Leading
             Essential
                          Change

People Potential is a network of diverse and experienced consultants who guide, facilitate, and develop leaders, organizations, and communities in their work to create essential change.

Consultants:

NANCY FRITSCHE EAGAN

Nancy is founder and President of People Potential and has provided consultation and training services to public and nonprofit organizations since 1983.    She applies her direct services and management experiences in government and the not-for-profit sector to her work.  Nancy is known for her ability to create and customize services and interventions that are suited to the needs of each organization. She has an M.S.W. from Hunter College School of Social Work and has received additional training in "The Art of Hosting", Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space, The Wold Cafe´, Presencing and other related change interventions.

Nancy enjoys a broad range of consulting and training experiences.   In recent years she facilitated projects with Good Shepherd Services; NYU’s Division of Nursing and Visiting Nurse Services; American Journal of Nursing; Metropolitan Museum of Art;  Free Library of Philadelphia; Spectrum Consulting Group for JP Morgan Chase; Children’s Aid Society; Center for Development of Human Services at Buffalo State College; New York State Office of Children and Family Services; Hunter College School of Social Work; Safe Horizons; New York School to Work Alliance;  New York City’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services; and Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology.  In addition, Nancy has facilitated training programs in over a dozen states and in England. 

She is a specialist in supporting collaborative ventures, leadership development, organizational change, team building strategies, and participatory meeting approaches. Nancy designs meetings to foster meaningful conversations in support of collaborative and inclusive processes.

 KELLY McGOWAN

Kelly McGowan, M.P.A., launched Upstream Consulting in 1999 to help community and public leaders to create and implement strategic responses to social problems. Since then, she has facilitated community planning processes, provided organizational development consultation, and secured more than $15 million in government and private funding for community based organizations serving disenfranchised communities.

McGowan emerged as a student leader in the anti-apartheid movement to divest universities from South African corporations in the mid-1980s. Following graduation, she moved to New York City and became active in social movements to end homelessness. She served on the board of the Union for the Homeless, on the housing committee of ACT-UP, and co-founded a leadership development and tenants’ rights organization for homeless women with children in the public shelter system. As the Executive Director of an HIV prevention organization targeting high-risk homeless youth, McGowan advocated for and secured the first government funding for a peer-based HIV prevention intervention.

McGowan earned a bachelor of science in Human Development and Family Studies from Cornell University and a master’s degree in Public Administration with concentrations in non-profit management and health policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She has been a teaching colleague with the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University and has training in structural family therapy from the Ackerman Institute and Salvador Minuchin’s Family Studies, Inc.