Outcomes & Impact

"Megan's active listening skills combined with her unique ability to pull order out of chaos is what sets her apart."

Julie Clark, Executive Director, T.A.R.T. Trails, Inc.

"As we experienced growth at Huron Pines, we wanted an independent voice with experience and expertise to help us work through questions around maximizing our impact and sustaining our work. Megan was that trusted voice for us. The help we have had from Parallel Solutions -- with staff training and organizational planning -- has helped fuel our success the last few years. Megan has a keen sense for drilling down into the root cause of any challenge and is always able to offer practical solutions for addressing those issues. She's great to work with!"

Brad Jensen, Executive Director, Huron Pines

"Megan has been an invaluable resource to our organization, providing thoughtful and actionable guidance that has helped elevate our work. She's a realistic and calming voice for the common and complex — tackling each challenge with an open mind and tailoring unique solutions. Megan remains first on our call and recommendation list."

Alyssa Walters, Heart of the Lakes

"Megan is a powerful facilitator with a light touch. She quickly synthesizes information, adeptly manages groups with varying personalities, and focuses your attention on what matters. I truly appreciated her work in the days following our retreat as I knew exactly where I needed to put my attention and focus my efforts."

Michele Marchetti, Deputy Director, The Cornucopia Institute

"Megan was a great help in assisting us to determine our readiness to launch a capacity campaign and identifying the steps to initiating one. She really took on the role of senior staff level support, diving into our organizational data and operations to provide considered concrete direction for board and staff. She is concise, engaging, and committed and operates from a position of experience in the non-profit world of time and resource constraints."

Chris Bunch, Executive Director, Six Rivers Land Conservancy

"Megan is a phenomenal facilitator. She was both personal and professional in her facilitation of our board retreat. Megan is passionate about what she does and offers valuable insight. I highly recommend her to any organization."

Beth Stowe, Executive Director, Leelanau Township Community Foundation

"We’ve become wary, after working with too many consultants that let a particular process or model trump the legitimate needs of our small organization. Working with Megan as a planning partner and mentor has shown us how this business is supposed to work. Megan is foremostly a good human who understands that she is working in a community, bringing warmth and care to balance her incredible rigor, professionalism and drive. The combination is unbeatable and has helped us speed through the learning curves of exceptional non-profit management."

Brad and Amanda Kik, Co-Directors of Crosshatch Center for Art and Ecology

"Megan gave us a road map to the future. She was a guide that gave us invaluable tools along with an eagerness and optimism that will stay with us for a long time. She touched every member of the group in a meaningful, positive way. Everyone felt empowered."

Gerard Prendergast, President, Saluda Community Land Trust

"Megan did a great job facilitating discussions and helping us achieve our goal of finding common ground. We were three lake associations, with similar priorities, trying to find a way to work together on projects, leveraging financial as well as human resources, to produce more rapid and impactful outcomes. She managed us through trust issues, focus challenges and differing outlooks to come to agreement on when and how we could work together to help Torch Lake get healthy. Agreements were drafted, procedures outlined and friendships made. It was sometimes tiring, sometimes confusing, sometimes frustrating and so worth it in the end!"

Sue Kelly, Torch Lake Protection Alliance