We work with growth-focused professional and trade associations of all sizes worldwide. As one of the leading nonprofit consulting firms, our clients include many of the most prominent and successful membership organizations. Global 500 companies also seek us out for our membership expertise.
To Help Associations Grow Membership and Revenue.
A World Where All Associations Grow, Thrive, and Excel at Serving Their Mission.
We are professionals, thought partners, and original thinkers. We help our clients make confident decisions that get tangible results.
Our clients say we deeply understand the industry, we meet them where they are, we learn their business, and we work with them closely to meet their objectives.
That we stand out for our project management, direct talk, and collaborative approach. That the value of our work goes beyond our projects; it changes their organizations for the better.
Our client relationships last for years and sometimes decades. Our first client is still our client — twenty-three years later.
Powerful, data-driven insights unlock new opportunities for growth.
Innovative strategies designed for explosive growth.
Award-winning marketing that delivers best-in-class results.
We left our careers as senior partners in a Big Strategy firm to bring better consulting to membership organizations. We believe associations change the world, and by making them better, we make the world a better place. We launched Sequence in 2001, focused exclusively on associations and nonprofit consulting services. We have never looked back.
We believe in the work nonprofits do and serve on the Boards of several nonprofit organizations.
Chris was a high-level strategy, technology, and marketing consultant to Global 1000 companies in our former lives. For over a decade, he helped clients like Microsoft, Novell, American Airlines, and many others worldwide innovate and grow. View Linkedin Profile
Lisa was a senior executive, working with CEOs and Boards on growth strategy, organizational change, and corporate development. She worked on over forty mergers and acquisitions and helped grow a mid-size private firm into a publicly-traded company with 10,000 employees in thirty countries. View Linkedin Profile
What You Can Expect From Us
We have worked almost exclusively with associations for the last twenty years, including some of the largest organizations in the world. Each of them had unique growth challenges, and we helped all of them succeed.
Global 500 companies have also sought us out for our membership, recruitment, and retention expertise. No other nonprofit consulting firm can bring that experience to a relationship with you.
Our clients tell us that one of the things they value most is our ability to be their thought partner. To understand their challenges and create space for them to think and create.
We personally invest in our clients and their success. Our clients say so themselves.
That is why some of our relationships go back more than two decades, as we continue to help our clients succeed throughout their careers.
Every client is different and wants the exact right solution for them. That is what we deliver.
Clients tell us our nonprofit consulting services are innovative, creative, and original and that we help them find the perfect path through even the most daunting problems.
We have mastered best practices and benchmarks. Our real value is making them work for you.
Our work stands apart for its clear thinking and confident direction. Clients hire us to cut through complexity. They need practical solutions that are easy to understand and that they can execute.
Our clients get complete internal buy-in on our nonprofit consulting recommendations and execute them confidently.
We don’t just deliver presentations –what some clients call “shelfware.” Instead, we help our clients achieve tangible and measurable results, working within their unique culture and with their existing resources.
Our measure of success is that our clients implement our recommendations and that those recommendations get results.
Clients tell us they use our work to deliver excellent results for years to come.
Who We are for
We Are The Right Consultants For You If You Want:
Transformational change
innovative Solutions Customized For You
Thought Partners To Collaborate With you
strategic thinkers Who Get the Big picture
to be a change agent In Your Organization
Every client is different and wants the exact right solution for them. That is what we deliver.
Clients tell us our nonprofit consulting services are innovative, creative, and original and that we help them find the perfect path through even the most daunting problems.
We have mastered best practices and benchmarks. Our difference is making them work for you.
Our clients tell us that one of the things they value most is our ability to be their thought partner. To understand their challenges and create space for them to think and create.
We personally invest in our clients and their success. Our clients say so themselves.
That is why some of our relationships go back more than two decades, as we continue to help our clients succeed throughout their careers.
When we work with you, we wholeheartedly commit to your success.
We understand the importance of building strong relationships and delivering exceptional results. Our dedication to our clients is unwavering, and we strive always to exceed expectations.
Trust us to be fully invested in your success.
Our work stands apart for its clear thinking and confident direction. Clients hire us to cut through complexity. They need practical solutions that are easy to understand and that they can execute.
Our clients get full buy-in on our nonprofit consulting recommendations and execute them confidently.
We don’t just deliver presentations –what some clients call “shelfware.” Instead, we help our clients achieve tangible and measurable results, working within their unique culture and with their existing resources.
Our measure of success is that our clients implement our recommendations and that those recommendations get results.
Clients tell us they use our work to deliver excellent results for years to come.
We have refined and tested our process with dozens of successful associations to consistently deliver great results.
Our work is highly data-driven. Our customized and highly specialized techniques uncover unexpected insights that fuel great strategy.
Deep investigation into similar organizations that have succeeded in similar situations to uncover inspiration, ideas, and best practices.
A proprietary, collaborative, workshop-based process that delivers powerful value propositions and membership models quickly and with complete buy-in.
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