Garden Hill Consulting

11/13/2025

Finishing up this course next week. Proudly claiming the title of Professional Interim Executive: Evolving Transitional Management into Transformational Leadership. Hoping to catalyze new energy for organizations in transition, and prepare them for bright futures.
A second project is in the works to be announced soon.
As the Nonprofit Sector is undergoing unprecedented stress and new levels of existential crisis, please be generous with your giving in months ahead, and extend kindness to those who work in these difficult spaces. Volunteer where you can.

09/24/2025

We plan to have a high voltage conversation tonight at Lawrence Enneagram Group
Location: Danielsan Electric
900 New Jersey Street
Time 7pm

Tonight we discuss how the various types approach Care Giving and Receiving and related situations.

We meet, discussing new topics on
October 29
And November 19

Please join us!

04/19/2025

What I’m reading this week.
I Actually listened to the audiobook narrated by the authors. Very enlightening

This book covers so much that is important right now—how our lack of natural and real connection contributes to our collective trauma and societal breakdown, how the human brain actually processes significant events, how racism is itself a significant traumatic experience, and how emotional regulation can be achieved.
Understanding the developmental processes in young children is also so important

I highly recommend that everyone read this book

ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROur earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful sc...

04/13/2025

I have launched some new approaches and solutions for my nonprofit clients, all focused on ending the Scarcity Spirals, and moving into Thrivery-as-the-Norm. Here is a preview of where you can take this positive energy: https://gardenhillconsulting.com

Thrivery for People and Organizations Transformative Consulting for Sustainable Impact At Garden Hill Consulting, LLC, we are committed to advancing Nonprofit capabilities, fostering greater impact, and building generative effectiveness.We partner with individuals and organizations to unlock potenti...

03/07/2025

Rhonda S. Magee

Hi everyone, I hope you’re doing OK during this time of Fascist Extremist As****es Reign (FEAR). If you’re free this...

02/28/2025

For all my friends and colleagues in nonprofit spaces, I think of you in the sharing of this. Thank you to Heather Plett of The Center for Holding Space. If you need another set of eyes and ears as you navigate the next wave of chaos and pain...please reach out. When the dragons are gone, we will be left to build something grand.

"Friends, I don’t have to tell you about all that is wrong in the world today. We all feel it. The earth feels it. These human systems we’ve built – systems of dominance and control – are fighting to stay relevant and alive. Capitalism, patriarchy, colonialism – they’re all thrashing about like dying dragons, gasping for breath as they spread their fire indiscriminately about and turn the world to ash. There is no other way but for them to die – we know this because they’re built on self-destructive principles of limitless growth – but that doesn’t mean that the death won’t be chaotic and painful."
____from Heather Plett

Rhonda S. Magee

02/26/2025

This is a great article for organizations wondering how to continue betterment in the face of pressure than roll back efforts

In an era when DEI is being misrepresented and politicized, nonprofits must be clear and confident in communicating what it really means.

02/25/2025

When I spoke to a local group, I highlighted some concerning information. Between 2018 and 2022 (roughly), donations to donor advised funds increased 575%, a huge increase. Since then (and the upward trend has likely continued since 2022), donations to actual charities and nonprofits increased by only 75%. Which is good, but clearly illustrates a big gap, representing funds left in the DAF. Yes, earmarked for charitable giving, but not in the hands of those on the ground, doing the hard work, meeting increasing demands, everyday.
Nonprofit AF is calling us out to address this now. Like hoarding water during a fire (which I am not saying actually happened in recent memory), the funds need to be set free.
Rhonda S. Magee

Hi everyone, this post will be disorganized and will possibly p**s off some people. The kids didn’t have school today,...

02/21/2025

Or see me for similar content in my Self Leadership course which captures all of these key areas. Yes life is challenging, and as Harvard studies has revealed, we can guide ourselves through it all effectively, over the decades of our lives.

Utilize supplemental resources

02/06/2025

Our local chapter of 1M cups is a great group of local business owners. I was invited to speak to them about Garden Hill Consulting yesterday. I hope to be engaging more with the local community as the reinvention of the consulting side of my work has evolved with new and better focus, all for the benefit of my clients. More to come on all of that.

Thank you for the great presentation this morning, Garden Hill Consulting!! 👏👏👏

1 Million Cups

02/04/2025

My Thrivery for Impact Model launches this week, and the big reveal begins with this presentation here in Lawrence, where so much is happening!
Watch for More in the upcoming weeks.