Our Services
How We Can Help You Thrive
RJAE Consulting is your go-to when it comes to problem-solving and strategy development for nonprofits and organizations. With over a decade of proven successful experience, RJAE offers a comprehensive range of services tailored to meet the specific needs of each client. We take the time to understand your goals, vision, and mission in order to develop an optimized strategy that yields maximum results and empowers you to thrive beyond today’s environment.
Facilitation
Our mission is to help organizations and nonprofits come together to create powerful solutions, strategies, and tactics for success. RJAE Consulting has a deep understanding of an organization's strengths and offerings and can provide valuable insight as you move toward long-term objectives. Through the facilitation processes, we take the time to understand your unique needs and provide tailored support throughout the entire journey. We strive to empower nonprofits and organizations to reach their goals by providing facilitation resources filled with innovative ideas that allow you to explore creative approaches that cultivate success.
Evaluation & Assessment
Evaluation and assessment services for nonprofits and organizations are integral in helping tackle today’s social issues. Such assessments provide valuable insight into how to maximize impact and make informed decisions based on real-world data. We’re dedicated to providing you with the best evaluation possible, ensuring that you have the necessary information to optimize your efforts, create meaningful change, and truly make a difference in the world around you.
Teaching & Workshops
Our workshops are designed to help shape lasting, positive change for your community by providing key insights and resources to create collaborations with one another. We offer workshops to help your organization become stronger, more connected, and more effective in pursuing its mission. We strive to enable your organization’s success through the tools these workshops provide; from goal setting to collaborating more effectively with one another to ensuring a sustainable future. With our workshops, we want every nonprofit – no matter what size – to be successful in its mission.
Consulting
RJAE Consulting believes in the power of connection and collaboration to positively impact nonprofits and organizations. Our consulting services provide extensive expertise and knowledge to enable organizations to build and maximize capacity, as well as develop new strategies for growth. We understand that each organization is unique and harnesses a different set of assets to succeed and with our consulting services, we strive to help both existing organizations and newly-formed ones empower their visions. We have helped nonprofits realize their goals of greater engagement, fundraising, awareness building, and much more!
Keynote Speaking
Help inspire, motivate, and ignite change in your organization with RJAE Consulting’s Keynote Speaking services. We understand the need to make a lasting impression on your event participants or members, which is why our topics and formats are specifically chosen based on their ability to communicate powerful messages that are tailored to the work you do. Our keynote speaker, Martha Brown will provide attendees with the knowledge and motivation they need to make an impact in their organization and our world. Let us help you make your next keynote speech memorable and inspiring!
Overcome Challenges and Discover Opportunities
RJAE understands that organizations face obstacles, but together we can discover new opportunities and leverage existing assets to spur growth and create meaningful outcomes. Partnering with RJAE allows you and your organization to gain access to experienced consultants who will work tirelessly toward creating positive change.
Is it Time for a Readiness Assessment?
Innovation is an important part of driving growth and staying competitive. It's necessary to recognize when the time is right to move forward with a new idea, which is why assessing readiness for innovation can be so critical. Setting aside time for a readiness assessment allows you to objectively assess the readiness for change in your organization, resulting in better decisions about the areas where innovation should be focused. Taking this important step ensures that the team is ready for change and open to putting new ideas into motion so that success can be easily achieved.
Schedule your readiness assessment today to let innovation take hold and reach new heights.
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Dr. Martha Brown is a proud affiliate faculty member of the Wandersman Center, founded by Dr. Abe Wandersman. The Wandersman Center has developed a research-based, cross-disciplinary method for assessing an organization’s readiness for adopting new innovations. This powerful partnership means that RJAE Consulting clients benefit from Martha’s personal consulting services and the expertise and tools provided by the Center.
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Desire to innovate (or worse, a mandate) does not necessarily mean your organization or school is “ready” to take on the project or implement a program. Readiness issues are relevant across all stages of implementation: pre-implementation, adoption, active implementation, and sustainability. No matter the stage of an innovation’s lifespan, there are readiness issues that you should consider. When you adopt the readiness mindset, you exponentially increase your odds of successful implementation and getting awesome results! Assessing for readiness allows you to build on your strengths and address your weaknesses before those weaknesses cause major problems with program implementation.
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Readiness is determined by the three related components that can vary in influence depending on the setting. Each component has several subcomponents that provide more detail about motivation and capacity.
Those components are:
-Motivation
-Capacity (general)
-Capacity (innovation-specific). This is where we assess readiness for your particular project or program.
Readiness means your organization is strong in these three areas and that you are in good shape to move forward with your innovation.
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RJAE Consulting works with Wandersman Center to develop an innovation specific assessment just for your organization or school. It is a survey consisting of a variety of questions that address each of the three readiness components. Here are a few examples:
The way we’re structured makes it possible to do things well.
We have a strong sense of belonging and identification with our school.
Our leadership recognizes and appreciates team efforts that help us successfully implement projects.
Staffing levels are sufficient right now to accomplish our day to day tasks.
There is a clear financial plan for us to create sustainability.
We survey your stakeholders, which means everyone who has a vested interest in your success. This could include leadership, administration, staff, teachers, support staff, and even board members! Your readiness is based on how people respond to the survey items. You’ll learn more about your organization than ever before by conducting a readiness assessment!
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Great question. And the answer is pretty simple: it takes 3-5 years per school to fully implement RJE with fidelity. That’s a lot of training and support! Why would you spend money on a school that is not ready? That’s a waste of precious resources spent on something that is likely to fail. Instead, conduct readiness assessments in your schools. Start with those most ready, and while those schools are on-boarding RJE, work with the other schools to help them get ready. Then you build momentum and a track record of success, and when other schools see the results at the “ready” schools, they will be more motivated for implementation at their school. Success is contagious – and readiness assessments help set you up for success!
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RJAE Consulting will provide you with a very detailed report of the results of the assessment. We will talk together about those results and look for areas of strength that you can build on to improve areas of weakness. Sometimes, an organization needs some time to “get its ducks in a row” before you take on something new, and RJAE Consulting can facilitate these discussions using restorative dialogue to empower people in your organization to identify not just problems, but also the solutions.
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We understand readiness as a dynamic state, not a static one. Think about how new leaders or new staff affect your school or organization. Turnover can be great for readiness, or it could be a major obstacle. So no, we don’t see it as a one-time thing. Instead, we use this assessment as one way to monitor change over time. Even if you scored well in all three areas of readiness, there are things you can do to improve and get even stronger. Don’t you want to see that needle move? We do. We want you to be as strong and ready for change as possible, and we’ll help you get there. Because innovation doesn’t stop – there is always something new right around the corner.
Our Process
We deliver premium services with an energizing and innovative edge that inspires organizations to make real, tangible progress. RJAE Consulting believes that every organization is unique and works hard to develop customized plans tailored to their client’s needs.
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We love empowering through the use of education, guidance, and skills. By educating individuals on understanding how trauma-informed restorative justice practices make for a better evaluation experience, RJAE Consulting equips members with powerful tools for growth.
Schedule a free consultation today to learn how we can help you maximize your impact.