Communications from Boston University.
Rate: $500 for half-day, $1,000 for a full day plus travel expenses, for INN members. Available to work through a contract with non-members.
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SUCCESSION PLANNING & EXECUTIVE TRANSITION
Executive Transitions are one of the hardest moments in the life of a nonprofit. Nearly half of leadership transitions fail, largely due to lack of preparation. Preparing for an Executive Transition is about building a strong organization that can survive and even thrive beyond the leader’s tenure. Why wait until your leader is on the brink of leaving to strengthen your organization? Banyan Coaching and Consulting will help you gain the tools you need to build an organization that is durable, resilient and positioned to thrive under the current or new leadership.
Services include:
- Consultation on leadership transition plans
- Training on setting up an organization to thrive before, during and after a leadership transition
- Banyan Coaching and Consulting does not help with recruitment.
About: Banyan Coaching and Consulting is a team dedicated to partnering with its clients to cultivate healthy, vibrant and sustainable people, groups and organizations through holistic coaching and facilitation. Banyan designs and facilitates high impact processes that are goal focused and flexible according to the dynamics and emerging needs of the organization. Banyan's work is focused on helping clients make significant, measurable shifts that result in lasting culture change. Their projects fall predominantly within these areas: leadership development and coaching, team effectiveness, diversity/equity/inclusion, and strategic planning. Learn more at banyan-consulting.com.
Rate: Consulting fees are offered on a sliding scale from $1,000-$3,000 per day.
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