Kim offers 30 years of experience as a human resources practitioner and consultant within a variety of business environments, both corporate and non-profit. Prior to starting her consulting business in 2003, she spent five years providing organizational development services in a technology environment, and operated a private career coaching practice. In her current business consulting, she provides leadership and staff development, executive coaching, organizational design and assistance with internal/external communication to enhance workplace effectiveness, support collaborative teams, and build skills focused on the work that’s already on the to-do list.

A member and volunteer leader of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), Kim has worked at both the local and state level in elected and appointed positions. She holds the Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) designation from the Human Resource Certification Institute and is certified by the Society for Human Resource Management as a SHRM-Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP). 

Kim received her Master of Science degree in Counseling from the University of Dayton and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, with concentrations in Economics and Insurance, from Indiana State University. Kim uses a variety of tools and assessments in her consulting practice. She has worked with emerging leaders and project teams using a Strengths-Based Leadership process to guide development. She designed an exit interview process that employs the Appreciative Inquiry approach to asking questions. Kim also uses the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Career Architect in her training and coaching.

Jen is a seasoned nonprofit executive with nearly 25 years of experience and a Master’s degree in Nonprofit Management. Throughout her career, Jen has engaged in nearly all aspects of mission-inspired organizational development, from fundraising, communications, and community engagement to volunteer management, internal operations, strategic planning, and program development. Driven by her passion to advance equity and social justice, Jen is a creative problem-solver by nature and tireless in her pursuit to build connections and capacity with the communities and organizations she is honored to serve. Look for Jen to quickly lean in to learn about your mission and vision, help you bring your goals and objectives into sharper focus, and identify the monsters hiding under the bed that are impeding your progress.

Jen jumpstarted her own consulting practice after a 3-year stint with Harmony Project, a Columbus based arts, education, and community service organization dedicated to creating a stronger, more inclusive community. There, she served in a variety of capacities—including as Director of Development + Communications and Director of Programs + Grants Management. Retaining Harmony as a client, Jen has also been proud to support the missions of new clients including Action for Children, the Columbus Fashion Alliance, Communities In Schools of Ohio, Healing Broken Circles, the Ohio Federation for Health Equity + Social Justice, We Amplify Voices (WAV) and more.

Jen is originally from Indiana but claims Chicago as the hometown of her heart, having moved there after receiving her Bachelors in Communications and Sociology from Manchester College.

Dan is a dynamic, client-focused, digital sales and marketing leader with 20+ years of cross-industry expertise. Most recently, Dan served as a Client Partner for ICF Next leading a portfolio of clients including Wiley Education Services where he led the build of the agency's first ever Content Studio that supported content marketing for over 40+ partner schools and 265+ degree programs, in addition to SEO, Content Strategy, and Analytics teams.

Dan also co-pioneered a design-thinking methodology at ICF to provide client solutions that go beyond brand engagement, delivering products and services that solve business challenges through a test-and-learn approach. Working in digital marketing most of his career, Dan has extensive background in traditional media as well, in multiple categories including CPG, Financial Services, QSR, Retail, Hospitality, and more.

His breadth of client experiences includes Teach for America, Microsoft, Capital One, State Farm, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Constellation Brands Beer Division, SC Johnson, and The Home Depot among others. In addition, Dan teaches Marketing & Social Media at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and has taught Account Planning at DePaul University.

Dan received his Master of Science degree in Advertising from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2000, and his Bachelor of Science from Manchester University in 1999. He currently resides in Chicago with his wife and son, and when Dan isn’t “bleeding Orange” during the Syracuse basketball season, he can be seen doing improv around the city having graduated from The Second City, iO, and The Annoyance training centers.

Michal joined Mango Consulting in 2021. Before moving into research and grant development for the nonprofit sector, Michal was an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature. She has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a subspecialty in Ethnomusicology from the University of Texas at Austin. During her doctoral studies, she focused on contemporary Hebrew, Arabic, and Francophone North African literature and film. Her research focused on the ways in which authors and filmmakers from the Middle East and North Africa foregrounded music (lyrics, musical icons, technologies of sound, and recordings) to get at questions of community and historical memory. During her years in academia, Michal taught courses on cinema, graphic and experimental novels, Arabic and Hebrew literature, literary theory, and cosmopolitanism.

In 2020, Michal completed training through The Grantsmanship Center, both in general grant writing and federal grant writing. With her extensive background as a researcher and her nuanced understanding of narrative, she sees herself as a storyteller whose role is to capture a client’s story of impact in clear and compelling language that funders can understand and appreciate. Michal is also a lifelong student and enjoys the process of learning about diverse areas of impact and the role of the nonprofit sector as an ecosystem of care. When working with a client, she meets to talk about their vision and goals, and then she does a deep dive into peer reviewed research that supports those goals.

In addition to research and grant development, Michal continues to teach and give lectures. In 2022, she joined We Amplify Voices on the Life Stories Project, an oral histories initiative aimed at documenting the stories of women serving lengthy or life sentences at the Ohio Reformatory for Women. As the Humanities lead on the project, Michal worked with a group of “Storytellers” to co-create a method for gathering oral history interviews from each other. The oral history videos that emerged from the first phase of Life Stories have served as the foundation for subsequent projects. In 2024, Michal was part of a curriculum design team that created empathy-building modules based on the Life Stories videos. Michal has given lectures about arts nonprofits for the Music and Citizenship class at The Ohio State University. She also offers writing workshops such as the artist statement workshop at Wild Goose Creative.

In her spare time, Michal enjoys dance and music. She has a Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance and now plays as a creative outlet. She has danced Argentine tango for a decade and continues to grow and explore that practice.