Services
Consulting Designed for Impact
Suru’s offerings center around the core pillars of nonprofit and impact organizations: leadership, strategy, and resources. We need all three to activate and achieve the mission statements we painstakingly wordsmith over months and years. Like the words we select so carefully to capture the impact we envision, we must take calibrated, intentional actions to build, support, and repair the pillars of our organizations.
Services provided by Suru are process-driven, action-oriented, and tailored to meet the needs of organizations and their leaders.
Our clients are ready for mid- to long-term collaboration with Suru, not one-and-done deliverables. The reason? Strong leadership, strategy, and resources are not the result of half-day planning sessions or a handful of meetings. Each contract allows for ample time to collaborate on measurable, accountable actions.
Explore Suru’s core service areas: Leadership Coaching, Board Development, Strategic Planning, Fundraising Counsel, and Interim Executive Management.
As a boutique consulting firm, we offer additional services to supplement or complement the scope of each contract.
Leadership Coaching
Nonprofit excellence begins with an organization’s leaders. Suru’s coaching services are responsive to each client and their leaders, whose skills and strengths may not be fully realized within their organizational role. Our coaching draws out these untapped skills and strengths while carefully identifying gaps and complementary characteristics of other leaders and staff.
Leadership may encompass executive directors, c-suite staff, director-level staff, board officers, and board members.
Services may include:
Joint Coaching: Executives and Board Chairs
Individual 1-to-1 Coaching: Executives, C-Suite Staff, Director-Level Staff, or Board Chairs
Group Coaching: Executives, C-Suite Officers, Director-Level Staff, Board Officers, and Board Members
Board Development
Developing a strong and functioning board of directors is a priority for every nonprofit. Boards are the governing entity, the fiduciary body, and the strategic foundation of impact. While the exact scope of each board varies, they are critical to each organizational pillar, most of all leadership.
Elevating board leadership benefits from the external perspective that Suru provides, drawing from practical and theoretical experience. We see the board as a forest, each tree in relationship to one another, its landscape, its water, and sunlight. The strength of the board — and the forest — depends so much on its environment and access to resources. With the right resources and healthy habitat, the forest will grow stronger, breathing life into the entire organization.
Services may include:
Board Composition Analysis and Needs Assessment
Board Training and Coaching
Strategic Recruitment
On-boarding Support
Meeting Facilitations
Strategic Planning
Addressing opportunities and threats, producing fine-tuned strategies and tactics, and strengthening the organization’s roots.
Every organization needs a roadmap to provide its leaders with direction and checkpoints. Effective strategic planning creates that roadmap, a functional framework for leaders to make critical decisions, allocate resources, plot out the tactics to achieve impact and measure progress throughout the plan’s lifecycle.
Strategic planning looks different for every client. It may involve building upon previous plans. Or, it may require starting completely from scratch. Either way, strategic planning is a delicate process that involves diverse – sometimes divergent – perspectives. Suru approaches strategic planning like cultivating the soil of the forest, where roots become intertwined to fertilize and sustain the growth of the trees.
Services may include:
Comprehensive Organizational Assessment
Process Design
Strategic Planning Facilitation
Strategic Plan Documentation and Communication
Implementation Support and Progress Monitoring
Fundraising Counsel
Sustainable fundraising is essential for nonprofits to fulfill their missions and achieve impact. Fundraising requires consistent attention to relationship-building and revenue strategy. Tactics and goals vary significantly by client capacity, phase of growth, mission, and context.
Suru’s approach to Fundraising Counsel begins with defining and developing relevant strategies that align with a client’s needs and values. Forests require ample resources over time to thrive; attention must be paid to the state of the resources coming from within the forest and how to cultivate resources from the greater environment. So it is with fundraising. Suru provides the bird’s eye view alongside granular analysis to identify potential shortfalls as well as opportunities for new or increased revenue.
With Suru’s support, client organizations strengthen their resource pillars by executing strategies best suited for their missions, in-house skills, and capacity.
Services may include:
Fundraising Strategy Assessment and Development
Fundraising Coaching (often tied into Leadership Coaching)
Monitoring and Advisory Support
Fractional Executive Management
Leadership transitions and capacity gaps can leave any nonprofit vulnerable. Whether during executive searches, organizational restructuring, or periods of rapid growth, maintaining strong leadership continuity ensures mission delivery and stakeholder confidence. These transitional periods, while challenging, often present opportunities for organizational strengthening and strategic advancement.
Suru offers interim, or fractional, executive management services to help clients stabilize during periods of change. Our founder is adept at fulfilling top leadership roles, including President, CEO, Executive Director, Deputy Director, Director/Chief Officer of Operations, and Director/Chief Officer of Strategy.
When client organizations invest in experienced fractional leadership, they position themselves for sustainable growth and impact.
Services may include:
Executive Leadership and Day-to-Day Management
Stakeholder Communication and Relationship Management
Organizational Assessment and Stabilization
Strategic Project Implementation
Leadership Transition Planning and Support
Let’s start a conversation.
We want to hear from you. What’s keeping your impact organization from achieving its mission? What phase of growth and development is your nonprofit experiencing? Has your impact stalled?