Who We Are

MyGamePlan.org is the business line of tools and services provided by Patmos Consulting to the Nonprofit and Foundation sectors. Our team combines many skills and decades of nonprofit leadership and management consulting services to foundations, nonprofit organizations, corporations, and academic institutions. Working with this broad spectrum of clients, we provide organizational assessments, strategic planning, program development, financial management practices, risk management, and implementing institutional change practices.

John R. Hilley, Founder and President of Patmos LLC

John has been involved in nonprofit leadership as an Executive Director and provided consultative services to nonprofits for over twenty years, specializing in start-up and turnaround settings.  He is adept in applying market-based solutions to nonprofits in order to increase their efficiency, sustainability, and resiliency. Linking this experience with the extensive need of nonprofits to become better at navigating the current difficult social and economic climate, John is the lead creator of the Organizational Resiliency Gameplan, a business intelligence application for nonprofits.  Much of John’s current work involves guiding boards and management as they examine the organization’s governance, business and program models, interorganizational relationships and networks with the goal of helping them adapt and align operations to better meet the needs of those they serve.   Not only working with nonprofits, he has provided continuity management and disaster recovery planning for financial services companies and banks. Some of his past work has included developing business continuity responses, relief and recovery efforts across 10 Louisiana parishes after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and providing analytical and coaching skills in capacity building and the development of strategic alliances with organizations such as the American Red Cross. He holds degrees from Wake Forest University and Princeton Theological Seminary and has undertaken post-graduate fellowship studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. http://www.patmosconsulting.com

Doug Hausken, Director of Strategy

Doug Hausken has more than ten years of experience working with and leading nonprofits.  In his role as Director of Strategy, he is responsible for executing on the firm’s commitment to strengthening the nonprofit sector through their MyGamePlan.org e-assessment tools and services aimed at increasing the organizational capacity needs of nonprofits. In addition, he provides consultative services, conducting organizational assessments and market research, strategic planning, and implementing prioritized findings towards increased resiliency and sustainability.

Prior to joining Patmos, he was an Executive Director of a regional environmental nonprofit where he excelled in developing policies and procedures to make the organization more effective, efficient, and transparent. He draws upon extensive experience in public and community relations, social media, board development and fundraising in his current work with clients. At United Way of Metropolitan Nashville, he managed and provided technical assistance to a network of fourteen Family Resource Centers and nine neighborhood programs that provided community and economic development services throughout the city. Hausken is passionate about helping communities and nonprofits become more resilient, especially in light of today’s challenging economic climate. Hausken holds a Masters of Public Administration from the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University with a specialization in Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy Analysis.

David Maddox, Consultant

David is a principal and co-founder of RPM Associates based in Nashville, TN. David brings more than 20 years of higher education experience to the practice. He is the author of the book Budgeting for Not-for-Profit Organizations and regularly serves as a speaker and teacher on planning, budgeting, and financial management. Formerly a member of KPMG’s higher education consulting practice, he consults with higher education institutions and nonprofits on financial management planning and practicing. David holds an M.B.A. from the Owen School at Vanderbilt University.

Edward McNally, CEO, Above The Fold, Inc.

For over twenty years, Edward McNally has conceived and designed compelling ways for innovative organizations and companies to connect and interact with clients, voters, members, donors, investors, legislators, the news media and other targeted audiences. Edward’s professional and volunteer career is devoted to being an agent for positive change in my local community.

Edward has helped dozens of non-profits; associations and businesses share their solutions and engage directly with the public through high profile promotions, national and regional conferences and special events, and through thought provoking media and Internet campaigns. (NPR, CNN, AP, TIME, WSJ, YouTube, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, USA Today, Weather Channel, Fox News, etc). He focuses on understanding the root causes of challenges and promoting visionary, upstream SOLUTIONS as OPPORTUNITIES, not as warnings or restrictions.

Edward McNally

Edward’s goal is to help encourage a critical mass of opinion leaders to make their personal, professional and political decisions based on the very long future impacts to the larger community and to the natural environment. Which is, of course, the same thing.
Edward provides a range of services includes connecting innovators and influencers, project management, client relations, branding, public relations and promotions, marketing and communications planning and strategies, public speaking, e-marketing, donor solicitation and fundraising, ad sales, conference design/planning and promotion, special event concepting and management, media relations, public outreach, speechwriting, copywriting, art direction and production of marketing materials, video production, volunteer coordination.