Trusted Expert Consulting
For Mission-Driven Organizations

strategy leadership governance stewardship growth

We Help Mission-Driven Organizations & Leaders

Realize Your Full Potential

Solve Your Most Pressing Problems

Multiply Your Impact on Peoples' Lives

Mission-Driven [adjective]:

1. Motivated primarily by a belief, passion, or cause

2. Likely to place others’ interests above your own

Our Services

Strategic Planning

Success starts with a clear and compelling strategy.

We build robust strategic plans that are data-driven, stakeholder-engaged, funder-backed, and implementation-ready.

Utilizing proven templates and tools, we customize each strategy to inspire investment and drive sustainable impact .

Governance Strengthening

Healthy boards make for healthy organizations.

We develop engaged boards that provide strong, balanced leadership.

We provide objective assessment, facilitation, governance model development, coaching, and training for all kinds of boards.

Organizational Assessment

Outside perspective can catalyze needed change.

We gather and develop objective insights and offer fresh ideas that help leaders drive organizational growth.

Confidential interviews, robust surveys, data reviews, and program assessments are a few of the tools we bring to our clients.

Leadership Development & Succession

The right leaders make all the difference.

We ensure you have the right leaders, in the right positions, focused on the right objectives.

Our expertise includes leadership coaching, development, succession planning, and search facilitation.

Mergers & Partnerships

One plus one can sometimes equal three.

We evaluate the opportunity for, and facilitate the implementation of, multiple kinds of strategic partnerships and mergers.

We thrive in complexity, and we build the deep trust needed for truly impactful partnerships.

Philanthropic Impact

Smart generosity inspires sustainable impact.

We provide donors and funders an insider’s perspective on giving strategies that drive results.

We maximize donor return on investment though our gving portfolio assessments, grantee vetting services, and collaborative giving program development.

Hear From Our Clients

Senator Bill Frist, MD

  • Former US Senate Majority Leader

  • Founder and Chair, NashvilleHealth

  • Board Chair, The Nature Conservancy

“Matt worked very closely and intensively with me, our board, and our team at NashvilleHealth to develop a robust new strategic growth plan for the organization. He was a consummate professional, extremely knowledgeable, and brought multifaceted skills to our benefit. Matt and Good Works have been instrumental to our success, and we have been grateful to have him as a trusted advisor.”

Jane Nelson

President
Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation

“Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation engaged Good Works to guide our board and team in casting a bold new vision and growth plan. Following months of intensive stakeholder engagement and robust analysis, Matt was able to help us achieve things we had never done before. We adopted an achievable plan to double our impact over 25 years, and we raised $39 million to secure the future of scholarship fund. Good Works’ engagement was truly transformational for our organization.”

Kathleen LaValle

President & CEO
Dallas CASA

“Matt and Good Works have served as strategic advisors to Dallas CASA during several important periods, helping us craft multiple strategic growth and expansion efforts to serve more vulnerable children. Matt worked very well with our leadership team and board, building trust and crafting processes that injected diverse voices and valuable data into our decision-making. We have certainly benefitted from the partnership we have had with Good Works.”

Tod Marvin

CEO
Easterseals Central Texas

“Matt advised Easterseals on several strategic initiatives over the last few years, including a large merger and the development and launch of a new earned revenue business. His engaging, collaborative approach to consulting fit our needs well, and he became an integral partner for me and my board. I highly recommend Good Works Strategic Advisors for helping advance any mission-driven organization.”

Tony Budet

President & CEO (Emeritus)
University Federal Credit Union

“UFCU worked with Matt and Good Works for more than a year to help our board and leadership team develop and launch a strategy to integrate targeted social impact into our business model and strategy. His ability to intelligently bridge both the business and social sectors is unique and proved quite valuable to us. Matt very capably provided the counsel and guidance we needed to get started on this exciting journey, and he has become a trusted partner to our team.”