Our comprehensive market study reveals key insights into student attrition, misalignment with decision factors, and gaps in how your school’s strengths are communicated.

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Losing students without understanding why can hinder growth and stability. Our market research approach identifies key reasons for attrition, enabling you to employ targeted retention strategies.

Explore Attrition

A stagnant or declining enrollment can limit your school's potential. Discover why admitted families are declining to enroll and what can be done to attract them.

Understanding Low Yield

Gain candid insights into how your school is perceived and where you are aligning with what families value most.

Evaluate Your Value Proposition

A clear picture of your competition and why families choose them can help you tailor your strategies, enhance offerings, and re-position your school as a top choice for mission-aligned students.

Learn Where Families are Going

Struggling with unexplained attrition and difficulty attracting new families? This situation can lead to declining enrollment and missed opportunities, putting your school's growth and reputation at risk. Without understanding the root causes, you're left guessing how to improve.

Organizations need leaders who can steward the financial life of the organization. We can help ensure your executive team, board, and others are empowered to lead confidently and navigate challenges with clarity and resilience.

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Give your board the confidence and clarity it needs to fully understand and meet its fiduciary duties, safeguarding the future of your organization.

Prioritize Board Development

CEO, Executive Directors, Heads of School, and other leaders will benefit from our coaching services that equip them with the knowledge to lead with confidence.

Engage Executive Coaching

Equip your entire community with the financial knowledge they need to drive your success. With strategies tailored to your community, everyone can contribute to your goals, ensuring alignment and supporting your mission.

Increase Transparency and Engagement

Expand your professional development and build up the essential financial, operational, and governance skillsets needed to support your team and lead your organization.

Financial Leadership Development

Great organizations need great people. Whether you need temporary help with a project that you just can’t seem to find time to tackle, permanent staffing solutions, or just some support and insight in hiring key members for your team– we can help.

When you have turnover in a key leadership position, we are ready to step in as interim leaders to ensure organizational stability. We’ll provide the guidance and expertise needed to keep your operations running smoothly and your team focused on achieving your goals.

Leadership Support

Our expertise spans interim CFO-level support, comprehensive bookkeeping, accounting services, and specialized technical theater support, optimizing operations to empower your organization.

Expertise Across Roles

When hiring financial and operational positions, you may not know what your organization needs or what to look for in a candidate. We provide tailored hiring assistance to help you attract and hire top talent for key leadership roles in your organization, ensuring you have great people to drive your success and maintain a competitive edge.

Tailored Hiring Assistance

Find the right talent to fill your positions– whether it be temporary support or executive hiring. We'll help you attract the best people for your needs.

Staffing Solutions

The devil is in the details. Optimizing the management of your operational work will help streamline your organization’s processes for efficiency. Leverage our expertise in improving your operating model so you can focus on your strategic vision and delivering on your mission.

Ensure your organization meets the needs of internal and external customers by delivering superior service to end users.

Enhance Service Delivery

Align existing processes with your strategic priorities to ensure you can achieve your vision and mission.

Focus on Strategic Vision

Assess and refine your business operations so resources are preserved to serve your mission.

Reduce Operating Cost

Refocus on long-term efficiency and resilience.

Ensure Sustainability

We’ll support you in improving efficiency throughout your organization, providing you with actionable solutions to optimize your day-to-day processes.

Operational Efficiency

This yearlong engagement supports financially distressed schools, some near closure, by analyzing critical areas that affect their sustainability. We assess enrollment trends, tuition and financial aid competitiveness, and perceptions of value among prospective families. We also review staffing efficiency, donor retention, and fundraising effectiveness to identify areas for improvement. Our goal is to clarify financial issues and provide insights so schools can take timely action to reverse financial decline.

Often, financial distress results from unnoticed trends. We work with managerial and board leadership to identify causes of fiscal instability and create a strategic plan for sustainability.

Build a Plan for Financial Resiliency

Examine trends in earned and unearned revenue, pricing, and fee structures to identify how to maximize your income sources.

Assess Revenue Durability

We analyze and benchmark your expenses with best-practice and industry norms to uncover ways to make your budget more sustainable.

Examine Cost Structures

We take a holistic approach, providing expertise on asset management, cash reserves, and debt control.

Review Overall Fiscal Condition

Overcome financial challenges with a clear path to sustainability. With our in-depth process and analysis, you’ll gain insights and tools to secure your organization’s financial future.

Strategic Financial Realignment

A well-crafted budget is a strategic financial plan and an expression of your organization’s values. As such, our imperative is to involve your entire leadership team in the budgeting process so that fiscal stewardship becomes engrained in your culture.

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Without strategic budgeting and financial management, planning becomes daunting. We will help you build a long-range strategic financial plan, to help you see the future impact of financial and operational decisions you are making today.

Support Future Sustainability

Budgeting made better! Inefficiencies can slow organizations down. We’ll optimize your processes, engaging your entire leadership team to ensure a seamless approach that stays true to your values and strategic direction.

Optimize Budgeting Procedures

Navigating financial decisions without clear insights can be risky. Our strategic budgeting services provide the clarity you need to anticipate challenges, seize opportunities, and thrive in a competitive landscape.

Foster Strategic Development

We help leaders and teams who might not be financial experts gain the skills they need to develop and manage budgets effectively. Our guidance fills the gap, making financial management more accessible.

Bridge Financial Knowledge Gap

We help leaders build the capacity for budget development and financial management at every level of their organization.

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