La Piana Associates works with nonprofit organizations, philanthropic foundations, and public institutions, helping them to anticipate and address critical strategic issues. We help an organization to identify, design, and implement solutions to the challenges it faces, resulting in an improved management structure, a more engaged board, a stronger staff, and a healthier organization overall.

We specialize in the following areas:

• Real Time Strategic Planning SM
  Our Real Time Strategic PlanningSM process can lead your organization through a transformational experience that results in an immediately usable and relevant plan for the short- and long-term.

• Leadership Development
  La Piana Associates works to build the capacity of the nonprofit sector through the design and implementation of leadership development programs. A hallmark of our model for leadership development is an intensive learning opportunity for executive directors, designed using a peer learning model, in which small groups of executive directors (12-15 participants) commit to learn together over an extended period, often a year. We refer to this as a Learning Community.

• Strategic Restructuring
  The nation's leading consulting firm in this area, La Piana Associates has expertise in all forms of strategic restructuring for nonprofit organizations, including mergers, joint ventures, consolidations, alliances, and other forms of partnership.

• Organizational Change Management
  We can help identify and minimize the barriers to change, and assist your organization and staff to adjust to and embrace change, and to use it to strengthen the organization.

• Board Development and Training
  We provide board development and training services that help your nonprofit's board and staff work together optimally, and support your board in realizing its mission of being the nonprofit's greatest asset.

• Human Resource Solutions
  We can help you to encourage maximum commitment, productivity, and participation from your most valuable resource - your employees.

• Marketing and Communications
  We help nonprofits develop and implement marketing and communications plans to promote their services and value to their stakeholders, both internal and external.

• Management and Program Assessment
  Through a practical and participatory process, we assess the effectiveness of management functions and programs, identifying needed improvements in a short timeframe. We can help you develop indicators, measures, and benchmarks, and design systems and processes for ongoing assessment.

• Capacity-Building Programs for Grantees
  La Piana Associates supports private and community foundations in developing strategies that enhance their grantees’ organizational effectiveness. Our services are focused on those areas that are the primary components of internal organizational capacity.

• Customized Trainings
  We provide customized workshops and coaching for nonprofit managers and board members, educational seminars for funder groups, and skills-building trainings for nonprofit management consultants.