O2 Consulting LLC
Authentic. Intentional. Reflective.
Dr. Tanya M. Eastman
Dr. Eastman is a dynamic and thoughtful leader with over twenty years of hands-on experience directing innovative operational initiatives, designing and implementing programs, and managing day-to-day business operations in the corporate, private, and nonprofit sectors.
She takes a human-centered approach to designing organizational processes, systems, and infrastructure that support the fulfillment of an organization's mission. As both an "internal consultant" leading operations, and as a nonprofit capacity-building consultant, Dr. Eastman seeks to support organizations and leaders by meeting them where they are through listening, asking questions, and co-creating solutions that further support their work.
Dr. Eastman is passionate about serving community-based nonprofit organizations and supporting activities that are critical to their long-term viability. Her doctorate in Executive Leadership focused on research exploring the lived experience of nonprofit founders' beliefs around the life of their organizations.
In addition to supporting non-profit organizations, Dr. Eastman is a passionate advocate with experience building and supporting career readiness programs for predominantly first-generation students from lower-income backgrounds seeking to pursue post-secondary and career opportunities. She has a track record of partnering with community-based organizations, higher education, the public sector, and industry to support access to education and career opportunities, primarily supporting students historically underrepresented in post-secondary education and key career industries. As a first-generation college graduate herself, Dr. Eastman knows firsthand the importance of access and opportunities to broad career pathways.
Services
Strategic and Operational Planning
Succession Capacity Building
Program Development and Implementation
Talent Strategy Development and Implementation
Published Work
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A Founder’s Legacy: Navigating the Emotional and Operational Waters of Succession Planning
Presentation National College Attainment Network
Most nonprofit organizations face a succession of leadership during the life of the organization if the nonprofit organization is going to exist past the founding executive leader. This session will provide an opportunity for nonprofit organization founding executive leaders to explore how their beliefs impact the extent to which they are thinking about, talking about, and engaging in succession planning. During this session, relevant resources used in a qualitative study, as well as in consultative practice, will be shared. The session will also explore the method of “long-term succession thinking” within the context of day-to-day operations and strategy of founder-led nonprofit organizations.
How Nonprofit Organization Founding Executive Leaders Assign Meaning to Their Experience with Succession Planning: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis
Doctoral Dissertation
This study utilized interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to explore the meaning that seven nonprofit organization founding executive leaders assign to their experience with succession planning. The findings present an opportunity for founding executive leaders to focus on how their beliefs impact the extent to which they are thinking about, talking about, and engaging in succession planning in the organizations they created. The conscious knowledge of their character, feelings, motives, and desires about the organizations they created and the continued existence of these organizations is central to the founding executive leaders’ self-awareness and intention to engage in succession planning.
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