I started Tim Shaw & Associates to help you connect big thinking with solid planning, implementation, and management. I teach, facilitate and work with you to create systems and processes proven to collaboratively generate big ideas, and then implement, scale and sustain them.

Soon after I started doing this work as a young do-gooder, I realized that most of my colleagues were like me: 90% motivated compassion, 5% white-knuckling fear and 5% professional preparation. None of us majored in “Nonprofit Management” in college.

So…I made up my own rules as I moved from leadership positions in poverty and homeless services to education and grantmaking. Over the years, I developed principles, mental models, systems and processes known only to myself and the wonderful staff and Board members I’d been privileged to serve with over the years.

Until 2007.

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