SEI is exactly who we built this firm for: a mission-driven team doing more with less. Our job was to give them systems that outlast us, not another initiative that needs a consultant to keep running.
Summit Education Initiative (SEI), a seven-person nonprofit in Summit County, Ohio, had just completed a new strategic plan. But SEI didn't have an HR function, and adding one wasn't an option.
Build a practical talent strategy the existing team could execute without adding a dedicated HR hire.
Strengthen culture and clarify roles so the new strategic plan translated into how the team worked day to day.
Build real accountability across the organization, not just another document that risked sitting on a shelf.
Interviewed every SEI staff member and fielded an anonymous, 26-question organizational health survey covering recognition, goal clarity, accountability, and decision-making, building the strategy on direct evidence, not assumption.
Facilitated leadership workshops to translate survey and interview findings into a prioritized set of talent initiatives aligned to SEI's strategic plan and its actual staffing reality.
Built an implementation roadmap and change management plan, including revised position descriptions with clear KPIs, so the strategy could run without a dedicated HR hire, then presented it to SEI's full stakeholder group for buy-in.
SEI's mission is to increase personal and regional prosperity through educational attainment, with a vision that every Summit County student is prepared for success on a chosen path. A seven-person team can carry that mission a long way, but only with the right systems behind it, not a strategy that depends on a consultant to keep it running.
We didn't have the bandwidth to build this ourselves. Stronger gave us a talent strategy that fits a team our size, and our staff can feel the difference in how we communicate and recognize each other's work.
Stronger Consulting partners with mission-driven organizations to turn complex challenges into clear, practical action, from strategy through implementation.
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