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The Napa Group’s leadership practice focuses on strategic talent management and is built on the premise that the executive leadership team is a critical factor in an organization’s success.

With our unique blend of for-profit and non-profit expertise, we promote new thinking and new behaviors in emerging and growing businesses and in universities, advancement organizations, alumni associations, fundraising organizations and schools that are re-envisioning their roles and services.

With you, we will develop an alternative bottom line required of executives and managers in business and education today – executive leadership teams who can direct organizations of multi-generational talent, implement business and mission objectives and steward employees to high performance, creative influencing and career satisfaction.

Our initial assessment becomes the platform on which we build organizational capacity through aligned and integrated leadership teams, infrastructure and operating practices. Our consulting services include:

• Strategic talent management: Identifying and developing the skills and capabilities needed on the executive team and leveraging each other’s strengths to deliver the organization’s strategic, business and mission goals and objectives.
• Executive team development: Enhancing top management for short-term cycles or longer-term strategies by applying well-established self-assessment, experiential, professional development and team building tools adapted specifically for your organization. These activities strengthen managers’ ability to adapt their talents, technical and analytical skills to advance the organization’s objectives and to develop softer “people skills” for successful internal positioning and leadership.
• Onboarding, training and coaching university advancement professionals: Accelerating the vital contributions of your executive team, managers and staff as they are hired or assume new responsibilities. Our specialized expertise in advancement organizations includes a portfolio of workshops, coaching and other activities.
  
  For example, our work with development staff is directed at greater levels of efficiency and higher fundraising yields. This growing area of interest among our clients takes on increased importance as advancement offices, foundations and alumni associations ramp up constituency-building and fundraising with a new generation of professionals and Baby Boomers with decades of expertise retire.
• Executive coaching: Assisting senior leaders to maximize their strengths and abilities, enhance group dynamics, increase team productivity, address strategy and business challenges and improve their overall leadership effectiveness. We listen, ask questions, use behavioral and other self-awareness tools, apply results-oriented techniques and support senior leaders in their relationship-building and decision making.