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Advisory work sized to the question in front of you.

Eight distinct services for Nature & Advocacy and Health & Human Services organizations, with a clear place to begin in either practice.

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Choose the eighth service for your field

The first seven services are shared. The eighth addresses either nature-center and visitor experience or participant experience and access.

Services

Eight services. Start where you need us.

Sirianno & Associates provides the eight services shown below. Choose the area that matters most to your organization.

Every assignment has a clear focus. We also take a 360-degree view of your organization—considering the connections among leadership, governance, funding, communications, and mission that influence the work. Our recommendations address your chosen priority with the whole organization in view.

Service entry points

The Eight Strategic Services

  1. 01

    Strategic Planning & Implementation

    Establish Strategic Direction

    Translate institutional understanding into clear priorities, choices, responsibilities, measures, and implementation disciplines.

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  2. 02

    Organizational Strength & Assessment

    Assess the Institution

    Establish a candid, evidence-based understanding of strengths, constraints, risks, opportunities, and readiness for change.

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  3. 03

    Governance & Board Effectiveness

    Strengthen Governance

    Clarify board responsibilities, strengthen the board–executive partnership, and establish the structures and practices required for effective oversight and strategic stewardship.

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  4. 04

    Fundraising & Sustainable Revenue

    Build Financial Capacity

    Strengthen philanthropy, membership, donor relationships, development systems, and campaign readiness so the organization can fund present operations and future aspirations.

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  5. 05

    Executive Leadership & Counsel

    Support Leadership Performance

    Provide experienced, confidential counsel to executives, board chairs, and leadership teams facing consequential decisions, transitions, or institutional pressures.

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  6. 06

    Executive Search & Leadership Transition

    Secure the Right Leadership

    Define the leadership required for the next chapter, prepare responsibly for transition, and identify executives capable of advancing mission and institutional performance.

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  7. 07

    Brand, Communications & Public Trust

    Communicate Purpose & Value

    Express the organization’s identity, relevance, accomplishments, and case for support with clarity, credibility, and consistency.

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  8. 08

    Nature Center Development & Visitor Experience

    Deliver the Mission Experience

    Align facilities, accessibility, interpretation, programs, staffing, operations, and revenue around a coherent and sustainable visitor experience.

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Scope and process

A clear assignment and a useful next step.

Before work begins, the written proposal identifies the decisions the engagement must support, the evidence needed, the deliverables, participation, timing, and fixed fee.

The depth of discovery fits the assignment. Every engagement ends with agreed next steps, responsible people, and a practical way to review progress.

Executives and trustees gathered around a long wooden table in a timber-framed lodge, reviewing site plans together beside a fireplace.

How we work

Understand. Reveal. Choose. Build. Learn.

A consistent method turns evidence and candid conversation into decisions, substantial working documents, responsible action, and learning through implementation.

  1. 01

    Understand

    Gather the evidence and perspectives needed to see the situation accurately.

  2. 02

    Reveal

    Make strengths, constraints, differing perspectives, and underlying causes clear.

  3. 03

    Choose

    Frame the real options, tradeoffs, priorities, and decisions.

  4. 04

    Build

    Create the substantial working document or roadmap, with responsibilities, resources, measures, and first actions.

  5. 05

    Learn

    Review implementation, test assumptions, and adjust while staying grounded in the mission.

Edward Sirianno walking a sunlit ridge trail with three nonprofit leaders, all in conversation, a lake and hills behind them.

Four ways to work together

Eight services. Four clear engagement scopes.

The eight services identify where help is needed. These four options establish the depth and breadth of the work. Every assignment considers the connections across the whole organization, while detailed work stays focused on the agreed scope.

Independent Leadership Counsel
$2,500
“I need experienced help thinking this through.”
Structured counsel, written recommendations, and follow-up support for executive directors, presidents, and board leaders.
Focused Consulting Engagement
Beginning at $12,500
“I know the area that needs work.”
A defined assignment in any service area, with exact deliverables, timing, and fixed fee established in the written proposal.
Organizational Strength Review
$15,000–$22,500
“We need to understand what is holding us back and what deserves attention first.”
A diagnostic assessment that considers connections across the whole organization. Detailed assessment focuses on the areas agreed in scope and produces priorities and recommendations.
Integrated Strategic Direction
$25,000–$40,000
“We need shared priorities and a coordinated plan across the organization.”
A coordinated strategic assignment spanning multiple service areas, with shared priorities and an actionable plan.

Independent Leadership Counsel is prepaid when the engagement is booked. For larger engagements, the standard schedule is 40% on booking, 30% after the evidence and listening stage, and 30% on delivery. The final schedule is stated in the written proposal.

Travel or specialist expenses are included only when agreed in the proposal. There are no surprise charges. Major fixed-fee engagements include eight hours of implementation counsel during the 90 days following delivery.

A focused engagement may address Fundraising & Sustainable Revenue or Brand, Communications & Public Trust, as well as any other service area. Full executive search, facility design, campaign execution, brand redesign, and other specialist responsibilities are defined and priced individually in the written proposal.

You do not need to choose an engagement before contacting us. We’ll help establish the right scope.

Review the $2,500 Independent Leadership Counsel offer

Submit an RFP

Have an RFP or a project description ready?

Send it directly. Include the question you need answered, your timeline, and an approximate budget range — that is enough for a useful first reply.

Submit an RFPOr schedule a conversation

Submissions are recorded securely and read personally. For the most direct route, email Ed at ed@sirianno.org.

Let’s talk

Is your organization as strong as the mission it serves?

A complimentary 30-minute conversation is the simplest place to begin. Share brief context, then use the time to discuss your situation, fit, and a sensible next step.

Let’s talkSchedule a Conversation

Or reach Edward J. Sirianno directly at ed@sirianno.org · 518-526-5492