Turn your organization into one that scales, sustains, and inspires with the Mission Delivery Network.
You can grow your organization’s impact without burning out your team.
Your organization can have:
A repeatable system to make faster and smarter organizational decisions
Team members operating with purpose and clarity
A way to manage the work, not your people
More time and energy for thinking and innovation
Stop scaling the hard way.
Have your organization’s integrator join a curated cohort of the Mission Delivery Network to solve real-time organizational challenges and plan for how the work gets done inside of your organization so you can deliver on your mission without burning out your team.
“Rebecca has a talent for navigating the complexities of large-scale, impactful work. What sets her apart is her ability to understand the intersection of people and systems; she isn't just creating cookie cutter tools to solve standardized problems. She tailors the implementation plan and process to the strengths of the team and that is where the real magic is. She has given us the tools to set big goals that we can now realistically achieve.”
- Lori Warren, Chief of Staff for Child and Family Wellness, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
What is the Mission Delivery Network?
The Mission Delivery Network is a community for organizations ready to scale, sustain, and inspire their teams. Network members believe that the internal work of running an organization, including alignment of structure, processes, personnel, and culture, is required to deliver on their missions.
Organizations join the Network through our curated cohort model. As a cohort member, the organization’s integrator solves real-time organizational challenges and develops and deploys a tailored roadmap with support from experts and their peers. This is the person that helps the team stay focused and aligned in executing on the strategic plan.
Who is it for?
The Network is most valuable for mission-driven organizations at an inflection point—a change in funding, new strategy or major program, changing team size, new senior leaders, recently merged. It’s for organizations that know their vision, mission, and high-level strategy and are looking to execute smarter, faster, and with support from experts and their peers. While the emphasis is on the integrator, the impact is for and stays with your organization.
Are You an Integrator?
The integrator ensures things like team alignment, accountability, operational oversight, internal communication, and cross-functional problem solving.
Not sure if your organization has an integrator—or could it be you? Use this checklist to find out.
As a Member of the Mission Delivery Network, Your Organization Will:
Solve real-time organizational challenges
Increase alignment across your strategy, people, and operations
Build a lasting network of near-peer organizations
Strengthen your organizational capacity
What’s Included
Our curated cohort model is designed to support your organization’s integrator in service of your organization. The 12-month engagement is more like an affordable consulting project with the added benefits of peer connection and capacity building than a professional development program. So while the emphasis is on the integrator, the impact is for and stays with your organization.
Here’s How We Do It
Topical Cohort Sessions to learn new ways of working
To turn your organization into one that scales and sustains requires alignment of internal systems, processes, personnel, and culture with your purpose and strategy. During nine virtual cohort sessions you’ll learn ways to answer these questions:
How do you know if your organization is making progress?
Who’s accountable for what decisions?
How will you stay connected and informed and with what information?
How will you work together as a team?
Templates, Frameworks, and Tools to make progress faster
We are all about taking action to benefit your organization so you will have the templates, frameworks, and tools you need to create change within your organization. Examples include topical pulse check surveys, an accountability chart, project plans, annual rhythm, project performance management dashboard, and internal communication routines.
Tailored Roadmap to plan for your organization
You’ll be guided through a process to establish an internal organizational goal, impact areas, and priority projects specific for your organization. Then, you’ll start implementation during the cohort so you have help along the way.
Monthly Coaching Sessions to apply what you learn
This is your time to work one-on-one with an experienced integrator to apply what you’ve learned. In this confidential space, you will work through your roadmap, seek feedback on your completed templates and tools, and ask questions about whatever’s on your mind.
Real-Time Support to solve problems early
Things can move quickly in organizational work, and we’re here for every twist and turn. You can seek on-demand help through our cohort Slack channels, broader #integrator-questions Slack channel, and request live support from an experienced integrator.
Accountability Partner to stay focused on your priorities
We check-in regularly to ensure you’re making progress on your internal goals. We are not here to simply transfer knowledge. This is a 12-month engagement to ensure you have time to take action with our support.
Community of Integrators to be connected with your peers
The integrator role can be isolating, and you don’t have to do it alone. Through our live interactions and Slack channels, you’ll be connected with your cohort members and other integrators that are part of the Network to ask and answer real-time organizational questions.
Plus, your organization becomes a member for life with ongoing access for your integrator to our Slack community so they can continue solving real-time organizational challenges with their peers.
Network Members
Meet the organizations and their integrators making a commitment to strengthening their internal capacity to implement their vision and make an impact. These organizations are aligning their purpose and strategy with their operating model—the structure, processes, personnel, and culture of their organizations—to ensure they continue delivering on their mission.
Meet Cohort 1
50CAN
Samantha Kobbah
Chief of Staff
America's Promise Alliance
Danisha Dumornay
Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives
Boldly Go Philanthropy
Maggie Wittman
Operations Manager
College Possible Texas
Colleen Bell
Director of Operations & Internal Communications
Generation SERVE
Muneeb Aslam
Deputy Executive Director
Harvard Strategic Data Project
Ali Guerriero
Associate Director of Outreach and Partnerships
Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
Lori Warren
Chief of Staff for Child and Family Wellness
What Members Are Saying
“Everything that’s been shared has given me at least one tidbit, if not more, to help shake up how I do things. For example, we did a quick pulse check survey on internal communication, and I thought–I’m going to steal that question. It all feels really tangible.”
“Leading up to a team retreat, I was thinking about the best way to use some of our time together. Normally, I would have planned this alone but, thanks to the Network, I was able to talk through my ideas and develop strategic ways to gather team feedback and address ongoing challenges. As a result, I led our team through a structured exercise that clearly defined roles and responsibilities across projects. Now, we have more clarity on who makes decisions and who’s accountable for what.”
“This is my first time in an executive leadership role, and being part of this cohort has been very helpful. It’s strengthened my leadership skills and connected me with peers who are navigating similar challenges. Hearing how others approach their work has sparked new ideas and given me fresh perspectives that I’ve been able to apply within my own organization.”
“I know a lot of people in other types of roles, but people in my role tend to work behind-the-scenes so it’s harder to make connections. Having the space to get to know the other cohort members and talk about work with people who get it has been so valuable.”
HOW IT WORKS
Organizations can express interest in joining a cohort and learn more about the Mission Delivery Network on an ongoing basis. New cohorts are launched every spring and fall and are curated to ensure diversity of perspective and similarity of internal organizational priorities.
The Process
A leader at your organization books a call to learn more about the Network and to express interest
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Your Executive Director and integrator book a call to discuss internal organizational priorities
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Your integrator completes the application
(by invitation only)
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FAQs
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The best way to find out is to express interest. The next step will be to schedule an introductory call with Rebecca where we’ll discuss your organizational priorities and see if the network is a good fit.
Here are a few reasons why your organization will benefit from joining the network:
Your team size is changing, whether you’re growing or shrinking
You have a new strategy or major program
You just got an influx (or reduction) of funding
You have new senior leaders (e.g., CEO, chief of staff)
You recently merged with another organization
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Cohorts are intentionally small to allow for stronger relationship building and more inclusive participation among integrators in a virtual setting. Each cohort includes integrators from up to eight organizations, balancing diversity of perspective with common organizational priorities and challenges.
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Cohorts are designed to strengthen your organization by supporting the person in your organization’s integrator role. This is the person in your organization or on your team who serves as an executive thought partner and strategic doer. This person supports organizational alignment, strategy and execution, process management, communication, and team accountability.
This is an organizational commitment. While the cohorts are designed to support the person in your organization’s integrator role, the benefits are for the organization as a whole.
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The Network is an organizational commitment. While the cohorts are designed around the person in your organization’s integrator role, the benefits are designed for the organization as a whole – focused on your challenges, your team, and your solutions. At the end of 12 months, your organization will have an individualized roadmap with implementation started to help you achieve your goals.
The cohorts focus on the integrator role at your organization – a position lacking connection and group learning opportunities. By serving your integrator, the cohort strengthens your organizational capacity from the inside.
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This opportunity is designed to enhance the integrator’s effectiveness so much of the time commitment is intended to be in line with your integrator’s responsibilities. That said, cohort members spend an average of four hours per month on Network activities.
Cohort members are expected to attend nine virtual sessions over the course of 12 months. Each session will be no longer than 1.5 hours.
Between sessions, cohort members join monthly one-on-one calls with an experienced integrator to support them and ensure accountability. Integrators use this time and asynchronous time to develop, refine, and start to implement their organizational roadmap.
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Once your organization is part of a cohort, your organization’s integrator has a place in that cohort for the full 12 months. If your integrator leaves your organization or moves into a different role during that time, their place immediately transfers to another person of your choice at your organization. That person participates in the remaining cohort sessions.
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If you have questions, please contact Rebecca at rebecca@rshahllc.com or book a call.
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