Celebrating 4 Years of NMBL Strategies
Originally posted by Eric Moraczewski on Linkedin.
Today, NMBL Strategies turns 4. It's maybe not as big of an anniversary as 5, 10, 20, or one of our clients who next year they turn 50. With that said, every anniversary gives an organization and its leadership a chance to reflect. Our company has taken many twists and turns, for instance we started a consulting firm 9 months before a global pandemic. Even for a company that works on strategic planning that one was not in our plans. It's maybe made things more difficult, but perhaps not. Today, of our active clients only one is in #stlouis, which is a bit disappointing, but the pandemic opened all of us up to being much more acceptable of remote work and that is a blessing for our company.
Four years ago Kathryn Moraczewski and I started NMBL Strategies, at the time we were called Analyroi (merging Analytics with ROI). I'm truly lucky to get to work with my best friend every day and maybe just as fortunate that our skillsets don't overlap or she might have killed me by now. We thought most of our work would be focused on strategic planning, business planning, and leadership development of #nonprofits and #publicprivatepartnerships. Today that still makes up about half of our work and at times during the pandemic all of it. However, two weeks into starting the business a good friend of mine, Eric Peterson of Spencer Fane LLP, called in need of someone with finance experience in small businesses for a #commercialreceivership. When you're two weeks in to starting your own company you don't turn down work and the other side of NMBL Strategies was born, change management with a special focus on #receiverships.
Ultimately, the people are what make a company special, especially a consulting firm. One thing I've said to a number of people is when running your own small business you don't always get to pick your clients, although we've been blessed with a lot of great clients, but you do get to pick the people you work with. The staff and interns over the years have made NMBL Strategies truly incredible to work with, a special thank you to Dion Brown, Casey Jolley, John Hood, Kristen Weber, Justin Kilbreath, Sean Kim, and Mateo Flores. I'm so happy to have gotten to work with all these incredible people and so glad to call them a part of the NMBL family.
Ultimately, our NMBL family wouldn't be here without getting to work with clients across the country and around the world. When we first started we definitely thought we would be doing more international work, especially with all the work I had done abroad, and that started out true while working with the Chinese Office of Culture & Tourism on the Gate of Xiang River design competition. Today though, we're proud of the cultural work domestically we've gotten to do with The Thanks-Giving Foundation, Cherokee Street Community Improvement District, First Congregational Church of Webster Groves, and the GOLDEN LOTUS FOUNDATION. We've also gotten the good fortune to do a lot of work in planning and interim leadership for groups like IABA : International Association of Black Actuaries, Empower Missouri, Obsidian Arts & Literature, the Commercial Receivers Association, and many others. This doesn't even begin to touch on the great change management work we've gotten to do working with groups struggling, going through mergers, forming joint ventures and so much more, groups like Great Circle, Examkrackers, Inc., Ivani LLC, J.M. Marschuetz Construction Company, and CannaVer.
Whether you've been one of our clients, one of our friends, or just watched from the periphery as we've grown the company we want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We have some big plans for year five, so stay tuned. In the meantime, we also invite you to join us at the Boathouse today at 2pm if you want to have a drink with our team and celebrate with us.