Internal Organizational Design & Assessment

Building or re-building an organization can feel like chaos. Let me help!

Internal Organizational Design is an intentional process of building the structure of an organization from the ground up. What are your mission, vision, and values? How will your organization be structured? What roles will best serve your mission, and how will these roles relate to each other? How will decisions be made? How will conflict be resolved?

Internal Organizational Assessment is an intentional collective pause to figure out what’s working and what’s not; what needs to change and how people are feeling about it; what complex structural and interpersonal dynamics may be twisting you into knots; what resources exist to help you on the path forward; and what that potential path may be. An assessment can be about just one aspect of an organization (e.g. your governance structure, your role definition, your conflict processes, etc.), or about the organization in its totality (this is called a 360° review).

Whether you are designing or assessing your organization, I strive for my presence in your domain to feel like a bear hug — solid. warm. grounding. a little fierce. held.

My approach

• I’ll ask a lot of questions, bringing warmth, patience, compassion, and curiosity to the process.
  
• I’ll teach myself as much as I can about the work you’re doing, and if relevant, the complex internal dynamics at play in your organization. This can be done through interviews, focus groups, document review, surveys, eyc.
  
• I’ll propose a process of design or assessment based on a) what I’ve heard from you, b) my years of experience, and c) my intuitive hunch about what might help make the path clearer for you. 
  
• I’ll facilitate the process, keeping all the loose threads organized and attuning to what may be happening below the surface.
  
• If you want, I can wrap things up by writing a report summarizing what happened or what was decided.