Empowered Organizational Leadership.
Belonging Culture.
Intentional Missional Impact.
BE Development Partners provides research, consulting and coaching to help you and your team embrace the link between “belonging” organizational cultures, developing inclusive leaders and program impact in your organizations mission.
Creating effective change in organizations requires an understanding of the soft and hard sides of leadership decision-making. We understand the cost to organizations of getting this wrong. With over 20 years of experience in global nonprofit/NGO management, staff training and leadership development, we partner with missional organizations for impact and measurable results.
Our Services
learning + development
You’ve conducted countless trainings, sent your staff off to expensive “events” yet you struggle to move the needle on the heart of leadership matters in your organization. You’re not alone. We have helped many missional organizations get past their false starts to create holistic leadership development experiences that integrate spirit, heart and head. The hard skills and the soft skills of leading complex humanitarian agencies with measurable impact. Let’s work together in equipping your leadership and employees for this fast-changing world. Expert areas include leadership development, change management, creating “belonging” cultures, gender mainstreaming, PSEA/do no-harm, and unconscious bias. From e-courses to multi-day training retreats, we will custom design training to meet your needs.
Consulting
Leadership is hard. So many expectations from your different stakeholders, so many projects and deadlines to oversee. Sometimes it’s helpful to have an objective outsider walking with you as you are trying to create a new organizational culture, deal with a difficult executive problem, design and execute a strategy, or try to implement a major change initiative. It’s common to find consulting partners who have expertise in management matters but fail to understand the context of global NGOs. Or you find consultants who are knowledgeable about development interventions, but don’t know how to translate that into organizational programming and implementation. BE Development Partners has both. With over 20 years of experience both in international development and NGO leadership, let’s partner to help your organization achieve its mission and values both with the stakeholders you serve and with those inside your organization doing the serving.
research + evaluation
Increasingly, NGOs are expected to demonstrate their missional impact. This is a good thing. It’s no longer just to satisfy boards, foundations and donors, designing and measuring for missional impact requires thoughtful leadership decisions at every level that will impact the outcome. Let us help you recognize not only the best practices of development intervention design, but how design can reinforce positive culture, develop quality leadership AND increase your missional outcome so that it can be measured to tell a beautiful story.
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”