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The Right Leaders

Nonprofits need the right leaders with the right skills and character for their organizations to thrive. So why do nonprofits sometimes have the wrong leaders? Our organizational culture occasionally rewards the wrong qualities, and people are promoted past their level of competency. In other cases, there are no clear and honest metrics to measure leader performance. And at other times, boards make misguided hiring decisions because of limited experience in the nonprofit world.

At The Savage Group, we have solutions that can address each of these issues and more. Together, we can foster healthy collaboration between your leaders and board.

Placing The Right Leaders In Your Organization

  • Retained executive search: Dan Bronson will bring his extensive experience to bear on your need, conducting your search and finding an ideal candidate for the leadership position.

  • Search support: The Savage Group will assist you in your search efforts in the following ways:

    • Assessment

    • Job descriptions

    • Background checks

  • Recruiting interim leadership

  • Compensation matrices (industry benchmarking)

  • Succession planning

  • Nonprofit entrepreneurship recruitment, assessment, and development

Develop Your Existing Leaders

  • Staff performance metrics and reviews

  • Board recruitment

  • Leadership coaching

Division Leader

Dan Bronson

Dan has over 20 years’ experience in executive search for corporate positions and not for profit Christian organizations. He previously led the Colorado Office of Lasher Associates for nonprofit clients including Christian Schools, Youth Organizations, Various Church Denominations and Para-Church Organizations.

Healthy Systems

Team Building

  • Executive coaching/leadership development

  • Talent assessments/people development

  • Relevant metrics and measurement systems

  • Staff performance and reviews

  • Interpersonal communications

Governance

  • Board effectiveness assessments

  • Strategic planning for board recruitment and development

  • Committee structure and procedures

  • Mission, vision, and planning... to make a better board

Donor Relations

  • Healthy donor engagement

  • Stronger development teams

  • Enhancing ROI

  • Diversifying revenue

Stewardship Education

  • Biblical foundations on why we engage donors

  • Creating your organization's theology of development statement

  • Artios Institute peer-to-peer cohort training

  • Growing the donor's heart in giving and living for God

  • Journey of generosity facilitation

Division Leader

John Savage

John B. Savage is a seasoned consultant and coach. For nearly thirty years, his big ideas have been helping nonprofits develop the organizational health, capacity, and capital they need to make the world a better place. John’s creative solutions have benefited agencies from entrepreneurial startups to organizations celebrating their hundredth anniversaries.

Sunset on the Coast

Sufficient Resources

Capital Campaigns

  • Feasibility studies

  • Campaign program development

  • Campaign management and resources

  • Case for support assessment and creation

Annual Fund

  • Revenue diversification

  • Revenue multiplication

  • Revenue simplification

  • Systems and metrics

  • Monthly partner programs

  • Building out the donor pyramid

Planned Giving

  • The five phases of growth

  • Stewardship and legacy ministries for your church or nonprofit

  • Leveraging what you have to get started

  • Creating donor and public inquiry in support of your mission

Social Enterprise Development

  • Feasibility studies

  • Branding and marketing support

  • Increasing your profit to increase your ministry

  • Building the "for-profit" team

Division Leader

John Savage

John B. Savage is a seasoned consultant and coach. For nearly thirty years, his big ideas have been helping nonprofits develop the organizational health, capacity, and capital they need to make the world a better place. John’s creative solutions have benefited agencies from entrepreneurial startups to organizations celebrating their hundredth anniversaries.

On a Hill

Powerful Messaging

Strategic Communications

  • Organization brand development

  • Program/social enterprise branding

  • Development messaging

  • Board/executive-level communications (vision, mission, stakeholder messaging, public relations, press releases, strategic change)

  • Communication with external and internal constituents

Campaigns

  • Campaign case studies

  • Campaign themes, branding, and messaging

  • Development strategy

  • Campaign communications assets

  • Integration with parent brand

Creative Services

  • Writing and content creation

  • Design

  • Storytelling

  • Websites

  • Print assets

  • Specialty publishing (books, training materials/courses, workshops, curriculum, new employee orientations)

  • Marketing/public relations assets

Coaching

  • Training development staff and executive leaders to communicate effectively

Publishing - The Savage Press

People are drawn to a compelling story. You have a story to tell – about who you are and who you are helping. Through Savage Press we offer top notch-turn key publishing and marketing services

:

  • Message & Marketing Strategy

  • Ghostwriting

  • Editorial Services

  • Graphic Design

  • Retail Distribution

  • Print-ebook-audio book-small group curriculum

Division Leader

David Welday

David is an out-of-the-box thinker, gifted communicator, marketing strategist, copywriter, publisher and coach. In addition to his role with The Savage Group he is President of HigherLife Publishing and Marketing, Inc. Providing professionals, business owners, authors and non-profit organizations with creative and compelling marketing and brand strategies that lead to more profitable connections. 

Through his work with The Savage Group, David is committed to bringing to the culture innovative strategies and resources built on positive, life-changing messages.

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