Solutions and Services
Leaders in critical disciplines and key industries,
tailored to fit clients' situations, needs, and budgets
Challenges ››
Expertise › Experience › Scalability ››
Results ››
We bring deep, cross-disciplinary
knowledge to help clients thrive
Approach ›› Experienced › Collaborative › Professional ›› Success
Solutions and Services
We're leaders in critical disciplines and key industries with
solutions tailored to fit your situation, needs, and budget
Challenges ›› Expertise › Experience › Scalability ›› Results
Access deep, cross-disciplinary knowledge to help your organization thrive
We offer a new kind of
client experience
- Listen, ask, explore, and respond with integrity
- Meet clients where they're at and assure they'll benefit
- Deploy teams with the expertise challenges demand
- Integrate with clients and leverage collective knowledge
- Gear solutions to advance client interests, not ours
Some key consulting principles underpin
solution offerings and service delivery
- Do what we know, leveraging the breadth and depth of our experience
- Listen carefully before recommending ways organizations can engage us
- Emphasize subsidiarity to help clients that can truly make an impact
- Be selective, supporting clients committed to and capable of succeeding
- Respond to specific needs with single and cross-disciplinary solutions
- Maximize access by offering scalable alternatives for client support
- Work together to find balance among needs, capacity, and budgets
- Follow through to help ensure clients implement solutions effectively
- Refer prospective clients when we're not the best option to help them
What Subsidiarity is and why it matters ›
Learn about the clients we've served ›
Areas of Expertise
Experience-based Solutions Deliver Real Results
Our solutions help clients visiualize, plan for, and pursue bold futures, assure sustainbly cost-effective operations, build the right workforce and position it for success, and inform, engage, and influence constituents, customers, donors, and other key stakeholders. They can stand alone for discipline-specific needs or be delivered by cross-disciplinary teams formed to achieve high performance, facilitate growth, and maintain results.
Solutions that Deliver Real Results
We help clients visiualize, plan for, and pursue bold futures, assure sustainbly cost-effective operations, build the right workforce and position it for success, and inform, engage, and influence constituent, customer, and donor behaviors. Our solutions can stand alone or be delivered by cross-disciplinary teams formed to achieve high performance, facilitate growth, and maintain results.
Integrated Framework
Integrated Framework
Model Benefits
The expertise we offer, whether it's provided under discrete solutions or in cross-disciplinary approaches, is specifically geared toward:
- Sustainability – Assuring clients gain stability and stay afloat and "stick around," the most critical goal of any organization.
- Delivery – Developing client capacity to always deliver relevant, timely, high quality services, even in challenging conditions.
- Improvement – Finding ways to do things better, e.g., leadership, externally-facing funtions, and/or infrastructure.
- Expansion – Positioning clients to intelligently grow "customer" bases, broaden scope of services, or expand in other ways.
Aspire, plan, and achieve
Envisioning futures and developing comprehensive, actionable plans to get from “here” to “there,” accounting for resources, conditions, risks, and other factors that make the difference between success and stagnation. Our clients have important places to go, and we help them identify options, decide the right courses of action, manage implementation, measure results, and make the decisions needed to ensure they stay relevant and achieve desired outcomes.
Design, transform, and deliver
Co-creating business models, organizational structures, work flows, and technologies that leverage integration for enterprise cost-effectiveness, with aligned accountabilities, culture, and other performance factors to efficiently achieve essential outcomes. Our clients’ services are critical to their customers and constituents. We help optimize organizations, minimizing costs and improving results so they're always available when needed.
Acquire, develop, and retain
Defining work and skill sets, designing jobs, evaluating and selecting talent acquisition approaches, creating recruting strategies, and on-boarding, developing, managing, and retaining the right people now and for the future, whether Board members, sfaff, or volunteers. We help clients find creative, effective ways to continuously access the people they need to be successful and sustainable, and get the most from their efforts.
Reach, resonate, and convert
Researching markets to understand demographics, interests, behaviors, and decision drivers, and customizing outreach and experiences to generate interest, cultivate relationships, and convert and retain prospects. Our clients need growing, predictable revenue streams to be successful. We help them maximize return on investment through market identification, analysis, prioritization, and effective engagement, meeting targets where they are.
Solution Benefits
Our expertise, whether it's provided under discrete solutions or in cross-disciplinary approaches, is spefically geared toward:
- Sustainability – Assuring client stability so they stay afloat and "stick around," the essential goal of any organization.
- Delivery – Developing client capacity to always give relevant, timely, high quality services, even in challenging conditions.
- Improvement – Finding ways to perform better, e.g., leadership, externally-facing funtions, and/or infrastructure.
- Expansion – Positioning clients to grow their "customer" bases, broader scope of services, or expand in other ways.
Solution Descriptions
List of Services
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StrategyLearn More › List Item 1
Learn, Innovate, Respond
Envisioning vibrant futures and developing comprehensive, actionable plans to get from “here” to “there,” accounting for resources, conditions, risks, and other factors that determine success or stagnation. Our clients have important places to go in service of their customers and constituents, and we help them imagine, ideate options, decide the right courses of action, manage implementation, measure results, and make the right decisions to stay relevant and achieve the desired outcomes.
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OrganizationLearn More › List Item 2
Evaluate, Align, Optimize
Analyzing existing and co-creating new business models, designing and integrating organizational structures and workflows, and idenitfying, acquiring, and implementing enabling technologies for enterprise cost-effectiveness, promoting acceptance and adoption of changes to assure they faciltiate the required outcomes. Quality products and services are critical to our clients' customers and constituents. We optimize organizations to minimize costs, improve performance, and empower sustainable growth.
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PeopleLearn More › List Item 3
Define, Acquire, Develop
Documenting the work and analyzing skill requirements, designing market-feasible jobs, evaluating and selecting cost-effective talent acquisition approaches, creating recruiting strategies, and on-boarding, developing, managing, and retaining the right people now and for the future, whether Board members, sfaff, or volunteers. We help clients find creative, effective ways to continuously access the people they need to be successful and sustainable, and get the most from their efforts.
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MarketingLearn More › List Item 4
Reach, Interest, Influence
Researching market demographics, interests, behaviors, and decision drivers, and customizing outreach and experiences to generate interest, cultivate relationships, and convert and retain prospects. Our clients need to successfully engage their donors, constituents, and customers. We help them maximize return on investment through segmentation, analysis, prioritization, and customized experiences, meeting target audiences where they are and guiding them to take the desired actions.
List of Services
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StrategyLearn more › List Item 1
Learn, Innovate, Respond
Envisioning vibrant futures and developing comprehensive, actionable plans to get from “here” to “there,” accounting for resources, conditions, risks, and other factors that determine success or stagnation. Our clients have important places to go in service of their customers and constituents. We help them imagine what they look like, ideate options, decide the right courses of action, manage implementation, measure results, and make the right strategic and tactical decisions to stay relevant and achieve desired outcomes.
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OrganizationLearn more › List Item 2
Evaluate, Align, Optimize
Analyzing existing and co-creating new business models, designing and integrating organizational structures and workflows, and idenitfying, acquiring, and implementing enabling technologies for enterprise cost-effectiveness, promiting acceptance and adoption of changes to assure they faciltiate the required outcomes. High quality, accessible products and services are essential to our clients' customers and constituents. We optimize organizations to minimize costs, improve performance, and empower sustainable growth.
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PeopleLearn more › List Item 3
Define, Acquire, Develop
Documenting the work and analyzing skill requirements, designing market-feasible jobs, evaluating and selecting cost-effective talent acquisition approaches, creating recruiting strategies, and on-boarding, developing, managing, and retaining the right people now and for the future, whether Board members, sfaff, or volunteers. We help clients find creative, effective ways to continuously access the people they need to be successful and sustainable, and equip, motivate, and empower them to get the most from their efforts.
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MarketingLearn more › List Item 4
Reach, Interest, Influence
Researching market demographics, interests, behaviors, and decision drivers, and customizing outreach and experiences to generate interest, cultivate relationships, and convert and retain prospects. Our clients need to successfully engage their donors, constituents, and customers. We help them maximize return on investment (ROI) through segmentation, prioritization, personification, customized experiences, and effective use of analytics, meeting target audiences where they are and guiding them to take the desired actions.
Snowflake delivers our solutions in four ways. We teach executives how to build successful and sustainable organizations, provide coaching and guidance to help them put what they've learned into practice and make informed decisions, find and develop the talent needed to do the work, and collaborate with leaders to address short-term challenges and pursue long-term goals.
Our services our scalable to best meet client needs within their budgets. Contact us and let's find the best way to work together!
- FIELD EDUCATION AND TRAINING
We build executive knowledge through a range of educational offerings. Informational articles and programs are developed through "on the ground" client interactions, so we focus on key challenges and offer our expertise to help leaders solve them.
- EXECUTIVE ADVISORY SERVICES
We work with leaders to help them implement strategies and special initiatives. Our guidance helps ensure they get and stay on the right track, and make informed, responsible decisions for performance improvement and sustainable growth.
- WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
We help our clients navigate labor market, budget, and other conditions through customized talent acquisition strategies. We also provide training and support to improve general workforce capacity and prepare staff for new roles in times of change.
- PROJECT-BASED CONSULTING
We partner with clients on single- and cross-solution projects, combining our expertise with their knowledge to set direction, make organizations and operations cost-effective, obtain and manage talent, and market products and services.
Engage Us Where You're At
Snowflake delivers our solutions in four ways: (1) Teaching, (2) Guiding, (3) Equipping, and (4) Collaborating. These "levels" include free and paid seminars, on-going hourly executive support, and fixed price consulting engagements. Each service is flexible and scalable, enabling us to provide real value to our clients in ways that align with their capacities and fit within their budgets. Below are descriptions of each of our services.
Engage Us on Your Terms
Snowflake delivers our solutions in four ways: (1) Teaching, (2) Guiding, (3) Equipping, and (4) Collaborating. These "levels" include free and paid seminars, on-going hourly executive support, and fixed price consulting engagements. Each service is flexible and scalable, enabling us to provide real value to our clients in ways that align with their capacities and fit within their budgets. Below are descriptions of each of our services.
Ways We Deliver
Ways We Deliver
List of Services
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Field Education and TrainingLearn More › List Item 1
We build boards', executives', and managers' awareness of leading industry and discipline practices and knowledge of key techniques and tools through a range of educational offerings. Our blog posts, articles, seminars, and conference talks are developed based on our work directly "in the field", so we're focusing on the most critical challenges organizations are facing today and providing insightful solutions to help overcome them.
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Executive Guidance and SupportLearn More › List Item 2
We work with leaders one-on-one to help them identify, develop, and implement strategies and special initiatives. Our guidance helps assure their efforts are appropriately targeted, scaled, and designed, intergated, and adopted by the workforce, and provides the support executives need to analzye outcomes and make sound decisions for sustanability, improvement, and growth.
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Leadership and Team CapacityLearn More › List Item 3
We train and support executives and senior managers on strategic thinking, performance analytics, management skills, and technical competencies to assure staff can fulfill job responsibilities. We also improve leadership and team dynamics using proven assessment tools to customize focus areas and cohorts to learn, practice, and get peer feedback on application of leading practice concepts.
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In-depth, Co-creative ConsultingLearn More › List Item 4
We go hands-on and in-depth with clients on single- and cross-solution engagements. We leverage our expertise and their situational knowledge to evaluate "market" needs and wants, visualize and articulate responsive strategies, institutionalize organizational and operational cost-effectiveness, develop the workforce, and engage audiences through tailored communications and marketing.
List of Services
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Field Education and TrainingLearn more › List Item 1
We build boards', executives', and managers' awareness of leading practices and knowledge of key techniques through a range of educational offerings. Our blog posts, articles, seminars, and conference talks are developed based on our work directly "in the field", so we're focusing on the most critical challenges organizations are facing today and providing insightful solutions to help overcome them.
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Executive Guidance and SupportLearn more › List Item 2
We work with leaders one-on-one to help them identify, develop, and implement strategies and special initiatives. Our guidance helps assure their efforts are appropriately targeted, scaled, and designed, intergated, and adopted by the workforce, and provides the support executives need to analzye outcomes and make informed decisions for sustanability, improvement, and growth.
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Leadership and Team CapacityLearn more › List Item 3
We train and support executives and senior managers on strategic thinking, performance analytics, management skills, and technical competencies to assure staff can fulfill job responsibilities. We also improve leadership and team dynamics using proven assessment tools to customize focus areas and cohorts to learn, practice, and get peer feedback on application of leading practice concepts.
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In-depth, Co-creative ConsultingLearn more › List Item 4
We go hands-on and in-depth with clients on single- and cross-solution engagements. We leverage our expertise and their situational knowledge to evaluate "market" needs and wants, visualize and articulate responsive strategies, increase organizational and operational cost-effectiveness, develop the workforce, and design tailored, research-driven communications and marketing plans.
Tell Us What You're Looking For
If your organization makes a social impact and: (1) Has a solicitation for solutions and services we provide, (2) Needs help developing a strong Request for Proposals or Qualifications (RFP or RFQ) that elicits quality responses, or (3) Has a set of informal requirements and wants our take, please let us know through the form below. We'll be happy to take a look and respond in the best way possible. Thanks for thinking of us!
Tell Us What You're Looking For
If your organization makes a social impact and: (1) Is issuing a solicitation for solutions and services we provide, (2) Needs help developing a strong Request for Proposals or Qualifications (RFP or RFQ) that elicits quality responses, or (3) Has a set of informal requirements and wants our take, please let us know through the form below. We'll be happy to take a look and respond in the best way possible. Thanks for thinking of us!
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