Great Lakes Municipal Consultants

Great Lakes Municipal Consultants is a business consultant in Grand Blanc, MI, that works with local governments on governance and organizational development. The firm offers facilitated workshops and coaching programs focused on strategic planning, boardmanship, policy development, and human resources. Its clients are governing bodies, councils, and public-sector organizations seeking to improve how they make decisions and deliver services to the communities they serve. Contact is available by phone at (906) 458-1956 or by email at [email protected].

The firm's service offering is organized around four practice areas. Strategic Planning covers mission, vision, and values work, strategic agendas, capital improvement planning, and strategic plan review. Boardmanship services include training for new officials, annual board retreats, conflict resolution, council-manager relations, and customer experience work aimed at engaging residents. Policy Development addresses becoming a policy-driven organization, operational policy review, board policy review, and liability and risk assessment. Human Resources services span HR policy review, contract negotiations, performance evaluations, job descriptions, hiring matrix development, and team building workshops. Each project is tailored to the client, and the firm backs its work with a minimum six-month coaching window following project completion.

The office sits on McCandlish Road, about four-tenths of a mile from South Saginaw Road. Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club and The Jewel of Grand Blanc are within roughly a mile, and Perry Homestead, Cook School, and a local attraction called Vinyard are all close by.

The firm emphasizes a community-driven approach, focusing on the residents, business owners, and employees who make up each municipality, and works from the belief that strategic governance is built on shared values and a shared vision unique to each client.