Work With Us
Donna Forte Consulting Group works with the institutions carrying public missions — government agencies, foundations, intermediaries, and the human services organizations they fund — and with the research organizations that study what they build. Within them, the work is with people: executive directors, agency and program leaders, boards, and the executives who answer to both. Companies come too — for the coaching, the advising, and the rooms — because every organization is a human system before it is anything else. Engagements nationwide, and internationally on request.
The Next Arc
A first executive seat, an expanded scope, a long tenure ready for its next form: for executive directors, agency and program leaders, and the executives who answer to boards and funders.
The coaching is built from the full arc of how you arrived — the record, the pattern, the instincts that got you here — and reaches beyond it where the next chapter calls for something you haven’t yet held. It is also direct. What no one else will name gets named, and the naming is what opens the next level.
The Long View
For agencies, foundations, and the nonprofits they fund — and for the leadership teams inside them.
Some engagements are an ongoing seat at the leadership table: fractional or interim, a senior perspective present through a season of change without adding a permanent position. Others are defined — a clear question, a clear start and finish: an agency implementing a new mandate, a nonprofit scaling what a grant has made possible, a board and an executive finding the working relationship the organization needs from them.
The Blueprint
For the institutions responsible for a workforce: foundations funding one, public agencies accountable for one, intermediaries carrying one, and the research organizations studying all three.
The capacities are concrete
Competency frameworks, and the credentialing pathways built on them. Curriculum grounded in adult learning, written for practitioners rather than podiums. Statewide systems building, and the data architecture that moves a practitioner from first application to full certification. Evaluation design, measurement frameworks, and learning agendas, so the evidence grows alongside the system. And the reflective side of the field — reflective supervision and consultation, learning collaboratives, communities of practice — because a workforce is kept well, not trained once.
The engagement scales to the need — a single training series, a program redesign, technical assistance to grantees, or a statewide system carried from design through delivery — and it is comfortable inside grant cycles, scopes of work, and public procurement. The work so far has run inside state-funded programs, under contract to the organizations holding the awards; the same structure carries to federal work, as prime or as subcontractor. The most recent proof is on The Practice page: a statewide system built under state contract, now the subject of an independent impact evaluation at Boston University.
“We read what’s operating, build from what’s true, bring what’s missing — and leave when it holds.”
The Room
National conferences, agency all-staffs, board retreats, funder gatherings.
The subjects run where the practice runs: the human systems inside organizations, early relational health and what it teaches every sector about growth, the workforce behind every public mission, and the leadership those systems deserve. A room leaves with a different way of seeing what was in front of them the whole time.
The Authority
For legal, policy, and program matters that demand credentialed knowledge of human development, organizational systems, and workforce practice.
The credentials stand behind it: advanced endorsement in infant mental health and in reflective supervision, thirteen years as a university faculty lecturer, state-approved competency frameworks, and a statewide system now under independent evaluation. The role is the same in a hearing room as in a boardroom: to name what is operating, precisely, and to hold it steady under questioning.
What moves the number is scale rather than hours: how many people, how many sites, and how much has to still be standing after I leave. The work runs remotely or in person; where it is in person, travel is billed on top of the fee.
The practice is led by me, and most of the work is mine. When an engagement asks for more, I bring in colleagues chosen for that piece — people who work from the same philosophy and whose work I know first-hand. Where this site says we, that is what it means.
No figure is quoted before the scope is understood. The first conversation ends with a shape and a range.
Contracting & ProcurementNAICS, past performance, and the particulars+
The particulars, for the record.
Donna Forte Consulting Group, LLC — a woman-owned small business.
- Core competencies
- Workforce and systems development · Competency frameworks and credentialing pathways · Curriculum design and training delivery · Infant and early childhood mental health consultation (IECMHC) · Reflective supervision and consultation · Technical assistance to grantees · Evaluation design and learning agendas · Executive coaching and organizational advising · Subject-matter expert consultation and testimony
- Legal entity
- Donna Forte Consulting Group, LLC
- Business status
- Woman-owned small business
- Location
- Norwell, Massachusetts · Engagements nationwide, and internationally on request
- NAICS
- 541611 · 541612 · 541618 · 541690 · 541720 · 611430 · 611710
- UEI
- Pending — SAM.gov registration in progress
- CAGE
- Assigned on completion of registration
- Past performance
- MSPCC / Eliot Community Human Services — contracted lead on the one-million-dollar EOHHS-funded statewide workforce development grant, May 2023–May 2025. Independent impact evaluation now underway at Boston University.
- Contracting contact
- wendy@donnaforteconsultinggroup.com
Available as prime contractor or subcontractor. RFPs, RFIs, sources sought notices, and sole-source inquiries all reach the same inbox.
However the work arrives — a coaching inquiry, an RFP, a conference, a courtroom — it starts with the same conversation.
Begin the Conversation