Welcome to Ideas to Action

    How change gets done.

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    Ideas to Action is about positive change in the education and nonprofit spaces

    Positive change happens when strong ideas are developed into actionable plans and those plans are followed through to strategy realization. Most organizations struggle with implementation of change as a result of any number of factors, both internal to the organization and external.

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    Ideas to Action applies a collaborative design approach

    Effective change does not happen in isolation. To succeed we must ensure that understanding of the reasons for change exist at the broadest possible level.

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    Education and nonprofit organizations are particularly reliant on community engagement

    With this in mind, stakeholder engagement is critical from ideation through implementation.

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    Forever Evolving

    This is the beginning of a new understanding of project management for education and nonprofit sectors!  We share our thoughts and experience and would love to hear from you as well.

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    About I2A

    Ideas to Action is about making change happen. The creativity needed to ideate combines with the practical application of project management to make change happen. With years of experience in supporting the development of ideas into actionable plans and then seeing those plans through to realization, we can help.

    Since our founding in 2017 we've completed projects to...

      Develop the Enterprise Project Management Office for a nonprofit client, providing a new portfolio management methodology to improve the efficient application of business and IT resources to the projects with the highest strategic returns for the organization.
      Establish and lead bi-weekly portfolio review sessions with client CEO and team to help establish new practices.
      Redesign the website for an Evanston-based nonprofit to better highlight achievements and improve ease of making donations.
      Help develop an actionable and measurable equity plan for a suburban-Chicago community college.
      Consult on the transition to guided pathways for a suburban-Chicago community college.
      Lead the selection effort to identify a new Data Management system and project managed the system implementation for a Chicago-based nonprofit foundation.
      Provide post-implementation support for a new Data Management system for a Chicago-based nonprofit foundation including development of new change management processes including cross-functional collaboration in review and prioritization of change efforts.
      Review and improve documentation of policies, procedures and forms management for a Chicago-based nonprofit foundation's program management.
      Help establish a "Center for Operational Excellence" for a client to better manage the coordination of continuous improvements to processes, systems and supporting documentation through broader organizational input.
      Developed a Change Management approach to address process and technology chanages requested from across the organization.
      Redesigned the client's process for managing thousands of rent and utility payments to vendors per month.

    Call To Action

    Ideas to Action is about making change happen. The creativity needed to ideate combines with the practical application of project management to make change happen. With years of experience in supporting the development of ideas into actionable plans and then seeing those plans through to realization, we can help.

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    Our Clients

    Naomi Ruth Cohen Institute AIDS Foundation of Chicago National Merit Scholarship Corporation Oakton Community College All Chicago Center for Housing and Health

    Who We Are

    Scott is a successful leader who has run strategic planning and project management office (PMO) efforts, managed consulting practices, and excels in change management, portfolio and project management, annual planning, process improvement, and organizational change. He has proven experience in managing portfolios of programs, projects, vendors and people with leadership skills and business savvy. He possesses an excellent ability to communicate with all levels of the organization and is Project Management Professional (PMP) certified, with strong skills in managing toward strategy realization. Scott has presented nationally on topics including college access and success, pathway development and methods for implementing needed changes in higher education and nonprofit sectors. He holds an MBA in Systemic Management from Baldwin Wallace University and a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing and Logistics from Michigan State University.

    Margie is an expert in higher education with experience in roles spanning the institution from Faculty, Dean, Operations to President. She has been an educator and administrator in higher education for over twenty years. Her experience is in the areas of strategic planning, budgeting, accreditation, assessment, international programs, curriculum development, online learning and leveraging technology in teaching and learning, information services and adult learning. Specialties: Strategic planning, enrollment management and student retention, accreditation, assessment, online learning, and international programs. She holds a PhD in Educational Technology from the Unversity of Akron, an MBA in Systemic Mangement from Baldwin Wallace Universtiy and a Bachelor of Science from Michigan State University.

    Scott Martyn, MBA, PMP

    Principal Consultant

    Margie Martyn, PhD, MBA

    Principal Consultant

    Contact I2A

    When you're ready for change, we're ready to help.

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    437 Duane Street, Unit 301, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137-4555, USA

    Email

    info@ideas-to-action.com