It’s been a while since I posted.

I just did a little figuring and I have been away from home for 60 of the past 80 nights. Not quite as bad as the presidential candidates, but enough to make it hard for me to compose a coherent blog post!

Last week I was in Washington, D.C. where we hosted the second of the firm’s three tenth-anniversary parties. It was a fun event, and an opportunity to see many old friends and colleagues. The reception was held right before the start of the BoardSource conference so we were able to see not just our D.C./Baltimore friends but many others.

If you missed this fun event, and our earlier San Francisco reception, there is still one more chance to celebrate with us ten years of contributions to the sector. Our third and final party will be held in Honolulu on January 28.

2008 is in full swing.

Meetings are being calendared like crazy and, if my schedule is any indication, nonprofit leaders have returned from holiday breaks committed to begin new change processes, mergers, strategy work, and board development efforts.

We are ready.

Reflecting on this new year of 2008 I realize that we have assembled what is possibly the best consulting team I have ever had the privilege of leading.

Our staff has both a very good range of the skills our clients need and an enormous depth of experience. Most have long tenure as successful executive directors, others have been senior nonprofit managers; all have very substantial nonprofit experience. When you combine this experience base with their varied academic training, from law and MBA to social work and public health, and with their substantial consulting track records, we have the dream team.