Your nonprofit can grow without the growing pains.
I partner with Executive Directors to address your small organizational pains before they become big problems, creating a stable foundation across your nonprofit’s structure, processes, personnel, and culture so you can grow your impact without burning out your team.
Implement your vision.
Make an impact.
Most nonprofits grow and then deal with the fallout.
→ Decision bottlenecks because the Executive Director remains the go-to for every decision.
→ Role confusion as new positions are created without clear differentiation.
→ Communication breakdowns when ad hoc meetings and Slack threads no longer reach everyone.
→ Uneven follow-through as systems breakdown and meetings lose rhythm.
These challenges are likely happening in your nonprofit right now and, as you grow, their repercussions will amplify.
Your team will feel overwhelmed, disconnected, and lose their sense of enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning at work which will, ironically, stale your growth.
It doesn’t have to be this way!
I can help uncover the root causes of your organizational challenges with my Enduring Impact Framework and stabilize your nonprofit’s foundation so you are ready to scale sustainably.
When I decided to partner with Rebecca, I was leading a start-up enterprise. Making sure all of our external-facing programs and deliverables were completed often meant the more internal-facing work was being neglected. Rebecca brought deep expertise on organizational structures and processes we needed to explore to grow and mature into a stable and sustainable entity. She’s helped our organization be informed and inclusive in our decision-making about strategic growth and development. Her steady guidance and careful focus on what’s happening inside our ‘organizational house’ is already paying dividends.”
- Carolyn Landel, Director, LONESTARP3
Using my Enduring Impact Framework, I help nonprofits set high expectations to define what success looks like by providing direction, accountability, and clarity and cultivate high support to empower your team to be successful by building capacity, systems, and alignment.
What if your organization had:
A repeatable way to make faster and smarter organizational decisions
Team members operating with purpose and clarity
A way to manage the work and lead your people
More time and energy for thinking and innovation
I help growing nonprofits design systems that work in real life, not just on paper. And while there is no one-size solution, here are a few ways I typically support:
Focus on what matters with annual impact areas: Bring focus and alignment to your team by turning your strategic plan into a handful of clear, shared priorities.
Bring rhythm to the chaos with an annual operating rhythm: Help your team be proactive, stay connected, and be accountable by establishing a predictable cadence for meetings with clearly defined purposes.
Clarify roles and free up your time with an accountability chart: Free yourself from being the hub of every conversation and allow your team to move faster with confidence by clarifying who owns what and how decisions get made.
Balance strategy and execution with an accountability partner: Stop fighting against yourself and follow through consistently by allowing someone to help you stay focused, prioritized, and accountable.
Hi, I’m Rebecca.
Most consultants will write a plan for you and that’s the end of the engagement. With me, I define success based on the outcomes we define for the project upfront, and this always includes being your partner in implementation. Because that’s when the work gets messy.
I’m a certified Project Management Professional with a 15+ year track record guiding values-minded leaders and teams from great ideas to effective implementation to measurable impact. I understand the unique challenges that come with growth, and I’ll make sure you don’t have to choose between growing your organization’s impact and being a great place to work.
After spending several years establishing our proof of concept, we needed help to move the work forward. We knew we needed to prioritize, and we wanted to be deliberate about how we could best affect sustainable and lasting change, but we needed help.
I chose Rebecca because of her knowledge and expertise. She was able to turn our dreams and ideas into an actionable strategy and helped us put structures in place to keep us aligned and moving forward. She was extremely flexible, adapting to our changing needs and stayed focused to help us progress towards our goals. Rebecca is a pleasure to work with, and I highly recommend Rebecca Shah Consulting.”
- Michelle Harper, Executive Vice President of State Partnerships and Executive Director of the Center for Child and Family Wellness, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute