Leadership

Board Development and Governance Best Practices

Board members frequently tell us they are disappointed with their board’s performance because board member skills and time are not used in ways that truly matter. With our Strategic Leadershipconcept, Cincinnatus consultants help boards focus their efforts on the powerful ideas that will advance the strategy. Through self-assessment and facilitated planning, we help you develop an effective board that embraces the best practices of governance.

Interim Management and Transition Planning

Whether a leadership transition is imminent or farther into the future, we can help your organization formulate a practical and considerate succession plan to ensure a smooth and uninterrupted transition. If your organization is missing a key leader, a Cincinnatus consultant can assume that leadership role with speed and sensitivity to employees and board members who are adjusting to changes at the top. We offer an objective, decisive, and confident presence during times of transition; we honor your values and ways of working while formulating and recommending next steps.

Executive Search

One of the most important decisions any organization makes — especially an organization in transition — is choosing its senior leaders. Cincinnatus offers an executive search practice, exclusively focused on the nonprofit sector, to recruit and select exceptional candidates for leadership positions. Using a customized approach, we work with you to understand your organization’s context and culture and define the characteristics required of the new leader. We ensure that your board and senior staff have the guidance they need to choose the right leader for the challenges you see ahead.

Recent Projects

The board of directors of a large private foundation asked Cincinnatus to redesign its governance system, which board and staff had come to view as unnecessarily cumbersome.

Result: We worked with the board’s Governance Committee to streamline the foundation’s governance policies and create a system that fostered a much closer working relationship between the board and staff.

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A mid-sized manufacturing and consumer products company retained a Cincinnatus consultant to serve as Interim CEO while a complex capital restructuring was negotiated.

Result: The consultant led the company in a challenging financial environment. Sales increased in the company’s core business in 2007, accompanied by a superior level of customer responsiveness. Segment profitability improved as well. The company also embraced LEAN concepts as integral to their corporate culture and pursued several initiatives to build a stronger foundation for the future. A second business segment was refocused and positioned for a financial turnaround.
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The Cincinnatus Vision

To be the leading Minnesota-based multi-sector, strategy-focused management consulting firm and to help our clients achieve Clarity, Consensus, and Confidence. Backed by our full range of organization turnaround, nonprofit and for-profit business and strategic planning and implementation services, our consultants are committed to your success.

Our Strategic Consulting Process

As a Minneapolis-based nonprofit and for-profit business consulting firm, Cincinnatus helps clients achieve measurable success through strategic consulting solutions from planning through implementation.

Our Point of Difference

Cincinnatus is more strategically focused, leadership oriented and client-centered than larger management consulting and accounting firms while providing more breadth of expertise than independent consultants.

Client Benefits

Whether you require strategic and operational planning, assessments, implementation, board governance, interim management, or executive search, our management consultants’ breadth and depth of experience and demonstrated expertise can help your organization define and realize its mission, vision, and values.

The End Result

Cincinnatus means: Experienced multi-sector consultants creating customized and effective solutions for organizational strategies.

Cincinnatus is: The Minneapolis-based management consulting firm that clients choose to build Clarity, Consensus, and Confidence within their own organizations.

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