Strategic HR Solutions to Grow Your Business

Get unstuck and grow your impact.

James Goode Associates helps mission-driven organizations break through barriers, align their teams, and move forward with clarity and confidence. Just because you’re small, doesn’t mean you can’t think big.

Aligned. Effective. Strategic. Delivered.

Long-term success demands more than vision. It requires reconnecting with your core purpose and translating strategy into the daily routines that empower employees and serve clients. When organizations get bogged down by outdated workflows and structures they’ve outgrown, JamesGoode Associates applies proven assessment and LEAN capabilities to cut through the clutter and build the alignment, effectiveness, and execution your organization needs to grow.

What We Do

Challenges We Solve For Leaders

Strategy Development & Execution

A national anti-hunger organization was at the beginning of developing a 5-year strategic plan. As a result of its prior activities, the organization had established itself as a national voice in addressing hunger in the US and globally. The new strategic plan was critical in defining this next phase...read more.

Organization Assessment & Alignment

A non-profit housing organization found itself at an inflection point. Its goal, to dramatically scale its impact, was hampered by staff turnover, low morale, a well-intentioned but misguided DEI effort and lack of definition of how it would execute to achieve its plan to transform the sector...read more.

Business Process & Workflow Design

A healthcare organization found itself in financial and operational trouble. The effects of the COVID pandemic as well as the changes in the US healthcare landscape resulted in declining revenues, staffing shortages and an increasingly poor patient care experience...read more.

Executive Coaching & Leadership Development

A financial services executive found themselves at a personal and professional decision point: what’s next. With a desire to build on prior experience and make a meaningful contribution to advance the sector they had worked in, the executive turned to JamesGoode Associates for individual coaching and professional planning...read more.

HR Outsourcing

A $1B Foundation needed expert HR support in developing a compensation plan that was consistent with the market and would enable it to retain and recruit the talent they needed. The prior system had proved inadequate to address the needs of current employees and was cumbersome to administer...read more.

From idea to execution, we're there.

How We Work

Our Process

Often the programs, processes and practices that got you here, simply won’t get you where you want to go. We are advisors and force multipliers to your executive leadership team and your HR. function as you walk the pathway of growth and change. We won’t leave you with a PowerPoint and our best wishes.

Testimonials

What Clients Are Saying

“What makes JamesGoode so special is that they don’t just hand you a folder of ‘to-dos’ and walk away. They truly dived into the trenches with us, taking the time to understand our heart and our hurdles. Since implementing the work we did together, the transformation has been staggering—not just in our 30% productivity boost or 35% revenue growth, but in our confidence. If you’re on the fence, please just take the leap. The clarity and peace of mind you’ll gain are worth everything.

It never felt like a ‘consultancy’, it felt like a partnership. They were right there beside us, doing the hard work to help us break through our ceiling. Seeing our revenue climb by 35% and our productivity jump by 30% was incredible, but the real gift was having a guide who cared about our success as much as we did. If you feel stuck, JamesGoode is the answer. Do it for your business, but also do it for your own sanity.”

April Donovan, MHA

COO & Interim President & CEO, Planned Parenthood Arizona, Inc.

“Grounded Solutions Network first partnered with JamesGoode Associates during a pivotal moment in our organization’s evolution. We were navigating immediate post-covid stagnation, internal fatigue, and a need for clearer strategic direction. JamesGoode Associates brought a thoughtful, grounded, and highly facilitative approach that resulted in strengthening internal org-wide team alignment and realizing our affordable housing focused mission and long-term goals.

Through skilled questioning, strategic insight, and a deep understanding of organizational dynamics, they guided us toward a refreshed focus and a meaningful strategic plan that is both actionable and inspiring and which reflects both our nonprofit mission and the realities of our operating environment.

JamesGoode Associates is a trusted partner for any organization seeking clarity, renewed momentum, and a strategy that reflects both vision and operational reality. We are grateful for their partnership and the lasting impact of their work with us.”

Tony Pickett

Chief Executive Officer, Grounded Solutions Network

“For more than a decade, I have had the privilege and good fortune of working with JamesGoode Associates in different ways, both personally and professionally. Their team worked with organizations where I served as a board member, to guide us to create brilliant and achievable strategic plans that continue to move our organizations to achieving the goals and objectives the staff and the Board set forth. Through thoughtful coaching and targeted leadership development, Lynell and Stephanie empowered us to become better and stronger leaders, enhancing our decision-making, communication, and ability to lead teams through complexity and change. Their expertise, integrity and dedication to client growth are evident in every interaction, making JamesGoode Associates a trusted partner for anyone seeking to elevate their leadership skills and enhance their organization’s performance. They are my go-to for strategic planning, HR solutions, organizational assessment and executive coaching. JamesGoode services result in achieving measurable and lasting impact.”

Hala Farid

Founder, Meeting of the Minds

“MAZON has been working with JamesGoode Associates for years now. We began our work together on our latest strategic plan and their guidance, support and wisdom were instrumental in creating a plan that is both visionary and practical. Upon completion of the plan, our team was enthusiastic about continuing our relationship with Stephanie and Lynell, whose experience, perspective and support brought greater depth to our approach to management. They’ve helped us to manage significant organizational changes, bringing context, humor, warmth and organizational intelligence to our leadership during these times.”

Abby J. Leibman

President & CEO, MAZON

“Lynell is a no BS leader who quickly assimilates into any leadership team to immediately add value and drive a collaborative strategy. A quick study on people and process, she was an invaluable asset for our team during a large opportunistic acquisition.

Lynell’s coaching skills are top tier. A good listener not only of what’s being said but also what’s not. She is skilled at seeing the missing gaps and helping her coaching clients elevate their own thinking. Not just Lynell’s thinking!”

Steven Lang

Chief Executive Officer, dancker