Growth outpaces the back office.
Reporting lags, compliance risk rises, and executive leaders get pulled into operational friction instead of driving strategy.
Executive intelligence for stronger organizations
Clarity for leaders.
Infrastructure for impact.
Most growing organizations don’t have a strategy problem—they have an execution and infrastructure bottleneck. MHFoster Group bridges high-level vision and daily execution with systems built for durable, repeatable performance.
Executive Ecosystem Architect • Executive Ecosystem™ Creator • Financial Infrastructure Innovator • Financial Transformation Partner
$3M–$1BBudgets stewarded
600+Employees supported
15+ yrsExecutive leadership
Boston rooted.
Nationally ready.
Nationally ready.
From friction to capacity
The operating backbone behind sustainable growth.
One integrated Executive Ecosystem™.
Fiscal strategy, multi-source fund accounting, workforce compliance, governance, and workflow automation become one cohesive framework.
Scale without organizational strain.
Clear forecasting, zero-surprise audit readiness, lower administrative burden, and capacity to grow partnerships and revenue.
Nonprofits, foundations & public-sector partnerships
Complex funding. Absolute transparency.
Grant-specific cost allocations, state compliance, and cross-partner intermediary management—built into audit-ready infrastructure that protects community impact.
Scaling businesses & mid-market enterprises
Financial transformation beyond bookkeeping.
Modernized charts of accounts, clean cash-runway visibility, automated reporting workflows, and a financial engine built for the next stage of expansion.
01 The Executive Ecosystem™
Organizations don’t need more disconnected solutions.
Throughout her career, Michi Holmes Foster was engaged to solve what appeared to be very different challenges—financial crisis, rapid growth, restructuring, governance, operations, executive leadership, and organizational transformation.
The underlying problem was the same: critical functions were not operating as one integrated system. That discovery became Executive Ecosystem™.
Executive Leadership
Aligned leaders, clear roles, and decisions that move the organization forward.
Financial Intelligence
Financial information translated into meaning, choices, and action.
Governance & Strategy
Strong oversight, accountable execution, and strategy grounded in reality.
Operational Infrastructure
The systems, controls, people, and processes that make performance repeatable.
Strategic Execution
Priorities converted into coordinated action, measurable progress, and sustainable growth.
02 Proven executive experience
Experience that moves organizations forward.
Enterprise leadership across nonprofit, government, education, and private-sector organizations—where financial stewardship, operational performance, mission, and public accountability all matter.
Growth & transformation
$7M → $14MHelped a leading nonprofit double in scale while maintaining audit and compliance excellence.Financial stewardship
$3M–$1BBudgets, forecasting, compliance, and enterprise performance.Organizational scale
600+Employees supported through complex operating environments.Government & grant expertise
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Federal, state, municipal, philanthropic, and restricted funding environments.03 How we partner
Transformation requires more than advice.
We work beside leaders to strengthen the systems, decisions, and executive infrastructure that performance depends on.
Fractional & Interim Leadership
Senior finance, operations, and transformation leadership during growth, transition, crisis, restructuring, or executive change.
Financial Transformation & Infrastructure
Forecasting, cash-flow oversight, reporting, grants, compliance, controls, dashboards, and decision systems that leaders can trust.
Executive Ecosystem™ Advisory
Alignment of leadership, finance, governance, operations, and strategy around the decisions that matter most.
Organizational Growth & Transformation
Operating-model redesign, modernization, performance improvement, and the infrastructure required to scale without losing control.
04 Programmatic & sector experience
Built for organizations where the work is complex—and the mission matters.
MHFoster Group understands the connection between funding, programs, people, compliance, operations, and outcomes. Our perspective extends far beyond the finance department.
Mission-driven nonprofitsHealthcare & human servicesEducationHousing & community developmentGovernment & public sectorTransportationEconomic developmentFood securityFoundations & programmatic organizations
05 National partnership
MHFoster Group serves as the national facilitator
Workforce skills. Financial capability. Economic mobility.
Through our national partnership with CEDI Works Inc., MHFoster Group facilitates practical education and certificate programs that help people prepare for work, strengthen businesses, and build lasting financial stability.
Adaptive Workforce Development
Communication, documentation, reliability, time management, digital workplace skills, professionalism, judgment, and customer service.
Small Business Readiness
Business basics, operations, pricing, cash flow, bookkeeping literacy, compliance awareness, customer systems, and growth discipline.
Financial Literacy & Economic Mobility
Budgeting, banking, credit, debt, savings, taxes, workplace benefits, entrepreneurship finance, and wealth-building fundamentals.
Flexible delivery: seminars, workshop series, virtual cohorts, certificate programs, employer-sponsored training, and community partnerships.
06 MHF Signal™
See the signals.
Understand the risk.
Make the decision earlier.
MHF Signal™ transforms complex financial information into clear, decision-ready intelligence—so mission-driven leaders can act before pressure becomes crisis.
1Signal Scan™Find the pressure points.
→2Financial Map™See the full picture.
→3Executive Intelligence Bootcamp™Turn insight into action.
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Financial Intelligence™
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Who we serve
For leaders carrying the weight of the whole organization.
CEOsExecutive DirectorsBoardsFoundersCFOs & Finance LeadersOperations LeadersGrant & Program LeadersLeadership Teams
Start with clarity
What would break first if you doubled tomorrow?
Schedule a 45-minute Infrastructure Diagnostic to identify the friction between executive decision-making and execution, map the gaps, and define a tailored back-office roadmap.
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