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The Dendros Group LLC

Strengthening Organizations in Transition

From crisis to stability – effective transitions build on strengths,

minimize distractions, and prepare organizations to thrive.

Organizational Transition
Loss of leadership or the need to restructure can be traumatic. The chaos that accompanies change may be an organization’s undoing – or it can lead to a renaissance. Transitions cause confusion even in the most stable of organizations.

Getting Our Bearings
While transition brings confusion and turmoil, it also can yield immense opportunity. Dendros offers steadiness, calm, and the skills to help steward your group’s mission and bring it clearly into focus.

Restoring Equilibrium
Initially, board and staff often are overwhelmed with feelings of instability and loss. An experienced interim leader helps stakeholders navigate upheaval to emerge stronger, more resilient, and more purposeful than ever.

Engaging Stakeholders
During transition, an organization’s ability to survive may be in doubt. A successful transition strategy engages diverse stakeholders in multiple ways to assess strengths and vulnerabilities.

Developing Strategies & Capacities
Transition often calls an organization’s plans and strategies into question. An effective assessment and genuine stakeholder engagement lead to new or revised strategies to leverage strengths and mitigate challenges.

Advancing into the Future
In the midst of change, it is tempting to hire a new leader without sufficient research and reflection. Often the immediate skills required are not the qualities needed in a long-term leader. Judicious capacity-building measures ensure success for a new executive.

A renewed sense of mission, strong staff morale, engaged stakeholders and a clear partnership between the board and new executive are important outcomes of a successful transition.

Dendros expertly guides diverse organizations through turbulence and transition. Our seasoned transition executive, Suzann Eisenberg Murray, will help your group navigate change thoughtfully, effectively, and efficiently.

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Susan Haigh

President, Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity

I have now served on two boards to whom Dendros provided services – the first was an organization undergoing dissolution and in profound turmoil. Dendros’ facilitative leadership, called the organization back to its values, guided us successfully through the chaos and ensured strong attention to the business and legal details of the dissolution. In the transition to the new organization, the Dendros team helped us create a more robust collaboration of city, county and community organizations. Thanks to Dendros, we were able to quickly come to consensus on mission, priorities and future direction.