RMCreative Solutions, LLC
Helping mission-driven organizations turn vision into lasting impact
Renee Chatelain brings more than 30 years of nonprofit leadership to organizations navigating growth, transition, and opportunity. She provides strategic consulting, interim leadership, workshops, and public speaking that strengthen operations, equip boards, engage communities, and move important work forward.
Leadership shaped by experience
Renee’s career spans nonprofit executive leadership, law, education, arts and culture, creative placemaking, capital initiatives, and emergency preparedness. She brings strategic perspective, practical judgment, and a deep understanding of what it takes to move from vision to implementation.
How RMCreative Solutions Can Help
Engagements are tailored to each organization’s mission, stage, and priorities—from focused advisory support to hands-on leadership during periods of change. Expertise includes nonprofit sustainability, governance, operations, capital planning, arts integration, community engagement, creative placemaking, and emergency preparedness.
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Strategy & Operations
Clarify priorities, strengthen operations, assess opportunities, and translate organizational goals into practical plans for action.
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Board Effectiveness
Build stronger boards through retreats, governance guidance, role clarity, and more effective alignment between board and staff leadership.
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Workshops & Facilitation
Create engaging, customized sessions that build shared understanding, surface ideas, and equip participants to take meaningful action.
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Interim Leadership
Provide steady, experienced leadership during transition while maintaining momentum, accountability, operations, and stakeholder confidence.
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Public Speaking
Deliver thoughtful keynotes and presentations that inspire new thinking and connect important ideas with practical next steps.
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Community & Crisis Readiness
Advance culturally responsive programs, arts integration, community engagement, creative placemaking, and organizational preparedness.
Ideas that move organizations forward
Renee delivers keynotes, workshops, and facilitated conversations on nonprofit sustainability, board effectiveness, arts integration, community engagement, and crisis readiness. Every engagement is designed to inspire leaders, deepen understanding, and provide tools they can put to work.
Selected Recent Engagements
RMCreative Solutions supports organizations through focused assignments that require judgment, adaptability, and the ability to build trust quickly. The following examples illustrate Renee’s recent work in interim leadership, capital planning, organizational operations, governance, and public arts.
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Interim Arts Leadership
Served as interim executive director and conducted capital campaign feasibility work for a Connecticut arts organization.
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Public Arts Procurement
Consulted on arts procurement for multiple projects undertaken by a regional public-housing authority.
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Strategy & Governance
Provided operational guidance to an arts organization and facilitated a strategic board retreat for a regional arts council.
Let’s discuss what your organization needs next.
Whether you are planning for growth, navigating a leadership transition, strengthening your board, or preparing a keynote or workshop, Renee welcomes the opportunity to learn about your organization and its goals.
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About Renee Chatelain
Renee Chatelain is president of RMCreative Solutions, LLC, where she advises mission-driven organizations on strategy, governance, operations, leadership transitions, community engagement, and crisis readiness.During nearly a decade as President and CEO of the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, she led a citywide creative placemaking initiative, spearheaded a $3 million capital campaign, and oversaw the design and construction of the Cary Saurage Community Arts Center, an accessible community arts hub completed in under three years. She also established Creative Relief, an emergency planning and response program recognized by FEMA and modeled across the Southeast.Renee’s earlier career includes executive leadership at Manship Theatre at the Shaw Center for the Arts, arts education, and legal practice. A former professional dancer and choreographer, she has taught internationally and co-founded Mid-City Dance Project, Inc., which served special-needs and underserved youth for nearly two decades.She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and a Juris Doctor from Louisiana State University. Renee is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association and the International Women’s Forum and has served in national and regional advisory roles involving arts advocacy, community arts, and emergency preparedness.
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