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DC Municipal Consulting (DCMC), established in August 2017, is a proudly women-owned firm deeply committed to serving the unique needs of local governments. Our core mission is to provide specialized, high-quality consulting services that empower municipal organizations to thrive.
Let DC Municipal Consulting be the partner that helps your city or municipality achieve its full potential and successfully navigate the complexities of modern governance.
Our core service offerings include:
Executive Recruitment: Finding the right chief executive, department head, or key administrative staff is crucial. We provide a rigorous, objective, and confidential search process, leveraging our deep network and understanding of municipal needs to identify and secure top-tier executive talent perfectly matched to your organizational culture and goals.
Organizational Assessment and Strategic Planning: We analyze and redesign governmental structures to enhance efficiency, streamline workflows, improve inter-departmental collaboration, eliminate redundancies, and plan for growth. Our focus is on creating a structure that is flexible and positioned to handle current and future demands.
Leadership Development: We cultivate strong, effective municipal leaders by offering tailored training, coaching, and succession planning programs. We focus on enhancing communication, strategic decision-making, and ethical governance to ensure your city has the leadership required for a sustainable future.
Human Resource Optimization: We optimize your most valuable asset—your people. This involves comprehensive support in creating efficient HR policies, managing employee relations, and developing performance management systems that drive accountability and engagement.
Compensation: We design and implement competitive, equitable, and sustainable compensation and benefits structures. Our approach ensures you can attract and retain high-quality staff while remaining fiscally responsible and aligning pay with performance and market standards.
Organizational Support: This essential category encompasses a wide range of operational and strategic support, including interim management, special project facilitation, policy review and development, and general management consulting to address immediate or complex challenges facing your administration.
Molly Deckert, Partner
Molly Deckert has provided consulting services to municipalities for twenty years. Prior to forming DCMC, her key project experiences included federal grant writing for housing and economic development projects as an independent contractor and executive level recruitment for a national executive search firm. As a recruiter, she worked directly with governing bodies, professional staff, and prospective executives to match the right candidate with the right opportunity. Molly successfully placed over 50 executives in 25 Texas communities during her four-year tenure as a recruiter.
Molly previously served as Assistant City Administrator for the City of Lenexa Kansas; Senior Budget Analyst for the Office of Budget and Planning, District of Columbia Government in Washington, D.C.; and Project Manager/Public Policy Analyst for the National Hispanic Housing Council in Washington, D.C.
During her nine years with the City of Lenexa, Molly oversaw government affairs, economic development, neighborhood revitalization, municipal courts and social services relations. She also worked in Public Works and assisted in the City securing American Public Works Association Accreditation.
Molly has a Master of Public Administration degree from The George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She also attended the Senior Executive Institute at the University of Virginia.
Katie Corder, Partner
For the past sixteen years, Katie has been engaged in municipal consulting. Her professional project experience includes executive recruitment, citizen surveys, employee training and development, and market/compensation studies.
During her four years of consulting as an executive recruiter for a national executive search firm, Katie worked directly with governing bodies, professional staff, and prospective executives to match the right candidate with the right opportunity. Katie successfully placed over 30 executives in 15 communities.
Katie previously served as Assistant City Manager for the City of Rowlett, Texas. During her tenure with Rowlett, Katie oversaw communications, library services, and parks and recreation. She managed City Council agendas, prepared budgets, and developed strategic planning. Katie also held management positions for the communities of Sedona, Arizona, and Olathe, Kansas.
A graduate of Leadership ICMA and the Senior Executive Institute at the University of Virginia, Katie holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Tulsa and a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Kansas.
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