Optimizing Your Impact.
Mission
Leading organizations toward greater efficiency, resilience, and intent.
Vision
A social economy capable of supporting every person in proportion with their needs.
Values
Authentic
Committed to forthrightness
Too often, consultants place politics before honesty. Your time is too short to spend on beating around the bush, and so is ours. We like to stay motivated on the issue(s) we are trying to solve and come up with a real and reasonable plan of action from the very beginning.
Creating clarity through brevity
Mark Twain once said, “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter”. Humans tend to stray from the point, which creates breakdowns in communication when it comes to responsibilities and achieving outcomes. We will provide short and direct updates in an easy-to-digest manner to maximize your efforts.
Actively listening for agency needs
Chances are you won’t be contacting us if you were confident in a sustainable future for your organization. We strongly believe in the concept of active listening and will apply these principles during our conversations to get to the root of the problem.
People-Centered
Prioritizing a client-first approach
We are motivated by that same guiding force that motivates you; your clients. If FOKL can help you help them, then we will have achieved what we set out to do.
Smart Development
Smart development means trusting the process and understanding that a solution for one organization is not necessarily the right solution for yours. Spending all of your efforts on grant writing may not be the best course of action for long-term growth.
Approaching decisions with a collaborative mentality
We know that agencies won’t stick with our recommended plan if there isn’t buy-in at all decision-making levels. We firmly believe in hearing your ideas and incorporating them into each step so that you achieve your goals. It takes a village.
Analytic
Moving the needle beyond speculation
We believe in quantitative outcomes; in this new era, good guesses aren’t good enough. Data-driven decisions are at the heart of our approach and will be at the core of our recommendation.
Responsibly leveraging data to inform next steps
Data without ethics only confirms bias, and data in a silo (i.e., without consideration of the lives connected to that data) is just plain wrong. While data is a critical piece to the puzzle, we believe in considering what the data tells us through a lens of compassion.
Embracing innovation to produce better results
If the pandemic has taught us anything, it's that the old ways of doing things don’t necessarily work. It is a core objective for FOKL to stay up-to-date on new ideas and intimately understand their use cases.