{"id":5,"date":"2014-08-05T19:05:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T19:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.managementcenter.org\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:18:14","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.managementcenter.org\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading first-heading\"><strong>Our Mission &amp; History<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Management Center (TMC) is a 501c3 organization working to advance justice and equity in the United States. Achieving this goal takes well-crafted strategies, winning over hearts and minds, and building power. It means transforming policies, systems, and structures that were never meant to serve our communities or planet. For managers and leaders, that also means a different approach to management. That\u2019s where TMC comes in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>We help social justice leaders build and run equitable, sustainable, and results-driven organizations.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>As the go-to resource on effective management for social justice and educational equity organizations, we\u2019ve worked with nearly two thousand organizations nationwide. We\u2019ve also trained tens of thousands of individual managers on the practices that help organizations committed to racial equity and social justice deliver lasting results over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Founded by <strong><a data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"10440\" href=\"https:\/\/www.managementcenter.org\/founders\/\">Jerry Hauser, Rebecca Epstein, and Peter Lewis<\/a><\/strong> in 2006 and currently led by Jakada Imani, <a href=\"\/staff-board\/\"><strong>our team<\/strong><\/a> has experience leading organizations and campaigns for immigrant rights and racial justice, educational equity, fair elections, LGBTQ rights, reproductive justice, and more\u2014just like our clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We offer: intensive <strong><a href=\"\/coaching\/\">coaching<\/a> <\/strong>services for executive directors and their senior leadership teams; management <strong><a href=\"\/trainings\/\">training<\/a> <\/strong>courses that equip managers and leaders with skills, practices, and tools they can put to work immediately; and an array of curated <a href=\"\/resources\/\"><strong>resources<\/strong><\/a> on effective (equitable, sustainable, and results-driven) management. Read more about what we mean by \u201ceffective\u201d in <a href=\"\/resources\/three-dimensions-effective-management\/\"><strong>The Three Dimensions of Effective Management<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2006, The Management Center has:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Shaped the management practices of more than 124,000 individual leaders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Helped more than 1,900 organizations get better results<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Distributed more than 12,700 copies of our book <a href=\"\/our-book\/\"><em><strong>Management in a Changing World<\/strong><\/em><\/a><br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Our Core Values<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>We help social justice leaders build and run more <strong>equitable<\/strong>, <strong>sustainable<\/strong>, and <strong>results-driven <\/strong>organizations. To do this, in our internal and external work, we believe in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Focusing on <strong>impact<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Advancing <strong>racial justice<\/strong> through antiracist and equitable practices<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Embracing <strong>learning<\/strong> and growth<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Striving to <strong>excel<\/strong> in what we do<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Being unusually <strong>helpful<\/strong> and supportive<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Building <strong>connection<\/strong>, trust, and joy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Our Approach<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Our clients regularly tell us, \u201cYou\u2019re not what I thought consultants would be like.\u201d We don\u2019t write reports, speak in jargon, or maintain a polite distance. Instead, we\u2019re hands-on, grounded in our clients\u2019 worlds, and results-driven. <strong><a href=\"\/about-us\/our-approach\/\">Learn more about our approach<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"card-link align custom-block\" data-block_2c37f71fa08f3507d59a0a43e76d8962>\n  <div class=\"row\">\n          <div class=\"col-sm-6 col-md-4\">\n      <div class=\"custom-card\">\n        <a class=\"whole-card-link\" href=\"\/about-us\/our-clients\/\" title=\"Our Clients\" target=\"_self\"><\/a>\n        <div class=\"circle-maroon\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"circle-gray\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"card-content\">\n          <h3 class=\"title\">Our Clients<\/h3>\n          <div class=\"description\">Since our founding in 2006, we\u2019ve worked with more than a thousand leading organizations fighting for social change and educational equity.<\/div>\n          <a class=\"btn btn-primary styled-link\" title=\"Our Clients\" >Our Clients<\/a>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"col-sm-6 col-md-4\">\n      <div class=\"custom-card\">\n        <a class=\"whole-card-link\" href=\"\/staff-board\/\" title=\"Meet Our Team\" target=\"_self\"><\/a>\n        <div class=\"circle-maroon\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"circle-gray\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"card-content\">\n          <h3 class=\"title\">Our Team<\/h3>\n          <div class=\"description\">We&#039;ve been in our clients&#039; shoes. We know what it takes to manage people and get results. And we&#039;re also real people who do fun things outside of work.<\/div>\n          <a class=\"btn btn-primary styled-link\" title=\"Meet Our Team\" >Meet Our Team<\/a>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"col-sm-6 col-md-4\">\n      <div class=\"custom-card\">\n        <a class=\"whole-card-link\" href=\"\/updates\/\" title=\"Read News\" target=\"_self\"><\/a>\n        <div class=\"circle-maroon\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"circle-gray\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"card-content\">\n          <h3 class=\"title\">News &amp; Updates<\/h3>\n          <div class=\"description\">Hear what\u2019s new and find special announcements, news, and reflections from TMC leadership. <\/div>\n          <a class=\"btn btn-primary styled-link\" title=\"Read News\" >Read News<\/a>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"495\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-10433\" alt=\"The Management Center staff in 2025. 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