Debra Howard Consulting

Consulting

We guide businesses, nonprofits, and foundations determined to do better.

  • Organizational Design and Restructuring

    Breaking the Secret Code. Clients call us when things aren’t working well and they don’t know why. As outside consultants who have worked with many organizations, we can more easily see the logjam, the missing piece, the system that is doing a great job of getting the wrong results.

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  • Cross-functional (Matrix) Optimization

    Playing Nice. Leaders like to talk about breaking down silos and increasing cross-functional collaboration, but for many organizations, it’s more than a popular idea—it’s imperative to their mission and survival.

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  • Leadership Development and Succession Planning

    Empty Seats on the Bus. It's easy for leaders to put succession planning on the to-do list for tomorrow. It’s an uncomfortable subject, and there’s no hard deadline for it. But by the time you get around to it, it might be too late to develop your future talent, and you might have too many empty seats on the bus to sustain the business.

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