Services

River Heights Solutions provides one-on-one coaching for finance leaders navigating challenges along their path. Through one-on-one coaching sessions tailored to your goals, coaching provides a supportive and confidential space for you to reflect on your current situation, focus on what you want in the future, and create your own roadmap to success.  

Through coaching, busy VPFAs and CFOs have replaced overwhelm with boundaries, improved their delegation skills, and reclaimed their time to focus on strategic priorities.  Other clients, who sought coaching to support them as they transitioned into leadership roles, found that coaching helped them focus their vision, amplify their voice, and exercise more influence as they stepped into their unique leadership identity.  

Coaching can help with: communicating more effectively, reframing beliefs that hold you back, building relationships across your organization, leading change, “managing up,” and enhancing your executive presence.  

We also offer coaching programs to foster your success in a new role, as well as developing and leading your team. 

River Heights Solutions offers personalized coaching for professionals navigating career changes, whether pursuing career advancement or exploring and discerning new directions after organizational disruption. Through focused sessions, we support you in clarifying your core values, deciding what you want (and what you don’t!) in your next chapter, refining your message about the value you bring, and ensuring your materials communicate that value so you can move forward with confidence. Our approach ensures your transition is purposeful, grounded in your values and vision, and aligned with your personal and professional goals.

River Heights Solutions advises boards and executive teams in aligning financial strategy and operational priorities with institutional mission, especially in moments of transition or growth. Our experience and curiosity surfaces the right questions, clarifies decision pathways, and creates transformative conversations that catalyze vision into action. Clients come to me when they need a thought partner who understands the institutional perspective and has experience with operational details, thereby allowing for translation between the two, helping leaders act with confidence.

In addition to financial and strategic consulting, River Heights Solutions helps institutions explore Energy as a Service (EaaS). This model allows colleges and universities to upgrade their energy infrastructure (even transition to solar, wind, or geothermal), while avoiding up-front capital costs, thereby reducing strain on capital budgets.  Newer energy infrastructure, provided without impact to the balance sheet, can reduce utility expenses, improve energy reliability, support sustainability goals, and transfer facility maintenance risk to a trusted third party. EaaS allows your institution to focus on its key mission, and get out from under the risk of aging and obsolete energy infrastructure. If you’re dealing with the ticking time-bombs of a century-old steamline, contact River Heights Solutions to learn more.

River Heights Solutions facilitates strategic planning sessions that deeply engage the voices of your stakeholders and move beyond the traditional SWOT analysis. We help organizations leverage strengths to capitalize on opportunities, mitigate risks, and bolster weaknesses against external challenges. As part of our strategic planning process, RHS facilitates resource allocation conversations to evaluate the financial, organizational, operational, and cultural adjustments necessary for successful execution of your strategies before finalizing them. In this way, we ensure your plan is practical, actionable, and ready for implementation, not relegated to a shelf.

River Heights Solutions delivers keynote addresses, conference sessions, and transformational workshops that inspire higher education audiences and beyond. Maura’s workshop title, “Plug in to Your Power to Rewire Your Circuitry, Amplify Your Voice, and Supercharge Your Impact” helps participants regain control of their time, analyze their powerbase to build their influence, and learn how their physiology can affect their cognitive state. Perfect for participants at any level, from staff accountants to CFOs, workshop attendees leave with actionable strategies they can implement immediately to enhance their effectiveness and impact.