Rooted Edge Consulting offers services to support managers at mission-driven organizations because we believe in the critical role managers play in impacting their team and making change in the world. We also know that managing staff is really challenging, in part because we are not always given a playbook! Through our coaching work, training sessions, and management projects with nonprofits, we bring our years of experience in leadership roles, building organizations, working with leaders at dozens of nonprofits, training experience, and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion best practices to every project.
cultivating mission-centered, inclusive, and supportive managers
Management Coaching & Training
Sarah Bennett is a true star of management coaching. She listened carefully to our team, rapidly identified the needs, and designed a program to build the management skills that were necessary for success. I’ve never seen a management coach deliver with such efficiency— and would recommend her to anyone.
Glenn Hurowitz
CEO, Mighty Earth
“The training was well-organized, and you balanced participation with delivery of content to keep us engaged. The training helped me to strengthen my skills for both project management and ongoing planning around staff responsibilities. . . Thanks for offering this highly practical and beneficial training to strengthen nonprofit missions!”
Stephanie P.
Setting Goals and Developing
Plans with your Staff
Attendee, 2024
➙ Over 100 staff from mission-driven groups have attended our management training sessions
Rooted Edge Consulting offers management training sessions over zoom with Sarah Bennett and Lindsay Crowder for managers seeking training in key management skills, proficiencies, and best practices. In 2025, we are offering these trainings to mission-driven organizations and we can run the trainings for managers over zoom or in person.
Management - Big Picture: including the role of the manager, qualities of an effective manager, and creating an ideal setting for your team
One-on-one Management: weekly check-ins, giving effective feedback, and promoting belonging
It's all about the plans!: setting goals & developing plans with your staff
Making that meeting worthwhile: prepping and running group meetings your team looks forward to!
How to be a great trainer and run effective trainings: effective ways to teach skills and more
Management Training Series:
Coaching Services:
Through our management coaching service, we partner with your organization to help coach and train one or more of your managers. We can work one-on-one with your new or seasoned manager to help strengthen their management skills, orientation, and approach.
We’ll design the coaching plan which works best for you, but most of our projects include: direct training on core management skills and tools; observation and intake; providing tools and templates to help with efficiency; and ongoing coaching/ listening sessions, ongoing observation and feedback; problem-solving around your biggest pain points.
A few examples of the challenges we could decide to address together include: strengthening your ability to give effective feedback to your staff; goal setting and planning; making your team meetings more effective, engaging, and inclusive; ensuring weekly check-ins lay the foundation for the best possible week ahead; strengthening your process for an upcoming hiring project with strong DEI values and best recruiting practices; managing multiple staff, including managers; or designing a training and plan around a skill or proficiency for an area of growth with your staff.
We would love to hear from you, hear more about your organization, challenges managers (or you!) are facing, and come up with the project and approach that will work best for you. Please reach out to Sarah by filling out our interest form. We can send more details, answer questions, and ideally set up a chat to explore working together.
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Our hourly rate for coaching is between $70 to $125/ hour, depending on your organization's overall budget and budget for the project. We can find an hourly rate that works best for you. You are only billed for time spent on our project. We are also open to a project-based set-up as well.
Please note that the estimated hour project includes not just direct coaching time, but also the hours spent on prep/ research/ training development/ and more to make the coaching as impactful as possible.
We also offer a free 20 to 30 minute coaching session to give the manager a chance to meet Sarah, and explore challenges together. We believe this is helpful for giving potential coaching clients a taste of our approach and where we can help strengthen your management approach and skills.
"As a management coach, Sarah took a lot of time and care to understand my challenges and needs as a manager and was genuinely interested in helping me succeed. Her feedback was insightful and her approach to helping with challenges I was facing was solution-oriented, with clear steps for moving forward. Rooted Edge is a valued member of our team and has been an integral part of our organization's growth and development over the years-- we would recommend working with Sarah and her team again and again!"
Casey Nitsch
Development Director
Mighty Earth
Let’s work together
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