My organization, The Family Conservancy, a non-profit family service agency in the Kansas City Metropolitan area, worked with Fred Ferrer to implement a parent leadership institute, bringing together families, advocates, funders and educators to help participants better navigate the educational system and advocate for their own interests as well as their children’s. After a few weeks, the partner organizations experienced transformative change in our approach to community organization, inter-agency communication and quality assurance in the areas of collaborative work and supportive parent education. The effects of the training for the parents and the partner organizations were both immediate and enduring. Not only does Fred Ferrer have a new following in Kansas City, the skills fostered among institute participants have blossomed far beyond the content in the initial training.

Frederick J Ferrer is a master professional who has intricate knowledge on how to transform an organization through leadership and solid organizational development practices.; For over 10 years, he has provided his expertise and guidance with multiple projects. His recipe is simple as it consists of vision, effective leadership, and realistic outcomes. The personal and professional growth our team has experienced is outstanding. We have developed a network of support to achieve positive outcomes thanks to Fred’s strategic approaches to creating and maintaining connections.

I strongly recommend Manzanita Solutions to support your program and yield positive outcomes. Fred’s technical support has helped the Head Start managers to identify focused program areas needing improvement. His approach in customizing and aligning training to the needs of the program, meeting federal mandates, as well as the needs of individual employees contributed to successful results. Fred’s expertise, knowledge, experience and professionalism gave the HS managers and line staff the necessary skills to revise and establish systems, policies and procedures to improve the quality of our service delivery.

Manzanita Solutions has provided our non-profit agency with high-quality, customized support on several projects during a critical time of organizational growth and transition. In working with executive and management level staff, they were adept at understanding the needs and strengths of our organization and our early childhood and family leadership programs. ; They worked with our team in a timely way to achieve desired results. Manzanita Solutions enhanced our internal decision-making processes that led to a unified staff and board vision and strengthened key agency initiatives.

If you want to build a strength-based organization, if you want to improve staff relationships, if you want to create a strategic framework for training, if you want a consultant who understand and values diversity, justice and inclusion, there is no equal to Frederick Ferrer.

Fred has worked with California Young World on several occasions, at our All-Staff Retreat with over 40 teachers and aides and with a small group of site directors and administrators. In both situations, his personal experience as a program director and his extensive knowledge of all aspects of the Early Childhood Education arena have made the training very interesting and extremely meaningful. The staff looks forward to working with him again in the future.