Practical Community Problem Solvers Delivering Tangible Results 

​Helping Minnesota's education and civic-sector leaders ​envision and achieve a brighter future with those they serve. 

Portage Partners Consulting is a Minnesota-focused, mission-driven and actively anti-racist consulting group that supports the people and organizations making our community a better place through strategic visioning, action planning, community empowerment, leadership coaching and implementation support. 

Services:

  • Status-busting organizational visioning
  • ​Cultural competency assessments and anti-bias strategy planning
  • Human-centered action planning
  • Organization, prioritization and sequencing of priorities
  • Stakeholder empowerment / engagement to inform and build buy-in for strategy
  • Management structures and staff capacity building to ensure successful implementation
  • Accountability system (re)design
  • Cascading priorities to units and employees
  • Performance and organizational culture diagnostics and environmental scans to inform planning
  • Leadership and board coaching
  • Training on project management, change management, community engagement, graphic facilitation
  • Initiative / program design and implementation
  • Governance process design and installation

Recent Clients:

Portage Partners is certified as a Minnesota-based, Women Owned Small Business through the MN Dept of Administration and a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) with MnUCP for strategic planning, community engagement, implementation support, project management, process improvement and equity focused training.