Strategies for Success

Welcome to Strategies for Success

Strategies for Success assists organizations, organizational leaders and individual leaders to align their time, energy and resources with their highest priorities and to take the actions that fulfill their missions. Strategies for Success is committed to strenghtening non-profit, business and community-based organizations making a difference in the world, and to enhancing the management skills of organizational and individual leaders. 

Jane Midgley specializes in:

• Organizational Planning
• Executive Coaching
• Leadership Skills Groups for executive directors and managers
• Work Planning Skills Training for staff, executive directors, boards of directors, managers, and teams
• Personal Coaching

Strategies for Success Guiding Principles:

• Collaborative partnerships
• Emphasis on vision, values and what is working
• Focus on leadership development and relationship building
• Integration of body, mind and spirit 

What they are saying about Strategies for Success...

"The strategic planning skills I learned and the coaching I received from Jane Midgley helped secure a permanent home for our museum. We did more than survive a crisis, we redefined our organizational culture and management.  This has empowered our institution to better serve our community and achieve our mission."

Elizabeth Zamorano, Executive Director, Museo Chicano, Phoenix, AZ

"Is there any greater challenge than breaking down a big project into small, daily tasks that incrementally bring it to fruition?  Strategies for Success is extraordinarily successful because Jane Midgley makes you understand that you have to think small in a big way." 

Judith Nies, Author and Historian, Cambridge,MA

"I learned more from Jane Midgley about how to be a well-rounded executive director than I've learned from anywhere else. Her Leadership Skills Group provided crucial tools for organizational planning, personnel management, and future scenario development for my community based group."

Jennifer Hill, Executive Director, Groundwork Somerville, Somerville, MA

"I have been recommending the Leadership Skills Group to all of my colleagues. It was so valuable in helping me come into my own as an Executive Director, and in helping me set goals for my organization and for myself, in the coming year."

Rosemary Candalerio, Executive Director, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice of Massachusetts, Brookline, MA

Services for Organizations & Managers

Organizational Planning

Create a plan for your organization's next phase of development, identify priorities and key actions for realizing organizational mission and vision, learn to measure success, and implement an on-going planning process. Organizational planning can be enhanced with coaching of the executive director, management teams, and/or board of directors.

Executive Coaching

Executive coaching creates a powerful partnership that enables you to achieve results for your organization, work smarter, focus on true priorities, and better align your organization's resources and energy with the mission.

Executive Directors participating in a Ford-Foundation funded intiative used coaching as one tool for leadership development and goal delivery. They found that a Strategies for Success coaching program helped them to:

• Manage change better internally and externally;
• Develop team management skills which in turn enhanced day to day effectiveness;
• Demonstrate flexibility in adapting and implementing plans;
• Shift from crisis mode to thinking and acting strategically; and
• Learn to care for self better.

Leadership Skills Groups for Executive Directors and Managers

• Leadership Skills Groups provide structured support and resources geared to:
• The core responsibilities of an Executive Director or Manager that if focused on insure success;
• An annual plan for you as a leader that directs your energy and organizational resources to what is most important;
• The ABC's of supervision - getting into a flow with the people you work with; and
• Stress reduction.

Work Planning Training for Staff, Executive Directors, Board Chairs, Boards of Directors

Get clear about work priorities and learn how to use practical planning tools that improve time management and juggling multiple projects. Includes the development of monthly and weekly workplans tailored to your needs.

Services for Individuals

Life Design

Personal coaching assists you to clarify and live fully your vision for your life. Coaching is for individuals launching or wanting to finish a major project, in life transition, or looking for more balance and fulfillment in their lives.

Work Design

Personal coaching for small business owners, those in work or career transition, or anyone who wants to address the challenges of their work lives. Learn to use your highest skills and tap into your life purpose in your work.

About Jane Midgley

Jane Midgley, founder of Strategies for Success, provides planning and leadership development services to a wide range of organizations, and coaching to executive directors, managers, and individuals. She has twenty five years of experience as a non-profit leader, manager and consultant, including as both Legislative Director and Executive Director of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (US Section). She is also a public policy analyst and the author of Women and the U.S. Budget: Where the Money Goes and What You Can Do About It, published by New Society Publishers.

Jane brings a history of working with diverse constituencies and a passionate commitment to developing support for leaders and organizations working for positive change in their communities. Strategies for Success has worked with non-profit organizations, community arts programs, community development corporations, foundations, businesses, and the city of Somerville, MA, where she formerly lived.

Jane is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), and is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the ICF. She received her BA from Carleton College, served as a Fellow at the Bunting Institute at Harvard University/Radcliffe College, and received her coaching training with the Coaches Training Institute. She is active with the Haymarket People’s Fund and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Jane Addams Peace Association.