WJ Consulting - Service Offerings

Executive Coaching

Coaching is transformational for top executives and rising managers who want to make sustainable gains in their effectiveness and personal growth while also improving organizational dynamics and results. My clients embrace new choices, practices, and confidence that bring out their better selves in service to their leadership priorities.

As a thought partner to leaders, I bring two decades of nonprofit coaching experience. I can help you more usefully understand your goals, assumptions, motivations, and options for deeper understanding and clarity. Depending upon your top priorities, I suggest practical tools and approaches that will fit your strengths, challenges, context, and preferences.

Learn more about my coaching process here. And contact me directly to set up an exploratory call.

"I addressed things that had been holding me back for years."

Retreat Design & Facilitation

When existing meetings fail to advance important goals, decisions, and organizational changes, retreats are a powerful way for leaders to take strategic thinking to a new level of insight and rigor and to take team alignment and collaboration to new highs. Among other benefits, the retreats I have designed and facilitated have reset alignment among key decision-makers, brought fresh conviction and commitment to difficult decisions, and real-time “practice” at better team communications. Importantly, a great retreat can yield realistic game plans with clear next steps.

I partner with clients on board retreats, staff retreats, and specialized management sessions, always with a focus on well-defined outcomes and always incorporating a client’s existing knowledge and expertise. Contact me directly if you want to describe your retreat needs or to set up an exploratory call.

"Hilary’s work has been extraordinary… a key contributor to the success of our strategic planning process and board retreat."

~ Board Chair, National Nonprofit

Team Work Sessions

Is your team missing goals or wasting energy due to unaddressed friction and new, uncertain pressures? A team is the “unit” of human work that is best equipped to help individuals learn, thrive, and deliver. But it takes intentionality and effort to work on team performance at a human and a strategic level, so that shared assumptions, values, and ways of working set everyone up to succeed with more ease.

Customized team work sessions can explore specific dimensions of teamwork that involve both the relationships and the tasks, such as role clarity, sense of purpose, communication methods, and interdependencies. These sessions can also address team culture factors like transparency, inclusion, trust, accountability, joy, and well-being.

Team sessions I design and facilitate are often informed by the findings of a short team survey or an individual assessment tool. They can also focus on building specific skills known to strengthen teamwork, such as decision-making, progress tracking, or giving and receiving feedback. Contact me directly if you have questions about a possible workshop or to set up an exploratory call.

"Hilary played a crucial role in guiding our nonprofit team. She encouraged meaningful dialogue and creative problem-solving, ensuring that our team felt empowered to implement."

Leadership Development

On-the-job learning and growth cannot always cover all the bases or improve staff performance fast enough. If you have staff that need to getter better at leading and managing others, a customized leadership development (LD) program can provide a valuable boost. A focused LD offering can involve one session or a series of cohort-based sessions. When the development is experiential in a group setting, the training tends to go deeper and be more sustainable than what a rising leader can get from a supervisor or mentor.

I design and deliver participatory sessions that focus on the leadership and personal growth and management skills that are most important to a particular cohort or team. Programs are tailored and incorporate different learning methods that can include assessments, job-related solo work, and other activities outside of the sessions. The time commitment and assignments are right-sized to the situation and desired outcomes. Contact me directly if you want to discuss how I might support your LD goals.

"I saw immediate results when I identified what my personal challenges and hot buttons were. In less than a year, I got the promotion I had been seeking."