Consulting

Guiding leaders to identify what their organization needs, and build a clear path forward.

Kathy doesn't arrive with answers. She arrives with questions.

You’ve brought people in before.
You’ve invested in your team.

But what you still don’t have is a trusted partner who understands the realities of your organization.

One who doesn’t need everything explained from scratch.

That is what Kathy is here for.

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Real culture change doesn’t happen in a single training day.

When the work is done, your team is still talking about it.

Using the same language.

Referencing the same tools.

For the first time, your investment actually lands.

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The Wildewood Difference

Before any plan is built, Kathy listens.

She learns your organization.
Your people, your culture, your challenges, and where you want to go.

Only then does she help you design a path forward.

The result is a strategy built from the inside out,
grounded in what is already strong, and focused on what needs to shift.

The kind of strategy you can stand behind.

How Kathy Works With Organizations

Tailored and Built for Lasting Change

Organizational Needs Assessment 
Every engagement starts with a conversation about your challenges.What Kathy learns shapes everything that follows.


Strategic Planning Facilitation 
Kathy guides leadership teams through mission, vision, strategic priorities, and action planning to build the foundation organizations must have to move forward together.

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Culture Change & Staff Development
From the director to the front desk. Kathy builds the shared language, tools, and practices that shift culture and create environments where staff want to stay and do their best work.

Multi-Year Partnership
Kathy’s deepest work happens through sustained partnerships. Long-term collaboration produces the measurable, lasting results that boards notice, and that staff feel.

Grant-Funded Initiatives
Kathy has extensive experience delivering on grant-funded goals, from rural health initiatives to justice coordination committees.

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Real Organizations.
Real Results.

“Kathy Magnusson has supported our Social & Emotional Learning efforts for many years. Her professionalism and leadership have been instrumental in promoting positive growth and wellness for our school community.”
Joyce Beckel
Licensed School Social Worker
“These trainings have given my staff the positivity and energy they need to face tough work. Bringing this training in-house has been one of the best ways to invest in my team's well-being and growth.”
Amy Ballard
Director, Lake of the Woods Social Services
“She was able to capture the essence of what I wanted to accomplish. We now have a formal organization, mission, vision, and a strategic plan. She has the knowledge and experience to dig in and get things done.”
Sue Grafstrom
Reaching Rural Grant Manager

It Begins With A Conversation

Real change happens at the speed of relationships.

Kathy’s consulting partnerships begin with a single conversation, and grow into something that outlasts any strategic plan.

If you lead a school, social service agency, county program, or nonprofit serving children and families, and you are ready for something different, that conversation starts here.

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Getting Started Is Simple

Step 1: Schedule a Call

Tell Kathy about your organization, your staff, and what you’re navigating right now.

Step 2: Get Your Custom Plan

Kathy listens, assesses, and designs a tailored approach built for your specific context & goals.

Step 3: Watch Your Culture Shift

Together you create the shared language, strategy, and culture your organization needs to move forward, and sustain it.

Common Questions

Consulting with Kathy includes organizational needs assessment, strategic planning and facilitation, culture change and staff development, multi-year partnership support, and grant-funded initiative support. Every engagement begins Kathy’s deep exploration of your organization’s needs before designing a plan through a trauma-informed lense.

Consulting engagements vary based on your organization’s goals. Some organizations work with Kathy on a focused 3-6-month project; others build multi-year partnerships.

Kathy’s deepest, most impactful work happens through sustained relationships and staff trainings where real culture change can take root.

Every engagement is designed from the inside out, grounded in what is already strong in your organization and focused on what needs to shift. Kathy applies a trauma-informed strength-based lens while working with the whole organizations, not just leadership. Because culture is built by all team members in alignment and collaboration.

Yes. Kathy has extensive experience delivering on grant-funded goals, including strategic planning, committee formalization, needs assessment, and program development.

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