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Gray Space Consulting specializes in enhancing organizational culture, driving impactful data-driven strategies, fostering collaboration and engagement, and promoting inclusivity and fairness.  

Practical solutions designed to unlock potential, align teams, and move vision into action.

Our Organizational Development Consulting services help you improve your organizational culture and structure. We work with you to identify areas of improvement, develop a customized plan, and implement change to optimize your business. Examples include:

• Organizational Diagnostic Reports
  High-level snapshots that identify strengths, gaps, and strategic priorities.
• Comprehensive Organizational Assessments
  In-depth reviews of structure, systems, and culture to guide intentional growth.
• Customized Improvement Plans
  Step-by-step roadmaps to improve effectiveness, equity, and alignment.
• Executive Coaching & Leadership Development
  Personalized coaching to build resilient, mission-driven leadership.
• Strategic Development Plans
  Co-designed plans that translate bold vision into clear, measurable action.
• Change Management Strategies & Guides
  Tools and processes to navigate transitions with clarity and confidence. 
• Implementation Toolkits
  Templates, checklists, and workflows that support smooth execution. 
• Training and Development Programs
  Interactive learning experiences that build skills, shift culture, and sustain impact.

Making data easy to understand, useful to your work, and powerful for your story.

Our Evaluation and Data Analytics Consulting services use practical, affordable tools to help organizations collect, understand, and use data in ways that drive real impact. We work closely with you to design and implement strategies that align with your mission, meet funder expectations, and support long-term success.

Whether you're looking to measure what matters, tell the story of your work, or build internal systems that actually get used, we’re here to help — no technical expertise required. Examples include:

• Data Inventories & Landscape Reviews
  Organize what you already collect and identify what’s missing to streamline data efforts.
• Alignment with Funder & Mission Goals
  Ensure your data meets funder reporting needs and reflects what your organization truly values.
• Logic Models & Theories of Change
  Clear visual tools that show how your programs create impact, from inputs to outcomes.
• Impact Measurement Frameworks
  Blend evidence-based and custom (home-grown) tools to track change in ways that feel real and relevant.
• Data Collection Tools & Assessments
  Build surveys, feedback forms, and tracking systems tailored to your program and participants. 
• Data Analysis & Interpretation
  Turn raw numbers into useful insights, with support to make sense of both qualitative and quantitative data. 
• Custom Dashboards & Databases
  Create easy-to-use systems for tracking progress in real time — no spreadsheet chaos. 
• Infographics & Data Storytelling Decks
  Use visuals and plain language to show your impact and engage stakeholders. 
• Capacity Building & Staff Training
  Build your team’s confidence and skills to keep your data systems running smoothly and meaningfully.

 Helping teams connect, collaborate, and grow together.

Our Meeting Facilitation and Community Building services are designed to make gatherings — big or small — more meaningful, inclusive, and productive. Whether you're leading internal planning sessions, engaging your board, or connecting with community partners, we help you create spaces where ideas are shared, relationships deepen, and people leave energized, not drained.

We guide you through the process with custom agendas, thoughtful facilitation, and tools that strengthen trust, creativity, and collaboration. Examples include: 

• Tailored Meeting Facilitation Toolkits
  Custom agendas, discussion prompts, and activities designed to keep meetings focused, engaging, and goal-oriented.
• Community Building Strategies & Implementation Plans
  Step-by-step plans to foster belonging and connection, both inside and outside your organization.
• Internal Community Building Initiatives
  Support for creating a strong, values-driven staff culture through intentional rituals, communications, and shared experiences.
• Stakeholder Engagement Workshops & Retreats
  Facilitation and design of gatherings that center collaboration and strengthen partnerships across sectors.
• Board Presentation Workshops
  Coaching and slide deck prep to help staff and leaders confidently present to boards and advisory groups.
• Funder Pitch Preparation Packages
  Tailored support to help you communicate your work, vision, and impact to potential funders — including decks, messaging, and practice runs.
   

Because creating space for all voices isn’t political — it’s practical, human, and essential for impact.

At Gray Space, we approach Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) not as politics, but as a foundation for organizational health, innovation, and resilience. Our work is about helping teams recognize their existing strengths, address blind spots, and create cultures where people feel valued, heard, and able to thrive — across all levels of an organization.

Examples include:

• DEIB Maturity Assessments
  Evaluate where your organization currently stands across multiple dimensions of DEIB, with clear benchmarks and actionable next steps for growth. 
• Customized and Integrated DEIB Strategic Plans
  Co-created plans that align DEIB efforts with your broader mission and goals — not a separate track, but fully embedded into operations, leadership, and culture. 
• Equity Audit Services
  A thorough review of policies, practices, hiring, compensation, and communication to surface inequities and opportunities for structural change. 
• DEIB Scorecard and Dashboard Development
  Tools to track progress and accountability — because what gets measured gets prioritized. Includes KPIs, feedback loops, and real-time learning mechanisms. 
• Employee Resource Group (ERG) Support Programs
  Coaching, structure, and facilitation to help ERGs move from informal gatherings to influential groups that support connection, belonging, and advocacy.
• Inclusive Recruitment and Retention Strategies
  Practical guidance to reduce bias in hiring, improve onboarding, and create career pathways that reflect your organization’s full range of talent. 
• Facilitated Dialogues and Listening Sessions
  Safe, well-structured spaces for teams to surface honest experiences, bridge understanding, and rebuild trust through open conversation. 
• Third-Party DEIB Certification Preparation
  Support to align your organization with established DEIB frameworks such as the Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Benchmarks (GDEIB), including documentation, practice alignment, and readiness assessments.
• ESG Programming & Reporting
  Integrated DEIB and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) planning that meets compliance needs while staying true to your mission and values.