Professional Consulting Services

Professional Consulting Services with Heart

Passion, Purpose, and Direction

My consulting services cover (and are not limited to) the following areas:

Vision Mission, and Goals

Without a vision, we have no passion. Without a mission, we have no purpose. Without goals, with have no way to get there; we have no direction.

I work with individuals and organizations to develop and operationalize vision, mission, and goal statements that are highly relevant to the client(s). Values exploration and alignment is a key part of this process – for the individual and the organization. For work groups, these statements must make sense to the group and also be in alignment with the greater organization’s vision, mission, and goals. Developing meaningful and actionable vision, mission, and goal statements is exciting, engaging, and empowering work.

Professional Coaching

A Professional Coach offers clients an external perspective that’s dedicated to the client’s success. At the core of coaching, passion, purpose, and direction help guide the conversations, the exercises, and the experiments that the coach and client plan and execute. Clients can feel vulnerable when the coaching gets close to the core issues, but the trusting and supportive relationship with the coach, and the client’s strengths, buoy the process.

Sometimes the client seeks coaching to improve leadership or management style. Sometimes the client seeks professional coaching to advance the client’s career. Sometimes clients are referred to coaching. Sometimes the client is a work team, which desires to improve their working relationships and productivity.

In addition to consulting, I maintain a private practice as a licensed psychologist (https://drkevingaw.com). While coaching and counseling/psychotherapy require trusting working relationships between the client and the practitioner, they are separate processes and practices; they are not the same. A primary difference between the two is that coaching focuses on the present and the future, while counseling/psychotherapy will include exploring (and resolving) past issues/concerns, and how past issues/concerns might relate to the present issues/concerns. Counseling/psychotherapy is confidential (as protected by the law) while coaching is an agreed upon privacy. In addition, coaches are not allowed to diagnose mental health disorders; licensed mental health practitioners can diagnose. To be sure, there are many other differences. If you are seeking counseling/psychotherapy, please link to my website: https://drkevingaw.com.

Staff Retreats & Team Building

If your team is seeking a dynamic, fun, and engaging extended day-long (or two-day) retreat, I will work with you to develop and execute the curriculum that meets your needs. Many staff/team members dread these gatherings. My approach includes surveying staff well in advance so that their input is utilized. My retreats are interactive, relying on the expertise of all participants; everyone has a voice. I can weave activities that will tap into individual staff passion and purpose, leading to a unified direction. My motto for retreats is: “We don’t Retreat. We Advance!” Using creative approaches to problem-solving and decision-making, using team building activities, and honing in on the insights of the group, I have found engagement to be high across the whole team. This approach helps everyone get onboard with the agenda and the experience.

Intercultural Training

If you are seeking an intercultural trainer who can bring years of personal and professional experience to the training, I may be your trainer. I have provided multiple day-long (or more) trainings using the Intercultural Development Model approach, which seeks to emphasize individual growth by way of shifting participants towards a more ethnorelative orientation from an ethncentric orientation. To do this I use highly interactive training techniques that typically help individuals encounter their own internal biases and assumptions. If you are interested in this approach, let’s talk!

Strategic Planning & Organization Development

If you need an external expert to assist you and/or your team develop a comprehensive, forward-looking strategic plan, look no further. Using staff and stakeholder surveys and research, we can write a plan that will carry you and your organization forward to years to come. Direction is key to staff engagement, as is having a sense of purpose, and feeling the passion to do the work.

Process improvement, pain points, pivot points, organizational and interpersonal communications, change, among many other factors, are elements of organization development, of which I can assist.

Assessment: Outcomes and Impact

With years of assessment experience, I can assist with your assessment needs. Developing practical assessment plans that examine outcomes and impact is critical for moving an organization forward. Data-driven decisions help with pivoting, adding additional resources, or reorganization.

Need to establish student learning outcomes or an assessment plan? Give me a call – we will be able to assist with the goal of you taking control.

Survey Design, Analyses, and Reporting

Need to survey your stakeholders using an independent professional? I have multiple years of experience in survey design and administration, as well as data analysis and interpretation. Just ask me about the item scaling and you’ll know I’m a bit of a stickler when it comes to data interpretation and the meaning of a response. I use accessible tools to collect and report data – all of which will be your data to keep and use (unless otherwise contracted, which, to be honest, would be pretty rare).

External Site Reviews

Using the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Professional Standards for Career Services and/or the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS), I provide comprehensive external site reviews for career centers which result in a detailed report and set of recommendations. These reports are often used to request additional resources or to make needed changes. Typically, the requestor is the leader of the department or the Vice President of the division. As a NACE-trained external reviewer, it is important for my clients to receive a non-biased review. I can adapt the review standards to include other professional standards, as needed/requested. Because these are generally two-day visits and pre-arrival work is required, advance planning is required.

Why us?

Passion, Purpose, and Direction

At the core of my work with all my clients, I am deeply invested in aligning the consultation request with my client’s passion (vision), purpose (why), and direction (how and where). My consultation will align with your needs.

Professional Consulting Services with Heart

Professional Consulting Services