Executive Leadership · Strategy · Governance · Fundraising
Strategic Growth. Lasting Impact.
Envisioning, creating, and executing strategic business plans that help organizations build on their success and move confidently into their next phase of growth.
For Organizations on the Verge
The next leap requires evolution—and the experience to execute it.
Growth changes what an organization requires. The systems, structures, and leadership approaches that created today’s momentum must evolve to sustain tomorrow’s progress. By connecting governance, finances, people, fundraising, and measurable impact, PENEX strengthens boards, aligns leadership with strategy, and transforms bold vision into an innovative, actionable plan for what comes next.
PENEX Consulting helps organizations envision, create, and execute the strategic business plans that move them confidently into their next phase of growth. Drawing on uncommon fluency across corporate and nonprofit sectors—from Teradyne, aerospace, and technology to United Way, Boys & Girls Clubs, and the YMCA—PENEX brings a uniquely comprehensive perspective to every engagement.
The PENEX Difference
Most advisors hand you a plan and walk away. PENEX Consulting does all three.
Envision
A future state worth committing to. We help leaders and boards see what they can't yet see — the institution they could become, not just the next step.
Create
The strategic business plan and the infrastructure to deliver it: governance, revenue model, donor and sponsorship systems, partnerships, brand, and an 18-month roadmap — with clear implementation responsibilities attached.
Execute
We stay to drive it — embedded as an executive-facing leader, or alongside you as a strategic advisor — and align the board and team to carry it.
Leadership Solutions
Four capability areas, one integrated approach to your next phase.
Executive Search + Transition
Transition and succession planning, executive search, and interim leadership — helping boards protect continuity, select the right leader, and prepare the organization for a successful handoff. An operator’s perspective on candidate evaluation, informed by Anthem Executive search experience.
Strategy + Growth
Strategy development and strategic planning, implementation support and change management, business-model and sustainability planning, and evaluation and impact assessment — connecting disciplined assessment to executed roadmap.
Team Culture + Organizational Design
Organizational design and restructuring support, executive coaching, and strategic fundraising — aligning people, structures, and leadership practices to restore trust, accountability, and high performance.
Collaborations + Partnerships
Board development and governance consulting, plus collaborative and multi-organizational initiatives that build the cross-sector relationships institutional growth and community impact require.
PROVEN RESULTS
Closing in on $1 Billion raised across a career of institutional leadership.
Founder and President of PENEX Consulting, LLC, R. Tony Penn has led across corporate and nonprofit life — 20 years at Teradyne Corporation, 15 years as a United Way CEO, and most recently interim CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson — raising the resources and building the governance that institutions depend on.
$10M
MacKenzie Scott gift — the largest in the organization’s century-plus history
$24M
Raised in 2024 for United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona
$25M
Launched endowment
$50M
Capital campaign to build YMCAs in San Antonio
TAKE THE NEXT STEP
Let's find out what's holding your organization back — and what's possible.
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