John Haines provides opportunities for poor families to become investors and build better futures for their kids
John W. Haines He’s ridden a bike up Everest, paddled down the Niger River, and been hit by a train. Now he’s creating wealth among
Whether we are placing a CEO, facilitating a strategic plan, or redesigning organizational structures, our work produces clarity and trust.
Most of our client work starts with a family office. We help to create growth, impact, and transformation for the foundations, nonprofits, companies, and impact investing firms they care most about.
OUR EXPERTISE
Character matters. It’s reasonably simple to hire for skills. We pay attention to the whole leader.
When strategies are clear, connected directly to outcomes, and led well, success follows.
Good leaders manage each component of their organization well. Great leaders see the whole, the system, and manage it as one thing.
Sometimes we engage with clients on a single process: an executive search, an organizational redesign, a long-term strategic vision. Over time, we tend to work with the whole organization.
It’s unusual for a firm to practice both executive search and deep strategy work. We combine the services because, over decades of work, we learned a crucial lesson. When talent, strategy, and organizational structure are in close and intentional harmony, when every contributor understands the why as well as the what, when outcomes are ever in mind, transformation follows.
Explore the steady progress, improbable stories, astonishing people, and occasional heartbreaks that emerge from our client work
CASE STUDY
Working with the University’s Contemplative Science Center, OE facilitated a multi-decade strategic vision, a 3-year strategic plan, helped to place an interim Executive Director, and provided weekly strategic support to the interim leader. Finally, in late 2024, we placed the CSC’s permanent Executive Director, Dr. Kelly Crace.
CASE STUDY
OE facilitated a new, long-term strategic vision, redesigned the organization in support of that strategy, and placed the new President, Suzanne Bond.
CASE STUDY
OE conducted a strategic study, an executive search, and a succession plan for the Bears Ears Partnership. After placing a transformational leader, Joe Neuhof, we have remained in place as a strategic advisor.
CLIENT EXPERIENCE
“The reason I keep going back to them is their solid process, and the people on their team who really seek to understand the culture of their client’s organization and what type of person will best fit…They’re relationship-focused, not looking for the next transaction but driven to add value as a strategic partner…”
Jasper van Brakel
RSF Social Finance
CEO
This work is intimate. Done well, it requires both trust and clarity between client and consultant. You’ll find us open to multiple conversations whether a transaction follows or not. Unless you’re in a hurry; in that case, we’re ready to get to work, and we’ll build that trust as we go.
Discover the remarkable people, emerging insights, and astounding stories that are at the heart of our work.
John W. Haines He’s ridden a bike up Everest, paddled down the Niger River, and been hit by a train. Now he’s creating wealth among
For years, while raising her children and teaching school, Arlinda traveled the vast Navajo Nation, removing women and girls from abusive homes, educating her people about missing and murdered indigenous women, and lobbying for new legislation – and she did it all on her own time and her own dime.
FULL STORY COMING SOON
Since attending and presenting at Exponent Philanthropy’s 2023 Annual Conference in October, I’ve spent some time reflecting on how foundations and non-profits relate to one another