“The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.” - Fred Rogers

Service Categories

Strategic Plans and Community Engagement

  • Strategic Planning

  • Community Assessments and Stakeholder Engagement

Programming and Service Delivery

  • Leadership, Accountability and Service Delivery

  • Needs Assessment

  • Program Design and Evaluation

    • Service Mapping

    • Quality and Process Improvement

    • Client Feedback and Surveys

Organizational Assessment and Capacity Building

  • Organizational Assessment and Design

  • Performance Management

    • Hiring and Onboarding

    • Culture and Retention

    • Employee Experience and Collaboration

Services We Offer

  • To achieve your organizations mission, you need a strategic plan that is sustainable, mission-driven, and is achievable for your community. We can support your organization in creating a customized strategic plan.

    o   Realign or Review of a Previous Strategic Planning

    • If you have a previous strategic plan that is stuck and not moving forward, we can help you realign your previous strategic plan to be achievable and sustainable.

    o   Customized Strategic Plan

  • Knowing your communities’ strengths, needs, and resources is a key item to improving service delivery.

    • Community Assessments: A systematic and broad look at examining overall needs and resources of an entire community.

    • Stakeholder mapping and community facilitation: Determine who is in your community and how everyone is inter-connected to increase collaboration and decrease duplication of efforts to improve community services.

  • How your clients experience your services will determine the impact of your mission

    How your organization provides its services impacts the success of every aspect within your organization such as operational efficiency, fundraising outcomes, and community collaboration.

    • Leadership, Accountability and Service Delivery: We work with the board, leadership and staff, to create a culture of accountability and increased layers of protection to ensure that services are being provided ethically and remove roadblocks that increase sustainability within the organization.

    • Needs assessments: We work with you to identify gaps or deficiencies within specific programming and/ or the organization utilizing a variety of different lenses such as trauma-informed care, accessibility, client-centered, informed choice and cultural humility.

    Program Design and Evaluation:

    • Service mapping – Whether you are wanting to grow your services to fulfill your mission or needing to increase efficiency within programming, we can map your services from the beginning of a client’s journey to the end services.

    • Quality and Process Improvement – We can do an assessment of your organization to improve workflows, redesign roles and management structures to increase efficiency and sustainability within your organization.

    • Client Feedback and Surveys – How do you know your services are what clients need? How do you know your services are supporting clients and your mission? Are you capturing the information you need to improve services? Are you collecting data that aligns with your grants and highlights your successes for fundraising? We can design client-centered surveys and client advisory committees to support you in gathering feedback and capturing necessary data.

  • How you achieve your services reflects your organizations success.

    Organizational Assessment and Design

    • Organizational Mapping and Design: We will map out your organization’s structure and processes to develop a comprehensive evaluation to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses within your organization. It is a comprehensive audit of your organization to develop recommendations and strategies to support your organization to become more strategically aligned with your mission. We also utilize several lenses when assessing your organization such as trauma-informed care, accessibility, client-centered, informed choice and cultural humility.

    Organizational Structure and Systems

    Performance Management: To improve service delivery within your organization, we can assess and develop strategies to align your employee’s actions with your organization’s goals, mission, and programming.

    • Hiring and Onboarding – Ensure that you are hiring the right talent and onboarding them to set them up for success within your organization. To improve retention, the first step is a successful hiring and onboarding.

    • Culture and Retention – Is your organization’s culture aligned with your mission? Is your organization’s culture an asset to service delivery or is it hindering quality service delivery? A key component of a successful and sustainable organization is a healthy workplace culture. Organizations save money short and long term by having a healthy workplace culture.

    • Employee Experience and Collaboration – In order to achieve your organization’s mission and provide great services, your employee’s actions day to day are the driving force to sustainable success. The investment in employee’s is a direct investment into your mission and services. We provide strategies and guidance on how to increase employee buy-in, incorporate employee feedback and improve workplace culture.

Our Guarantee to You

At Emergent Connections Consulting, we are confident in the services we offer which is why we offer a guarantee!

All our services are designed to be measurable, tangible and performance based.

We offer you a guarantee that you will see the results we’ve agreed on, and if you are not happy, we will continue to work with you until those results are achieved.

We also provide Technical Assistance for current and previous clients, because we believe that even if you received services from us, we know the work is never done and we are here to support.

How Much Do We Charge?

Emergent Connections Consulting charges fees based on services length, complexity and number of hours needed to complete the task.

 After a free initial consultation, Emergent Connections Consulting will present you with an outline of a bid and scope of work that details timelines, personnel, deliverables, and cost.

 We know the challenges and barriers many of our clients face which can prevent them from pursuing our services which is why we work with you on meeting your organization where they are at concerning budget constraints. We will work with you and your budget. Book a free consultation to talk with us at next steps.

Book a Free Consultation

The free consultation is your opportunity to meet and discuss your needs with Emergent Connections Consulting Founder and Consultant, Jamie Wallen.

We will meet you in-person or virtually meeting via Zoom or Microsoft Teams.