Foxhall Consulting Services
Foxhall Consulting is dedicated to focusing the vision, improving the execution, and sustaining the impact of social entrepreneurs.
About Us
About Foxhall Consulting
Michael Whitehead-Bust, Founder and Partner. Michael has extensive experience in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, and has been a part of the founding team of two for-profit, and one nonprofit organizations. Michael utilizes his expertise in financial analysis, business planning, strategic planning, and fundraising in his consulting work with social entrepreneurs. He works with not-for-profit clients in all phases of earned-income generation: idea generation, feasibility studies, business planning, business launch, and evaluation. His clients range from small start-up nonprofits to large corporate entities such as Fidelity Capital. Michael's nationally recognized work focuses on blurring the lines between sectors and transmitting the best practices of each to the other.
Michael regularly gives talks and presentations throughout the country on various aspects of social enterprise planning and development. He is a regular presenter at the National Gathering of Social Entrepreneurs, is one of two trainers for The Grantsmanship Center's Earned Income Strategies 3-day intensive workshop, and is an affiliate faculty of Regis University in Denver.
Michael has his MBA in entrepreneurship and finance from Babson College (rated #1 in the world for entrepreneurship education by U.S. News and World Report 13 years running), received his B.A. from Carleton College, and has passed the Level II Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exam. Michael has also held positions as co-founder of a venture philanthropy fund, a high school teacher, an outdoor educator, a corporate trainer, a supervisor at a mutual fund call center, and as a professional woodworker.
Alyssa Whitehead-Bust, Founder and Partner. Alyssa has designed and launched three successful organizations, one for profit and two not-for- profit, each focused on social and economic value creation and strategic planning. She has consulted to numerous youth development and environmental organizations. After graduating from and teaching at Wesleyan University, Alyssa received her Masters in Educational Administration from Harvards Graduate School of Education. Her board memberships include The Food Project, The Charles River Museum of Industry and the American Innovation Institute. She currently serves as the founding principal of Highline Academy, a public K-8 charter school that opened in Denver in August 2004.
Strategic Partners
We constantly strive to find the most efficient deployment of resources for our clients. Therefore, from time-time FCS will partner with other consultants on a project. We work only with proven consultants who have substantial track records, who have similar philosophies, and whom we know well.
Rolfe Larson Associates. www.rolfelarson.com Rolfe is a leader in the social enterprise field in the U.S., serving as a board member of the Social Enterprise Alliance, and authored the widely acclaimed book Venture Forth! The Essential Guide to Starting a Moneymaking Business in Your Nonprofit Organization. FCS is proud to have a partnership with Rolfe Larson Associates that brings important new perspectives and experience to our work.
Rolfes experience includes almost ten years as a senior manager at Minnesota Public Radio, and eleven years as a management consultant. In his role with MPR, one of Mr. Larsons responsibilities was to identify, launch and market new business ventures within MPR and its related for-profit companies. In this capacity, he helped launch a number of successful ventures with annual sales ranging from $200,000 to $5 million. For fourteen years, he served as an adjunct Professor of Marketing at the University of St. Thomas' Graduate School of Business in Minneapolis, where he taught entrepreneurship, marketing, and business planning.
He currently is a board member of the Social Enterprise Alliance, and is the co-founder and co-host of the leading listserv in the field, the npEnterprise Forum. Larson has an MBA from the Yale School of Management, with a concentration in marketing and finance. His bachelor's degree is from Swarthmore College.
Rudenstine Associates. www.rudenstine-associates.com Ms. Rudenstine is one of the leaders of the charter school movement nationally, and has a depth of experience coaching school leaders on a range of instructional issues; training school founders in the development of mission-driven schools; supporting educational leaders in the creation of improvement and accountability plans.
If you are a consultant/firm interested in exploring opportunities to work together on future projects, please contact either Michael or Alyssa directly.