Level Up Leadership

Where nonprofit professionals meet the moment.

2025 has brought critical changes to the nonprofit landscape. Nonprofit leaders face budget cuts, staff reorganizations, leadership turnover, and a challenge to traditional practices. Board and staff leaders must adapt. For this, we need a different kind of professional development. A flexible, people-centered professional development that elevates our relationships as well as knowledge.

Join us for our leadership accelerators, monthly series, or CliftonStrengths facilitation - all designed to help you be the leader your community needs for 2026 and beyond.

MPC Professional Development

  • The Level Up Leadership Accelerator will use simulated and experiential learning to help participants develop their “2025 leadership style”: a strengths-based, values-based, creative, practical, flexible, people-focused approach for working together, resolving conflict, and getting things done in an ever-changing environment. This 3-month accelerator will help nonprofit leaders level up their skills and build a network of support. Learn more.

  • Nonprofit organizations are facing increasingly complex challenges. Funding interruptions, exponential growth, expanding community needs, and hard strategic choices call for a different kind of leadership from today’s Boards of Directors. Board members must now be more responsive, more collaborative, and more strategically engaged than ever. 

    The Better Boards accelerator is ideal for nonprofit Board executive leaders and those who aspire to Board executive leadership. Meeting weekly for six one-hour virtual lunch sessions, this accelerator will equip Board members to navigate their nonprofits for years to come. Learn more.

  • This 6-session accelerator will introduce participants to basic principles and skills of grantseeking and grants management. A cohort of 10 participants will build their collective skills and each receive individual feedback and review of a grant proposal of their choice. This accelerator is ideal for those new to the profession and development professionals wanting to add grants to their fundraising toolbox. Learn more.

  • Did you know that the most effective way to develop and empower people and teams is to help them use their strengths? Today, we are demanding more of our teams than ever before: we expect them to thrive with less, in an ever-more-stressful environment. As leaders, this moment calls us to be more intentional about investing in our teams’ productivity and their wellbeing. As a Gallup-certified CliftonStrengths coach, Melanie works with individuals and teams to pivot to a strengths-based approach to changing the world.

  • All fun and no PowerPoints!

    The “Meeting our Moment” monthly series will provide experiential learning to help participants develop the skills critical to nonprofit leadership in 2026 and beyond. Join us for one session or all! Learn more here.

  • When your conference travel gets cut and your professional development budget tightens, M. Palmer Consulting is here to make every training dollar go further. Our group workshops give your nonprofit group high-impact learning led by a powerhouse team of fundraising experts—three GPCs and two CFREs with decades of combined experience. In every session, you’ll gain practical, field-tested guidance and meaningful opportunities to connect with fellow nonprofit professionals. These sessions are perfect for nonprofit Boards and Staffs that have experienced Staff or Board turnover, restructuring, leadership transitions, or budget cuts. Consider a stand-alone training, or a cost-saving package for 2026 to help you build new skills and a stronger network! Learn more.