• Leadership Training
  • Organization Assessment
    • Mentorship
      • Human Resource Management
        • Strategic Plans
          • Communication & Marketing

These are just some of the ways that NESC’s Government Consulting Group has been helping public sector organizations both large and small throughout the Tri-state area.

Examples:

1. For a large and complex New Jersey County Administration seeking to upgrade its compensation structure, NESC conducted a multipart compensation study for selected operations and employees and then, drawing on extensive comparative data from similar agencies, recommended changes.
2. For a medium-size city. NESC evaluated the municipal organizational structure and submitted a long list of suggested changes, including identifying public operations that could be privatized.
3. For a New York suburban city, NESC analyzed its Department of Planning and Community Development’s operations and suggested was to improve performance and boost efficiency.
4. For a major economic development group, NESC assessed its organizational structure, reviewed its succession planning and analyzed its compensation structure, submitting recommended changes that built on existing organizational strengths.

The NESC Method

Initial Meeting & Proposal
At initial exploratory discussions with NESC, the prospective client describes the challenges or problems or opportunities it faces. From this, NESC crafts, at no fee, a detailed Proposal outlining how NESC can help solve those problems and exploit those opportunities.

The NESC Team
If the client decides to retain NESC for the project, NESC Senior Vice President and Government Sector Director Stephen Koller recruits the Consultant Team.

These senior executives and seasoned professionals contribute their time and experience and share the client’s commitment to public sector services. Many have been working with nonprofit agencies, groups and institutions for many years and have mastered the ways that these groups cost-effectively can address a vastly wide array of problems and issues.

Interviews, Digging & Assessment
NESC Consultants meet with the client’s officers, Board members and appropriate staff and stakeholders. They burrow into the organization, coming to understand its vision and mission, observing and analyzing its operations and assessing the broad environment in which the client functions and the competition it faces.

The NESC Report
From its research, the NESC Team produces a Report, which will evolve through much iteration as it is revised to reflect Client comments and suggestions. The Report includes an assessment of the problem and opportunities and an analysis of the Client’s resources. Most importantly, it prescribes very detailed pragmatic, reasonable and affordable ways to address the matter. This includes specific Action Items, resources needed, a TimeLine and an Accountability Process to ensure that the Report actually spurs action and does not sit on the client’s shelf.

The NESC Fee
The scope of the project and the client’s budget determine NESC’s fee. Whatever the fee, it is always a small fraction of that charged by commercial for-profit consulting firms.

An expert in management and organization, NESC Senior Vice President Stephen Koller heads the NESC Education Consulting Group.

In senior posts at GlaxoSmithKline, Sterling Drug and Block Drug, both within the U.S. and internationally, and as a private consultant to a wide range of life sciences firms and organizations, he has acquired considerable experience in organization assessment and development, supply chain management, operations management and design, performance improvement and strategic planning.

And in his stint as Director in the New York State Department of Economic Development, he gained valuable background in economic development management.

He earned his MA in International Relations at Creighton University and his MBA at the Garvin School of International Management (Thunderbird).