Work In Progress Consulting

This fall, we’ve been lucky enough to welcome some amazing new consultants to our team, and now we want to introduce them to you! Follow along to meet each of our new team members, and if you’re interested in working with us in 2025, schedule an intake call through our website —— Over the last decade, Megan Moore (she/her) has built a career working with high-growth food and beverage companies on everything from fundraising for a Series A, to building and understanding their COGS, to vetting co-packers, to day-today bookkeeping and financial reporting. Megan’s professional sweet spot is the place where finance and operations meet, and financial projections, cash flow management, and financial system implementation are her specialty. While Megan’s background is mostly in start-ups, she has participated in political organizing as well as in fat-queer activism and is excited to work and learn in non-profit accounting. She believes in committed to clear, compassionate, collaborative, consistent communication with clients and is dedicated to making financial reporting accurate, digestible, and actionable.

Do you have an AI policy? Do you even need an AI Policy? It’s currently up to each organization how they want to navigate this territory - but as ethical questions about AI continue to mount, and the proliferation of AI tools becomes more prevalent - it makes sense to give it some thought. If you decide you do need a policy, consider all the ways that AI technology may intersect with your specific work. Some considerations for policy provisions might include: -Privacy considerations around using AI note taking or summarizing software for emails, meetings, or other gatherings -Which AI tools might be active on software and possibly accessing private information about your organization or clients -Using generative AI to create work product -Use cases where AI can positively impact workflow -Impact of removing human decision making from certain processes

Our amazing partners at Collaborate Cleveland are hiring!

This fall, we’ve been lucky enough to welcome some amazing new consultants to our team, and now we want to introduce them to you! Follow along to meet each of our new team members, and if you’re interested in working with us in 2025, schedule an intake call through our website —— Caché Owens-Velásquez, Ph.D. (they/them)?is a dynamic mixed-media storyteller, educator, community organizer, and people-first leader based on the ancestral lands of the Wabanaki, Abenaki, and Pennacook peoples (Southern Maine). For over 15 years, Caché has worked in nonprofits and community organizations to advance social justice and liberation for marginalized communities. At the heart of Caché's work is a passion for building community power through storytelling and strategy. Caché is passionate about supporting organizations and communities to mobilize resources and scale impact while centering justice and inclusivity. As a Black, queer, non-binary former teen mother, Caché’s lived experiences deeply inform their work. They are also an artist and writer, exploring themes of body, grief, play, motherhood, and radical imagination. Their recent publications include "Mad Mother Scholar" in Mad Scholar Reclaiming and Reimagining the Neurodiverse Academy (Critical Perspectives on Disability) (Syracuse University Press) and "Fat Mothers as Spell Casters" in Womanly Magazine (2024). In working with Caché, you can expect authenticity, joy, humor, and creative problem-solving.

In the wake of the election, we’ve got a message: We need you as a person first, and as a change agent supported by a community of care second. Subscribe to our newsletter for additional thoughts on election response, and a host of resources to help you care for yourself and your organizations.

How are you providing a complaint and comfortable workplace for staff, and a welcoming community space for other stakeholders if you aren’t paying attention to accessibility needs? We hate to break it to you, but this is a trick question - you aren’t! Disabled people belong in our workplaces and our movements for change, talk with us about how you can create a robust accommodations process and accessibility plan.?

Our Values: Communication & Transparency We communicate openly and honestly with our colleagues and clients, believing that this leads to relationships that endure and work we can stand by. Multi-directional feedback makes us all more self-aware and is a practice that enriches us individually and as a group. We work to communicate changes, our needs, and reasons behind our decisions proactively and transparently.

There's certainly a battle on the horizon, but we can't give up our resolve. Before we enter this new phase, let's make sure we're ready. Take a look at this post-election self-care by Rachel Kacenjar, which we have been referencing since Tuesday night. https://lnkd.in/eJH-QGTK

In tough times, how do you ensure you are giving each other grace? How to you create opportunities for rest? How do you move away from making assumptions? How do you encourage connection? In difficult times and in every day life, how can we build organizations reflect the values we want to see?