The Edge, powered by Chisel
On-Demand Leadership Support for Thriving Nonprofits
Flexible, affordable strategy, planning, and facilitation expertise—on your terms. No big budgets, no delays.
What You Get with The Edge
Core Package (included in the annual retainer)
- 2 Hours/Month of Expert Consultation: For any challenge, from donor strategies to team dynamics or policy review.
- Bank Your Hours: Bank up to 8 hours/year to tackle a "wicked problem" in one focused block.
- Guaranteed Discounted Consulting Services: Average savings of $3,000–$4,500 on Chisel's staple services (Strategic Planning, DEI Audits, etc.).
- Two Tailored Insight Reports Per Year: Your choice of Internal Performance Snapshot, External Landscape Report, or Peer Organization Scan.
What Expertise Do We Offer?
Use your hours to access our expertise in these areas:
Strategic & Executive Intelligence
Planning, financial forecasting, risk assessment, strategy development with AI support.
- Strategic Plan implementation hurdles
- Mid-strategy assessment and recalibration
- Balanced Scorecard reviews
- Performance management best practices
- Financial forecasting and scenario planning
- Key insights researched on a topic of interest
- Risk assessments & mitigation
- Board or leadership planning
- AI-supported strategy development
Operational Efficiency & Fundraising
Process improvement, policy review, grant writing review, donor engagement plans.
- Process improvement
- Policy comprehensiveness review & templates
- Marketing, fundraising and planned giving
- Social media assistance
- Donor or funder engagement plans
- Team dynamics and conflict resolution
- Grant writing review
Leadership Support & Team Development
Conflict resolution, team workshops, developing international teams.
- Conflict transformation and communication
- Ad hoc 1-hour team or leadership workshops
- Extra analysis to support a decision
- International teams development
- Topical “bootcamps” with banked hours
Trusted Partners Offering The Edge Clients a Discount on Their Services
Chris Wignall, (LeadWithCatalyst.com) provides leadership development, team building, and facilitation to the charitable sector. Through individual PACE calls, team training sessions, retreats and events; he will co-design with you an approach that fits your needs, budget, and time. With over two decades of developing and supporting charity leaders, the perspective, insight, and encouragement to meet you where you are and help you get to where you want to be. An excellent complement to the strategic consulting offered at Chisel, Chris will help you pursue being Healthy Leaders, Healthy Teams, and Healthy Organizations.
Catalyst is offering The Edge clients a 10% discount on their services.
With over 25 years of leadership experience, Christa Hesselink is an Enneagram consultant, team facilitator, certified coach and spiritual director, helping leaders and organizations slow themselves down in order to tune into their own guiding wisdom within. Her core offerings for the Chisel community include:
- One on one confidential coaching or spiritual direction.
- Facilitating customized team training and development using the Enneagram.
- Designing and leading restorative and creative staff retreat-type experiences
Christa is offering The Edge clients a 15% discount on all services and an additional 10% off on all customized Enneagram team trainings booked for 2026.
For more information, you can find out more about her work at christahesselink.com and Soulplay.ca/groups
Katie Double is a seasoned and strategic HR and Crisis Response leader and consultant. She routinely helps organizations create or adapt their HR strategy to align with the organizational strategy, coaches senior leaders and does general HR problem solving. She also has extensive experience supporting organizations through crises, including workplace investigations, conflict resolution, terminations, change management along with internal and external communication plans and messaging.
Katie is offering The Edge clients a 10% discount on her services.
Let’s Build the Future of Nonprofit Support
The Edge is delivered by the Chisel experts many of you have worked with in the past and who have a proven track record of delivering excellent service that really moves organizations forward in their aspirations.
It’s flexible, affordable, and ready to start when you are. It’s not a program, it’s responsive, flexible support, on your terms.
Let’s Build the Future of Nonprofit Support
The Edge is delivered by the Chisel experts many of you have worked with in the past and who have a proven track record of delivering excellent service that really moves organizations forward in their aspirations.
It’s flexible, affordable, and ready to start when you are. It’s not a program, it’s responsive, flexible support, on your terms.
