Our clients are our best advertisement.
Over the years, we’ve given our all to do important and impactful work with our clients.
So, it's especially gratifying to hear kind words from folks we’ve worked with over the last 13+ years and be always reminded of the powerful work we all do... TOGETHER!
Rick Zwetsch & Caryn Capriccioso
interSector Partners played a critical role in my organization's recent Executive Director search, and I am so grateful we hired them to help us through the process. The prospect of hiring a new ED was initially very daunting for us; our organization is quite niche, with unique leadership needs, and no one on our current Board had participated in an executive search like this before.
Ultimately though, thanks to Rick and Caryn's help and expertise, the process went smoothly from start to finish, and we now have a wonderful new ED at the helm of our organization. Rick and Caryn held our hands through every step of the process, provided expert guidance, helped us navigate the applications and interview process, and even assisted with the transition from current to incoming ED.
I can't thank interSector Partners enough for their help, and we would use them again in a heartbeat!
Inside the Orchestra
Jean Plotkin
Board Member (Former)
Search Committee Member
Executive director search and
transition planning services
interSector Partners played a critical role in my organization's recent Executive Director search, and I am so grateful we hired them to help us through the process. Rick and Caryn held our hands through every step of the process, provided expert guidance, helped us navigate the applications and interview process, and even assisted with the transition from current to incoming ED.
Inside the Orchestra
Josh Neugebauer
Treasurer
Search Committee Member
Executive director search and
transition planning services
Our expectations were met and exceeded during our work together. Getting this project to move forward was due to interSector's incredible depth of research and passion for our agency. The overall process and quality of work produced by interSector Partners, L3C exceeded excellent. interSector also exceeded our expectations for value. I thought the initial price tag was fairly expensive, but the product was far better than we expected. I can’t recommend interSector Partners highly enough when it comes to thinking about social enterprise. It was due to interSector that PDI was able to move forward with our Ag/Tech program.
PDI
David Pump
CEO
Strategic plan consulting and social enterprise development services
It is not often that we have consultants that have the understanding and have experience with the organization and community as interSector does. That was key. Your process of listening and asking questions in the beginning helped to ensure that there was clarity on the goal which led to high quality of service and the evaluation. interSector’s ability to listen, ask questions and flexibility resulted in the development of a model and evaluation that meets our unique needs and a meaningful product that we can implement.
City of Longmont, Colorado
Carmen Ramirez
Manager
Collective Impact Model Design and Evaluation
interSector's assistance was invaluable to help our team reach the level of clarity needed to proceed with our project. I think the plan to move forward is a valuable tool that we can use to help our leadership decide our next steps. Your work was done well. This was a difficult challenge.
City of Longmont, Colorado
Eliberto Mendoza
Community Services Project Coordinator
Collective Impact Model Design and Evaluation
Kavod was quite pleased with the work which InterSector provided. Their whole process was well developed, and Caryn and Rick are excellent facilitators. They are bright individuals and quickly learned who we were and helped lead us to a finished product which will be well executable.
They worked well with our staff and our board, and they understand how to get a project completed on time and with a clear direction for our organization to pursue.
Kavod Senior Life
Michael Klein
CEO
Strategic planning consultation and facilitation services
As a fellow strategic planner and consultant, it was refreshing to be able to just be the Chair of the Kavod Strategic Planning committee and not an armchair consultant for this process. You were both open to input and also secure in your expertise. You guided our organization through a seamless, welcoming strategic planning process. I would not hesitate to refer you to other organizations.
Aging Dynamics
Rachel Cohen, CEO
Chair, Kavod Strategic Planning Committee
Strategic planning consultation and facilitation services
The quality of interSector Partners L3C's work is high. Caryn and Rick set a great schedule to prepare for our strategic planning work, which made our team very prepared for the session. They were efficient yet precise and provided a great experience for our team.
The co-creation process was awesome. We provided feedback to Caryn and Rick on a call that switched the focus of our strategic session, and they adapted our programming by the end of the day. They were great listeners and helped us facilitate a session, even on site, that was fluid
and adaptable.
Finally, interSector Partners L3C developed a flexible yet focused strategic planning session for our group. The outcome of the planning and session helped our organization focus our work while also growing our organization. They were easy to work with, set a great schedule for the work. and were extremely timely on all deliverables. If your organization is looking for a versatile, yet dynamic duo, that can deliver great results, Caryn and Rick are your team!
GBENN
Cassie Carroll
Director
Strategic planning consultation and facilitation services
interSector Partners L3C are exceptionally skilled, professional, and responsive consultants with deep understanding of the challenges facing non-profits.
You definitely exceeded our expectations in your ability to bore in on the status of the organization and then provide specific and usable options for addressing problems and issues. Your facilitation skills with the kaleidoscope of human nature are truly exceptional and perhaps your greatest strength.
We are following the organizational plan developed under your guidance and moving forward to address the 4 over-arching areas of need. Several Board members continue to recall your advice and recommendations to us and ask: "What would interSector do with this situation?"
Disability Law Colorado
Mary Kay Kisseberth
Board President (Former)
Organizational planning consultation and facilitation services
Caryn and Rick are dedicated to seeing their clients succeed. They bring knowledge, passion, professionalism, flexibility, and humor to their work and are a joy to partner with. They are masters of their craft. When changes to our plan and process had to be made, they were accommodating and patient, and their level of communication and routine updates was unparalleled. The recommendation for interSector Partners is one of the best I've ever received.
NextFifty Initiative
Diana McFail
CEO (Former)
Strategic planning consultation and facilitation services
CHDA Staff and Board were impressed with Rick and Caryn from the very first interview not only by their understanding of processes in moving organizations forward with evaluation, strategic thinking, and planning, but also with their confession of not being industry experts in our field of work. They caught up quickly and provided thorough and helpful industry research combined with thoughtful, relevant, and future-looking evaluation that furthered the planning process from an informed industry context.
InterSector certainly met our expectations and more. Your experience and effectiveness at working respectfully and productively in an industry not of your specialty was impressive. We appreciate your quick learning of our industry combined with your overall expertise in creating a roadmap for our organization's evolution to our "next".
Our group had a very favorable experience working with InterSector Partners to develop a new strategic plan. We are a small successful nonprofit housing development organization wanting to undergird and reinforce or strengths, and strategically expand our impact and community benefit. Working with Caryn and Rick helped our organization lay the foundation for successfully and impactfully moving forward with our mission to support quality affordable living opportunities for individuals and families, including those with Special Needs.
CHDA
Jo Ellen Davidson
Executive Director
Strategic planning consultation and
facilitation services
Caryn and Rick guided our coalition from the earliest brainstorming about our strategic future to a well-designed, thoughtful plan that will take us through the next three years. Caryn and Rick are the best type of facilitators who lead by listening to the group.
Both were "present" at all times. They listened carefully and quietly but with great concentration. They brainstormed and changed direction with input. They are excellent facilitators who kept the process (especially the Zoom call on Year 4 grant negotiations) going positively.
The strategic planning process was excellent. I especially appreciate how they took pages of notes on newsprint and turned them into a coherent report. Caryn and Rick made our brainstorming sound thoughtful and organized!
We are thankful for getting a product that we can be proud of.
Generation Wild NEMC
Kathleen Kramer
Manager
Strategic planning consultation and facilitation services
interSector Partners was key to exploring human service grant making in Loveland. With their gentle guidance, major decisions were made about changing the process and working on prioritizing our limited funding. I also appreciate that you were able to adapt to changing conditions. What we did on the last day had nothing to do with our plan in 2018 but provided our office with the assistance we needed. I hope to work with Caryn and Rick in the future.
City of Loveland, Colorado
Alison Hade
Administrator
Strategic Grantee Program Review and Audit Services / Grantmaking Process Consulting
Caryn and Rick guided our coalition from the earliest brainstorming about our strategic future to a well-designed, thoughtful plan that will take us through the next three years. Caryn and Rick are the best type of facilitators who lead by listening to the group.
Both were "present" at all times. They listened carefully and quietly but with great concentration. They brainstormed and changed direction with input. They are excellent facilitators who kept the process (especially the Zoom call on Year 4 grant negotiations) going positively.
The strategic planning process was excellent. I especially appreciate how they took pages of notes on newsprint and turned them into a coherent report. Caryn and Rick made our brainstorming sound thoughtful and organized!
We are thankful for getting a product that we can be proud of.
Generation Wild NEMC
Kathleen Kramer
Manager
Strategic planning consultation and facilitation services
Caryn and Rick guided our coalition from the earliest brainstorming about our strategic future to a well-designed, thoughtful plan that will take us through the next three years. Caryn and Rick are the best type of facilitators who lead by listening to the group.
Both were "present" at all times. They listened carefully and quietly but with great concentration. They brainstormed and changed direction with input. They are excellent facilitators who kept the process (especially the Zoom call on Year 4 grant negotiations) going positively.
The strategic planning process was excellent. I especially appreciate how they took pages of notes on newsprint and turned them into a coherent report. Caryn and Rick made our brainstorming sound thoughtful and organized!
We are thankful for getting a product that we can be proud of.
Generation Wild NEMC
Kathleen Kramer
Manager
Strategic planning consultation and facilitation services
We issued an RFP for our strategic plan, conducted interviews, and assessed relative value. We selected interSector Partners and we were very pleased with the commitment to and quality of the work we received which was stellar,
prompt and adaptive.
As we expressed, how we did the work was as important as what we were doing. Accordingly, you helped us with a pre-retreat retreat and gracefully managed an inclusive process throughout. Staff and board praised the process as moving us toward one foundation of
vision and culture.
interSector helped us express and keep the vision and values in mind rather than a descriptive or operational plan. Also, the adaptive, dynamic model helped us learn to be more strategic with tools like a customized strategy screen.
Our hope and expectations were high and interSector exceeded them. It was helpful to set expectations clearly at the beginning, particularly with regard to staff and board responsibilities.
The strategic plan interSector helped us write was an inflection point for the organization. They helped our organization write a community-based, adaptive strategic plan with clear vision, values, and goals. Most important, they helped bring us together to make a positive difference in our community.
Community Foundation
Boulder County
Jeff Hirota
CEO (Former)
Strategic Planning
Your work was exceptional. From my point of view, and my needs as the chair of the search committee, you provided much technical support, resources, and the occasional prompting. I found your consultations very helpful.
The process worked extremely well, and I know that TGP is a very unique organization in how we tackled this. You both responded very well to our needs and helped us create a very meaningful and successful process. You gave us an ambitious but do-able timeline and a set of tasks that we needed to do, as well as numerous resources on how to do it. You empowered us to make this process our
own and…you helped up identify and hire a new president, and one we feel exceptionally
good about.
Finally, Caryn and Rick are consummate professionals in all they do. They are exceptionally experienced and are able to provide ample resources and process management that was extremely helpful to us as we hired a new president for our organization. They also are adept facilitators and just all-around delightful people to work with.
The Gathering Place
Geoffrey Bateman
Board Member (Former)
Search Committee Chair
Executive Search Support Services
Caryn and Rick guided our coalition from the earliest brainstorming about our strategic future to a well-designed, thoughtful plan that will take us through the next three years. Caryn and Rick are the best type of facilitators who lead by listening to the group.
Both were "present" at all times. They listened carefully and quietly but with great concentration. They brainstormed and changed direction with input. They are excellent facilitators who kept the process (especially the Zoom call on Year 4 grant negotiations) going positively.
The strategic planning process was excellent. I especially appreciate how they took pages of notes on newsprint and turned them into a coherent report. Caryn and Rick made our brainstorming sound thoughtful and organized!
We are thankful for getting a product that we can be proud of.
Generation Wild NEMC
Kathleen Kramer
Manager
Strategic planning consultation and facilitation services
interSector’s work was professional, timely and thorough. We felt that the process was jointly developed and executed. There were times that we needed to change the process midstream and those occurred without trauma or delay.
Without experience with other search consultants, we wondered if the process could be done as quickly as you recommended, but we stayed within the timeline. In fact, most believe we couldn't have met anything close to this timeline without your help.
The value was in keeping us on track, doing most of the leg work, providing timely follow-up, and being professional with both the Search Committee and with the candidates.
interSector provided us with the ability to take a process (selection and transition) filled with potential for disorganization and miscommunication and demonstrate to all our constituents that the process was well handled and produced a good result.
OUR Center
Rob McRae
Board Member at Large
Search Committee Member
Executive Search and Transition Planning
This was the first time that the Foundation had ever had a strategic planning facilitator. interSector showed reluctant board members the value of
that investment.
What I loved about working with interSector was the attention to detail. All discussions and decisions were documented and there was follow-up on every action item. Both the facilitation and the resulting plan were extremely professional
and useful!
I truly appreciated interSector's flexibility and patience. We re-visited the process several times in our process and Caryn and Rick were a big help and a thoughtful partner.
interSector way exceeded my expectations for a strategic plan that was brought about through a combination of good leadership and consensus and I think interSector is amazing value
for the money.
Bottom line? We have a strategic plan that is a road map for our future. It's the first time the plan has really been a guide for the future work
of the organization.
Community Foundation
Boulder County
Leslie Allen
Chair of the Board (Former)
Strategic Planning
Caryn and Rick guided our coalition from the earliest brainstorming about our strategic future to a well-designed, thoughtful plan that will take us through the next three years. Caryn and Rick are the best type of facilitators who lead by listening to the group.
Both were "present" at all times. They listened carefully and quietly but with great concentration. They brainstormed and changed direction with input. They are excellent facilitators who kept the process (especially the Zoom call on Year 4 grant negotiations) going positively.
The strategic planning process was excellent. I especially appreciate how they took pages of notes on newsprint and turned them into a coherent report. Caryn and Rick made our brainstorming sound thoughtful and organized!
We are thankful for getting a product that we can be proud of.
Generation Wild NEMC
Kathleen Kramer
Manager
Strategic planning consultation and facilitation services
Thank you.
Thank you for figuring out how to work in our crazy “input-y” culture, and not trying to change us. Thank you for providing the Board with guidance and support, when they most needed it. Thank you for entertaining my humor, for caring about TGP, and for caring about the nonprofit sector in general. We are all better because of you both, and I appreciate you beyond measure. Naturally, you will be invited to whatever celebration eventually manifests, and I do
hope you will come.
You’ve worked with TGP three times now, and each has been a time of significant and important change. Always, I have felt in good hands. And, yes. You can use any and all of the above as a testimonial for the future. Lord knows there are (or should be) some executive transitions coming as we Boomers fade off into the sunset. interSector Partners has been the best. Grateful you have been there for us through times of change.
The Gathering Place
Leslie Foster
President & CEO (Former)
Executive Search, Merger, Strategic Planning
Caryn was very well organized, a great listener and communicator, had a pinpoint focus on needs, a positive attitude, great at reading people and getting everyone in the group involved, a terrific problem solver, and the written report was readable and usable. We all had a sense that Caryn really cared about what we were doing. It was more than a job--she seemed to be part of our mission.
Overall, the process worked great! We covered a lot of ground in a short period of time, stayed focused and on time. Caryn was terrific in terms of getting everyone to participate--lots of positive energy. She helped create a plan to move forward with priorities that we are actually implementing! interSector's work exceeded our expectations.
Healthy Learning Paths
Executive Director
Strategic Planning
Caryn and Rick guided our coalition from the earliest brainstorming about our strategic future to a well-designed, thoughtful plan that will take us through the next three years. Caryn and Rick are the best type of facilitators who lead by listening to the group.