Dr. Gala Harvell
Founder & Principal Consultant
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
-Phil Jackson
Gala is a hands-on professional with innovative ideas, strong leadership, and analytical and critical thinking skills. Her expertise in Lean Practices will provide effective and efficient solutions to obtain achievable and specific outcomes. She is an enthusiastic facilitator with experience in diverse environments who offers creative strategies to help you and your team enhance your organizational goals. Gala believes continuous process improvement allows organizations to identify problems or opportunities, analyze situations, develop and implement potential solutions, and evaluate results.
As a former nonprofit Executive Director and Program Director, Gala has worked diligently to identify issues that impact and hinder organizational growth and success. She has worked with teams and boards to develop strategic plans, resolve inter-team discord, foster inclusive teamwork, and more. Her passion for nonprofits encouraged her to study and obtain a Doctorate in Nonprofit Leadership and Management. Her dissertation title was “The Perpetual Challenges of Nonprofit Board Governance and Its Impact on Operations.”
Through her studies in board governance, executive leadership development, and strategy planning, she identified issues and solutions that can assist nonprofits in developing critical processes to improve an organization’s performance. As a passionate entrepreneur who believes in giving back, Gala wants to partner with you and your team to help your “Teamwork make the dream work!”