
Services
Services
Authentic Outreach and Community Engagement
Strategic Planning
Organizational Development
IDI Qualified Administrators
Organizational Assessments
Risk Mitigation
Statement of Purpose
EPU Consultants exists to help organizations align people, practices, and systems in ways that strengthen trust, increase belonging, improve organizational effectiveness, and achieve meaningful result.
We believe that every organization performs best when individuals feel valued, barriers to participation are removed, and leaders are equipped to create environments where diverse perspectives contribute to shared success.
Through strategic planning, organizational development, leadership training, community engagement, and culture-building initiatives, we help organizations transform intentions into action and build sustainable systems that support long-term growth and impact.
We use SMARTIE Goals!
- SMARTIE Goals: Strategy with Accountability and Equity
- create clear priorities, measure progress, engage diverse stakeholders, and address barriers that impact equitable outcomes.
Community Engagement and Stakeholder Voice
- EPU Consultants, LLC has extensive experience designing and facilitating community engagement processes for executive leadership searches and other high-impact organizational initiatives.
- In 2016 and 2022, EPU Consultants was awarded contracts to engage the community in the search for a new superintendent for Minneapolis Public Schools. We also played a key role in stakeholder engagement efforts for the superintendent search at Intermediate District 287 (2021) and the Chief of Police search for the City of St. Louis Park (2023).
- Our approach is grounded in authentic engagement that elevates the voices of those most impacted by decisions, policies, programs, and services. Working in partnership with executive search firms, public agencies, educational institutions, and community organizations, we create opportunities for meaningful dialogue that builds trust, strengthens cross-cultural understanding, and informs decision-making.
- EPU Consultants helps organizations gather actionable feedback, identify community priorities, and ensure that diverse perspectives are reflected throughout the planning and selection process. Our work supports leders in breaking down barriers, increasing transparency, and building more responive, inclusive, and effective organizations and communities.
Capacity Building
On the individual level
- Increases awareness and understanding of how personal experiences, perspectives, and assumptions influence interactions and decision-making.
- Builds practical skills in communication, collaboration, leadership, and working effectively across differences.
- Expands knowledge and competence to engage successfully in diverse and evolving environments.
- Strengthens an individual's ability to contrtibute to positive organizational culture and effective service delivery
On the organizational level
- Examines policies, practices, systems, and structures that may create barriers to participation, engagement, advancement, or success.
- Identifies opportunities to improve organizational effectiveness, accountability and service outcomes. Lecturettes and
Skills and Knowledge
- Engaging, sustaining, and strengthening organizational culture, belonging, and workforce effectiveness initiatives across the enterprise
- Developing strategies and action plans that build organizational capacity, strengthen leadership effectiveness, and advance strategic priorities
- Demonstrating humility by recognizing that learning and growth are continuous processes and creating environments where participants can learn alongside one another.
- Modeling accountability by acknowledging mistakes, reflecting on lessons learned, and and using challenges as opportunities for growth and improvement
- Demonstrating a thorough command of facilitation, group dynamics, stakeholder engagement, and consensus-building processes
- Facilitating learning and growth at the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral levels to support meaningful individual and organizational change.
