"Kristen Denzer planned and facilitated our two-year strategic planning retreat, attended by an ethnically and generationally diverse group of 15 board members, staff, and special guests. In the planning process, she was extremely well-organized, sensitive and responsive to our special needs as a unique organization, knowledgeable about multiple useful tools, quickly and thoroughly researched additional possibilities, a great thinker who asked all the right questions and kept me focused and organized - outstanding. At the retreat itself, Kristen set an orderly structure, keeping us on track while facilitating a complex and wide-ranging discussion. She made very good use of the "homework" and survey tools she helped to create. Her style was seemingly low-key and she resisted taking the floor herself, but it was obvious to me that we could not have gotten from here to there without her guidance. Kristen has my highest recommendation."

—Bonnie Watkins, Executive Director at the
Minnesota Women's Consortium

“Phyllis Wheatley Community Center retained the services of Kristen to develop a business plan for our Camp Katharine Parsons. Kristen researched local, regional and national organized camping and event facilities trends. She also completed a comprehensive SWOT analysis for Camp Parsons and Phyllis Wheatley Community Center. Through that process she identified marketing segments, strategies, sales forecasts and potential sources of funding for capital support. We were particularly impressed with Kristen’s professionalism and attention to detail. The final product provides clear, research supported findings and practical suggestions which are critical to moving forward with plans for a capital campaign and preparing a detailed annual operating budget.”

—Steve Gustafson, Director of Development and Marketing at
Phyllis Wheatley Community Center

"Kristen Denzer demonstrated great initiative, energy and dedication, as well as generated a lot of cost-saving and fundraising ideas, for our Metro Blooms nonprofit organization. Through her outreach, she recruited many new partners to sponsor our rain garden educational workshops. Through her active research, she found many sources for potential revenue and successfully obtained a large grant from a major foundation. She recruited several well-qualified interns who helped do our program work without cost to us."

—Joyce Vincent, Metro Blooms Board Chair

"Kristen displayed a strong ability to analyze problems and she excelled in resource utilization to meet our organization's goals. Kristen doesn't just do the work; she reinforces her ideas and her grant proposals with sound documention."

—Karen Law, Executive Director at Pro-Choice Resources

"Kristen assisted the Minneapolis Children's Advocacy Network with a critical research project with skill, diligence and commitment. She is thoughtful in designing quality research tools to gather the information needed, and carries out projects with a strong set of practical skills and expertise."

—Susie Brown, Executive Director at Child Care WORKS, former Public Policy Director at Family & Children's Service

"Kristen came to Metro Blooms during a time of great transition. Our board was looking for ways to expand our reach in the community and we had just lost our Program Manager. Kristen not only helped us get better organized but was also able to increase our funding, both with new grants and other new revenue-generating ideas. Her can-do attitude got us through a rough period and made us a better organization overall."

—Stephanie Boraas, Metro Blooms Treasurer

“Kristen has been a tremendous resource and a big help in growing my business. She’s a ‘get it done’ gal who can quickly analyze a situation and will find the best way to get the task at hand done. Always a pleasure to work with, I’d highly recommend Kristen and her company.”

—Marcia McLean, Realtor at ReMax Results

"I appreciated working with Kristen because she had the ability to anticipate and manage a situation proactively as it developed. As a board member you need to have confidence that you don' t have to be micromanaging staff to ensure that the job is handled appropriately, and I had that confidence in Kristen. She was always several steps ahead of us."

—Lori Anderson, Project Manager at University of Minnesota Venture Center and Metro Blooms Board Member