Services
All services are customized and scoped for each client. Whether navigating complex multi-stakeholder processes or focused single-issue engagements, every partnership begins with understanding your needs, your people, and your goals, including the work of shaping impactful public-private partnerships and new service delivery models.
Mary brings a rare combination of people skills, certified planning expertise, and public-private sector fluency to every engagement.
How We Work Together
As Your Consultant
You hire dedicated expertise in listening, assessing, and analyzing needs. This role provides agility and candor that facilitates evolution and change, with the freedom to re-imagine and re-construct outside the constraints of an in-house position.
- Fresh perspective and candor that facilitates evolution and change
- Agility to re-imagine outside the constraints of an in-house role
- Specific change and growth targets more directly available
As Your Staff
You bring on a professional who aligns with your staff and leaders from within the organization. This internal operations role empowers delivery of excellence through the organizational framework and established relationships.
- Internal alignment with your staff and leaders
- Empowered delivery within your organizational framework
- Continuity and institutional knowledge development
What We Deliver
Leadership Development and Coaching
A dedicated thought partnership for your development and decision-making. Strategic counsel helps you refine your thinking, align your team, and move confidently toward your goals.
- Trusted advisory for leaders navigating complex decisions
- DISC personality assessments with applied results
- Confidential, customized counsel from staff to senior executives
Meeting Design and Facilitation
Meetings with Mary
Every gathering is designed for productive outcomes and meaningful participation, from conference-scale sessions to workshops and retreats.
- Award-winning facilitation across government and university settings
- Agenda design, stakeholder interviews, and public workshops
- Change management facilitation from incremental to transformational
Project Development and Management
Move from initial ideas to clarified programs with detailed scopes of work, focused stakeholder involvement, disciplined time and budget management, and practical new service delivery models.
- Develop initial ideas into clarified programs and projects
- Stakeholder and agency involvement with resource identification
- Time and budget tracking with regular briefings
Plan and Policy Making
Expert support for creating policy, new frameworks, or updating existing ones, paired with technical planning assistance, community engagement, and guidance through bureaucratic and community processes.
- Strategic plans, strategic initiatives, special projects, pilot projects
- Fiscal analysis, budget economics, tradeoffs, negotiations, and new service delivery models
Written Deliverables
Reports for USE, not the shelf
Documentation that is fully vetted, strategically designed, and ready for use across your organization and community.
- Plans, reports, policies, and strategic communications
- Materials for web, social media, and multi-channel outreach
Interagency and Public Coordination
Build and maintain the strategic alliances, community relationships, and impactful public-private partnerships essential to your mission.
- Public policy alternative development and strategy
- Interagency agreements, letters of intent, and representation
Communication Strategies
Strategic communications support for stakeholder processes and multi-channel outreach.
- Stakeholder interviews, focus groups, task forces, and workshops
- Materials production for multiple audiences
Areas of Specialty
Deep expertise spanning public and private sectors across these disciplines
Ready to Start a Conversation
Every engagement begins with understanding your needs. Reach out to explore how we can work together.