Glick Davis and Associates

RESULTS

Our mission is to get public and nonprofit sector organizations strategic results that create their desired impact. At every stage of engagement, we focus on results, not just process. Our clients report better internal alignment and engagement, strengthened and sustained service delivery, leveraging new opportunities, increased effectiveness, and magnifying their reach and impact.

Our mission is to propel public and nonprofit organizations to achieve strategic results that create their desired impact. At every stage of engagement, we focus on outcomes, not just process. Our clients report better internal alignment, strengthened and sustained service delivery, leveraging new opportunities, increased effectiveness, and magnifying their reach and impact.

Our mission is to propel public and nonprofit sector organizations to achieve strategic results that create their desired impact. At every stage of engagement, we focus on outcomes, not just process. Our clients report better internal alignment, strengthened and sustained service delivery, leveraging new opportunities, increased effectiveness, and magnifying their reach and impact.

OUR CLIENTS

EXPERIENCE

We provide cutting edge organizational development support with deep government and nonprofit experience over 25 years. We literally authored the book on nonprofit performance improvement. Our tested approaches give our clients confidence and needed specialized expertise.

We provide cutting edge organizational development support with deep government and nonprofit experience over 25 years. We apply our team of experts' knowledge from multiple nonprofit and public sectors and an inter-disciplinary background, allowing you to benefit from over 260 engagements. Leveraging experience in system design, public policy, quality improvement, group dynamics, organization management, leadership development and fiscal analysis, we literally authored the book on nonprofit performance improvement. Our tested approaches give our clients confidence and needed specialized expertise.

With over 25 years in the public and nonprofit sectors and 260 client engagements, we provide inter-disciplinary and cutting-edge organizational development support. Leveraging experience in system design, public policy, quality improvement, group dynamics, organization management, leadership development and fiscal analysis, we literally authored the book on nonprofit performance improvement. Our tested approaches give our clients confidence and needed specialized expertise.

OUR APPROACH

STRATEGY

Our team goes beyond lofty vision and goals statements to identify specific criteria and strategies necessary for your organizational success. Our sophisticated team helps you refine and operationalize your strategies for critical mission success.

Our team goes beyond lofty vision and goals statements to identify specific criteria and strategies necessary for your organizational success. No two organizations or situations are alike, despite common conditions, and we don’t treat you that way. Our sophisticated team helps you refine and operationalize your strategies for critical mission success.

OUR SERVICES

Executive Search

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Strong nonprofit and healthcare organizations have clear and strategic direction, excellent leadership and management, and intentional business and operational systems that allow greatest possible community impact.

Performing optimally day-to-day, but your executive leadership are unable to forecast organizational needs, including leveraging growth or partnership potential? Or, is your organization struggling to respond to changing external conditions? Glick Davis & Associates helps you navigate these issues by providing strategic planning for nonprofit and healthcare organizations, merger or partnership guidance, executive leadership training, and facilitating executive search. The majority of our clients experience substantial performance improvement, a subject on which Jan Glick has literally "written the book" Nonprofit Turnaround: a must read for nonprofit leaders. Addressing these issues with expert professional support from Glick Davis & Associates' team can give you bandwidth and experience to assure steady and thorough responses, resulting in a stronger organization or purposeful outcome.

Our Approach

Not your typical organizational development firm, Glick Davis & Associates provides a suite of strategic impact-focused and customized services to address many common organization dilemmas. Our solutions repair typical pain points such as lack of cohesive strategic direction, unsustainable revenue/business models, moving from ad hoc to intentional approaches to external operating environment challenges, and CEO succession. We help you to achieve your vision, but extend impact where others may stop - into support for practical operational solutions.

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Our Services

Executive Search

Partnerships & Mergers

Strategic & Business Planning

Performance Improvement & Turnarounds

What our clients are saying

I want to give special thanks to Mr. Jan Glick & Mr. Heyward Watson for your immense support and commitment to build this organization. Beyond facilitation of an excellent Executive Search, their guidance significantly strengthened both our governance and our operations. We could not have accomplished this much without you.

Kateesha Atterbury

Chair of the Board, Rainier Valley Community Development Fund

Rainier Valley Community Development Fund

When the Montana Academy Foundation Board of Directors realized that our school was not financially viable, we were faced with the stark choice of closing the school or finding a suitable partner. Within a month of retaining Glick & Davis, they had scanned the landscape for possible targets for a merger or an acquisition and led us in negotiations with an organization interested in acquiring the school. Despite a variety of complications that often felt overwhelming to me, Jan and Tim delivered a successful conclusion, one that our board could never have achieved on our own. Going into the process, we Directors had two priorities: 1) provide continuity of care for our students and their families; 2) preserve the livelihoods of nearly fifty employees. Thanks to Jan and Tim, we achieved both. These guys are very, very good at what they do.

Dennis Hartzell

Former Board Chair

Montana Dental Association

Residence XII provided residential treatment for women with substance abuse problems for over 40 years. In our last few years, our annual budget deficit grew, putting our viability in jeopardy. When we found Jan Glick & Associates in 2018, we were in deep red ink. JGA guided our board and staff gracefully through a series of turnaround and merger options and decisions, supporting us at each, which eventually led to a terrific outcome. I can’t stress enough how traumatic this could have been for us and how JGA’s methodical and systematic help supported our options analysis in a positive way. Working with Tim Davis and Newport Academy, our mission and all of our services not only continued, but were expanded with Newport’s much greater capacity and size.

Makaylaa Powers

Board Chair Emeritus

Residence XII

I don’t think our search could have been run more effectively! The partnership between Glick, Davis & Associates and Third Sector Company was excellent. Jan Glick & team skillfully guided us through the process, including outreach to and screening of candidates, thorough reference checks, and insightful facilitation of interviews.

Bob Cook

Chair, Executive Search Committee

Pacific Hospital Preservation & Development Authority

Glick Davis & Associates guided and coached us through the processes of developing a letter of intent, structuring an agreement, and negotiating the details of an excellent agreement. We now have a legal affiliation with MultiCare Health System and are happily discovering how to be even better as a partnership than I had hoped could be possible. If you are considering a similar journey I highly recommend Glick & Associates as thoroughly professional, personable, experienced, resourceful and tactful experts to help you succeed.

David M. Johnson

CEO

NAVOS Mental Health Solutions

On behalf Seattle Colleges Board of Trustees, my staff, and all foundation volunteers, I want to thank Glick Davis & Associates for effective and professional assistance to our work of integrating our separate college philanthropic foundations into a single foundation over the past 12 months. The depth and breadth of your experience with non-profit mergers, your combined skills skills in bringing people together and threading difficult but candid conversations with diverse perspectives, and your styles have proven to be just what we needed for this work.

Shouan Pan

Ph.D. Chancellor

Seattle Colleges

At Social Venture Partners, Glick Davis & Associates kept our Executive search focused and on-track. His emphasis on change management made what can be a difficult transition following a founding Executive, much smoother. We are grateful for his help.

Todd Vogel

Board Chair (Former)

Social Venture Partners

We are fortunate that Glick Davis & Associates was recommended to us. Their approach helped us to listen to each other, facilitated our conversation and used our energies effectively to lead us through our reinvention process. Jan has an ability to create space for the difficult conversations that lead to growth. We would not be where we are today without Glick Davis & Associates' assistance. We wholeheartedly recommend Glick & Associates as a consultant for organizations that want to adapt to these challenging times while being true to their history, values and vision.

Terry Kyllo

Executive Director

Paths to Understanding

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Jim Lombardo

Board Chair (Former)

Epilepsy Foundation Northwest

Our department had been grappling with escalating utility costs for many years. Glick Davis & Associates quickly and collaboratively assessed our situation, designed a process and developed a strategic plan that addressed our department’s barriers and opportunities. Glick Davis & Associates then conveyed the essential elements of the necessary changes clearly and compellingly to internal and external stakeholders in order to build buy-in to the initiative. Glick & Associates achieved powerful results and buy-in to change initiatives--a rare combination for a consulting company in the public sector.

Christopher Williams

Deputy Superintendent

Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation

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Kathy Thamm

Executive Director (Retired )

Community Minded Enterprises

Our board and staff loved how Jan kept us focused on the most critical strategic issues within the business planning process. He also seamlessly facilitated the Executive Director succession, balancing the interests of the board with those of the incoming and outgoing Directors. As a new Executive Director myself, Jan’s insightful coaching has given me the tools to better develop and empower my staff in order to meet the business plan’s objective of being an industry leader.

Marty Miller

Executive Director

Office of Rural and Farmworker Housing

Nonprofit Turnaround: A Guide for Nonprofit Leaders, Consultants and Funders

Nonprofit Turnaround, Jan Glick’s ground-breaking book for the nonprofit sector, explains how leaders can guide struggling nonprofits through a transformation in order to emerge as high-functioning, mission-achieving organizations again. Based on discussions with nonprofit leaders across the country, Nonprofit Turnaround shows how to solve major organizational problems and navigate the path from organizational crisis to health. Written in a style accessible to board members and staff, Nonprofit Turnaround also encompasses the depth and breadth needed by staff leaders and consultants seeking to refine their approach to their next turnaround engagement.

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