As a fractional Chief of Staff for nonprofit leaders, I also maximize effectiveness to achieve goals at critical times of change and challenge.
CHIEF OF STAFF SERVICES
Having been a strategic communications executive, marketer, and change manager for more than 20 years in a former life, my chief of staff services amplify and maximize a leader's impact with a combination of strategic planning and execution, stakeholder communication and coordination, operational management, and day-to-day oversight of key initiatives. The result of our collaboration makes room for leaders to focus within their zone of excellence while their larger agenda moves effectively forward with my contribution as a clutch player and force multiplier.
Specifically, my approach:
Some signature achievements include:
I work with clients across the U.S. and am open to both in-person and remote engagements. Locally, I live in Oakland, California and serve clients throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information, please reach out to me at megan(at)meganprentiss.com
CHIEF OF STAFF SERVICES
Having been a strategic communications executive, marketer, and change manager for more than 20 years in a former life, my chief of staff services amplify and maximize a leader's impact with a combination of strategic planning and execution, stakeholder communication and coordination, operational management, and day-to-day oversight of key initiatives. The result of our collaboration makes room for leaders to focus within their zone of excellence while their larger agenda moves effectively forward with my contribution as a clutch player and force multiplier.
Specifically, my approach:
- Enhances executive leadership effectiveness with operational support to enable focus on the highest-impact decisions and outcomes.
- Defines core needs, goals, and actionable strategies to co-create impactful solutions and deliver results.
- Leads high-impact projects that maintain strategic focus —including strategic planning, process optimizations, change and transformation programs, organizational alignment, and cross-functional accountability.
- Drives streamlined program & project management, decision-making, and stakeholder engagement.
- Facilitates cross-functional team meetings and executive communications.
- Stewards organizational values and culture that helps people get their best work done.
Some signature achievements include:
- Served as a force multiplier for the CEO in discerning the highest-priority issues for her strategic focus and the most valuable work to be done by me or others in delegation to successfully achieve ambitious organizational goals.
- Spearheaded strategic planning and follow-on activities to boost revenue 50%+ YOY for a woman-owned enterprise that optimized day-to-day operations and task prioritization.
- Improved organizational efficiency by ~25% through improvements, procedures, communications, and programs that enabled thoughtful scaling through a period of unprecedented customer demand, and potential risk.
- Aligned cross-functional teams to function at peak performance at multiple employers, including a $100MM socially responsible company’s turnaround and a $1B global technology's corporate merger.
I work with clients across the U.S. and am open to both in-person and remote engagements. Locally, I live in Oakland, California and serve clients throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information, please reach out to me at megan(at)meganprentiss.com