Executive Advisory

for Nonprofit Leaders

ADVISORY OVERVIEW

Synerb’s Executive Advisory Program is a 3 to 12 months individual advisory program aimed at supporting nonprofit leaders to navigate through their strategic leadership and critical operational challenges.

Executive Advisory for Nonprofits with Zoltan Bereczki

We’ll provide nonprofit leaders with a straightforward experience that is based on 1. A leadership development needs assessment. 2. Creating an individual leadership development roadmap. 3. Regular advisory meetings focused on improving core leadership issues: executive communication, decision making and lateral thinking, staff and board management, fundraising, organizational culture and strategic planning skills. 4. Technical change management support. We’ll help leaders to select and tailor the appropriate strategic working tools. We’ll moreover provide support with organizing an effective staff retreat and/or creating new organizational procedures. 5. Intermediary evaluation process. 6. Final assessment of the advisory process.

THIS PROGRAM HELPS:

First time leaders

Young nonprofit leaders or executives who have been recently promoted to lead an organization, in need of support and new perspectives to navigate through their leadership challenges.

Nonprofit founders

Nonprofit founders seeking support to lead their nonprofit to its next phase of growth and impact.

Executive directors or senior managers

Executive directors or senior managers (ex. co-CEOs) facing unique challenges with complex leadership and executive management issues, and who are seeking support to transform their organizations.

ENROLL IF YOU

LACK:

You have limited nonprofit leadership experience, particularly in leading organizations with 8 or more employees or volunteers.

If you feel your organization has an outdated strategy, your team’s morale is low, you lack an effective funding mix or some of your functional organizational areas are underdeveloped or non-existent.

If you feel your organization hasn’t fulfilled its true growth or impact potential, and you believe your personal leadership skills need to be improved.

WANT TO LEARN:

To co-design, with your team, a new organizational Theory of change, a bold vision, a new fundraising plan and a realistic action plan to transform your organization. You’ll also learn how to organize effective team retreats.

How to lead people effectively, with professionalism and empathy, and how to manage your board of directors.

How to improve your decision making and executive communication skills.

Advisory STRUCTURE

Leadership Needs Assessment

We’ll start our advisory journey with a needs assessment interview to uncover your leadership needs and potential blind spots. We’ll pinpoint key areas for growth and refinement, ensuring a nuanced understanding of your personal leadership landscape and your specific challenges. We’ll then talk more about your learning style and how our feedback can help you. Your willingness and openness to share your fundamental leadership challenges is critical in this step.

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Individual Leadership Development Roadmap

We’ll design a tailored roadmap of your leadership development experience and agree on the key focus areas for our advisory process. Usually, we’ll aim to identify a number of cross-sectional leadership topics, such as executive communication, decision making and lateral thinking, staff and board management, fundraising, organizational culture and strategic planning skills. This strategic plan serves as our compass for the coming advisory session.

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Ongoing Advisory Session

Our advisory meetings will begin with a focus on fundamental leadership challenges, but we’ll also cover some of the organizational process decisions you’re about to make. During this phase, which may last for 3 to 12 months, we meet with the nonprofit leader around 6 to 18 times. The length of a meeting is typically two hours and it consists of a mixture of fixed agendas and open-ended slots to discuss different newly emerging issues and provide you with feedback.

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Technical Change Management Support

In this stage, we’ll assist you with selecting and tailoring the appropriate strategic working tools. We’ll furthermore support you with organizing an effective staff retreat and/or creating new organizational procedures from scratch. If need may be, we’ll co-design, with your team, a new organizational Theory of change, a bold vision, a new fundraising plan and a realistic action plan to transform your organization.

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Intermediary Assessment

At the halfway point of our process, we will take some time to evaluate the effectiveness of the tools and methods used. In this phase, we may repeat a partial needs assessment.

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VI.

Final Advisory Assessment

We will evaluate the outcome of our advisory program at the end of it. We may discuss whether it is necessary to continue our program or just discuss our learnings and conclusions before finishing it.

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THE FULL EXPERIENCE

Locations and language

Duration: 6 to 18 sessions, of 2 hours / session, online, globally over the course of maximum 12 months.

Advisory language(s): English or Romanian.

Group size and planning

Here are some additional details:

This is an individual advisory and mentorship journey.

Complex advisory programs – such as this one – are scheduled at least 2 months in advance.

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Are we a match?

Consider joining a free preliminary “Chemistry” or “Empathy” meeting with us.

Details

Our Chemistry Meeting ensures that our communication styles are compatible before committing to a potential collaboration.

We may also discuss our expectations and determine if they are aligned. We’ll make the final decision about moving forward together after this meeting.

YOUR Advisor

Zoltan Cristian Bereczki

Zoltan has 20+ years of experience in the nonprofit and social venture development sectors. He is the manager of Synerb. Over the past 10 years, Zoltan contributed to the growth and development of over 200 social enterprises and visionary NGOs through strategic advising, training and tailored consulting.

INTERESTED?

Have questions? Do you need a quote? Drop us a note:

contact@synerb.org

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