Organizational Design and Change

We partner with our clients to build bolder, better nonprofits through highly engaged processes, informed decision-making, and values-based implementation.

Reimagining the Pursuit of Mission


Our unique approach includes:

1. Building shared understanding

We examine assumptions, ask incisive questions, and engage staff and board to create a shared understanding of current organizational opportunities and challenges.  We inform decision making with practical qualitative research and financial analysis, and we prioritize a nuanced understanding of complex systems and situations with every client.


2. Aligning mission and operations

We work with our clients to identify their most pressing challenges and to design systems rooted in organizational values and strategic priorities. We support organizations in developing the flexibility necessary to respond to ever-changing contexts.


3. Growing energy and trust

We foster enthusiasm for new strategic directions across an organization through inclusive, iterative processes. We work with teams to deepen relationships and trust as we navigate the path ahead together.

Our work is complicated, and Michael Anderson Consulting understood our work quickly and succinctly.
— Kate Pratt, COO, SCACED

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Galvanizing Plans & Trust-Building

Michael brought rich experience to our strategy work and subsequent strategic business planning phase. Michael has a keen capacity to listen carefully while facilitating, and integrate what he is hearing to challenge us to work it harder, and to adjust focus and direction along the way. ..Our planning capacity is greatly enhanced and subsequently our ability to have impact is measurably stronger each day. 
— Jennifer L. Metzler, Chief Executive Officer, Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless, Inc.