Desiree Adaway

About Desiree Adaway

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Experience

1. Principal

   The Adaway Group

   Aug 2010 — Present

   Consulting services with The Adaway Group is ultimately about your team and culture: developing alignment, clarity, creativity and effectiveness so you can get on to what’s most important – working together to create real and lasting change in the world.I love to challenge and help others experience success.I am a strong, strategic business professional with the breadth and depth of having worked with organizations of all sizes in various phases of transition. I bring my clients insights and expertise from having served in senior-level roles in the nonprofit and grant management sectors for such renowned organizations as Habitat for Humanity International, where I was the Senior Director of Volunteer Mobilization, and Rotary International, where I was the director of their largest Humanitarian Grants program. I break bottlenecks. The core of my work is grounded in the concept that you get the culture you create: To do this we must look inward at the structure, culture and relationships that comprise your organization. I am known by staff, senior leadership, peers and partners as being great at open, honest and productive conversations. I am not afraid of addressing anything that gets in the way of great work.This work will increase your awareness of critical issues and challenges in building and maintaining a diverse, multicultural and inclusive organization. We will ask the hard questions in an emotionally safe environment.

Skills

• Program Management
• Blogging
• Community Organizing
• Capacity Building
• Strategic Planning
• Team Building
• Program Development
• Management
• Staff Development
• Mentoring
• Training & Development
• Program Evaluation
• Grants
• Conflict Resolution
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Ms Project
• Stewardship
• Nonprofits
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Problem Solving
• Fundraising
• Coaching
• Grant Management
• Executive Coaching
• Non-Profits
• Budgets
• Community Outreach
• Community Development
• Organizational Development
• Program Design
• Grant Writing
• Leadership
• Volunteer Management
• Training
• Public Speaking
• Strategy
• Organizational Leadership
• Hiring
• Partnership Development
• Annual Giving