Susan Star Paddock

Help for Grass Roots Groups and Social Profit Organizations

Susan can help social profits and grass roots groups achieve their goals by helping the group

• Discover the core values that are the heart of your motivation
• Discover the unknown strengths within you and your group. Find out what you are doing right, and what you could do better.
• Discover how big a dream you could achieve by gathering stakeholders to dream it together.
• Focus your mission so clearly that it is both understandable and attractive to all kinds of people.
• Discover who would love to partner with you, and how to partner with them.
• Discover who your stakeholders are, and how to enroll them in carrying out your mission.
• Discover how to make the press your best friend.
• DREAM the biggest possible dream and then tap the wisdom of your people to make it absolutely practical and achievable.
• DESIGN together, quickly and energetically.
• DO IT As Soon as Possible
• Evaluate in a way that makes sense and energizes the movement at the same time.
• Coach Leaders, and Expand Leadership and responsibility throughout the group.
• Conduct more effective meetings.
• Prepare for public meetings, testify before government bodies, communicate with key decision-makers, citizen lobby more effectively
• Take the high road in the face of opposition.
• Improve working relationships within the group.

How does she do it?

Susan can coach a group from an idea, before the group is formed, through goal completion. She doesn't know it all, but she can bring in the right expert facilitators where indicated. Susan offers Board development, Strategic Planning, Leadership Coaching, Group Facilitation, Citizen Workshops, 1-3 Day intensive all-stakeholder strategic planning sessions.