Expanding Resources for Small Organizations

Challenges Facing Leaders

You run a small organization where everything seems to depend on you alone.  You barely have enough time in the day to meet your mission-critical objectives and are dogged by limited resources.

When it comes to gaining control over your financial situation, a workshop or website tutorial may not be enough.  You simply want someone to listen to the issues holding you back, to answer the questions you might not be able to ask, and to find a path through the obstacles.

Let me help you tackle the budget that won’t balance, design the financial statements that the board will understand, or create the cash forecast that can see past next week, so your time is better spent running your organization.

Solutions by Jennifer Knebel

I’ve been helping small organizations overcome their resource limitations, whether cash or human, since the dawn of the internet.

I do this by bringing clarity to the financial information you, your staff and your board need to make timely decisions.

As a Wharton MBA with 10 years of Wall Street experience in corporate finance, I was initially interested in working with financially troubled companies that were grappling with how to manage their suddenly more severely limited financial resources.

Bigger companies generally have the full complement of staff functions to run a business; small organizations have staff limitations that require people to wear hats they can’t or don’t want to wear.  Big company restructurings usually involve reducing their debt load when their operations don’t generate enough cash to service their debt; small organizations often don’t have debt, just the chronic stress of making payroll.

Since leaving Wall Street, I have enjoyed spending the last few decades working with small organizations, both non-profit and for profit, as an advisor, a board member or a Chief Financial Officer.  I discovered that while the dynamics of each organization are unique, the challenges are similar.  Leaders of these organizations have to be able to see both the forest and the trees (even the twigs).  Hence the value of clear processes for consistently delivering the right financial information at the right time.