Experience makes the difference.

Management Consulting

Executive directors or CEOs occasionally need help adjusting to new roles with donors, board members, board committees and staff and with identifying and setting priorities. This is particularly true when the new ED/CEO is expected to increase fundraising quickly or make significant organizational changes. 

Board members often do not have the time and rarely have hands-on nonprofit management experience necessary for the kind of intensive mentoring that's needed. EMD provides management coaching on a retainer basis or on a more limited project basis. 

EMD has provided experienced and disciplined consultation on a number of strategic initiatives critical to Cleveland Botanical Garden’s success. As the name EMD makes plain, there is just no substitute for experience ... process is focused, yet flexible, and the resulting reports are highly actionable"

~Natalie Ronayne

Executive Director

Cleveland Botanical Garden