Client Kudos

Transition is never an easy time at any organization, even more so when the external environment is unstable and the organization is a not-for-profit with a volunteer board. With Quinn Strategy Group's assistance Chimes selected a next generation CEO, built organizational capacity on our management team and helped the board prepare for and align with the challenges Chimes will face. It isn't always easy for a CEO to let go, but I do so with complete confidence we made the right choices and Quinn Strategy Group was clearly instrumental in getting us there.

President Emeritus

Chimes International, LTD

Ann Quinn is a total pro. So thankful for the time we spent together working on a business plan for Wye River Technologies. Thanks Ann.

President

Knott Mechanical

The William E. Schmidt Foundation engaged Quinn Strategy Group to help develop a vision and strategies to move our philanthropy to the next level. Ann was able to synthesize ideas for the board that helped us to clarify our vision and make important decisions. Ann’s ability to think strategically, while also being able to work through actual operational issues sharpened our focus and accelerated our impact.

Trustee

William E. Schmidt Foundation

We hired Quinn Strategy Group to facilitate a strategic planning process, a first for the organization. Ann designed an effective process to guide the BRHP staff and board of directors. She analyzed and synthesized a significant amount of information and helped us navigate the dynamics that result from change management and overall organizational development. Finally, Ann provided a dashboard tool for tracking metrics of the implementation phase to ensure that the strategic plan did not just sit on a shelf.

President and CEO

Make A Wish Mid-Atlantic

Our board benefited tremendously from Quinn Strategy Group’s knowledge of board governance and expertise in board development. Ann brought leadership, objectivity, and acted as a guide throughout the process. I highly recommend Quinn Strategy Group to any board seeking to improve performance and effectiveness.

Governance Committee Chair

Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership

Ann worked with our leadership team and board of trustees on the development of a three-year strategic plan. Her ability to keep us focused, hold us accountable and identity common and focused goals made the process effortless – and it resulted in a meaningful plan of action.

Executive Director
Maryland Health Benefit Exchange

TASH

We retained Ann to help facilitate and manage the next stage of evolution of our University’s board of trustees. Her experience and elegance in leading and helping to navigate the old to the new has had a profound impact on our ability to both transition trustees off the board, and profile and attract new leaders to our board. Many thanks for an excellent engagement, Ann!

President

Higher Education/University

I have worked with Ann on two projects, one for our board of trustees and one for our senior leadership team. In both cases, Ann's professionalism, preparation, approach, insight, and adaptability to our unique needs led to important, beneficial, and rapid changes in our organization. We were left with tools that enable us to make further progress in the near and long term.

Former CEO

Higher Education/University

Ann was instrumental in streamlining the goals and vision for our organization. She quickly learned the nuances of our industry, kept us on track and challenged us to think big with measurable goals to move forward. With Ann’s steady guidance, this was the best strategy planning process we have implemented. The final document is user friendly and easily understood by all levels of the organization, as well as by our external stakeholders.

CEO

The Arc Northern Chesapeake Region

Ann was terrific in advising and assisting The Hearing and Speech Agency's Executive Committee in developing an executive director performance evaluation process. Ann's experience with nonprofit organizational structure and board governance were key in helping to develop an assessment tool and metrics for measurement. Finally, the process she designed will encourage communication, collaboration and support between the executive committee and executive director.

Board of Directors

HASA

Quinn Strategy Group helped our family foundation establish a meaningful mission statement. Over the course of the engagement, Ann was instrumental in guiding and focusing our discussions on topics including decision making, granting making, family involvement and legacy and values. As a result of her direction and expertise, our foundation now has a clearer vision and guiding principles along with a better understanding of our grant making parameters.

Trustee

REVAL Foundation

We engaged Quinn Strategy Group to facilitate the development of a three-year strategic plan and we're so pleased with the way Ann led us through this year-long process. She ensured we had transparent communication with stakeholders; productive committee, staff and Board of Trustees meetings; and a comprehensive plan with clearly defined metrics. We are grateful to have had Ann's expertise to guide us.

Executive Director

Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust

Professional, fair, insightful and knowledgeable is what you get when you work with Quinn Strategy Group. It has been a pleasure working with Ann Quinn. Ann led the process to develop my organization’s Strategic Plan. She absorbed a tremendous amount of data very quickly and became an invaluable strategic facilitator. She was thorough, thought provoking and challenging. She will help you challenge the status quo. Her follow through and ability to capture information and put it into bite sized pieces is extremely helpful. At the end of the process, we were able to walk away with clear focus areas and a four-year roadmap to get us to where we needed to be in 2020.

Chief Executive Officer

Girl Scouts of Central Maryland

Ann Quinn recently led a strategy session for the National Kidney Foundation of Maryland involving board members and key staff. The session helped us identify ways to get our key stakeholders more engaged and involved. Ann took the feedback and suggestions that were identified at the strategy session and was able to create practical, actionable objectives and action steps. The whole process was very productive - and now we have identified specific steps that will move NKF Maryland forward.

President & Chief Executive Officer

National Kidney Foundation of Maryland

Jemicy School wanted to create a strategic plan which reflected the growth and progress that the school has made in the last decade. Quinn Strategy Group helped school leadership and the board navigate a planning process that included extensive stakeholder involvement and focused the school around key priorities. Ann brought a proven process and approach to our thinking while accommodating our unique culture and working styles. Working with Quinn Strategy Group brought discipline, creativity and strategic thinking to our process for a better outcome.

Head of School

Jemicy School

For the past three years we’ve engaged Quinn Strategy Group for senior management strategic planning and focus group sessions with departmental managers. Ann's leadership and involvement with our planning process has helped us build a bigger, better and smarter company.

President

Centric Business Systems, Inc.

Quinn Strategy Group facilitated a strategic planning exercise for the Merrick School of Business. She successfully developed a team mentality among a group of very strong-willed and talented people. She brings creativity, clarity and effectiveness to the often-messy process of setting strategic direction. Ann's approach and process brought our leadership team together to create a high-level vision that reflected the thinking of the entire school.

Ph.D. Dean

Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore

Ann was a smart, steady, insightful and resourceful asset to our strategic planning process. She did a great job of working with our senior staff, our key volunteers and in connecting us to people and ideas outside our circle to provide insight into what we believe is a bold, compelling new plan. We recommend Ann highly to any organization that is looking to improve, reach further and achieve more.

President & CEO

Y of Central Maryland

Working with Quinn Strategy Group has been incredibly valuable for our company. Ann helped our management team and Board understand the funding environment and competitive landscape and how those impact organizational value for Boxwood. We've come to rely on her clear analysis and focus on strategy.

Chairman and CEO

Boxwood Technology, Inc.

If you’re looking for a seasoned professional consultant to keep your high-level executives and board members focused on the task of thinking about and planning strategically for the future, you will find no one better than Ann. She is adept at framing and parsing complex issues, riding herd on a demanding schedule and producing an end product that is usable, accessible and highly unlikely to just ‘sit on the shelf.’ We didn’t make all of those things easy on her, but she managed our process – and us – well. We are very happy with the results and glad we hired her.

Former CEO & President

Nonprofit/Healthcare

Quinn Strategy Group brought an extraordinary skill set to our business plan. Ann’s analytical ability, transaction expertise and strategic input was invaluable.

Founder/CEO

citybizlist

Ann dedicated time prior to the retreat to learn about our organization and establish goals, and she also sent pre-work to board members to ensure a productive session. Our board of college vice presidents have attended many planning retreats in the past and everyone complimented Ann on her style and efficiency. Following the retreat, she summarized outcomes and also reviewed strategic plan drafts and continues to check in on our progress, even though this work wasn’t part of her contract. I recommend Ann without reservation.

Executive Director

Baltimore Collegetown Network

Quinn Strategy Group was able to quickly grasp the drivers of our business and structure a sales agreement with one of our competitors that positioned us to accelerate our growth. She provided strategic advice in terms of structure, outcomes and deal points, and worked efficiently with our competitor to explain the deal climate and terms and, ultimately, to reach consensus. Her involvement allowed us to focus on execution, so we could hit the ground running once the deal was signed. Her diplomacy turned our competitor into our sales partner, creating a cooperative and collaborative relationship.

President and Founder

ADS Data Systems

My organization was at an inflection point. We were working on a strategic plan to guide our programming for the foreseeable future, and we needed an independent assessment of the nonprofit space to help us refine our message and increase our relevance. Quinn Strategy Group provided us with in-depth landscape analysis and research that were essential for completing our plan and communicating our value.

CEO

Parks and People

Ann took dedicated time to learn more about NAMI Metro Baltimore before diving into our strategic planning process. She helped us organize our considerations concerning future direction into smart questions that would encourage thoughtful feedback from our stakeholders. She delivered the results in a format that was easy to understand and translate into action. Her insightful approach allowed us to analyze the strengths and opportunities for the organization and gave us the needed direction to complete our strategic plan.

Executive Director

NAMI Metropolitan Baltimore

I worked closely with Ann over a six month period to develop a 3-year strategic plan for our organization. Ann facilitated discussions with our team that helped to gain input and buy-in in a professional and focused way. We now have a living document that will be used to tract and measure our progress. The League was fortunate to retain the services of Quinn Strategy Group.

President & CEO

The League for People with Disabilities

Ann’s engaging and pragmatic style helped our Board Members and executives turn a nebulous vision into an actionable plan that made strategic sense. Not quite magic, but close!

Executive Director

TASH

We engaged Ann in March 2020 to help us develop a three to five year strategic plan. Then, COVID-19 hit. Ann adeptly embraced virtual meetings, helped us level-set in an ever-changing economic environment, developed scenarios for an uncertain recovery, and refocused our planning horizon to ensure we will emerge stronger from the pandemic than we were at the beginning.

Executive Director

Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership

Ann was a natural choice to lead ETC’s AccelerateBaltimore cohort for their 13-week intensive! She is focused, success driven and made a huge difference for the 6 start-ups as they worked through their business planning, strategy and customer acquisition issues. She lined up a series of great speakers and provided the necessary leadership for the continued success of these companies.

President

Emerging Technology Center

We engaged Quinn Strategy Group to prepare our strategic plan. Ann was available, down to earth and a keen listener. She provided clear analysis, questioned appropriately and was, by far, the best strategic advisor I've worked with in my 33-year career.

President

Institute of Notre Dame

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