Practical Problem Solvers Delivering Tangible Results

​Helping education and civic-sector leaders envision and achieve a brighter future for those they serve.
Portage Partners Consulting is a mission-driven consulting group that supports the leaders and organizations making the world better place through community engagement, strategic visioning, action planning and implementation support. ​

Services:

  • Status-busting organizational visioning
  • Human-centered action planning
  • Organization, prioritization and sequencing of priorities
  • Stakeholder 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
  • Volunteer / donor management process (re)design
  • 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.