MAPP Consulting Group
Helping nonprofits and associations find their path.
Your nonprofit wayfinder.
Where to begin
Wherever you're navigating from
Without a leader right now?
Interim Leadership
Facing a strategic crossroads?
Consulting
Want to lead more clearly?
Coaching
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Speaking
About Michelle
A guide who's walked the terrain
I'm so grateful for my work with Michelle. She's incredibly insightful and pointed me in unexpected directions. Her approach to our conversations was just the right balance of compassion and responsibility.
— Nonprofit Executive
Where it's led
Proof the path works
Navigating the unexpected: stability, succession, and resilience
The situation
When I stepped into this interim executive role, the organization was facing more than a leadership gap. It was navigating a founder transition, operational gaps, federal funding uncertainty, and significant staffing challenges at the same time.
The work
I worked closely with board and staff leadership to stabilize day-to-day operations, respond to external funding shifts, and maintain organizational momentum during a period of compounding pressure. A key part of the engagement was succession planning. I partnered with the founding leader and the board to build a transition framework that honored the founder’s legacy while preparing the organization for new leadership.
The result
The organization moved through a period of uncertainty with stronger operations, a clearer succession roadmap, and a board better equipped to lead the next chapter.
Building a board that could actually govern
The situation
This engagement began with a nonprofit board of only three members — not enough capacity, perspective, or structure to provide meaningful strategic oversight.
The work
Over 12 months, I partnered with organizational leadership to rebuild the board intentionally. The work included clarifying what the organization needed from its board, identifying missing skills and perspectives, establishing board goals, developing a nomination and voting process, and supporting leadership through decisions about board composition.
The result
The organization grew from a three-person board to a structured 12-person board with clearer roles, stronger governance capacity, and the ability to support long-term organizational growth.
The situation
A senior nonprofit leader came to coaching while navigating a demanding role, high expectations, and management patterns that were no longer serving her leadership as well as she wanted.
The work
Our work created space to slow down, examine the thoughts and beliefs driving her decisions, and identify what was useful — and what was getting in the way. Through that process, she began showing up with more clarity, intention, and curiosity in her leadership.
The result
She moved from managing by habit to leading by choice, with clearer boundaries, stronger relationships, and a more sustainable relationship with her own leadership.
