About Trusted Path Consulting

Trusted Path Consulting was founded by our president John Emge in 2019. John is an accomplished senior executive with more than thirty years of community non-profit leadership experience building and leading high-performing teams. Over this career, he has demonstrated a strong business sense and continuous growth in skills and qualities that nurture success, including building TRUST among constituents and partners, an unrelenting approach to business development and solid donor stewardship, and a proven willingness to make the difficult decisions required to achieve positive organizational outcomes. Those that have worked with John have found him deeply committed to mission and effective at articulating a compelling vision to achieve goals. 

While leading the United Way of Atlantic County (NJ) as Executive Director/CEO, in 2010 John began his service as the Design Team co-chair for the merger process that brought together seven independent local United Ways in and around Philadelphia to create United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey. During and after this successful merger process, John quickly learned that mergers, collaborations and other strategic partnerships that are built upon a strong level of TRUST between the parties have an undeniable ability to help individual NPOs, and the non-profit sector as a whole. He founded Trusted Path Consulting to help other non-profits with their strategic “big picture” and restructuring needs, including support in building proper governance configurations and promoting effective volunteer and staff leadership. These foundational services are also augmented by John’s more than 30 years of relevant practice in fundraising and the ability to help NPOs improve their resource development with strategies for success.

Trusted Path Consulting believes that many NPOs have an abundance of untapped potential, just waiting for the right opportunity – or leader – to come along and help define that TRUSTED PATH forward. We have found that, along with building TRUST, the following four practice areas, which include subareas of concentration, can help to bring your organization to the next level of success. Our four practice areas are:

• Strategy
• Structure
• Leadership
• Resource Development