Expanded NPPC Services! Introducing My Most Excellent Partner ~

This post is all about NPPC and how we are expanding services with the addition to the team of a top notch nonprofit executive with extensive experience in nonprofit management, leadership development, training, strategic planning, performance excellence and more (and your grant writing projects continue to be most welcome!). Please feel free to visit one of our websites for information about how to get in touch. www.npprosperity.net; www.socalawake.com. 

Introducing Brad Wiscons ~

I’m Brad Wiscons and I am very excited to become much more involved with Nonprofit Prosperity Consulting (NPPC), the business developed over the past five years by my partner, Brenda Balmer.  I have worked in nonprofit youth and community development since 1979!  So much has changed while so much has remained the same over these 39 years.  I would like to take a moment to share some skills that I am passionate to make available through nonprofit consulting and support.

I am driven to help nonprofits demonstrate performance excellence.  Most of us realize that doing good for others means that our business must do well.  Performance excellence provides a road map to organizational success.  Basic performance excellence techniques can help organizations grow, prosper, and help others.  I used to be an examiner for the California Awards for Performance Excellence (CAPE), in fact, I was a 2007 CAPE Examiner for the Year.  I learned much through that process that is powerful for improving the viability and continuing improvement of organizations.  I want to offer down-to-earth actionable tools that will impact employee engagement, leadership development, financial growth, and customer experience and satisfaction.

I love to provide staff education and development.  My degrees are in education, I was trained as a high school science teacher and my Master’s degree is in Counseling and Human Development.  Along the way I have taught, led, trained, engaged, and supervised many people.  I have learned that as teachers we have an equal responsibility with students to develop a creative, energetic, and fun learning environment that welcomes diversity of background, education, experience, and expectation.  I know how to make learning fun while measuring learning – not just measuring the ability to regurgitate facts. I can provide training on numerous topics for both staff and board members.  I can support strategic planning and board development, and I can help you to develop and implement an ongoing training plan for your organization.

I am a numbers geek that enjoys communicating with others!  I really enjoy creating systems to collect data and then turning simple data into valuable information.  I am good at listening and understanding what kind of information you need, and I can develop tools for you to collect data, analyze it, and turn it into actionable information to improve productivity and customer satisfaction.

I am a deeply spiritual and ethical person with a surprising sense of humor.  Most people who have worked with me know that I love to have fun.  But for me, the greatest fun is helping myself and others become better people.  What does this mean and how can it foster organizational development and improvement?  A better me is someone who not only accepts diversity but seeks it out and embraces it.  A better me is someone who takes responsibility for my growth and actions to benefit those around me.  A better me is someone who lives a compassionate life and understands that the best way to meet my own needs is to help meet the needs of others because we are all interconnected.  As an extension of my belief in ethical, nurturing and healthy organizational systems, I am devoting a significant part of my work to Mindful Leadership Development. I can customize an approach for your organization to help you to move from Competition to Communication to Coordination to Collaboration to Compassion.