Verrenti Consulting collaborates with experts ready to roll up their sleeves to help you solve thorny challenges and uncover innovative answers to hard questions.

Kristen Spangler, MBA, KLS Works
Kristen works with small and medium-sized nonprofits and foundations in transition, helping them identify the roadblocks that impede progress, build new systems to support goals, and move beyond putting out fires to plan the road ahead. She brings particular expertise in nonprofit finance, operations and accounting, bringing technical and legal issues to life in a way that makes sense and is integrated across functional areas in the organization. Kristen’s experience includes leadership at grantmaking, international, economic development, environmental and human rights organizations. For many years she taught in the UW fundraising and nonprofit management certificate program, as well as volunteered on boards of directors and finance committees.

Alessandra Pollock, MPA, Pollock + Partners
Alessandra is passionate about supporting equitable and client-centered processes and programs. She brings her love of research and analytics to each client experience, helping organizations develop insight into operations, workload, and performance in order to make smart, meaningful change for better results. She offers data coaching, data system management, analysis and evaluation, performance measurement, quality improvement and program design. She has worked within a wide variety of sectors including criminal justice, mental health, human services, infrastructure and education.

Barbara Grant, Crux Consulting
Barbara Grant, Founder and CEO of Crux Consulting, leads this multidisciplinary consulting consortium that supports the development of strong leaders and strong leadership. This team of staff and partners brings a wide range of expertise and experience to help teams design an initiate organizational evolution, disrupt entrenched patterns, and capture strategic opportunities.