617-584-5011 nahma@nadich.com

Coaching

Coaching begins with the formation of  a collaborative relationship to crystallize your vision and access your  wisdom and talents in realizing it. The first step  is an initial discovery process to discern strengths and areas for growth and together, map out a plan for success.

Knowing yourself, charting your path for growth
  • Determining and committing to your purpose, aligning your time and resources with it
  • Appreciating your talents and knowing what you can uniquely contribute to any team
  • Identifying your areas for growth, determining pathways for continuous improvement
  • Acknowledging and moving past mistakes, becoming a lifelong learner in an ever-changing landscape
  • Acting assertively and knowing which battles to fight
Achieving sustainability in your work
  • Navigating work-life balance, honoring a commitment to yourself, your family, and workplace
  • Assessing your opportunities for growth and advancement toward your career goals in your current position
  • Knowing when and how to leave
Honing your communication skills
  • Having courageous conversations that respect the interests of the other person while not diminishing your own
  • Expanding your understanding of, and ability to communicate with co-workers with different communication styles
  • Choosing the most effective platform for communicating
Leading a high-performing team
  • Creating and nurturing a healthy staff culture, one in which every member feels challenged and valued
  • Becoming adept at evaluating team performance, course correcting as needed
  • Planning, implementing, and evaluating meetings that maximize participation and achieve outcomes
Supervising to nurture and support excellence
  • Acknowledging and accommodating different identities and styles, cultivating strengths, and promoting success
  • Modeling being a supervisor who invites and incorporates feedback
  • Prioritizing and celebrating the leadership and contributions of others
  • Holding staff accountable for performance through a lens of support and compassion

Training and Consultation

Through my years of experience tackling the tough challenges facing organizations today, I’ve developed expertise in the art of building nimble and healthy teams positioned to advance their missions and effect change. I offer workshops on the topics below, as well as customizable consultation, tailored to your specific organization’s needs. Additionally, I am available to design and facilitate retreats and high stakes meetings to maximize participation and impact. 

Navigating moments of organizational change
  • Determining vision, goals, and strategy
  • Understanding the larger landscape in which you operate
  • Identifying unique and timely opportunities
  • Engaging your staff and board in a process of change
Positioning your organization to effect social change
  • Cultivating relationships and identifying shared goals for collective action
  • De-escalating conflict and building consensus across diverse perspectives and differences of identity and ideology
  • Meeting the unique challenges of effecting change as a mainstream organization
Mastering the Art of Staff/Lay Relationships
  • Forming collaborative staff/lay partnerships, with clearly delineated roles
  • Navigating changes in leadership, adapting to the unique style of each new partner
  • Cultivating the leadership of your board chair, recognizing the moments when you need to step back –  knowing when to lead and when to support
Building a high-performing team
  • Clarifying roles and functions
  • Developing healthy modes of communication
  • Planning and implementing effective meetings
  • Interpreting and navigating complex political terrain

    I was taught that effective writing avoids hyperbole. Here’s the problem. I can’t talk about Nommi’s work with the Just Power Alliance without employing superlatives. Our mission became Nommi’s. She helped us to develop and design our culture nourished by our lofty vision while keeping her eyes and ours on the granularities that often get lost in the organizational shuffle. Simply put, the Just Power Alliance would be floundering without Nommi’s expansive spirit, large heart, good humor, and attention to detail and getting the work done. Nommi is the partner your organization needs if your desire is to thrive.

    William H. Lamar IV, President, The Just Power Alliance, Pastor,  Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, DC

    Nommi is wise, warm, an incredible listener, a creative strategist, and the absolute best person to have in your corner in virtually all circumstances but especially when you are trying to navigate complex situations. She coaches with compassion, she is politically savvy, and she is desperately funny to boot.

    Karla Van Praag, Senior Advisor and Former ED of JOIN for Justice

    Nommi is a wise, compassionate and honest coach and trainer for rabbinical and cantorial students.  She has trained groups of graduating seniors in resume writing.  She is outstanding at creating a container for students to surface their own wisdom and share feedback with each other in a loving and critical way.  Nommi marshals her full talents and experiences as a social worker, justice leader, veteran coach, strategist, synagogue board member and daughter of a rabbi, to help each of her students.

    Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay, Associate Dean, Rabbinical School, Executive Director, Hendel Center for Ethics and Justice, Associate Director, Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies The Jewish Theological Seminary

    Nommi helped us navigate an internal challenge at Keshet with an extraordinary combination of gentle care, keen listening, and insightful analysis. Her presence as a facilitator and guide is both gentle and grounding. She supported us in finding our own way to greater clarity and understanding. I will definitely return to her for support.

    Idit Klein, President and CEO, Keshet: For LGBTQ Equality in Jewish Life

    I had the pleasure of working with Nommi as a coach and coordinator for our multiracial and multifaith social justice coalition. Nommi’s ability to hold space for all the different opinions and perspectives that emerged in our diverse team without becoming reactive, her patience in staying connected and helping us move forward together (even when we all seemed headed in different directions), and her gracious sense of self and presence that invited honesty and vulnerability were all amazing gifts that lifted us higher. Not to mention her courage, grit, and intellect which she has in spades!

    Rev. Austin Almaguer, The Just Power Alliance Formation Team

    When I was considering a major career change, Nahma helped me think through how to make sure I would be successful on this new path. With her deep listening skills, warmth, thoughtful questions, and incredibly wise insights and ideas, I  came away more confident and armed with ideas and plans that have been essential to my thriving in this new field.  

    Elana Kogan, Director of Development, JOIN for Justice

    Nahma is top flight. Her commitment and skills helped our organization during a critical transition and start up phase. She kept us on track and helped us live into our mission and values. We are better and ready to move to the next phase of our start up organization.

    Keisha Krumm, Executive Director/Lead Organizer, Greater Cleveland Congregations

    Nommi was the Interim Coordinator for our new network of community organizing groups, the Just Power Alliance. Her relational skills and thoughtfulness about groups and processes helped us navigate a tricky time at the beginning of our organization’s life. Her ability to hold a bigger vision while helping us execute necessary day-to-day work has led to the launch of a new, beautiful organization.

    Katie Ashmore Zinler, Lead Organizer, ACT- Anne Arundel Connecting Together