Let’s Add Value

Organizations engage me to bring clarity, structure, and momentum to complex ideas, programs, and initiatives. My strategy and planning support focuses on strengthening governance, aligning operations with long-term sustainability, leveraging partner opportunities, and building pilot programs and policies that can become actionable, fundable directions.

Work in this area includes:

• designing organizational sustainability strategies and frameworks to ensure maximum ongoing impact using existing assets;

• shaping governance and operating models to meet current and future states;

• outreach and strategy to engage stakeholders and expand communities;

• leading research to support informed decision making and sound policy; and

• developing evidence-based recommendations that help organizations move from ambition to implementation with confidence.

Organizations engage me to design and lead engagement approaches that build connection, grow participation, and activate communities around shared goals. My work in community building focuses on creating inclusive and compelling in-person, virtual, and digital spaces that bring partners, stakeholders, and the public into meaningful dialogue, co-creation, and celebration—locally, nationally, and internationally.

Work in this area includes:

• planning and producing large-scale conferences, events, and festivals;

• leading engagement research that uncovers community priorities and positions initiatives for the highest and best impact;

• developing and executing engagement strategies that mobilize institutions and deepen their connections with communities;

• securing partnerships, philanthropic, and government support; and

• designing intimate and large-scale participatory programs and events that invite people not just to attend, but to contribute.

Organizations engage me to help them clarify their voice, align their messages, and engage effectively with decision-makers and the public. My work in policy creation, storytelling, and advocacy focuses on translating complex ideas, values, and impacts into clear, credible narratives that build understanding, influence policy directions, and support collective action.

Work in this area includes:

• designing and delivering advocacy training and master classes that demystify political systems and power structures;

• leading large-scale public engagement initiatives around complex and high-profile public decisions;

• developing shared fact bases, key messages, and narrative frameworks that align organizations and sectors;

• building collaborative platforms and campaigns that enable collective advocacy across institutions and funders;

• advising and leading government relations efforts to strengthen influence and outcomes; and

• creating policy, frameworks and procedural guidance and programs that support government and organizational priorities.