Kim Savage Email & Phone Number

Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

A Right Now Leader: Temporary, on Purpose To thrive and fulfill their mandate, sometimes, organizations need specific skills for a specific season and rationale. Whether as an Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director/Chief Operating Officer or a Senior Contractor, interim senior leadership can provide assurance, stability, focus and capacity to an organization, its board, staff team, donors and stakeholders. MacPherson Savage Consulting offers “Right Now: Temporary, on Purpose” executive services within the non-profit sector for organizations needing a leader that can provide the pragmatic, focused and values-driven approach needed to ensure an organization moves forward with capacity and clarity.Core services include:- Fractional/part-time contract executive leadership- Right-sized, right-paced stability for social purpose organizations in transition- Accessible and actionable organizational strategy- Organizational capacity growth- Recommendations, approaches and systems to strengthen internal leadership, governance, administration, operations, finance, and advancement departments - Stakeholder engagement- Defined mandate, scope and core programming- Financial management for integrity and compliance Selected Industries: Social Services; International Development, Trade Organizations; Faith-Based Community Initiatives

New Westminster, Bc, Canada

Provided executive leadership to a dedicated and compassionate team locally and overseas focused on ending extreme poverty, one community at a time, with people in Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Americas. Worked with partners and stakeholders to identify, implement and assess local solutions to poverty that are effective, replicable, and sustainable. Key successes included: - Aligned a high-performance, agile staff team that was people-centric to prioritize needs of overseas partners and donors/stakeholders. Significant wins are, and have been, above-average donor retention, collaborative operations; effective staff alignment; identifying and securing diversified and expanded financial resources; and initiating a scalable strategic plan with KPIs and workplan.- Through proactive engagement, aligned overseas partners, their projects and Canadian stakeholders with HOPE’s core purpose to increase resources and mitigate mandate drift.- Initiated decisions in collaboration with Senior Leadership and the Board during Covid that were rooted in the organization’s values and priorities, despite the challenge and risks. For example, contribution agreements with overseas partners were not reduced and senior team voluntary took reduced salaries to keep entire team intact during pandemic.

Surrey, Bc

Focus: Provided senior leadership to organization during period of pastoral leadership recruitment. Key Results: - Fostered an empowered culture for staff to be fully engaged and working to their highest capacity despite period of uncertainity- Prepared staff team for new, incumbent leadership during period of transition- Aligned staff and volunteer teams to interim and medium-term priorities- Addressed areas of organizational un-health such as dysfunctional volunteer teams and challenging financial situations- Improved communication and relationships between multiple groups- Delivered multiple balanced budgets

Vancouver, Bc

SELECT CLIENTS: Vancouver Foundation, Better Environmentally Sound Transportation, Genstar Development Company, CitiesPlus, BC Council for Families, Community Social Services Council of BC, Elizabeth Fry Society, Richmond Hospital Foundation.FOCUS: • Led community relations and public consultation strategies for a proposed development in Mission• Developed and implemented strategic communications plans for lobby groups, associations and community organizations• Designed media relations programs for non-profit clients• Provided counsel to non-profit organizations, assisted in capacity building• Worked with foundations for project funding to organizations• Conducted communication audits and planning

Vancouver Bc

FOCUS: • Launched new communications package; designed and began implementation of long-range strategic communications plan• Increased media exposure for UGM• Developed and implemented strategies to increase donor commitment to the organization• Worked with foundations for special project funding• Developed internal communications processes to increase employee awareness

North Vancouver, Bc

FOCUS: • Wrote and coordinated all communication materials• Organized annual fundraiser, AGM and Community Living Day• Successful grant proposal writing• Issues management through research and interviews with NSAMH stakeholders