Hawley Consulting Services
Leading with Intention
About Hawley Consulting Services
Leading with Intention
Hawley Consulting Services provides leadership and organization development consulting services to individuals, teams, businesses, boards and nonprofit organizations.
Grounded in emotional intelligence, Gestalt theory and the strengths-based Appreciative Inquiry organizational change model, Hawley Consulting Services works with clients to help them become more effective and intentional leaders and teams. We provide the tools, framework and support necessary for you and your organization to move forward with clarity and purpose to achieve desired results.
Founder and principal consultant Katie Hawley is a versatile, strategic leader bringing more than 25 years of real-world management and leadership to her practice. Katie's professional experience enables her to understand the opportunities and paradoxical challenges that are inherent in leading complex organizations. Through a blend of theory and practice, you will deepen your own contextual understanding while applying new, pragmatic approaches to your day-to-day decisions and actions.
Interested in learning more about how Hawley Consulting Services can propel you and your organization forward?
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Professional Services
Board Governance
Governing as a Strategic Advantage
Highly effective boards can become an organization's strategic advantage, setting the tone for candid mission-critical conversations and innovative thinking throughout the whole organization. To address both fundamental fiduciary responsibilities and an increased demand for accountability and transparency, board structures must be aligned to support the work of the board and not just mirror that of the larger organization. Interested in learning more about how Hawley Consulting Services can help develop your board into an intentional and strategic asset? Fill out the form below to get started.
Executive Coaching
Success starts with you.
Hawley Consulting Services' Executive Coaching puts you front and center. Our individualized coaching practice provides on-going opportunities to utilize your greatest strengths, so you can achieve the success you desire. Grounded in emotional intelligence and Gestalt theory, we help you to increase your leadership presence within your work environment. Seeking to increase your effectiveness from a position of strength? Fill out the form below to get started today.
Emerging & Aspiring Leaders
When you decide it's time to fly!
Aspiring to be promoted into a leadership position? Been assigned new leadership responsibilities and don't know where to begin? Seeking guidance on how to apply leadership theories in practice? Hawley Consulting Services' Emerging & Aspiring Leaders program is designed to provide you the tools you need to lead with intention in today's work world. Share your details to learn more.
Meeting Facilitation & Retreat Planning
Getting the most out of your time together.
Coming together is always a good idea. What is the best approach to achieve your desired goals? How do you structure a meeting to achieve success? What strategies should be used to ensure all voices are heard and valued? Fill out the form below to learn how Hawley Consulting Services can partner with you to design and deliver a high-quality meeting or professional retreat that achieves results.
Talent Development & Training
Designed to Meet Your Needs
Whether it is conducting a needs assessment to clearly identify the root cause of a challenge or designing a multi-pronged solution to develop internal talent, as a Certified Talent Development Professional, Hawley Consulting Services can create measurable solutions to advance your organization's goals and priorities.
Our workshops in leadership, management, diversity and inclusion, employee engagement, change management, strategic planning, and communication can be customized to meet your organizational culture and context.
Complete the form below and let us propose a solution to meet your training and development needs.
MILKshakes
Motivating & Inspiring Leaders through Knowledge
Time to shake it up! In partnership with AHA! Consulting we facilitate an exclusive opportunity for senior leaders to connect for robust, honest and provocative discussions about contemporary leadership challenges and approaches. By invitation only.
What People are Saying
The Value of Hawley Consulting Services
Discover how working with Katie Hawley has helped individuals, teams and organizations to be true to who they are while achieving new levels of professional success. Interested in learning more about how Hawley Consulting Services could help you and your business or organization? Fill out the contact form below to get the conversation started!
Elaine Pickney
Former Superintendent
Champlain Valley School District
"It was a pleasure working with Katie. The retreat was very successful in moving us forward -- first by getting us all aligned around what the work is. I appreciated Katie's skillful facilitation, which made me realize how critically important it is to have outside facilitation for this kind of work."
Rita Markley
Executive Director
COTS
"I am so impressed by how skillfully Katie facilitated our discussion. Her pacing, tone, and sense of group dynamics was outstanding!
Our board and staff are excited about the possibilities ahead and grateful for Katie's guiding us through these first steps."
Sandy Yusen
Dir., Communications & External Relations
Champlain College
"Katie’s positive leadership includes a rare combination of talents -- the empathy and sensitivity to cultivate trust, the intuition to discern the fine nuances of situations and implications of decisions, and the vision to cut through complexities and guide teams toward solutions."
Nicole Lentine
Dir., Outreach and Strategy
Platform Q
"Katie's warmth and encouragement shone through every one of our virtual training sessions. Through our work together, I dug deep into my values and aspirations, picking them apart and digging into details on how to become the professional I wanted to be — both in how others perceived me, and in how I viewed myself."
Paige Crosby
Vice Chair
Fairbanks Museum
Board of Directors
"Katie made the process enlightening, comfortable, and safe. She brought forward practical, thoughtful, and implementable changes and adjustments that are moving us forward. She is a true professional whom I recommended with trust and enthusiasm. "
Nichole Magoon,
Customer Service Associate
Ben & Jerry's
"With Katie's guidance I have experienced more professional and personal growth than ever. I learned to navigate my professional world and, more importantly, to more fully understand myself. Her approach comes from a place of strength and wisdom, paired with authenticity, empathy and warmth."
Diana Matot
VP, Information Technology
Champlain College
"Working with Katie has helped us, as individuals and as an organization, to apply our own knowledge in new ways, ask better questions, be more supportive of our colleagues, have more fun and be courageous enough to dare to grow and change."
Steve Mease
Manager, Public Affairs
VSAC
"Katie's leadership skills and insights into the big picture were always spot on. She connects the dots better than anyone I've worked with in 40 years."
Lynne Jaunich
Former Chair of the Board
Champlain Valley School District
"I really enjoyed working with Katie on the planning of our Board retreat. I very much appreciated how she structured the agenda to allow for the development and ownership of what was important for our board to be effective. The meeting itself began with the Board questioning the value of the work and ended with the participants saying we needed to do more of it. I would call that success!"
