Management Consulting

Shane Kinkennon helps leadership teams drive improved management, business, and mission performance.

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I help teams manage strategic alignment

I help management teams to align top-priority strategy with day-in, day-day out operations. That includes providing evaluation, assessment, insight, and strategic counsel.

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Management Consulting Services

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  • Evaluation and assessment: Help teams identify gaps in alignment in strategy, structure, process and operation.

  • Strategy-setting: Assign teams to develop strategic to close alignment gaps and increase efficiency in pursuit of business and mission aims.

  • Implementation support: Help clients clear the brush necessary to achieve the strategic alignment that is required for top performance.

  • Stakeholder engagement: I help leadership teams communicate in effective, engaged ways with employees, boards, and other stakeholder groups.

  • “Shane is supremely talented at uncovering whatever might be the root problem and facilitating creative solutions. He makes remarkable use of his many gifts and has left an indelible mark on me and our entire organization.”

    — Cedric X. Bryant, PhD, FACSM, President & Chief Science Officer, American Council on Exercise

  • “As a relatively new CEO working with Shane, I’ve increased my confidence, gained clarity on where the organization is headed, and strengthened teamwork, trust and accountability across the executive team. His coaching style sets me at ease and allows me to dig deep to uncover my leadership assets.”

    — Amber Ptak, CEO, Community Health Partnership

  • “At a critical point in my life, when I knew I wanted to do something big but was grappling with complexity, I found Shane. In a day he helped me find the clarity I needed. My company, the one that was essentially birthed at that time, is going strong.”

    — Brent Beckley, Founder, Beckley & Co, and subject of Straight Flush by New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich

What if your leadership team operated with real clarity?

Most executive teams aren’t misaligned on purpose. They’re overwhelmed, siloed, or operating with fuzzy priorities. My management consulting work cuts through the noise and builds the muscle teams need:

  • Clear direction with shared ownership

  • Smarter decision-making frameworks

  • Better meetings, fewer misunderstandings

  • Strategic plans that don’t collect dust

This isn’t about abstract theory. It’s about practical, scalable systems that make executive teams faster, sharper, and more unified.

Better decisions,
made consistently

No one sets out to lead a disjointed team. But in the day-to-day press of business, even the sharpest executives can find themselves swimming in cross-talk and second-guessing.

Here’s what I help leadership teams build:

  • Shared clarity on what matters most

  • Simpler, faster decision-making

  • Meetings with actual outcomes

  • Strategic plans that fuel momentum, not confusion

This isn’t about theory. It’s about forward motion.

Here’s how I help.

  • Executive Coaching

    For C-suites and senior managers

    Unlock new mindsets and methods to inspire teams, equip them to lead change, and actually hold them accountable for results.

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  • Management Consulting

    For nonprofit leadership teams

    Devise and lead change in response to intractable organizational challenges, aligning strategy and function for mission delivery.

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  • Board Consulting

    For nonprofit boards of directors

    Sharpen focus on those activities and areas that deliver the absolute highest value to management of the organization you govern and serve.

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  • Planning Facilitation

    For boards, coalitions, and more

    Have structured, disciplined conversations about where your organization needs to go, how it will get there, and what measurable outcomes it will achieve.

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  • Strategic Communications

    For senior teams that need to break through

    Craft and deliver messages and narratives to favorably influence staffs, policymakers, and other stakeholders, in change-leadership scenarios and far beyond.

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  • Fractional Executive

    For short-term leadership needs

    Occasional interim or fractional executive leadership for organizations that need someone to engage easily, learn quickly, and bring a facilitative-leadership touch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What exactly is management consulting?
    It’s hands-on help for leaders solving complex problems and making smart, shared decisions.

  • What kinds of challenges do you take on?
    Strategy stalls, turf issues, growth hurdles—anything that keeps exec teams stuck.

  • Do you work with nonprofits or only businesses?
    Both. Shane works with growth-minded leaders across sectors.

  • What’s different about your approach?
    It’s not theory. It’s facilitated clarity that turns talk into traction.

  • How long do engagements last?
    Depends on the challenge. Some are sprints. Others, a season of work.

  • What’s the first step?
    A 20-minute consult. No pitch. Just real talk to see what fits.