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Expert thought partners for association growth
Working with us is like hiring a team of top-notch association growth executives focused on your success.
Some of the most successful associations trust us as advisors on their strategies for non-dues revenue and association membership growth.
proven process to grow membership
Our Four Steps to Membership Success
Our experience with the most successful associations has perfected our formula for membership growth and retention.
Deep and nuanced insights into your members, market, and growth opportunities.
A collaborative, problem-solving approach to find the best marketing plan for membership growth and get your organization aligned with it.
A Clear Roadmap
A step-by-step plan to get results.
Strategy Execution
Expert execution to get things done and make your team better.
ASSOCIATION SUCCESS STORIES
What Results Can You Expect?
- We can help you make giant leaps in revenue and membership growth.
- We can grow your membership -- even double it.
- We can increase your non dues revenue -- in one case, by a factor of ten.
- We can help launch you in new directions with substantial revenue opportunities -- into the tens of millions of dollars.
Want to know more about association membership strategy? Read some of our success stories here.
Membership Strategy
TESTIMONIALS
It’s been a dramatic impact. Transformative. Our rate of growth last year doubled. They’ve been critical in achieving what we have in two years. We could never have done it without Sequence Consulting.
We launched a new business from zero and grew it to $47 million in three years. We could have never done it without Sequence Consulting.
Our results with Sequence Consulting were phenomenal. It was massively successful. They have great experience they deliver a lot of value and I recommend them.
What Sequence Consulting delivers is excellence. I’d recommend them for anything related to the strategy of the organization.
Sequence Consulting helped us make a leap – and we’re grateful for it. We got much greater clarity about our value proposition and a strategy we’re still using years later.
Sequence has extensive not-for-profit experience expertise. They made the project a complete success for our organization.
Most companies have that one really great consulting experience. Sequence Consulting is that one-in-a-million consulting group.
Working with Sequence our organization grew 10 times over, we entered entirely new and emerging industries, and we expanded our industry consortia by five times industry consortia. All within three years.
I recommend Sequence Consulting for their non-traditional approach to solving problems. They understand my culture and the realities I’m facing and they come up with practical solutions that I can actually implement.
I think of Sequence Consulting as the paradigm busters. We get superior thinking every time.
Sequence Consulting is the kind of consulting firm that adds value and totally gets it. They figure out things that have never been done before that have repercussions for years.
Our strategic planning with Sequence Consulting was definitely successful. They gave us confidence that where we ended up was the right place for the organization.
I look to Sequence Consulting when I have a really tough puzzle and need actionable recommendations. If your challenge is understanding a thorny problem, getting internal consensus, and moving forward, Sequence is your people.
Other firms fly at 100,000 feet; Sequence Consulting tells you how to land the plane. I say: here is my idea, and Sequence takes it and runs.
Sequence Consulting brought focused expertise to our partnership and they invested in our success. We are a complex organization. Sequence helped us leverage our unique differences with ease to create new growth opportunities.
When we needed help evaluating marketing automation Sequence Consulting led the way. They developed the business case and they helped us identify the fastest path to revenue and profit.
Sequence gave us an entirely new way to think about our business that created exciting opportunities. They gave us the confidence to move forward and showed us the way. Our organization is dedicated to creating transformational change. Sequence Consulting has been transformational.
They helped us chart a strategic path that empowered our team and produced better than expected results. We are still benefiting from their work years later.
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OUR NONPROFIT CONSULTING EXPERTS
Chris Vaughan and Lisa Vaughan
Our mission is to help Associations Grow Membership and Revenue
We left our careers as senior partners in a Big Strategy firm to bring better consulting to non-profit organizations. We launched Sequence in 2001, focused exclusively on association growth. We have never looked back.
In our former lives, Chris was a high-level consultant on strategy, technology, and marketing to Global 1000 companies. Lisa was a senior executive, working with CEOs and Boards of Directors on organizational growth strategy, organizational change, and corporate development.
We deeply believe in the work non-profits do, and we both serve as Board and Committee Chairs for several non-profits.
Our vision is a world where all associations grow and thrive to excel at serving their missions.