With Fran’s guidance, we have trimmed most of the dead weight from our board and recognize our responsibility to finish the job with our next elections.
Board Governance Committee Chair
Do you believe that your nonprofit is in need of a major shift in direction, but are
not sure how to build support for your vision?
Is your founding Board or CEO holding you back from making much needed
changes?
Are you thinking of hiring a first-time Executive Director and don’t know where to
begin?
Are personal agendas brought into the Boardroom, preventing honest debate on
critical but difficult issues?
Are you in need of a strategic plan but don’t know how to figure out how in depth
it should be or who to engage in the process?
Do you have the inclination to lead, but don’t know how to get people’s attention
or project an executive presence?
Does your board micromanage the staff’s day-to-day work and lack understanding
of their responsibilities for strategic governance?
Are trustee roles and responsibilities clearly defined in the bylaws?
Are conflicts on your team preventing key goals from being accomplished in a
timely manner?
Does the prospect of exercising your authority or power leave you feeling
uncomfortable?
Does your organization’s norms or culture stand in the way of progress?
Does your team discuss important issues but then avoid the commitment and
accountability required to get actual work done?
Clear
Picture
Of your present state, a vision for the future and an assessment of what’s working and what’s not in terms of achieving your organization’s full potential.
Governance Best-Practices
To develop your Board and keep Directors focused on right priorities.
Adaptive
Leadership
Focused on building organizational capacity to meet your nonprofit’s next stage of growth.
Disciplined
Approach
To tackling your organization’s most challenging and critical goals. Not just wishful thinking!
What We Offer
Leadership Coaching
RCI works with senior nonprofit professionals and lay leaders one-on-one, and in teams, to help them increase their effectiveness and impact. The coaching process is structured to facilitate a clear understanding of the opportunities and challenges you face in leading your nonprofit and generates learning and forward action through a commitment to measurable outcomes. Coaching has become the clear best-practice for leadership development because it will give you, and your leadership team, the skills and confidence to succeed.
Leadership Coaching
RCI works with senior nonprofit professionals and lay leaders one-on-one, and in teams, to help them increase their effectiveness and impact. The coaching process is structured to facilitate a clear understanding of the opportunities and challenges you face in leading your nonprofit and generates learning and forward action through a commitment to measurable outcomes. Coaching has become the clear best-practice for leadership development because it will give you, and your leadership team, the skills and confidence to succeed.
Women and Leadership
RCI is passionate about coaching women leaders who are committed to making a positive impact in the world through their work in the nonprofit sector. It is well-researched finding that gender-based stereotypes can prevent women from bringing their authentic, empowered, best selves to work. In coaching, you will learn to hone your signature style, build upon key strengths and expand your strategic impact and influence. RCI has a track record of coaching female executives, board officers and emerging leaders to lead change in their organizations by creating a compelling vision and cohesive platform for next-level growth.
Women and Leadership
RCI is passionate about coaching women leaders who are committed to making a positive impact in the world through their work in the nonprofit sector. It is well-researched finding that gender-based stereotypes can prevent women from bringing their authentic, empowered, best selves to work. In coaching, you will learn to hone your signature style, build upon key strengths and expand your strategic impact and influence. RCI has a track record of coaching female executives, board officers and emerging leaders to lead change in their organizations by creating a compelling vision and cohesive platform for next-level growth.
Organizational (OD) Consulting
RCI practices Organization Development, a process of diagnosing and providing you with feedback on the key issues and dynamics that are preventing your nonprofit from being most effective in reaching it goals. RCI takes a systems approach to addressing organizational challenges and works toward helping its nonprofit clients create more effective and healthy approaches to problem solving. OD is fundamentally change-oriented. If the same problems keep on happening over and over again, an OD approach to change is needed!
Organizational (OD) Consulting
RCI practices Organization Development, a process of diagnosing and providing you with feedback on the key issues and dynamics that are preventing your nonprofit from being most effective in reaching it goals. RCI takes a systems approach to addressing organizational challenges and works toward helping its nonprofit clients create more effective and healthy approaches to problem solving. OD is fundamentally change-oriented. If the same problems keep on happening over and over again, an OD approach to change is needed!
Our Founder
Fran Riemer, RCI’s founder and president, is recognized for her strategic insight, human capital expertise and business acumen in solving complex leadership and organizational challenges. Fran brings a multidisciplinary skill-set and process consulting approach to her clients developed over many years in the nonprofit and corporate sectors. A master change agent herself, Fran expertly guides her clients to cut through organizational chaos and create a clear mission-driven platform for growth and change.
Ms. Riemer holds a Masters in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University, Teachers College, with a concentration in Organizational Change and Leadership studies. She is also Certified as an Executive and Organizational Coach through New York University’s School of Professional Studies. Fran’s undergraduate degree is in accounting and she is licensed as a CPA in NY State (non-practicing).
Fran Riemer has been much more than supportive and instructive. She has energized our team by completely revamping the way we think about and approach the problems opportunities we face. The changes we are embracing at our School are nothing short of transformational!
Board President, Independent School
Thank you so much for your unending guidance. You gave us excellent direction, and as a result both our committees and the board are much more productive. We have a good sense of how to move forward after your support.
Strategic Planning Chair
Coaching has helped me to understand not only what I should be doing, but how to ease my way out of the day-to-day business affairs of the school.
Treasurer, Independent School
Thank you for putting in a great effort and leading a terrific retreat. I received more than a number of emails from board members who felt that the retreat fulfilled its objectives and provided a strong foundation and renewed spirit for the board to be unified and move the school forward.
Board VP, Independent School
Fran has been an incredible resource to us over the past 8 years on strategic planing and board governance as well as council concerning overall management issues , as they have arisen. She has a vast reservoir of knowledge and experience from which to draw and her judgement has been spot on. Her familiarity with and passion for the success of our mission has made her that much more valuable.
Foundation Board, President
Fran is amazing. Thank you for supporting the School as you have. “Above and beyond” must be your middle name.
Head, Independent School
Thank you for all your hard work. I thought the meeting tonight went really well. The Board was engaged, learned about being on a board, and coalesced. Your deep knowledge of not for profit governance coupled with your skilled way of leading groups brought our Board to a new level of engagement and commitment.
And, thank you for suggesting/pushing me to speak about the vision at our Gala. You were right and I am glad I did it.
Your input and impact on our Agency have been tremendous!
Executive Director, Agency
Fran Riemer has worked with our organization for the past five years, strategically helping us grow from a grassroots entity to a thriving non-profit. Fran’s support has been multi-fold: helping us structure our services team; working with the board to create a job description for an Executive Director, then supporting the search; evaluating the board of directors and providing recommendations for board growth and strengthening; crisis management; 3-5 year strategic planning; mission development; and so much more. Fran is the ultimate professional but is also warm, encouraging and compassionate. What I like most about Fran is her capacity to see the big picture, including long-term planning, as well as seeing how small changes can have a large impact on the organization.
Executive Director, Foundation