• Organization Assessment
  • Mentorship
    • Facility Management - Space Planning
      • Financial Management
        • Communications and Marketing
          • Strategic Plans

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

Examples:

1. For a world famous and historical New York City church and religious complex, NESC redesigned its entire physical space to expand facility use and reduce operational costs.
2. For a conference of churches, NESC created a strategic plan giving focused direction to the organization and allowing it plan systematically for the long term.
3. For a leading Long Island congregation, NESC extensively reviewed administrative and business processes and procedures and then proposed ways for the organization to operate more efficiently, improve and even expand services.
4. For a national Rabbinical support organization, NESC conducted a thorough and detailed financial review and then provided continuous financial management support for senior management and the Board of Directors.
   

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, Sector Co-Directors for Religion Sector Services Stephen Koller and Marie Terry recruit the Consultant Team.

These senior executives and seasoned professionals contribute their time and experience and share the client’s commitment to religion and nonprofit 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 co-heads the NESC Religion 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).

A skilled marketing expert, Marie Terry co-heads the NESC Religion Consulting Group. For 20 years, she served at Macmillan / McGraw Hill, the elementary school publishing unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, becoming its VP of Marketing.

She has a widely-admired track record for conceptual planning and execution of marketing plans and also is a recognized leader with strong communication and presentation skills.

Her major MacMillan/McGraw Hill projects included the launching of Reading, Science & Math basal programs for K-8 schools. Before joining Macmillan / McGraw Hill, Marie was VP of Marketing at Van Nostrand Reinhold, a leading New York City-based professional and trade publisher.

She earned her BS Degree in Business Administration from New Jersey’s Rider University.