About Acumenity Consulting
The challenge
Your business or organization is great at delivering products, programs, and services to serve others. But to achieve true operational efficiency and effectiveness, your business infrastructure must be excellent as well.
The solution
Acumenity Consulting offers an array of customizable, scalable back office services that can grow along with your business or nonprofit, providing the support you need so you can continue to achieve operational excellence. Our services are available on an hourly, project, or retainer basis.
What We Do
Traditional Back Office Services
Finance
Acumenity offers a range of services, from basic bookkeeping and check writing to financial reporting and full charge accounting, depending on your organization’s needs. We can also provide tools and support for your annual and long-range budgeting processes.
Human Resources
Acumenity provides basic and advanced HR services, including recruiting, screening, and vetting job candidates; payroll management; PTO/leave tracking; and benefits coordination. We also offer services such as development or revision of personnel policy manuals.
Information Technology
The backbone of growing, thriving organizations is a robust IT function. From basic server management to more complex IT arrangements, Acumenity can help your organization create the network it needs to sustain essential operations and provide room for growth.
Expanded Operation Services
Communications/Marketing/Branding
Your ability to get your message across to a variety of audiences matters. Acumenity offers a suite of communications support services, including press release templates, website development and updating, and social media campaigns. Additionally, we can provide or support regular email engagement with your key constituent groups, including donors, prospects, and volunteers.
Resource Development
Do you need someone to manage your fundraising efforts? Acumenity experts can provide assistance with grant writing, proposal development, and event planning. We can assist in developing customer relationship management databases, outreach programs, and major gift/planned/estate giving efforts.
Interim Executive Leadership
Unplanned leadership transitions at the executive or senior management level can be debilitating, causing your organization to lose momentum, experience decreased employee morale, or miss critical growth opportunities. With our breadth of experience in nonprofit administration, Acumenity is uniquely suited to offer interim leadership services while your nonprofit recruits its next key executive.
Organizational Development Services
Planning
Solid planning is a critical element in the success of your organization—annual operating plans, financial forecasting, long-range strategic planning, even succession planning. Acumenity can provide the tools and expertise you need to engage the appropriate stakeholders and plan effectively for your organization’s future.
Board Development
As a growing nonprofit, you need an effective, knowledgeable board to provide governance and resource development assistance. Your organization’s success is heavily influenced by the skill and knowledge of its board of directors. At Acumenity, we can foster board success through an effective board member recruitment process and individual- and group-level board member development and training.
Executive Mentoring and Coaching
Organizational development includes building the leadership capacity of young and new executives. Short-term mentoring and coaching can be a vital part of your organization’s overall leadership development strategy. Acumenity offers support for your organization’s future by helping your executive leadership—individual or team—develop strategic perspective, strengthen decision-making, and increase understanding of how their personal mission, vision, and values drive organizational growth.
mike lisle, MEDP, CPM
founder and principal
With more than two decades of experience in nonprofit administration, Mike is uniquely positioned to help your organization build a robust business operation that will effectively support your programs and services.
Mike's background, which includes experience working as a nonprofit chief executive, chief financial officer, and program director, gives him a unique perspective from which to approach the challenges of leading a small- to medium-sized nonprofit organization. He has successfully led the operations of many nonprofits, positioning them to achieve both business and programmatic success through his expertise in strategic planning, financial management, communications and marketing, board development, and more.
As a CFO, Mike has led organizations to achieve and maintain a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, considered a gold standard in financial and operational excellence. He has led membership organizations to increase memberships, sponsorships, and partnerships. Mike has been responsible for creating and implementing strategic plans for multiple organizations and is a skilled consensus-builder across a variety of audiences and stakeholder groups. He has driven technology upgrades, including transitioning a multi-site organization to a cloud-based server and wireless network, and has written and revised personnel manuals for several organizations.
Mike holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Florida State University and achieved the Certified Public Manager (CPM) designation from the Florida Center for Public Management. He also earned the Master Economic Development Practitioner designation through the Advanced Economic Development Leadership program, a collaboration between the University of Southern Mississippi, Texas Christian University, the University of New Mexico, and Stetson University.
