OUR STORY
experienced
innovative
RElational
founded by Molly Harper in 2009, the Harper Consulting Group offers an integrated approach to organizational and revenue development.
Recognizing that the whole is affected by the quality of its parts, Molly and her team of nonprofit consultants work to unravel inefficiencies and identify gaps that strangle otherwise successful efforts. Harper Consulting Group tailors business models and strategies to link silos, enabling each part within an organization to work together seamlessly and productively.
This approach is grounded in Molly’s multi-faceted experience through a career dedicated to innovation and movement building. From fundraising for political campaigns in rural communities to United States Senate campaigns to legislation and speechwriting on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, Molly thrives in developing strategies that motivate disparate groups of people toward specific action while building a base for ongoing support. She also works with a variety of businesses, nonprofits, and social enterprise organizations building high-functioning teams and developing revenue and engagement programs from the ground-up. Excelling at dispelling fears around fundraising, sales, and helping groups develop the skills for quality relationship-based engagement practices, Molly’s passion for this work is contagious.
Molly developed a deep understanding of entrepreneurship in starting new enterprises and fostering innovation in established companies through her work with private investors and private companies. Building agile yet strong business models is critical to revenue development but also in remaining relevant to an entity’s target audience. By applying her understanding of the systems and approaches that work well in each sector, Molly crafts hybrid business models utilizing the most effective tools and strategies across the nonprofit, public and private sectors. This experience also heightened her focus on creating high-functioning financial and human resource systems that maximize impact and sustainable growth.
The Harper Consulting Group is the embodiment of Molly’s diverse background and utilizes her expertise in the wide array of services offered. Molly currently lives with her sweet pup in beautiful Seattle, Washington.
meet our team
Simply put, the professionals at Harper Consulting Group are rockstars.
Brought together via varied careers and backgrounds, this group is a powerhouse of experience and knowledge.
On their own, each member applies their unique skill set to ensure a project’s success.
Together, they make magic happen for clients by synthesizing the strongest possible plans, building the most effective tools and leaving no opportunity unvetted.
Audra Keyes
Audra has extensive fund development experience in the nonprofit sector, building corporate, foundation, and individual giving programs for grass roots and multi-million-dollar organizations. Since 2006, she has worked in a variety of fundraising roles for Seattle community-based organizations focused on college access and education, homelessness and housing, and social justice advocacy. As the Development Director of College Access Now, she helped to grow the organization from a budget of $600,000 to over $2.6 million in the course of three years. Audra started consulting with Harper Consulting Group in 2015 and enjoys working in partnership with organizations to build a strong fundraising strategy and provides support in grant planning and implementation, development assessment and planning, messaging, and major giving research and strategy. Audra brings passion and insight to her work with a Master of Education (M.Ed.) focused on Culture and Human Development from Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Audra lives with her husband and son in Spokane, WA.
Kat Woody
Kat Woody Kent has worked in the nonprofit sector exclusively and has a passion to see them succeed. After graduating with an Ethics degree from UW in 2017 she began her path advocating for underserved communities. During her time as a trust manager, she has learned the inner workings of multiple government and state policies, procedures, regulations as well as state run benefits programs and used every ounce of knowledge to push for the best care for her disabled clients.
Currently she works to ensure accurate tracking of capital campaigns and all external and internal communications for the Harper Consulting Group. Her passion has always been working to improve the lives and treatment of marginalized communities and will continue this level of care in all her work. Kat also enjoys camping with her husband, going outside with her two cats, and attending concert/comedy tours.
Isaac Kent
Isaac is a seasoned professional with a rich and varied background in the realms of finance, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), aviation operations, and leadership. His journey has been marked by a pursuit of creative excellence, from pioneering flight Concept of Operations (CONOPs) for heavy-lift drone swarms to overseeing programs and projects with a high degree of complexity for startups and nonprofits.
A University of Washington graduate, he has fine-tuned his skills in team management, process optimization, and navigating intricate regulatory landscapes. Now, he is eager to share his experience as a consultant in creative strategy and technical coaching, empowering businesses to achieve operational excellence, and drive transformative change.
Hannah Bates
Since 2019, Hannah has helped organizations expand their reach and amplify their impact through digital marketing efforts. She specializes in helping organizations pinpoint the best organic and paid digital marketing strategies for their needs.
Hannah is experienced in a wide range of digital marketing tactics and industries, including nonprofits and mission-based organizations. From paid advertising to organic social media to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), she is excited to help your organization reach supporters online.
Hannah lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with her husband, child, and their four cats.
David Whittlesey
David started his career in aeronautical engineering with Boeing where he first learned the importance of efficient and effective operations on the health of a company. He went on to work in operations and financial management in the hospitality industry then for real estate brokerages, architecture, and commercial engineering companies. His vast expertise in all things operations and finance make him an invaluable asset to the Harper Consulting Group and clients.
David lives in Seattle, WA and enjoys hiking adventures with his dog.
Ericka Sisolak
Ericka Sisolak is a nonprofit professional and strategic thinker committed to ensuring meaningful community impact with the Harper Consulting Group. Her breadth of knowledge, from over 10 years of leadership experience, includes a broad range of fundraising capabilities, health communications, community building, program development and evaluation, and strategic planning. She creates solutions using research, passion for storytelling, facilitation skills, and ability to translate ideas into action.
With a Master’s in Public Health and diverse roles with nonprofits, her breadth of experience informs her strategic approach to problem solving. Ericka also enjoys spending time with her husband and two boys cooking, adventuring, enjoying live music, and rooting on the Sounders.
Jenny Pinter
Jenny started her professional career working in 2007 at a regional nonprofit. Little did she know that her degree in theatre would be a launching pad in event management and development support. While some get caught up in the big picture or bogged down in the details, Jenny’s education in stage directing and experience with nonprofit fundraising events has sharpened her innate ability to artfully care for every detail as informed by an overarching vision. Her enthusiasm for telling a meaningful story helped build meaningful relationships with stakeholders and funders. Jenny thrives at managing fundraising events, creating donor development strategies and stewardship programs, creating and designing fundraising and outreach material, websites and strategic tools, as well as donor data coordination and management. At heart, Jenny is a storyteller who understands the structure and processes needed to create a truly compelling case for support. Jenny started working with the Harper Consulting Group in 2010 and currently lives with her husband and three children in Atlanta, Georgia.
Rahel Haley
Rahel started working with the Harper Consulting Group in 2017 as the Project and Business Manager. She is a compassionate and highly motivated leader who thrives on creating and implementing scalable business solutions. Having earned Microsoft’s Gold Star award twice, Rahel excels on great achievement and partnership.
After having worked for more than 20 years for Microsoft and Amazon, she moved to the East Coast to focus on growing small businesses. Being fluent in English, French, Danish, Swedish, Amharic as well as being a published artist, Rahel brings a unique, creative, multicultural approach to her work. She has more than 25 years of project management experience creating high performance solutions with a specialty in turnarounds and stabilizing and improving businesses. She has a demonstrated ability to lead change including new technology implementation, acquisitions, upsizing/downsizing, and process improvement.
Jamal Siddiqui
Jamal Siddiqui is a highly skilled and motivated Data Consultant with 10 plus years of experience. He has worked with clients ranging from those in the healthcare field to federal government agencies to nonprofits. Fearless in the face of new challenges, he enjoys working in a collaborative team environment. Jamal is self taught and has advanced skills in Structure Queried Language (SQL), Excel, Data Governance, Data Management, and Reporting.
In his free time, Jamal enjoys doing stand up comedy, paddle boarding, swimming, and playing basketball in Seattle, WA.
OUR STORY
experienced
innovative
RElational
founded by Molly Harper in 2009, the Harper Consulting Group offers an integrated approach to organizational and revenue development.
Recognizing that the whole is affected by the quality of its parts, Molly and her team of nonprofit consultants work to unravel inefficiencies and identify gaps that strangle otherwise successful efforts. Harper Consulting Group tailors business models and strategies to link silos, enabling each part within an organization to work together seamlessly and productively.
This approach is grounded in Molly’s multi-faceted experience through a career dedicated to innovation and movement building. From fundraising for political campaigns in rural communities to United States Senate campaigns to legislation and speechwriting on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, Molly thrives in developing strategies that motivate disparate groups of people toward specific action while building a base for ongoing support. She also works with a variety of businesses, nonprofits, and social enterprise organizations building high-functioning teams and developing revenue and engagement programs from the ground-up. Excelling at dispelling fears around fundraising, sales, and helping groups develop the skills for quality relationship-based engagement practices, Molly’s passion for this work is contagious.
Molly developed a deep understanding of entrepreneurship in starting new enterprises and fostering innovation in established companies through her work with private investors and private companies. Building agile yet strong business models is critical to revenue development but also in remaining relevant to an entity’s target audience. By applying her understanding of the systems and approaches that work well in each sector, Molly crafts hybrid business models utilizing the most effective tools and strategies across the nonprofit, public and private sectors. This experience also heightened her focus on creating high-functioning financial and human resource systems that maximize impact and sustainable growth.
The Harper Consulting Group is the embodiment of Molly’s diverse background and utilizes her expertise in the wide array of services offered. Molly currently lives with her sweet pup in beautiful Seattle, Washington.
meet our team
Simply put, the professionals at Harper Consulting Group are rockstars.
Brought together via varied careers and backgrounds, this group is a powerhouse of experience and knowledge.
On their own, each member applies their unique skill set to ensure a project’s success.
Together, they make magic happen for clients by synthesizing the strongest possible plans, building the most effective tools and leaving no opportunity unvetted.
Audra Keyes
Audra has extensive fund development experience in the nonprofit sector, building corporate, foundation, and individual giving programs for grass roots and multi-million-dollar organizations. Since 2006, she has worked in a variety of fundraising roles for Seattle community-based organizations focused on college access and education, homelessness and housing, and social justice advocacy. As the Development Director of College Access Now, she helped to grow the organization from a budget of $600,000 to over $2.6 million in the course of three years. Audra started consulting with Harper Consulting Group in 2015 and enjoys working in partnership with organizations to build a strong fundraising strategy and provides support in grant planning and implementation, development assessment and planning, messaging, and major giving research and strategy. Audra brings passion and insight to her work with a Master of Education (M.Ed.) focused on Culture and Human Development from Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Audra lives with her husband and son in Spokane, WA.
Ericka Sisolak
Ericka Sisolak is a nonprofit professional and strategic thinker committed to ensuring meaningful community impact with the Harper Consulting Group. Her breadth of knowledge, from over 10 years of leadership experience, includes a broad range of fundraising capabilities, health communications, community building, program development and evaluation, and strategic planning. She creates solutions using research, passion for storytelling, facilitation skills, and ability to translate ideas into action.
With a Master’s in Public Health and diverse roles with nonprofits, her breadth of experience informs her strategic approach to problem solving. Ericka also enjoys spending time with her husband and two boys cooking, adventuring, enjoying live music, and rooting on the Sounders.
Kat Woody
Kat Woody Kent has worked in the nonprofit sector exclusively and has a passion to see them succeed. After graduating with an Ethics degree from UW in 2017 she began her path advocating for underserved communities. During her time as a trust manager, she has learned the inner workings of multiple government and state policies, procedures, regulations as well as state run benefits programs and used every ounce of knowledge to push for the best care for her disabled clients.
Currently she works to ensure accurate tracking of capital campaigns and all external and internal communications for the Harper Consulting Group. Her passion has always been working to improve the lives and treatment of marginalized communities and will continue this level of care in all her work. Kat also enjoys camping with her husband, going outside with her two cats, and attending concert/comedy tours.
Jenny Pinter
Jenny started her professional career working in 2007 at a regional nonprofit. Little did she know that her degree in theatre would be a launching pad in event management and development support. While some get caught up in the big picture or bogged down in the details, Jenny’s education in stage directing and experience with nonprofit fundraising events has sharpened her innate ability to artfully care for every detail as informed by an overarching vision. Her enthusiasm for telling a meaningful story helped build meaningful relationships with stakeholders and funders. Jenny thrives at managing fundraising events, creating donor development strategies and stewardship programs, creating and designing fundraising and outreach material, websites and strategic tools, as well as donor data coordination and management. At heart, Jenny is a storyteller who understands the structure and processes needed to create a truly compelling case for support. Jenny started working with the Harper Consulting Group in 2010 and currently lives with her husband and three children in Atlanta, Georgia.
Hannah Bates
Since 2019, Hannah has helped organizations expand their reach and amplify their impact through digital marketing efforts. She specializes in helping organizations pinpoint the best organic and paid digital marketing strategies for their needs.
Hannah is experienced in a wide range of digital marketing tactics and industries, including nonprofits and mission-based organizations. From paid advertising to organic social media to SEO, she is excited to help your organization reach your supporters online.
Hannah lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with her husband, child, and their four cats.
Isaac Kent
Isaac is a seasoned professional with a rich and varied background in the realms of finance, GIS, aviation operations, and leadership. His journey has been marked by a pursuit of creative excellence, from pioneering flight CONOPs for heavy-lift drone swarms to overseeing programs and projects with a high degree of complexity for startups and nonprofits.
A University of Washington graduate, he has fine-tuned his skills in team management, process optimization, and navigating intricate regulatory landscapes. Now, he is eager to share his experience as a consultant in creative strategy and technical coaching, empowering businesses to achieve operational excellence and drive transformative change.
David Whittlesey
David started his career in aeronautical engineering with Boeing where he first learned the importance of efficient and effective operations on the health of a company. He went on to work in operations and financial management in the hospitality industry then for real estate brokerages, architecture, and commercial engineering companies. His vast expertise in all things operations and finance make him an invaluable asset to the Harper Consulting Group and clients.
David lives in Seattle, WA and enjoys hiking adventures with his dog.
Jamal Siddiqui
Jamal Siddiqui is a highly skilled and motivated Data Consultant with 10 plus years of experience. He has worked with clients ranging from healthcare field to federal government agencies and Nonprofits. Fearless in the face of new challenges, he enjoys working in a collaborative team environment. Self taught and advanced skills in SQL, Excel, Data Governance, Data Management, and Reporting.
In his free time, Jamal enjoys doing stand up comedy, paddle boarding, swimming, and playing basketball in Seattle, WA.
Rahel Haley
Rahel started working with the Harper Consulting Group in 2017 as the Project and Business Manager. She is a compassionate and highly motivated leader who thrives on creating and implementing scalable business solutions. Having earned Microsoft’s Gold Star award twice, Rahel excels on great achievement and partnership.
After having worked for more than 20 years for Microsoft and Amazon, she moved to the east coast to focus on growing small businesses. Being fluent in English, French, Danish, Swedish, Amharic as well as being a published artist, Rahel brings a unique, creative, multicultural approach to her work. She has more than 20 years of project management experience creating high performance solutions with a specialty in turnarounds and stabilizing and improving businesses. She has a demonstrated ability to lead change including new technology implementation, acquisitions, upsizing/downsizing, and process improvement.
