Lisa Stokes Nicholas

About Lisa Stokes Nicholas

These are uniquely challenging times that call for a different way to do business. Are you feeling overextended and not sure how your organization can best impact the unprecedented challenges we currently face? Are you concerned that your organization may not be able to survive the terrain ahead? Kavi can help. We build true and just sustainability for organizations, the people they care for, and the planet. Our decades of experience \"untangling the messiness\" in domestic and international corporations, social enterprises, small businesses, and nonprofits have taught us how to close the gap on complicated problems. We know how to wire solutions into the strategy, systems, and people of the organization in just the right way to leverage the organization\'s strengths while mitigating its weaknesses. Our expertise includes strategic planning; strategic restructuring; governance development; and culture change. About Lisa: During the past 30+ years Kavi President Lisa Stokes Nicholas has led organizations through game-changing transitions. A skilled consultant, trainer, and national speaker Lisa has led transformative and lasting change within domestic and international corporations and nonprofits serving multiple sectors. As part of this work, Lisa and the Kavi staff have facilitated dozens of strategic planning processes, mergers and acquisitions, governance improvement efforts, and conflicts while coaching hundreds of professionals to lead transformative and lasting change.

Experience

1. President

   Kavi Consulting Services

   Apr 2015 — Present · Denver, CO, US

   During the past 25 years Kavi President Lisa Stokes has blended her extensive nonprofit and management experience with training in mediation, mindfulness, and nonviolent communication to guide organizations through conflicts, chaos, and merger. A skilled consultant, trainer, and national speaker Lisa has made transformative and lasting change within organizations serving multiple sectors including: advocacy; education; faith communities; food security; health care; hospice; information technology; government; security; sustainable energy; technology; and travel. Lisa is a highly skilled consultant, facilitator and mediator with extensive experience in guiding organizations through strategic planning, turn-around, executive search, governance and leadership development and culture change. In addition Lisa has facilitated dozens of successful nonprofit mergers which yielded growth in services, capacity, and fund development while reducing overhead and administrative expenses.

Education

• University of Cambridge

  Business Sustainability Management

  2021 — 2021

• University of Phoenix

  Masters of Arts

  2004 — 2005

• University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

  Bachelor of Arts

  1986 — 1992

Skills

• Training
• Program Management
• Public Speaking
• Nonprofit Organizations
• Capacity Building
• Change Management
• Strategic Planning
• Project Management
• Organizational Effectiveness
• Team Building
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Project Planning
• Workshop Facilitation
• Public Policy
• Nonprofits
• Executive Coaching
• Proposal Writing
• Editing
• Management Consulting
• Coaching
• Program Development
• Reproductive Health
• Grants
• Community Outreach
• Board Relations
• Board Development
• Program Evaluation
• Community Organizing
• Analysis
• Governance
• Organizational Development
• Fundraising
• Healthcare
• Consulting
• Data Analysis
• Philanthropy
• Non-Profit Administration
• Grant Writing
• Strategy
• Conflict Resolution