A good strategic plan will be a road map that you consult again and again.
For over a decade, Susie Chase, Principal of Open Minds LLC, and her team, have employed people-centered and data-driven strategies to help organizations reach their goals. Whether it’s planning for the future, working through a difficult decision, or evaluating impact, Open Minds can provide the support and expertise to move your organization forward.
Areas of Practice
We help organizations set a course, measure results, and continuously evolve toward excellence.
Strategic Planning
Too often strategic plans collect dust on the shelf. Open Minds takes the time to understand clients’ needs and craft a customized planning process that efficiently engages stakeholders and focuses on implementation and accountability.
Board development
An engaged board is a highly valuable asset. Open Minds can support the creation of structures and processes to enhance board effectiveness, improve relations with staff, and help board members understand and optimize their roles.
Program Evaluation
We guide organizations and funders in defining SMART goals and developing practical systems to measure outcomes and impact. We also conduct external program evaluations when an objective outside assessment is needed.
Executive Coaching
Nonprofit executives face competing priorities, limited resources, and endless demands. As a coach, Susie Chase draws on 20+ years of experience in the nonprofit sector as an executive director, board chair and consultant. She can provide perspective, serve as an impartial sounding board and help leaders reach their potential.
Facilitation
Whether it’s a small board meeting or a large convening of community stakeholders, we facilitate teams of all sizes - creating space to discuss, debate and ultimately come to consensus on decisions.
Decision making tools
Nonprofit leaders need to make important decisions everyday. Open Minds works with organizations to develop streamlined, intuitive tools and processes to make effective and informed decisions.
“In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.”