Bayleaf Consulting primarily serves civic, arts, culture, and community-focused nonprofit organizations with annual budgets of $1 million or more. Clients typically include executive directors, senior leadership teams, and foundation program officers looking to invest in long-term organizational development.
Community input is embedded in every engagement through stakeholder listening sessions, narrative synthesis, and co-creation processes. This approach ensures that programs and strategies are built with the people they serve, increasing legitimacy and long-term support.
Yes. All Bayleaf Consulting engagements are structured and documented to meet the requirements for capacity building, organizational development, leadership development, and program design grant categories, making them eligible for philanthropic funding.
The Strategic Planning engagement lasts approximately three months and includes facilitated retreats, stakeholder engagement, and the delivery of a living strategic framework tailored to the organization's goals.
Yes. Bayleaf provides virtual nonprofit strategy sessions and other services primarily online, supporting clients nationally and internationally through online consultations and remote facilitation.
Bayleaf uses a future-back approach, starting with the question, "What do we want to be true in 20 years?" and working backward to identify today's priorities, rather than projecting current conditions forward. This method encourages transformative, long-term thinking aligned with organizational aspirations.
Ellie Scott, founder of Bayleaf Consulting, leads the practice. She brings nearly a decade of cross-sector experience and academic training in history and public history, combining project management discipline with systems thinking and narrative expertise.
The assessment involves a four-to-six-week evaluation including interviews, document reviews, and contextual analysis. It results in a findings report with specific recommendations on capacity, readiness, and alignment to guide subsequent organizational development efforts.
Bayleaf Consulting offers an easy scheduling process through an integrated online calendar system, allowing prospective clients to book discovery calls directly from the website.
Yes. Bayleaf provides facilitation services for board retreats, staff retreats, community listening sessions, and coalition planning events, ensuring inclusive, focused, and productive convenings.
Executive Coaching provides six-month, biweekly confidential sessions for senior leaders to gain decision clarity, develop leadership skills, and address underlying challenges with a trusted partner outside the organizational hierarchy.
Bayleaf Consulting is based in Saint Louis, Missouri, but serves clients regionally, nationally, and internationally through virtual and hybrid engagement formats.
Bayleaf dedicates time in engagements to diagnose the real, often deeper, problems behind surface-level issues. This ensures that solutions target both immediate symptoms and underlying structural or cultural factors for sustainable change.
Yes. Deliverables such as strategic plans, program frameworks, and assessment reports are designed to align with funder documentation standards, supporting clients in securing grant funding for their initiatives.