Excellent Way consultants support both faith-based and community service leaders who regard their organizational work as sacred service in the world. We offer integrative approaches that position leaders to bring comprehensive strategic thinking and head-and-heart decision-making that are needed to address the complexities of today’s societal and organizational challenges. Our interdisciplinary approach, which incorporates resources from business, sociology, psychology, and spirituality, enables leaders and their colleagues to accomplish innovative and effective mission impact.
We specialize in working with leaders who are:
New to their executive roles
Founder-CEOs of organizations poised for growth - entrepreneurial to mid-sized
Dealing with significant organizational structure/culture change
Undertaking a strategic visioning/theory of change planning process
Organizational Consulting services are tailored to meet your organization’s specific needs. Our focus areas include: conflict management, organizational culture, team building, and aligning operations to support organizational vision.
Our services include:
One-on-one executive coaching
Leadership team coaching
Strategic planning
Organization wide workshops and retreats
for boards and staff
Our individual and team coaching is designed to strengthen what we call the “C-suite of leadership skills”. Our coaching uses an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates resources from business management, sociology, psychology, and spirituality. This approach enables leaders to bring a more comprehensive lens as they look at both the organizational needs and their leadership strengths.
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We believe that for leaders to excel requires the C-suite of skills: Clarity, Competence, Collaboration, Courage, and Compassion.
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Having a sharp understanding of historical influences, shifts in current social realities, emerging trends and needs, and having the insight needed to develop high impact vision, mission, and strategies.
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Demonstrated abilities to engage in comprehensive and innovative decision-making balanced with the interpersonal skills that cultivate individual and collective best from all stakeholders.
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Guided by a belief that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” (Aristotle), demonstrating a commitment and capacity to cultivate mutual trust and respect among internal and external stakeholder.
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A blend of self-confidence, vulnerability, and commitment to the organizational vision that enables calculated risk-taking strategies and inspires a focus on the highest public good.
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Strategies for handling crises, conflicts, and changes are guided by caring insights about the direct and indirect impacts of values-based strategic decisions on personal well-being and job effectiveness.
The Excellent Way team is ready to support your journey into excellence. Contact us.
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Leading Beyond Your Comfort Zone
Leaders become leaders because they demonstrate passion, commitment, and strong skills in particular areas that meet organizational needs.
This workshop helps you identify the parameters of your comfort zones… and provides beginning tools for your own personal growth as a leader. -
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Transformative Organizational Culture
Every organization has its own culture shaped by organizational history, current leadership and management practices, and the extent to which diversity is present and regarded among the
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Alone in the Crowd
It is often said that it is “lonely at the top”. Leadership often bring loneliness and isolation
as they have no peers in the organization.
This workshop offers you rich spiritual strategies
and psychological resources for navigating this experience and enables you to network with
other leaders who understand this distinct experience. -
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Strategic Visioning
It is not enough to have passion and commitment
to an organizational mission to address or heal
social issues.
This workshop gives you the tools to engage
three steps in your organization: Team Building, Personal Well-Being in a Chaotic world, and Interpersonal Communication. -
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Change & Conflict Management
Power struggles, at their core, are reflections
of anxiety and fear that something highly
valued to an individual or group is being
threatened.
This workshop help you identify the issues
present in your organization and the
strategies needed to move toward a break-
through and move toward creating
beloved community. -
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Leading with Head and Heart
Leaders are often expected to be the smartest person in the room. However, the expectation often impedes excellent leadership.
This workshop invites you to practice integrating your cognitive and intuitive skills, using your business and emotional knowing. -
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Leading While Grieving
Leading While Grieving provides a space for you to share with other leaders who can relate to the challenge of attending to the impacts of a personal loss when the demands on your time and your ability to focus remain great.
This workshop provides a template for self-compassion and effective leadership. -
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Team Building
Team Building requires a balance of effective interpersonal skills and management skills. Most leaders are more effective in one of these skill sets than the other.
This workshop helps you build upon your strengths and identify specific strategies for moving beyond your comfort zone to strengthen the other needed skills. -
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Personal Well-Being in a Chaotic World
The complexities, pace of change, and collective grieving common in today’s society are demanding and draining for everyone. There is often little time or focus given to the well-being of leaders as they seek to improve the lives of many others.
This workshop offers a time of respite and a time for strengthening the tools needed for your own well-being. -
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Interpersonal Communication
How leaders communicate with a range of key stakeholders - staff, boards, funders, community partners - greatly determines staff retention, institutional development, and the degree of ease or difficulty in accomplishing intended outcomes.
This workshop enables you to identify your common listening styles and their impact on your interpersonal communication, especially when you are stressed or anxious, and enables you to practice using more effective listening tools.
