Client Testimonials

“GivingWorks consultants bring to the task excellent minds, highly relevant experiences, and a crucial willingness to listen and be substantively responsive to client needs. Nazir Ahmad, president of GivingWorks, is a resource we are privileged to draw on for our effort to enhance strategic risk management. He has made a number of valuable contributions to our thinking and to the development of tools for broader risk assessment–as a foundation for our formulation of country strategies.”

– Director of Corporate Strategy & Risk Management, The World Bank

“GivingWorks played a useful catalytic role in helping us to think differently, to overcome sectoral parochialism, and to help us concentrate on delivering results rather than inputs. They were skillful in creating a non-threatening, evidence-based, decision-focused, and intellectually lively environment….GivingWorks helped lay the groundwork for the difficult discussions on choices and trade-offs that are hallmarks of a sound strategy.”

- World Bank Country Director

“It is rare to find an external consultant who is able to absorb a vast amount of information, sift through a lot of the chaff and focus on the essence of the feedback in an insightful and judicious manner. All too often external consultants come up with predictable boiler-plate presentations, with certain statements that apply to most organizations. I found GivingWorks’ analysis truly penetrating, and assessment of the situation very perceptive with a good understanding of all the nuances.”

- Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF

“GivingWorks provided a first class consultancy to UNICEF. Their report, submitted to the UNICEF Executive Board, has opened a number of new and innovative ideas on how to make this sixty-year-old organization stronger in a rapidly evolving and competitive environment. If you are looking for a consultant to only tell you what pleases you, don’t hire GivingWorks, but if you are ready for a very challenging and strategic journey with highly innovative thinking, go for GivingWorks.”

– Director of Change Management, UNICEF, New York

“The Organizational Review of UNICEF carried out by GivingWorks contributed to the analytical foundation for the transformational efforts currently underway in UNICEF. We found the GivingWorks staff to be of remarkable quality and capability. They not only quickly demonstrated a solid grasp of public sector and United Nations-specific issues, but also sensibly adapted significant lessons and concepts from the private sector into their strategy recommendations for UNICEF. The presentations and discussions with our Global Management Team were well-prepared, lively and thought-provoking.”

- Deputy Executive Director - Management, UNICEF

“GivingWorks' very dedicated and resourceful staff helped the Bipartisan Policy Center address the challenges of a young and growing organization. They guided us in identifying our individual strengths and helped us to establish an organizational structure that leveraged those skill sets most effectively. Their team was able to dive right in, rapidly understanding the external landscape and the substance of the Center's projects. Nazir Ahmad facilitated effective discussions with our board, project leaders and staff. The GivingWorks team is always pleasant to work with.”

- Vice President, Bipartisan Policy Center

“GivingWorks’ collaborative style, responsiveness, and creativity played a significant role in grounding our thinking and ensuring that we had a process­ as well as recommendations­ that promoted success…GivingWorks brought an immensely valuable outside perspective to the work. They generated data that were extremely useful in settling several core questions about how well the program achieves its objectives and engaged ably and quickly with the full range of our stakeholders… GivingWorks provided us with unvarnished perspectives, both positive and negative...even more importantly, they synthesized the findings into a framework that was exceptionally useful in forcing us to think about the trade-offs of different objectives and strategic options...the entire process served to spur us to make various assumptions we had about ourselves explicit,...a much better position to debate, refine, or reject them. It was a very healthy process and outcome.”

- Program Director, World Bank Development Marketplace