Let’s Build What’s Next—Together
We help mission-driven organizations navigate consequential moments — setting strategy, assessing organizational needs, strengthening leadership and governance, navigating executive transition, and turning insight into action.
We work with nonprofits, foundations, public-sector partners, and health and human-service organizations to make sense of complexity, engage the people closest to the work, and develop practical strategies for moving forward.
Strategy & Organizational Effectiveness
Strategic planning, organizational assessment, implementation planning, governance, organizational capacity, and change support.
Executive Search & Leadership Transition
Assessment-driven executive search, leadership priorities and competency development, position profiles, compensation benchmarking, candidate assessment, interview and finalist processes, and board decision support.
Stakeholder Engagement & Facilitation
Interviews, focus groups, surveys, retreats, working sessions, community engagement, board and staff facilitation, and cross-sector convenings.
Assessment, Synthesis & Strategic Reporting
Mixed-method inquiry, qualitative analysis, research synthesis, organizational and environmental analysis, findings and recommendations, executive summaries, and decision-ready reports.
Capacity Building & Learning
Governance development, leadership coaching, training design, adult learning, workshops, implementation tools, and learning resources.
what we offer
We begin with inquiry.
We listen to the people closest to the work and gather the information needed to understand the organization, its environment, opportunities, and challenges.
We make sense of what we learn.
We look for patterns, tensions, opportunities, risks, and the through-line connecting them — turning information into insight.
We help organizations make choices.
Good strategy requires decisions. We create processes that make tradeoffs visible and help leaders, boards, staff, and stakeholders establish shared direction.
We translate decisions into action.
Plans matter only if organizations can use them. We develop practical roadmaps, measures, tools, governance practices, and structures that help sustain momentum after the engagement ends.
our approach
toynton llc operates through a flexible consulting model. Paula can lead engagements independently and assemble experienced collaborators when a project benefits from additional expertise in governance, executive coaching, fundraising, organizational development, facilitation, or other disciplines. She is also just as willing to join your team and lend her talents to your success.
BIO
Paula Toynton, MEd, is a strategy, leadership, and organizational effectiveness consultant with more than 30 years of nonprofit leadership and consulting experience. She helps mission-driven organizations make consequential decisions, strengthen leadership and governance, and move from insight to action.
how we work
Whether you're setting a new direction, preparing for leadership change, trying to understand what your stakeholders are telling you, or turning a strategy into action, we'd welcome a conversation.
CONTACT me at ptoynton@toyntonllc.com to discuss how we can help you realize your mission.
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