What People Say

An illustrative collection of email testimonials Myra has received, unsolicited, over the past few years.

Myra, your gracious style belies the strong hand and candid feedback with which you guide a project or process. Your accurate insights and frank assessments both confirmed team perceptions and raised unforeseen points we need to consider. We left our two-day planning session with immediate actions to tie the ribbon around our work at the session, insights to produce an 18-month strategic plan with a start date just six weeks out, and understanding to move communications over time from an ancillary to a primary – more 21st century – role within our institution.
- Beverly L. Barnes, VP, Communications and Marketing, Council on Foundations

I want to thank you again for your expert handling of two very different matters today as we continue to grow our impact and our organization. We are absolutely blessed to have you, as a professional partner and a dear friend who clearly cares about our organization's success. You are making such a difference. And by the way, you have new fans.  See the raves below from two of our senior team members.
- Amy Liu, Deputy Director, Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program

My deepest thanks for your friendship and deep listening this week. It is a HUGE help and goes along way. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
- Julie Rogers, President and CEO, The Meyer Foundation

By the way, you were great this morning. I am really impressed with how many significant relationships you are able to make and maintain…and people really respect you! As we strive to serve so many low income people in need of housing and opportunities, having you at the helm of the board – with your personal caring and strategic leadership skills – means a lot. Thank you.
- Jim Knight, Executive Director, Jubilee Housing

Myra, thank you. You are an awesome part of the team, and I am always impressed with your full engagement with us. In my relatively brief consulting practice, I always felt and acted like my skin was in the game, and it is the only kind of consultant I trust deep down.  Thank you for feeling the excitement, and the joy, and the anxieties with us!!!
- Yasmina Vinci, Executive Director, National Head Start Association

I cannot thank you enough for your continued, constant, consistent coaching, encouragement, and collaboration as we navigate these uncharted waters.  To have you on our team – and to be on yours – is a most special gift unto itself.  Whatever we accomplished last night was due in enormous part to you.
- Linda Levy Grossman, President, Helen Hayes Awards

On Saturday, the Beyond Borders board approved the core agreements of our new strategic plan and the final draft of the plan itself with only a couple of very minor changes. It was nice when the board approved the core agreements and our chair leaped up spontaneously and pumped his fists. There was a clear sense of the organization making really important progress. So, we thank you for your help with this!
- David Diggs, General Coordinator, Beyond Borders

You contribute so much brilliant insight and rugged hard work to Higher Achievement.
- Lynsey Wood Jeffries, Executive Director DC-Metro, Higher Achievement

I wanted to let you know what a great job you did for Masterworks. You have certainly put us on the right path.
- Ona Fletcher, Board Member, Masterworks Foundation

Thank you for helping to organize the flow of today's budget discussion.  Your format was very effective in keeping everyone focused and engaged, and I have a whole new appreciation for your process, especially about agendas that help move us forward as a team.
- Jamaine Fletcher, Director of Budget & Administration, Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program

When we have our meetings, I feel like a student. I love how you think and reason and it makes me think in an entirely different way! You give me so much confidence in the path we have chosen to take. I thank you for your enthusiasm and leadership. Your influence will be felt for many years to come.
- Victor Shargai, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Helen Hayes Awards

Thank you for running such a wonderful offsite meeting today. I have sat through a number of these over the years, and through the work that we did today, I genuinely feel like we made positive, honest, and wonderful steps toward developing a functioning, productive, trusting, and effective senior management team. It was an inspiring (and fun) day.
- Sarah Durkee, Vice President, Public Education, Corcoran Gallery of Art, College of Art + Design

I wanted to tell you how much my colleagues and I continue to value the advice, wise counsel and guidance you provided the Sundance Institute leadership. Often I remember something we learned from your national perception audit.  At other times I become conscious again of your guidance as we moved toward wider and stronger relationships with stakeholders and funders and as we continue to push ourselves to evolve as an organization.
- Elizabeth Daly, (Former) Director of Development, Sundance Institute

You are simply over the top in every respect – creative, thoughtful, insightful, fun, and, my favorite, totally authentic.
- Ellen Miller, Principal, Stonebridge Associates

Against all odds, Myra, you were spectacular with the Sundance folks. You navigated the top leadership and, undaunted, shared a profound clarity with a very appreciative and mesmerized group.  Everyone is talking about how great the past two days have been. I can't thank you enough for your intellectual and emotional engagement. We are on the home stretch. Thank you from all of us.
- Cynthia Wornham, Former Communications Director, Sundance Institute