Reflecting on 2024

As the year comes to a close, we’re taking a moment to reflect on the work we've accomplished this year in partnership with other consultants and our amazing clients. It's been a privilege to work with organizations making a difference in their communities. Here's a glimpse into a few of the impactful projects we've been a part of this year:

• Change Management Project: We’ve partnered with a change consultant to support a leading community nonprofit in navigating organizational change. Our work includes equipping their team with the skills and processes to lead change projects effectively through training, coaching, and the development of a sustainable project management framework.

• Fundraising Feasibility Study: We partnered with a fundraising consulting firm to conduct a fundraising feasibility study for an arts nonprofit. Our role included project planning and monitoring and supporting stakeholder communication.

• Monday.com Customization: We helped a small nonprofit streamline their processes and enhance collaboration by customizing their Monday.com platform to meet their specific needs.

• Association Implementation Planning: In partnership with a strategic planning firm, we facilitated the creation of an implementation plan for an association's new strategic plan. Our ongoing support includes quarterly check-ins to monitor progress, address challenges, and ensure successful execution.

• Organizational Development Project: We continued our support of a multi-year career and pay transparency project. Our contributions included project planning, monitoring and communications, and support for the development of career resources and training materials.

• Project Coaching: We empowered individual project coaching clients to lead their own projects more successfully. For one coaching client, we provided personalized advice on setting up efficient project processes and implementing Asana.

Jami also designed and led more than 50 training sessions in 2024 for audiences ranging from nonprofit leaders and librarians to HR professionals.

Looking forward to 2021

Little went as planned in 2020, so we really appreciated your business and support. We are looking forward to 2021 and the exciting possibilities that come with a new year!

Here's a few of the articles and resources we shared this year that you may have missed:

• Impactful Strategic Planning Guide

• Staying (Virtually) Connected to your Donors

• Does Employee Engagement Matter?

• Preventing Difficult Interactions

• It takes more than a new tool to fix a broken process...

• Time Management or Impact?

• Don’t let the Technology Overwhelm the Process

Celebrating 2 years!

Celebrating 2 years!

Enjoy discounts on events and courses in August 2020

On July 31, 2018, Yazdani Consulting and Facilitation was born. We started out with a different name, but our commitment to helping people solve management problems hasn’t changed.

We’re proud of our growth over the last 2 years, and look forward to continuing to serve our clients and our community.

To thank you for your support, we’re offering 20% off our events and courses throughout August 2020. Just register using discount code BDAY20.

Diversity and Inclusion Actions (Updates as of 12/15/21)

On June 17th 2020, we posted about our intentions around diversity and inclusion. In the spirit of accountability and transparency, we are providing updates on our progress. Updates to the original post are in bold (updates as of 7/30/2020 & 9/4/20 & 3/24/21 & 12/15/21).

Yazdani Consulting and Facilitation is committed to supporting diverse and inclusive workplaces, teams and professional networks.

In response to the protests over George Floyd’s murder, and in support of those fighting against systematic racism, I promised to examine my own assumptions, and to look for and speak up about prejudice and bias in my projects, teams, networks and communities.

To keep that promise and take action to support diversity and inclusion, I’m committed to:

• Seeking out diversity and inclusion resources and education and the support of diversity and inclusion experts.

  • Jami has done a variety of trainings and reading, but there is more to do. So far, Mary-Frances Winters’ We Can’t Talk about That at Work!: How to Talk about Race, Religion, Politics, and Other Polarizing Topics has been most transformative.

• Critically examining existing vendor relationships and prioritizing historically underutilized businesses when selecting new vendors.

  • Jami examined our existing vendor relationships only to find a list of major corporations (mostly in technology). We have started to use more technology from smaller companies, but this remains an issue for us.

• Reconsidering partner and referral relationships, including maintaining and sharing a list of contacts doing diversity and inclusion work.

  • Jami is continuing to build our list of contacts and partners, and is being more critical of our referrals.

• Critically examining my professional networks, including advocating for diversity and inclusion in the membership, leadership, decision making and procedures of my professional organizations, and increasing my involvement with professional organizations dedicated to diversity and inclusion issues.

  • Jami has examined her professional networks and was part of some initiatives to support inclusion in a primary network. She is still working towards increased involvement.

• Researching diversity and inclusion issues in relation to marketing and branding, and critically examining and improving my content.

  • Initial research in marketing and branding has been done, and we continue to work to improve our new content.

• Reconsidering my approaches to providing core services, including researching diversity and inclusion issues in relation to these services.

  • Jami critically examined our training materials and has focused her research and education on inclusive approaches to considering our project management and planning services and training. She has been including discussions of the positive and important impacts of inclusion in our trainings.

• Reconsidering internal systems, processes and procedures, including researching diversity and inclusion as it applies to client relationship management.

  • Jami considered our internal systems, processes, and procedures, and considered diversity and inclusion in developing new client relationship management approaches.

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New Year, New Name

You Can Leadership is now Yazdani Consulting and Facilitation. Our new name better highlights the broad range of support we can offer, from coaching to in-person and online training, to planning and project support and management.

At Yazdani Consulting and Facilitation, we’re still helping leaders at all levels solve management problems, achieve project success, and amplify the strengths of their team. We look forward to working with you in 2020!

You Can Blog (and other old news)

News and happenings from when Yazdani Consulting and Facilitation was You Can Leadership is still accessible at https://yazdaniconsulting.com/you-can-blog