PROPOSAL APPENDIX
Noteworthy Project Briefs
About Your Crescendo
Professional Biography
One Client’s Experience
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NOTEWORTHY PROJECT BRIEFS
Purpose is a powerful accelerator for articulating visions, outcomes and priorities in way that mobilizes stakeholders to the ‘why’ of their work. It also substantially enables building high performing boards and leadership excellence through clarity of work, vision and the change mandate. With focused intent, we work to harness that power to create engaging, personally vested and mission impactful facilitated engagements. We approach facilitation as an opportunity to create immersive experiences that embolden the purpose of the organization. We design experiences with intent and a focus on engagement. Below are highlights from recent engagements we’ve facilitated that illustrate these objectives in the facilitated experience we designed.
The experiences highlighted below are of Your Crescendo engagements:
Annie E. Casey Foundation Atlanta Civic Site Vision 2020 Strategic Articulation
Currently developing the strategic articulation site for the Atlanta Civic Site that will set the stage for the foundation’s investment strategies in the City of Atlanta. Additionally, we provide leadership coaching for the Atlanta Civic Site Director through Finding Your Forte. Designedandfacilitatedameetingwithkeystakeholders tosupport the development of a two-generation focused data strategy. The post-meeting deliverable included a strategic articulation map to visually depict delivery of efficient family-centered programs and services that are informed by a proficient approach to data collection, sharing and understanding. Developed a toolkit to help the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Family Centered Community Change sites develop a clear articulation of key outcomes (The Why) that align with the needs of children and the appropriate strategies and services (The How) required to achieve those outcomes.
SLAM! Academy Atlanta In a high stakes team building and strategic plan development retreat, a soon-to-launch charter school had a contentious relationship between its board (mostly African-American) and the foundation/funders (mostly Latino) that provide the blueprint for the school. By starting with connecting their purpose to the school mission allowing them to more meaningfully get to know each other and then work together to plan the strategic articulation’s implementation.
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Bottom Line Bottom Line helps low-income and first- generation-to-college students get to and through college. We helped their development articulate its go-to-market strategy for fund development, pursue (and win) grant opportunities and develop a pitch deck.
National Black MBA Association Under the direction of the incoming CEO, we developed their strategic articulation map focused on their purpose through facilitated sessions with leadership. We continue to be engaged to lead and coordinate implementation of their strategic plan.
Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative We led Atlanta Wealth Building Institute’s board and leadership through a two-day retreat experience. As an organization, AWBI is focused on closing the black wealth gap in Atlanta through empowering entrepreneurship and systemically strengthening access to capital for black entrepreneurs. We designed and delivered this strategic planning experience to mobilize a strong, working board to empower their new executive director and set her up for success.
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Impact Church – Strategic Articulation
We led Impact Church on a several-month engagement to articulate its strategic plan in addition to its brand strategy and guidelines. This engagement created a leadership / staff roadmap tool in addition to a marketing and branding guideline. Staff and leaders always carry and reference their strategic articulation map in making key decisions and staying focused on what they’ve chosen to make priorities. Vision Construction Once our strategic articulation was completed, we needed to build the implementation plan. Having led the implementation through consulting, we needed to transfer ownership of the plan to the client to continue without our support. To prepare them for this key transition, we created a vision construction experience in the space of one of the city’s most prominent commercial builder’s offices and provided construction hats and cold pack lunch pails (that they continued to use as a reminder of the experience).
Atlanta Public Schools While leading delivering of key district strategic initiatives in the midst of a cheating scandal, the leader and the strategic program and project delivery team found themselves working through abysmal morale. We facilitated a series of Finding Your Forte starting with the key leader and then her team. This energy carried over into the entire district when the new superintendent embraced StrengthsFinder as a strategic thrust to ‘Focus on What’s Strong instead of What’s Wrong’. This helped them navigate beyond the scandal, and now every teacher and staff knows their strength from StrengthsFinder and the use them in everyday education processes and support.
Historic Westside Gardens
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City of Atlanta - Fulton County Land Bank Authority As an approach to level set new board members with old on how landbanks work, we had board members play an equity version of Monopoly with members having the opportunity to be the ‘land banker’.
National Society of Black Engineers Currently leading the facilitation to guide NSBE student and staff leadership through a several month exercise to articulate its strategic path forward. As an organization, they are focused on movement building to continue to make black engineer a household name in homes and communities of color and beyond.
Transformation Alliance In an effort to create an immersive experience connected to their purpose related to equitable transit-oriented development, we had members take MARTA to our strategic planning session. We also featured only vendors in the community neighborhoods they served including
We were part of a team engaged to define the strategic articulation for Transformation Alliance focused on equitable transit-oriented development through mobilizing a group on non-profits and creating cohesive synergies to combat racial inequity in Atlanta with regards to transit and development.
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ATLANTA FOOD & FARM – STRATEGIC ARTICULATION AND IMPLEMENTATION PLANNING
We facilitated the development of Atlanta Food and Farm Strategic Articulation. We also led the development of their implementation plan and delivered project management training to their team.
Contact: Kwabena Nkromo, Executive Director
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ABOUT YOUR CRESCENDO
Our Mission To ignite purpose and its pursuit in organizations, teams and individuals through intentional vision and strategy with their gifts, passions and motivations front of mind.
A Moving Performance To bring its most inspired performance, a symphony must have talented musicians that are at their best, well rehearsed and all engaged on the experience it is looking to inspire for its audience. Our mission is to orchestrate an inspired performance for maestros, instrument sections and musicians to bring their best performance.
LEADERS
TEAMS
INDIVIDUALS
Leadership on Purpose • Leadership Development • Executive / Leadership Coaching
Building High Performing Teams • Team Retreats • Forums • Strategic Planning Facilitation Finding Your Forte • Strategic Articulation • Grow-To-Market Strategy
Finding Your Forte • Executive Coaching
Placement on Purpose • Talent Acquisition
- Full-Time Roles - Consultants and Contractors
• Group Coaching • Speaker Series
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PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY
COACHING AND LEADERSHIP PROFILE Reggie Hammond is committed to his mission to help leaders, teams and organizations live their purpose in their projects, business, careers and lives. He focuses on helping professionals find their forte through optimizing their passions, gifts/strengths and marketrewarding motivations in a way that impacts their purpose and the world around them. He uses this approach to help leaders drive purpose and engagement in their teams and organizations.
• Coaching for Performance (GROW Model) • Purpose-Focused Careers and Business • Program and Project Management • Value Realization / Delivery • Strategic Planning
• Employee Engagement • Keynote Speaker • Go-To-Market Strategy • Business Development Planning • Business Case
Reggie Hammond
“Mission based organizations have a clear advantage of igniting realization of their purpose through the purpose of their people and stakeholders. To make the most of this imperative, it is mission critical that they have: • A well articulated singular vision of their future • A stakeholder community that understands and adopts the mission, vision and strategic priorities • A culture for clear communication of the task at hand and high performing camaraderie for all involved. The organizations that get this and mobilize their strategy with this in mind are well positioned to witness the impact and success their purpose so richly deserves.”
EXPERIENCE
Reggie has a long, successful track record of empowering the performance of leaders, teams and organizations. His experience encompasses driving both individual and business performance for his clients. He has committed his professional career to delivering business critical initiatives for the individuals and organizations he has engaged through consulting, leading and coaching.
YOUR CRESCENDO Founder and Managing Partner • Executive Coach, Consultant and Facilitator
• Offerings: Finding Your Forte (Coaching); Strategic Articulation and Planning; High Performing Teams on Purpose (Teams and Leadership Retreats); Placement on Purpose (Full-time and contractor placement); Talent and Leadership Development • Coaching and Placement Clients have included: Coca-Cola Enterprises, Atlanta Public Schools, Fulton County School System, Impact Church, Navigator Management Consulting • Speaking and Workshop Clients have included: Accenture, Deloitte, Turner Broadcasting, UNUM Group, WELCOA (Wellness Coalition Association), AT&T
EXERVIO MANAGEMENT CONSULTING Vice President, Atlanta Office (Launched) • Clients included The Coca-Cola Company, AT&T, Fiserv • Key Accomplishment: Developed and Deployed Net Client Value (NCV) Strategy and Approach, Program Delivery Diagnostic
ACCENTURE Senior Manager, Business Process Excellence and Business Case Delivery • Clients included Unilever, Hallmark, Borden Foodservice, Victoria Secret Stores, • Key Accomplishments: Developed Find the Money program for ERP Benefits Realizations and Value Delivery • Co-founder of Diversity initiatives / affinity groups in two offices: Ohio (CARE 2000) and Atlanta (African American In Motion) AAIM
– Reggie Hammond
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STRATEGIC PLANNING CLIENTS Impact Church
Centric Consulting • Placement on Purpose
• Strategic Articulation and Marketing and Branding Strategy • Vision Construction (Strategy Implementation)
Historic Westside Gardens • Strategic Articulation / Leadership Retreat
Navigator Management Partners • Atlanta Go-To-Market Strategy • Placement on Purpose
Atlanta Public Schools • Executive Coaching • Finding Your Forte (Leadership Retreat) • Cluster Strategy Plan Development Fulton County School System • Communications Leadership Team Retreat
Matters
Exceleration Partners / Potential • Strategic Articulation
Whizzimo • Launch Strategy
EXECUTIVE COACHING - GO-TO-MARKET STRATEGY
The Ascend Consultancy Group • Go-To-Market Strategy
Albireo Group • Executive Coaching • Strategic Delivery Partner Black Teacher Collaborative • Strategic Articulation
The Lean Coach, Inc • Go-to-Market Strategy
712 Exchange • Go-to-Market Strategy
The Honeycomb Life • Launch Go-to- Market Strategy
BeckWay Group • Launch and Go-To-Market Strategy
The Global Launchpad • Go-to-Market Strategy
BlueFletch Mobile • Go-to-Market Strategy
Conserte Consulting • Go-to-Market Strategy
CONSULTING CLIENTS
Unilever • Bestfoods - Post Merger Integration Strategy • Foodservice Strategy AT&T • Tower Operations Strategy • Supply Chain Consulting Resources
The Coca-Cola Company • Innovation Process and Systems Strategy • Global Project Manager Training Delivery
Hallmark • Business Transformation Strategy (ERP enabled)
SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Keynote Speaker – WELCOA Summit (Wellness Coalition of America), SAP User Conference, Accenture, Deloitte, UNUM Group • Performance Consultants International, Coaching for Performance Certification • Accenture Atlanta – Coach of the Year – 2000 • Accenture Atlanta and Ohio – Founder of Diversity Initiative – AAIM and CARE 2000 • Create Your Dreams, Board Chair; TechBridge, Board Member UN Women, Global Women For Well Being (GW4W) Founding Member EDUCATION • The Ohio State University, MBA – Operations and Finance • Albany State University, BS - Marketing
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ONE CLIENT’S EXPERIENCE An interview with Samantha (Evans) Maxey, Executive Director of Communications Fulton County School System
What was your objective? I wanted to bring in an outside person to be able to facilitate a process where my team was engaged and where we could be refocused on our work; see our deficiencies, strengths and building blocks to move forward and create our plan for the next year. Usually, we would do it on our own. This time I thought it might be helpful to have that outside perspective.
In addition, I was new in my role. I was there a little under a year. So there were also some internal dynamics at play as there will be with new leaders, new plans, new ways of doing things, etc. I was also very interested in getting help to gel better with my team.
Describe the experience. Were there any memorable moments? The experience started before the actual event with the entire team. This was incredibly valuable to me. Reggie and I met a couple times and had in depth conversations about my needs, hopes and goals. He was very candid from the start, which I appreciated. He told me, “We need to deal with you first, see what’s going on with you, before we focus on the team.” He helped me pull out my own deficiencies as a leader. He challenged me to be comfortable with those types of conversations. He then started drafting some things based on what he heard. He shared those plans with me and his creativity was amazing. He presented a menu of options for the different ways to engage, price point, etc. Having those choices allowed me to pick and choose the right solution for our needs. Then, we got to the part of engaging with the team. He came to the office, met the team, introduced himself and prepped them for what they were going to experience. It definitely got them curious, which was good. Then, the actual day was amazing. It was refreshing to be in this contemporary space, to think, reflect and breathe. Breakfast was set up. His attention to the little things made all the difference. It was important for the whole experience. He knew that. We had breakfast, mingled and just enjoyed each other, which was nice. The structure, organization and very deliberate way he went from one item to the next was perfect. He wasn’t afraid to push where he needed to push. Again, he wasn’t afraid to allow us to be uncomfortable.
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Reggie knew more about communications and public education than I knew. I was really surprised. He did his homework. He knew our challenges. There was no, let’s get him up to speed. He was 100 percent present. And that was important. He knew our stakeholders, roles, environment, etc. I was impressed. There was one memorable moment when he pointed out a stakeholder group we hadn’t made a real focus. He was surprised. After the light bulb moment, we were too. We still talk about it to this day. Reggie took the time to do the work to make sure he would truly be a good guide and expert on what we deal with, and what we were trying to accomplish. The icing on the cake was that he went out and found some communications professionals to come in and have a two-way conversation with us to discuss best practices, things we were doing, opportunities for growth, current trends, etc. That was the best part for us. Reggie was smart enough to not bring in other educators, but corporations like Coke and AT&T to provide fresh perspective and new thinking. The entire team said that we need to do that regularly because it was just so valuable. What has changed for you since working with Your Crescendo? For me personally, I am now forced to regularly step back and take a breath. I find myself thinking more about my team, my expectations, how I’m communicating with them, how communication is being received, the impact that it is having. I’m also more cognizant about being more caring, listening, paying attention to the unspoken things, body language, etc. I am holding myself more accountable. Then there are the tactical things: how we work more collaboratively on plans, working more as unit, how we lead staff meetings. As far as my team, what was tremendous was that we walked away feeling more like a team. I had this one colleague who rejected this word “team”; didn’t understand how that reflected our department, work. And now that person is more comfortable with using the word; and sees that we are all concerned about each other and working together to accomplish our shared goals. Why Your Crescendo? As professionals and leaders, we are too close to our own work and our perspective on a daily basis to be objective enough to see opportunities for growth; opportunities period. It is refreshing to get an outside perspective to measure your success, your progress, your worth. You cannot do it yourself. I think it’s critical to have that outside view. And then there’s Reggie who comes to the table with tons of resources, who is so creative and all inclusive of the possibilities of how you can strengthen yourself, your organization and what you what to accomplish. Every consultant cannot do that. But he has very natural knack for it. I enjoyed the entire experience. Really, the actual day was just a piece of it for him. He was thoughtful, organized and had a big-picture view of how to help me and my team. While working with him, you wouldn’t think he had other clients. You would have thought he worked in public schools with the knowledge, skill and expertise he brought.
I would recommend him any day. He is the real deal.
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