STRATEGY THAT WORKS

Creating a strategic plan should focus your organization’s energy, articulating a clear purpose and shared vision to propel your organization forward. Jeremy will partner with you to surface and hone key questions and design the process that makes sense for you. Strategic planning with Jeremy is a dynamic and energizing experience, so the people connected to the Plan feel excited for the real work of implementation that results. He will set you up for success with clear implementation and integration steps and stay connected over time as an accountability partner to help ensure your plan becomes and remains a powerful, usable roadmap.

BUILDING HEALTHY & EFFECTIVE TEAMS and ORGANIZATIONS

ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP COACHING

Teams and organizations exist so that the possibility of what you can achieve is more than each individual could accomplish on their own. Jeremy will help your organization or team develop a healthy culture and strong relationships. He will facilitate processes for teams to tap into their collective gifts, better align around mission, get clear on roles and decision making and feel good about working together. Teams will be set up to know how to work through conflict when it inevitably and necessarily arises. And in the current context of mission-driven, justice-focused work, when so many people are exhausted and under strain, Jeremy will support your system & team to find healing and sustenance from and with each other, to create cultures of collective care where the ways of being inside the organization mirror and align with the world you are working to create through your mission.

The best leaders seek out coaches to help them stay reflective and continue to grow. Jeremy takes a person-centered, holistic approach to coaching leaders of all levels in a system: What are you bringing? What are your goals? How do you show up? What is possible? What do you need in this moment, and for the long haul? He will be present for each moment with you while holding the bigger picture of your larger system and goals. He will hold up a mirror so you can see yourself, appreciate your gifts, and reframe to allow new possibilities. He will help you slow down to recognize what you know and, sometimes, simply breathe, as well as share tools and resources so you can gain skills that enable you to make the best decisions and take the best approach to the challenges you are facing in the moment and over time.

RETREATS

ADVANCING RACIAL EQUITY

"Over the years, we have hired Jeremy for visioning and planning processes, and on an ad campaign design process – both resident led, as well as internal team visioning strategy and re-aligning processes. Jeremy has a wealth of tools and techniques to help community members and staff articulate their goals and objectives, but even more, Jeremy’s character is one that so clearly honors the voices of the residents – the ones who will be most greatly impacted by our work and decisions – so that they, in turn, trust the process and take ownership of it. The quality and integrity of our work has risen because of our partnership with Jeremy."

- Tania M. Mireles

former Director, Violence Intervention & Prevention Initiative, Boston Public Health Commission

current Director, Student Programs, Tisch College at Tufts University

"As the former Executive Director of a food justice organization, I hired Jeremy to facilitate two consecutive strategic planning processes, for a leadership transition process, and to facilitate challenging conversations with both the board and staff. I’ve also seen him facilitate a strategic planning for a coalition where he helped build real consensus across very different perspectives and interests.

As a strong listener deeply attuned to group dynamics, Jeremy is someone people naturally open up to. He is authentic, approachable, and likable, with a humility that never comes at the expense of authority. He understands power, knows when to push back, and can be firm without being rigid, while remaining genuinely supportive and intentional about making sure all voices are heard. He is also exceptionally good at asking the right questions—questions that surface assumptions, tensions, and challenges that groups often avoid or miss. Grounded in a deep understanding of systems change and transformational work, his adaptive, flexible approach helps groups move toward clarity and alignment through participatory processes that surface the collective will.

Jeremy is the facilitator I return to when I need someone deeply trusted and grounded. He makes facilitation look easy—so easy it’s tempting to think anyone could do what he does.

I highly recommend Jeremy."

-Edna Rodriguez

Co-Founder Red Clover Consulting

former Executive Director, RAFI

The impact of structural racism and white supremacy remain ever-present. Jeremy will integrate racial equity and equity more broadly into his work with you regardless of the specific engagement - whether it's strategic planning, coaching, or a process to build a healthier team. That said, he can also work with you on advancing racial equity in your organization and team as the primary focus, typically with a close BIPoC consulting partner. Equity processes and outcomes may both be, for example, about centering BIPoC staff on the team, shifting power in your system and/or using an equity filter for decision making. Regardless, BIPoC staff, and ultimately all staff members will feel more valued, have a greater sense of belonging and bring more of their existing gifts and talents to the greater good.

Jeremy will support and facilitate cohorts and communities of practice in many contexts. Sometimes these will be part of a broader change process, for instance in leading white affinity space within a racial equity change process, or emerging organizational leaders within a philanthropic portfolio. Groups of people with a shared role, identity, or purpose being in community, sharing best practices, learnings, and challenges is a powerful mechanism for sustenance and growth. Jeremy has also proactively developed and offers with partners a cohort-based initiative to support BIPoC transformational consultants & coaches as well as a peer coaching and training for white men in leadership to better move in racial and gender justice.

COHORTS and COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

"Jeremy has a deep knowledge of non-profits and is a master facilitator. The strategic planning process that he led with us was thoughtful, thorough, and tailored to the needs of our organization… Since we finished our plan and went into implementation mode, Jeremy has continued to check in with us to see how things are going. He is not just a consultant, he is an ally and someone who is just as committed to making sure this work gets done well as we are."

-Eryn Johnson

former Executive Director, Community Art Center

Retreats with clients may be stand-alones or part of larger, more engaged change processes. Whether you are teambuilding, facing strategic decisions, engaging in strategic planning, trying to enhance organizational learning, designing a new initiative, or looking to work through a difficult issue or conflict, a retreat with Jeremy can play a key role in moving your work forward. He will partner with you to define a meaningful purpose, outcomes, and agenda; with the planning process itself being an intervention that generates momentum and good will. Jeremy will bring his authentic self to your retreat in powerful ways with dynamic, participatory, joyful, and vulnerable facilitation. Whether it’s for 4 days or 4 hours, Jeremy will engage with you to design a dynamic, inclusive, interactive retreat that achieves tangible, meaningful results.

CONTACT

Jamaica Plain - Boston - MA

617-899-9372

jeremy.kp@jeremyphillipsconsulting.org

LOCATION

available for (inter)national travel

Please feel free to reach out to me via email (or text). Initial consults over real or virtual coffee are always welcomed and pro bono.