Jessica Partnow
I am a skilled interim executive director who loves to help organizations build culture, systems, and policies aligned with their deeply held values. I believe in building deep trust throughout all levels of an organization through clear communication, transparency, and collaboration. I am an entrepreneurial leader who thrives in moments of change, helping organizations find their next steps.
Seattle, WA 98122-4814
Contact
Expertise
Facilitation
- Board meetings/retreats
Interim Management
- Interim executive director/CEO
- Other interim
Management & Operations
- Administration
- Operating policies/procedures
- Operations management
- Organizational analysis
Planning & Organizational Development
- Business plans
- Earned income/social enterprise
- Mission & vision development
- Organizational development
- Program development
- Starting a nonprofit
- Strategic planning
Technology
- CRM/database systems consulting
- Fundraising software consulting
- Technology planning
- Technology training
- Website maintenance
About Jessica Partnow
Hi! I’m Jessica Partnow, a nonprofit leader, educator, and former international public radio journalist. I was the founding executive director of The Seattle Globalist, a nonprofit media organization dedicated to elevating diverse voices through media. I earned my MBA with a focus on leadership, and I now bring that education and my nearly twenty years in the nonprofit sector to consulting work with small and growing organizations. Throughout my career, I have worked with dozens of small nonprofits on corporate formation, organizational structure, board development, strategic planning, mission and vision development, program planning, operations, fundraising, and communications.
I specialize in interim leadership and leadership transitions for small nonprofit organizations. I love working with staff and boards on strategy, operations, organizational development, and fundraising. My goal is always to help teams find solutions that fit their values and their budgets.
I work under the assumption that US society, and thus our institutions, were designed to enforce a hierarchy of power along lines of difference, including race, ability, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship, immigration status, religion and more. I see an important part of my role as working to challenge the power structures of the status quo. I seek to create liberating structures and norms in my work as an educator, a journalist, and as an organizational consultant.
I approach my work as a collaborator and as an educator. I am self-taught in many ways, and have learned that especially for women, people of color, and members of other marginalized groups there can be a tendency to underestimate or invisibilize your own skills and knowledge – particularly when those skills have been learned “on the job.”
Areas of Expertise
Communication Strategy | Values-Driven Policy and Planning | Workflow and Process Improvement | Staffing Structure | Recruiting, Training, and Onboarding | People Management | Technology Platform Selection, Optimization, Implementation | Finance & Budgeting | Media Production | Storytelling | Education and Training | Board Development and Training | Administrative Systems | Executive & Staffing Search | Organizational Transformation | Change Management
I specialize in interim leadership and leadership transitions for small nonprofit organizations. I love working with staff and boards on strategy, operations, organizational development, and fundraising. My goal is always to help teams find solutions that fit their values and their budgets.
I work under the assumption that US society, and thus our institutions, were designed to enforce a hierarchy of power along lines of difference, including race, ability, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship, immigration status, religion and more. I see an important part of my role as working to challenge the power structures of the status quo. I seek to create liberating structures and norms in my work as an educator, a journalist, and as an organizational consultant.
I approach my work as a collaborator and as an educator. I am self-taught in many ways, and have learned that especially for women, people of color, and members of other marginalized groups there can be a tendency to underestimate or invisibilize your own skills and knowledge – particularly when those skills have been learned “on the job.”
Areas of Expertise
Communication Strategy | Values-Driven Policy and Planning | Workflow and Process Improvement | Staffing Structure | Recruiting, Training, and Onboarding | People Management | Technology Platform Selection, Optimization, Implementation | Finance & Budgeting | Media Production | Storytelling | Education and Training | Board Development and Training | Administrative Systems | Executive & Staffing Search | Organizational Transformation | Change Management