Your Guide to Growth, Vitality, and Impact
With proactive leadership, strategic vision, and intentional support, Meeting Your Mission helps you strengthen your mission’s foundation: a strong team, empowered leaders, and a culture of care.
What Drives Our Work
At Meeting Your Mission, we believe lasting impact begins with clarity, collaboration, and care. We provide the guidance and expertise you need to strengthen your team, build resilient practices, and—in doing so—meet your mission.
Leslie Rosen Stern
Hi, I'm Leslie
I founded Meeting Your Mission in 2013 to support mission-driven organizations in building the strategies, teams, and cultures that fuel their work.
With more than 25 years leading community engagement initiatives, I take joy in using my expertise to help your organization, team, and leaders grow.
Let’s strengthen your team and elevate your impact—together.
Areas of Expertise & Training
- Collaborative Deliberation and Difficult Conversations
- Trauma-Informed Care and Practice
- Experiential Education, Facilitation, and Leadership Development
- Mental Health, Social-Emotional Learning, and the Science of Wellbeing
- Master’s Degrees in Social Work (MSW, Columbia University) and Jewish Studies (MA, Jewish Theological Seminary)
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Inclusive and Ethical Leadership; Nonprofit Management and Organizational Strategy (Northwestern University)
A Strong Network and Trusted Circle of Collaborators
Our Values
Clarity
We help you see your path clearly, from defining your priorities to aligning your team around what matters most. Our work is structured and intentional, so every step you take moves your mission forward.
Collaboration
We believe strong impact comes from working together. We partner closely with your team, leaders, and stakeholders, creating shared understanding and co-designed solutions that strengthen your organization and your culture.
Care
We prioritize people, well-being, and psychological safety in everything we do. By embedding practices that support staff, leaders, and teams, we help you cultivate a culture where people feel valued, heard, and empowered to do their best work.
Clients Meeting Their Missions
Working with Meeting Your Mission was a remarkable experience. Leslie Rosen Stern is an outstanding professional who took the time to understand the needs and context of our project, provided invaluable insights into the planning of the research and focus groups, and was an expert facilitator able to cull important insights from focus group participants. The results of the research were extremely valuable to our institution and the overall project.
Working side by side with a professional like Leslie creates an environment conducive to healthy team-building. Her thoughtful decision-making guided my work; as she diffused tense, emotion-riddled situations with the teens so my staff and I could focus on the leadership skills we are tasked to impart. Leslie helped us to identify issues readily and stave off problems before they started. She is a consummate professional with a desire to help, and I enjoyed working with and learning from her.
Leslie Rosen Stern is the ultimate communal professional. She can ask strategic questions, guide groups toward consensus and make everyone committed to the project feel lucky to have been involved.
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