I envision a nation where nonprofit organizations have the resources they need to change lives. Serving as a change agent for sustainability, I work to co-create a roadmap to success to strengthen their capacity to meet their mission.
Glenda Hicks is an accomplished consultant, trainer, and coach focused on empowering nonprofit organizations to excel. She believes peak performance is achieved when board and staff understand their roles, unite around a shared vision, and have the necessary resources. Specializing in board governance, leadership development, and operational effectiveness, Glenda leverages evidence-based methods through her company, 501c Impact!.
Independently and through professional collaborations with sector experts, Glenda provides education, guidance, and best practice tools through consulting, training, coaching, facilitation, and assessment services to help organizations develop their people and strengthen operations. Applying patience, active listening, and empathy along with a structured approach that engages research-based methodologies, innovative technologies, and a creative mindset, Glenda meets clients where they are in their life cycle to address and overcome their challenges. Services include strategic planning retreats, board and chief executive assessments, customized training, policy and procedure development and implementation, individual and group coaching, leadership development cohort series, governance experiential learning using Glenda’s proprietary board game, 501c Impact! The Nonprofit Board Governance Game, and much more.
In addition to Glenda’s credential as a Standards for Excellence Licensed Consultant, she is a BoardSource-Affiliate Certified Governance Consultant, an LPI®: Leadership Practices Inventory® Trained Coach, a Certified Public Accountant, and The Leadership Challenge® Self Empowered™ Trained Facilitator. With a diverse mix of education, training, and certificates combined with over 35 years of experience, Glenda works as a thought partner with organization leaders and their staff to help clients overcome challenges by identifying and implementing solutions.
Glenda has served on a variety of not-for-profit boards of directors since 1992 as a director, officer, board chair, and committee chair, including the National Legal Aid and Defenders Association, the Girl Scout Council of Tropical Florida, Girls on the Run of Atlanta, and the Cobb Collaborative.
